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ok, i have to ask.. does anyone have any anecdotal evidence about tea stored in aluminized mylar bags (or similar) long term? because that's how most of my oolong tea is being "aged" right now. some has 5 years or more on it. i'm guilty of buying tea and just letting it sit unopened. some of it has ...

not to mention that over 20-30 years, there is a lot of opportunity for the tea to get contaminated by its surroundings (either liquid or vapor contamination).

dish washing liquid smell? maybe it was actually contaminated with a cleaning product or something, hah.

it makes sense that improperly processed (insufficient killgreen) tea may be set aside and forgotten about, and therefore a lot of it ends up as aged tea.

but does aging decent (or good) tea really give an inferior result??

faj wrote: ↑

Sun Sep 13, 2020 10:36 am

When it come to teaware, less is more... Less money, more teaware.

haha. i love it

last year, i had the pleasure of meeting the guy behind teajourney.pub (Dan Bolton) and also the author of the article you linked to (Virginia Utermohlen Lovelace). if you liked that article, her new book is well worth a read: https://www.amazon.com/dp/107770870X/ also, Tillerman wrote a blog post a...

welcome, @LeoFox

nice stuff

pretty much the only requirement for me is that most of the leaves sink.

Also, that iron egg is probably messing up the plastic kettle because it's sitting on the heating element. It's conducting heat from the element to the plastic wall.

To those asking about stainless steel rusting... Yes, it can happen, and it's a common problem. Stainless can be very easily contaminated with "free iron" (either iron or non-stainless steel). It's as easy as touching or rubbing a piece of normal steel on a stainless surface. It can also happen from...

hi @TastyOregano, great to have you here

hi friends,

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thank you.

welcome, @Izanami

Use your judgement obviously, but if it's the kind of SS strainer I'm thinking of, I'd just throw it in the dishwasher.

Bok wrote: ↑

Thu Sep 03, 2020 2:10 am

Maybe an earlier work of his?

i don't think so. sometimes he just liked making more classic spouts or trying different things.