It's just called "getting a decent tea bag" and works pretty well.
The flip side is of course brewing with real quality leaves, but it's more expensive and is more effort. They both have their places, unlike this machine.
The flip side is of course brewing with real quality leaves, but it's more expensive and is more effort. They both have their places, unlike this machine.
Here’s how I manage to control all those variables without a thousand dollar tea keurig: 1) one time, just once, I measure the volume of my tea cup. This is good for, you know, the life of the cup. 2) I throw an infuser on a scale, and throw teaspoons of tea in until I’ve hit the the right grams/100 ml. I now know how many tap of loose leaf are right for that cup.
3) I enjoy black tea, so boiling is fine. If it’s a day I’m feeling like a green or an oolong, I’ll dump a food thermometer probe into my kettle - it’ll beep at my desired temp.
4) I pour the water in the cup, stick in the infuser, and throw 5 minutes on the timer that comes with every iPhone.
Just so we are clear, the everyday cup of tea looks like this: throw 2 tsp leaves into infuser, boil water, rinse leaves, stick infuser in cup, let sit five minutes.
Oddly, with all the magic of “a timer on my phone,” my daily cup is controlled for temp, pressure (I’m not changing altitudes here), steep time, and water volume. And All it cost was an 8$ infuser.
But, sure, buy up all the 1000$ kettles you can grab.
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