Preparing Tea and Herbals
How to properly prepare teas and herbals.
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Acquiring an Ear for That Tea Kettle Whistle
Awhile back I stated that I found the sound of a tea kettle whistle to be very annoying. Many of you responded that you find it essential to let you know when the water is boiling. Well, I am now finding myself on your side of things here, at least to a certain extent. It Continue reading
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You Know You’ve Stored Your Teas Too Long When…
We all know that storing your teas is a task to be done with care. The nemeses of tea (air, light, moisture, odors, etc.) are constantly on the attack, and so our guard must never be down. Sometimes, though, our best efforts are just not enough. We dig out that tin of Harney and Sons Continue reading
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How to Row a Tea Boat – A Quick Guide
A tea boat is a small size “tea table” that is usually no more than around 10cm high and has about the dimensions of a regular serving tray in width and length. It is thereby not really a table in the narrower sense, but in fact is rather put on a (real) table for use. Continue reading
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5 Things That Can Make Your Tea Taste Awful
The list of articles that address the issue of how to prepare a proper cup of tea, be it British-style, gongfu style, or other, would probably fill a book as large as the phone directory for New York City, including the Burroughs. That’s a lot! There are also lots of articles about how not to Continue reading
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Baking, Roasting, Frying — Tea Gets the Heat Treatment
Tea leaves undergo various processing steps, and an important one in the drying step. It “cures” the tea for sale, that is, halts any further oxidation or moisture loss and can even add flavor to the tea. Higher curing temperature can add honeyed-like sweetness or smoky caramel to the aroma. The curing temperature is also Continue reading
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When There Is Too Much Tea in My Tea
“There’s too much tea in my tea!!” I uttered this exclamation the other day, much to the amusement of my tea companion. Her puzzled response (“um, did you just say that there was too much tea in your, er… tea?”) was accompanied by a bemused look, and upon reflection I realised how ridiculous this must Continue reading
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Aroma Cup Sets – the Playful and Conscious Way to Enjoy Your Tea
You’ve all seen them before, those sets of pairs of tiny cups, one of them high and slim, the other one flat and wide, each of them holding no more than 0.05 l of tea when filled to spill-over level, which they usually are. They can be put into each other in various ways, look Continue reading
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The Perfect Way to Use Tea as a Visitors-To-Your House Controller
As a tea person with quite a number of aspects of my personal, social and professional life being centered around tea, I have among other things developed a tea-based system of controlling visitors to my house that has become not only increasingly efficient in the course of the years, but has also reached a probably Continue reading
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How to Become a Tea Sommelier
So, what about this whole tea sommelier thing anyway? It’s a relatively new concept and one that we’ve talked about previously in these pages, including this article by our Esteemed Editor. Obviously taking a cue from the more established profession of wine sommelier, tea sommeliers are looking to raise the bar for tea consumption, oftentimes Continue reading
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Cooking with Flavored Teas — A Real Trend
Using flavored teas as an ingredient in recipes is becoming a real trend. Considering the bits of fruit, flower petals, and spices in these teas, this trend seems only natural since these items are used for cooking anyway. The tea just adds that “something extra.” A number of recipes have been featured on this blog Continue reading
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