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 threadgemelenMar 13
@sinituulia
It's not "wrong" way, only optimized for different things - tea was more expensive, lesser quantity was used that required longer steeps, and no exposure for customs evolved in the region of origin.
Also, rinsing the "black" tea isn't that important as for other types (at times it's not even recommended for a high quality ones).
If you're interested, there is a tea community here, come visit at !@tea
Show threadSini Tuulia

@gemelen I consider it wrong if it yields worse results than doing it "right" in this instance 😄 There's always many ways to do a given thing, sometimes one is superior! I have a very very sensitive nose and palate and it seems at least Chinese tea for me might indeed be better if washed. I don't think I'd need to wash this one pu'erh I like, it's so so smooth and strong with nothing done to it already... But wow, the results on just these two teas I tried it with? Remarkable.

I may well check the group out!

Mar 13 at 5:17pmWeb