As I venture further into this passion, I find myself collecting quite a variety of teas. I am wondering if most people stick to a few on hand or end up with a collection.
Ed
As I venture further into this passion, I find myself collecting quite a variety of teas. I am wondering if most people stick to a few on hand or end up with a collection.
Ed
Although a tea drinker since youth, my serious phrase is only a couple years long and I'm still learning what I like. I currently have over a dozen different teas on hand right now from couple dollar a package greens to $7-$10 an ounce whites and oolongs. However, I have a core of white, green, and oolongs that I drink regularly. So I would venture I'll maintain a core of favorites and regularly branch out looking for more.
cdv
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I keep 17 different types of loose tea in my cabinet. This is a serious emerging food trend. When I attended the Fancy Food Show in New York last year, tea, tea drinks, tea-infused foods, and the like where the most common new product.
Tea has a multitude of health benefits and a wide range of interesting flavors that coffee could never hope to achieve.
I keep a few white and green teas for the evening, black and mate teas for the morning, and some oolong and rubios for spicy dinner meals.
I have an amazing tea maker that is all computerized. It brews each type of tea correctly, with the right water temperature, correct steep times, and makes a perfect few cups each time. It's made by Zarafina.
Tea can be a very delicate thing. The different types of teas are brewed at different water temperatures for different amounts of time. The first time I tried to brew green tea with microwaved water, and let it sit as long as black tea, I got a cup of liquid grass.
Tea can become a hobby, education, and passion with the infinite varieties, kind of like wine.
On the one hand one too many, on the other hand one too less.
Jim
Right now I have two herbal teas that my wife likes, a Gunpowder Green that I am trying out (first time, going well), a White Silver Needle or some such for when I want a light, soothing tea, and I just ran out of Pu Er and Darjeeling.
Aaron W. Hsu
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