Preparing Tea and Herbals
How to properly prepare teas and herbals.
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Stretching Your Tea Dollars
Proper tea steeping is generally regarded as a must for enjoying teas at their best. It’s also the way to make sure that the money you spend on these teas is stretched to their utmost value. There is a trend these days for tea vendors to put directions for steeping their teas to get best… Continue reading
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Sac-It-To-Me with Tea Sacks
Forget infusers and pre-bagged teas — tea sacks make a great alternative. Loose and free in the teapot can produce the best tasting tea, but even this tea lover knows there are times when that just isn’t practical. Thank goodness for innovative minds. Many of you may be too young to remember “Sock it to… Continue reading
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The Possibilities of Young Pu-erh Tea
I’ve tried a few pu-erh teas to date and see its possibilities. So, when this tea arrived, the explorer and experimenter in me took over. Heh heh! First, being true to the principles of The Little Yellow Teapot (our buddy and main steeper in these tea tastings), hubby and I checked the English Tea Store… Continue reading
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Cleaning Teaware
A couple weeks ago I wrote about Tea Taste Killers, things that can seriously affect the flavor of your tea. In the post, I named badly cleaned teaware as a possible source of scent and flavor contamination. Here are a few tips for keeping your teaware clean and scent-free so that it brews you a… Continue reading
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Tea Time Stampede
There’s good reason for humans drinking so much water. It comprises on average 60% of our bodies. We need to keep that fluid level up. If it falls too low, we get dehydrated, a condition I have experienced more than once, especially when living at 6000+ feet elevation. The reason humans drink so much tea… Continue reading
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The Mettle of the Kettle
Question: What’s one of the most basic and oldest items in the arsenal of someone living the tea life – whether you’re just starting out, are a tea aficionado, or are a real tea gourmet? Answer: The tea kettle. As Alton Brown would say on his show “Good Eats,” the tea kettle is a “uni-tasker.”… Continue reading
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Honey Makes Teatime So Sweet
“Look out, it’s a bee!” No, it’s a cog in the intricate machinery of honey-making. Where would teatime be for many of us without honey? Honey can sweeten your tea and add a delicious sticky sweetness to your toast, scones, crackers or other teatime treat. Of course, it can also get all over your fingers,… Continue reading
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In Tea, Milk Comes First
In tea, there is often a proper order to things (like the Byrds song “Turn Turn Turn”). Grow the tea, then harvest it. Process the tea, then package it. Stock the tea, then sell it. Buy the tea, then enjoy it. The enjoyment can also have a certain order. Heat the water, then steep the… Continue reading
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Characteristic as a Result of Stress
Certain teas possess different qualities based on many factors: location of growth, climate, elevation, soil, processing, etc. This is what makes each tea unique, and thus the enjoyment of connoisseurship. Sometimes a tea has a certain attribute due to either induced stress, or natural stress (abiotic stress or biotic stress). The most common of the… Continue reading
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Tea Drinkers Awake
Cross an alarm clock with a tea maker and you end up with a teasmade, a device that’s also referred to as a teawaker. These gadgets are relatively rare in many parts of the world, but teawakers have long had a considerable following in the United Kingdom. The device is so common there that it… Continue reading
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