Uh, I didn't say you did. I brought it up. I'm trying to figure out how to tell if a particular pot is bitter or too strong.
Uh, I didn't say you did. I brought it up. I'm trying to figure out how to tell if a particular pot is bitter or too strong.
Is an orange too apple?
Nigel at Teacraft
Sorry about not trying to answer the question(s) in your original post, but I was responding to a later post.
By the way, when you identify bitterness with acidity, I don't see how this could be right. Acidity = sourness. I'm sure I've read that the human sensory apparatus has separate receptors for bitterness and sourness, among very few other taste components.
/Lew
I'm used to people going from using a teaspoon to a scale to obtain an accurate measurement and you're going from the accurate method to the inaccurate. Sorry, but it seems like you're going backward for no useful reason that I can discern. Please enlighten me.
I am going to continue using a scale.
Most vendors provide brewing instructions in volume units and it's usually 1 tsp/cup. I am measuring to find out how much a tsp weighs.
As you say, it varies a lot.
I hate to say it but I really think you are just continually complicating matters for no discernible reason but to stick to some scientific ideal with no basis in anything. I'm not saying this to be rude, we've already been there and back, but at some point you have to be realistic and see that your desire to ignore most everything said, and thousands of years of history, and sticking to arbitrary "measurements" has rarely turned out for the positive. You are trying to quantify something that cannot be quantified in the way you or vendors are trying to do. At most you are going to get an approximation even with the most rigid measurement.
I honestly gave you probably the best advice I could hope to in your last thread:
You're free to do as you will, certainly, but I just don't get why you keep to this rigid structure but keep posting here for unscientific/ unmetered advice. If your method is sound it will result in "perfection" eventually on its own, our meddling will only delay that. Seriously if your efforts were creating amazing results I could understand, but it's just not going to happen. Let go a bit, come at it from a new angle, and see what happens... even if just to prove everyone wrong.
- Dominic
You still haven't answered my question and I'm not enlightened. Sure, vendors suggest 1 tsp. per cup because there are those who don't know better and who don't have scales. Since you apparently don't fall into that category, please correct me if I'm wrong, what's the point in weighing the amount of tea that a teaspoon holds?
It stills strikes me that you're going backwards. Did you just get your scale? Is that why you're weighing the amount a teaspoon holds? I can understand it if you want to see the difference between measuring by volume and by weight if you just got a scale because that's what people do when they transition from one method to another. After a while, though, they get over it and don't go back as you seem to be doing. That's why I'm asking about your motivation. It doesn't serve a purpose that I can see.
(sigh) I'm just doing a little experimenting. It has already yielded a lot of information that is valuable to me. I understand that neither my approach nor probably any information that I obtain is of any interest to you and seems to be offensive (otherwise, why would you continue to tell me what an idiot I am?). But I am not trying to convince you to use my methods. Why do you need to keep telling me that I am doing it all wrong? I have heard your perspective every time you have made it. I've adopted what I can. Why is that not good enough?
Have you considered this advice for yourself?
Projection?
It's just data. It serves at least a couple of purposes.
PS: I've had a scale since I started drinking tea.
Again, vendors do that only because most people don't know better and don't have scales. Anybody who knows anything knows to start with 2 g or 2.25 g per 6 oz cup. That weight is your starting/reference point, not the teaspoon because the teaspoon is inaccurate due to type of leaf. If the teaspoon was accurate, you wouldn't have found the variance that you did.
Yes, that's why some people don't like using scales.
Only for that particular batch of tea, perhaps. Do you smoke? I've found several smokers who don't have a particularly discerning palate. If you're a smoker, I suspect it won't matter much how you measure.
Sorry, you don't sound like an engineer with the way you're doing things.
Whatever. To each his own. Have fun.
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