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On the subject of kettles with an adjustable temp, they are good. Without wanting to change lanes mid thread green tea is a different drink at 70-80 degrees.
http://www.essenceoftea.com/about-us/
My wife's cousin is totally bonkers about tea, obsessed with it, and he runs the below. A good place to buy uber fancy teas...Quotehttp://www.essenceoftea.com/about-us/
One bag, brewed for 1-3 minutes depending how the conversation in the kettle is going. Milk, no sugar, never squeeze the bag.
It's all about Clipper fair trade tea, makes the best cuppa or failing that Yorkshire tea
Quote from: chris20 on November 29, 2013, 01:42:18 pmIt's all about Clipper fair trade tea, makes the best cuppa or failing that Yorkshire teaHmmm, I don't like their organic english tea. A bit too bleh. Which is a shame as I bought a jumbo box of it.
I got a Forlife stump teapot recently to use loose tea in (there are lots of other similar ones). The reason i like it so much is that you can let the tea brew for the desired time and then remove the leaves completely so a second cup is the same strength as the first. its a really good idea. I've had various green and white teas that I like and also jasmine as well. The loose jasmine flowers make really amazing tea. As others have said with the shop bought tea Clipper is pretty good. I've gone off normal tea (earl grey, breakfast etc) all together in the last few years and I've no idea why, I just never fancy it anymore.
Quote from: shurt on November 29, 2013, 08:20:13 pmI got a Forlife stump teapot recently to use loose tea in (there are lots of other similar ones). The reason i like it so much is that you can let the tea brew for the desired time and then remove the leaves completely so a second cup is the same strength as the first. its a really good idea. I've had various green and white teas that I like and also jasmine as well. The loose jasmine flowers make really amazing tea. As others have said with the shop bought tea Clipper is pretty good. I've gone off normal tea (earl grey, breakfast etc) all together in the last few years and I've no idea why, I just never fancy it anymore.I love Jasmine tea - in fact that was the one I took to the alps last year and stopped the indigestion. Again, just Sainsbury's stuff.Looking at the teapot - it's 550ml so not really big enough for 2 mugs of tea, in the way I'm used to drinking it (3 mugs in the morning preferably) but I guess you don't glug mugs of the finer teas like that anyway. Fuck it, I'll get one. So the big question is - where can I get the tea? I looked at the essenceoftea link above but I don't fancy paying 9 quid a gram for something I'll probably ruin. Is there a Hasbean equivalent for tea? I just found http://www.chah.co.uk/ and they do 50 gram selection packs. So the next question is - how would I store it before / after opening?
If you fancy an adventurous hike to get a cuppa you should visit Mt Hua Shan.
This stuff is incredible even if it contains enough sugar to dissolve my teeth.