Do You Taste Your Tea All At Once?...It's Better When You Taste It A Little At A Time...
When You Enjoy Your Tea A Little at a Time...You Enjoy It Even More...
To me, there are two important things about drinking tea...first, and number one are the health benefits...and 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 are creating pleasing flavor and a plethora of health benefits...like Ten Thousand Medicines...
But I want to LOVE tasting the tea as well...
Have you ever steeped a cup of tea and have been slightly underwhelmed with the results in your teacup?
Wouldn't it be great to be assured that every cup of tea you steep is going to 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 support of your natural systems in you 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...
Conceptually there are two types of ingredients in your the tealeaves you steep:
Those that come into the broth...and those that don't.
I say broth because In China, considered by most the place with the richest history in tea, it is the leaves they consider the tea, and what we drink is considered the tea soup...
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 stemy-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...
By removing just the amount of ingredient from the tealeaves with each subsequent infusion that provides you the best tea character in the cup you can enjoy consistent quality, cup-after-cup.
There is an easy way to extract the perfect amount of ingredient from the leaves 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.
How to tell the amount that's just right...
With each new tea you encounter take a guess at 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.
For example, if your sweet-spot broth color was a result of the extraction of 25% of the leaf's soluble ingredient, 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, save you money and will 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 then I had known...my tea experiences since that day have never been the same.
