Do You Taste Your Tea All At Once?...It's Better When You Taste It A Little At A Time...
When You Taste Tea A Little at a Time...You Enjoy It Even More...
To me, there are two important things about drinking tea...
First, and most important, are the health benefits...number two?...enjoying drinking the tea...
With every sip and slurp, I have the satisfaction of knowing that I'm ingesting thousands of flavorful bioactive ingredients that create pleasing flavor and a plethora of health benefits...like Ten Thousand Medicines...
But I want to LOVE to taste tea as well...
Have you ever steeped a cup of tea and been underwhelmed with the results in your teacup?
Wouldn't it be great to be assured that every cup of tea you steep will be sensational? Guess what? You can, and it's pretty easy.
Not only will every taste make your day...every cup will be contributing to the support of your natural systems in your quest for wellbeing and longevity.
With just a little guidance, you can easily produce cup after cup of delightful tea soup if you simply follow my guidelines for Steeping Perfection...
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Let's start with what is in your tealeaves...and what comes out...what you are getting when you taste tea...
Conceptually, there are two types of ingredients in the tealeaves you steep:
Those that come into the broth...and those that don't.
I say broth because, in China, considered by most to be the place with the richest history in tea, it is the leaves they refer to as tea, and what we drink is considered the tea soup...
Should you taste tea all at once...or a little at a time?
Think of it this way...If you were to remove 100% of all the soluble ingredients (the ones that come out of the leaves) from the tealeaves at one time, the soup would be too concentrated and would be unpleasant.
Also, the time it would take to do that would leave the non-water soluble parts of the leaf (the stemmy, solid parts of the leaves) in the water too long, so it would begin to impart additional undesirable character to the soup.
How to control the amount you extract from the leaves...and the experience when you taste tea...
By removing just the right amount of ingredient from the tealeaves with each subsequent infusion, you can achieve the best tea character in the cup and enjoy consistent quality when you taste tea.
There is an easy way to extract the perfect amount of ingredient from the leaves in each infusion, and it will provide you outstanding cup character and will allow you to get the most for your money by getting all the goodness from your leaves and taste tea that you enjoy every time.
How to tell the amount that's just right...
With each new tea you encounter, guess the broth color you think you should steep to and then under-steep to a slightly lighter shade or tint.
On each tea package we sell, we provide a target steeping water temperature and a target broth color.
See More on Tea Broth Color Here...
The broth color we provide is to give you a guideline for a place to start.
The idea is to only extract a portion of the soluble ingredient that produces a broth color that you will determine is Your Sweet Spot, the most satisfying point for you to taste tea at.
For example, if your sweet-spot broth color was a result of the extraction of 25% of the leaf's soluble ingredients, you could likely re-steep the leaves to that same broth color four times...each time yielding a pleasing cup.
You are about to become tea-empowered...
The Art of Steeping Perfection is actually very easy and allows you to not only enjoy your tea more...but also get more from your tealeaves...which means more for your hard-earned tea dollars.
Following this technique will make your tea enjoyment higher, allowing you to taste tea you enjoy every time, help you save money, and continually improve the tea you steep, getting better and better over time.
Move from drinking tea to tasting tea...your life will be nicer...
Decades ago, on one of my first trips to the tea gardens of China, sitting in a tea market packed with tea vendors while learning about a particular oolong tea, a tea man who was preparing the tea told me through a translator that I should go from drinking tea...to tasting tea.
As we sat and sipped, I began to realize how much greater the opportunity of tea was than I had known...my tea experiences since that day have never been the same.
It was then that my process for experiencing tea changed to a more comprehensive awareness and added a new dimension to my tea enjoyment.
I find myself here, decades later, now sharing with you the value of going from drinking tea to tasting tea...