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About your scale and water quantity - the entire thread is missing for me. I saw it by accident when I went to Google this group for an old post of mine.

Anyway, don't obsess about it because it depends on your personal taste. For example, the standard is 2.25 grams per 6 oz. water. However, for some teas, I brew 2 grams per 8 oz water and for some, I brew 1.75g per 8 oz water. (Since I don't use milk, I use the extra 2 oz capacity for tea.) For those proportions, any difference between the amount of cold water heated and the amount of hot tea resulting from the steep is negligible.

Play with it and have fun, okay? It'll help you distinguish the small differences when you use a spoon, but a scale is most useful for drinkers like us with teas that won't measure well in a spoon like the more voluminous teas.

HTH.

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Bluesea
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Just curious to know which standard this is?

The only specified standard I know is the one that the world's tea tasters adopt for black tea tasting i.e. the International Standards Organization ISO3103-1980 (Tea - Preparation of a liquor for use in sensory tests) which decrees "a mass of tea corresponding to 2 grams per 100 ml of liquor". Translated to the size and volume of the ubiquitous and ISO specified tasting sets - "maximum capacities filled to the partly serrated edge are 310 +/- 8ml for the large pot (I call it a mug) and 150 +/- 4 ml for the small pot" these require 5.6 grams of tea in the large tasting set and 2.8 grams in thes small (or half size) set. To put all this into a traditional (and British Colonial) context the ISO specified weight of 5.6 grams is the exact weight of an old English silver shilling - as was used by the old tea tasters as a make shift weight in their hand scales long ago.

Nigel at Teacraft

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Nigel

After receiving another response like yours that the difference in water quantity before and after steeping should be negligible I took a closer look at what I was doing and realized I was using a poorly designed infuser with a solid bottom that was holding in water.

I like your advice not to obsess, and I'm having lots of fun trying different teas, all greens and whites. This all started with a trip to Harney's tasting room. Before that all I knew about tea was that I didn't like my mother's Red Rose, and that the bitterness and astringency were almost painful.

The scale is help> About your scale and water quantity - the entire thread is missing for me. I

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michaelhuggins2

I have a glass infuser that came with a glass teapot that's like you describe. I quit using it early on because the slits let tea fragments and rooibos out and it was too hot for me to handle long enough when I tipped it to drain.

They're my favorites, too.

LOL - Dad drank Lipton. I hate Lipton and gave up on tea until a friend's mom from San Francisco opened my eyes to the world beyond it.

Yes :).

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Bluesea

It's from the description for the OP's scale.

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Bluesea

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