It's me again. In my excitement to visit various tea sites and see what each has to offer, I found one site offers a free tea timer that runs on your computer. I like it. You can put in the kind of tea and the steeping time for each (creating your own tea database for future use) and choose from the visible database and it starts the present time.
Being a newbie, this helps me. The more seasoned tea drinkers (which I hope to become one day) may not like this or want one, but right now for this newbie it helps. I like this Ng and just thought I would add this for those who may be interested.
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As I type these words, I am drinking a cup of Bigelow English Teatime. I am on disability so until I get paid, I am drinking what I bought at Kroger's, but when within a week, I will be buying some loose leaf on line from one of the sites you guys mentioned.
Thanks, Jane
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Dominic T.
Hey Jane,
TeaTimer is a pretty cool little application, I have been a Linux user (an alternative to Windows operating system) since about 1995 and TeaTimer used to be part of the regular install and I always found it pretty cool. It's been a long time since I installed it or used it since, but I knew exactly what you meant and it brought a long lost little app back into my memory.
As far as the disability/expensive tea, you may be surprised to find how affordable (and most likely cheaper) some good teas can be. If you have any Asian or Indian markets in your area, they can be a goldmine. The tea will be lower to mid level, but it will be much better than the average supermarket variety. I always pick up four main ones:
Asian Market: "Sunflower Brand" Jasmine Tea (loose green tea) in a yellow tin that says "Jasmine Tea" all around it in various languages. Cost is about $1.79 for a 120g tin.
A decent Oolong, which also costs about $2 for a cardboard canister.
Indian Market: Brook Bond Taj Mahal Assam tea for about $3.99 for a large box
Lipton green label Darjeeling also $3.99 for a large box
These teas will yield a ton more than even a box of 100ct tea bags from the store and be a bit better quality and add some variety. I grew up knowing to value a dollar, and I have found a number of very low cost teas that are excellent over the years. I have similarly tasted some very expensive tea that wasn't worth a dime. I also like to bring up that if you were to buy a cup of tea for $0.75-$1 you could be drinking a $100/lb. tea instead which will undoubtably be high quality. Tea is one of the best values, and with some know how, you can drink some of the best tea in the world for the price of a box of Tetley. Upton's website is a great place to start, they have very reasonable prices (about half the cost of similar tea elsewhere) and even more reasonable shipping.
Best of luck, and welcome!
- Dominic
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BabyJane Hudson
Thank you, Dominic, et al, for making me feel welcome and being so helpful. This really is a good group of people and I enjoy this NG very much.
Jane
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Konrad Scorciapino
For those using Linux, there is also "kteatime", which comes with newer versions of KDE.
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