Choose a clear start and finish for your loose-leaf tea timer. Keep pouring, draining and pack instructions consistent with this practical brewing method.
Choose a clear start and finish for your loose-leaf tea timer. Keep pouring, draining and pack instructions consistent with this practical brewing method.
If your kitchen scale stays at zero when you add tea, check its units, surface, weighing mode and small-weight limits before adding more leaves.
If your kitchen scale stays at zero when you add tea, check its units, surface, weighing mode and small-weight limits before adding more leaves.
Learn what a teapot lid changes, when to brew covered or uncovered, and how to run a controlled two-cup loose-leaf tea test.
Learn what a teapot lid changes, when to brew covered or uncovered, and how to run a controlled two-cup loose-leaf tea test.
Learn when a tea rinse is useful, when it wastes the first infusion, and how to compare rinsed and unrinsed loose-leaf tea.
Learn when a tea rinse is useful, when it wastes the first infusion, and how to compare rinsed and unrinsed loose-leaf tea.
Compare one unstirred loose-leaf tea with one gently stirred cup while keeping dose, water, temperature and steep time fixed.
Compare one unstirred loose-leaf tea with one gently stirred cup while keeping dose, water, temperature and steep time fixed.
Tea smells fragrant but tastes weak? Test leaf space, leaf amount, water and temperature one variable at a time with this controlled three-cup check.
Tea smells fragrant but tastes weak? Test leaf space, leaf amount, water and temperature one variable at a time with this controlled three-cup check.
A thin oily-looking film on tea is often tea scum. Run this controlled two-cup water test before blaming the leaves.
A thin oily-looking film on tea is often tea scum. Run this controlled two-cup water test before blaming the leaves.
Compare a loose-leaf tea infuser allowed to drain with one gently pressed, then choose by body, bitterness, astringency and sediment.
Compare a loose-leaf tea infuser allowed to drain with one gently pressed, then choose by body, bitterness, astringency and sediment.
Run a simple aroma and sealed-tin control before changing the dose or steep time, then store loose-leaf tea away from moisture, heat and strong odours.
Run a simple aroma and sealed-tin control before changing the dose or steep time, then store loose-leaf tea away from moisture, heat and strong odours.
Do not wash loose tea leaves down the sink. Use this four-step routine to empty, catch and clean up spent leaves without feeding food scraps into the drain.
Do not wash loose tea leaves down the sink. Use this four-step routine to empty, catch and clean up spent leaves without feeding food scraps into the drain.
Keep one cup of loose-leaf tea warm without extending extraction: remove the leaves, decant, cover and run a simple 20-minute comparison.
Keep one cup of loose-leaf tea warm without extending extraction: remove the leaves, decant, cover and run a simple 20-minute comparison.
Make one repeatable mug of loose-leaf tea with measured water, pack-led temperature, a roomy basket and timed leaf removal.
Make one repeatable mug of loose-leaf tea with measured water, pack-led temperature, a roomy basket and timed leaf removal.
