Sini TuuliaMar 13

Last night in a bout of insomnia I watched a bunch of different tea ceremony videos, both Chinese and Japanese. Today, staring into space in my kitchen, decided I'd make a quick cup of tea, just bung some into a tea ball and dunk in hot water... Except! I did the Gongfu Cha brewing thing where you "rinse" the leaves with hot water, to get rid of harsh tannins and ritually purify crud off the leaves.

And wow it's so much nicer, I've been making tea wrong my entire life!

#Tea #ChineseBlackTea

Show threadRay McCarthyMar 13
@sinituulia
It also is alleged to reduce the tea equivalent of caffeine a bit as it's very soluble?
Show threadSini Tuulia
@raymaccarthy I don't know, might very well be! Certainly something gets washed off with the rinse water. Whatever parts of my sensing apparatuses that detect caffeine/theanine seem to like the washed tea quite a bit, my brain enjoys caffeine a lot
Mar 13 at 12:56pmWeb