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.....almost done that so many times.. I've turned it on with no water in it and turned it off as fast as I could. That sucks my bonavita is still kicking which keeps me from getting complicated with a tetsu :P klepto, Have you tasted tea when the water was heated in a tetsubin? Maybe for your palat...

kitchenj.com sells a base saying it is good for the l L & 1.7 L kettles but does not say how powerful the base is. It might be the power usually used for 1 L that works more slowly for the 1.7 L. I don't know. I doubt it is good for other bonavita kettles but again don't really know. It is interesti...

Old bonavita kettles may be useful. (Save them.) A week ago I had a "senior moment" during which I turned on my bonavita 1.7 L variable temperature kettle without putting water inside it. Soon there was an unfamiliar sound & a scent of burnt electric wiring. I had killed it. This led me to learn tha...

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What a lucky guy you are, Leo! Mega Millions is up to $600 million. You should buy a ticket. Cheers

So in this case dilmah loose = dilmah bag? Dilmah loose less bitter than debagged dilmah bag? Dilmah loose = debagged dilmah bag -dust? Loose & bag were almost exactly the same in what they do to water. No difference in bitterness between them. Loose tea makes a stronger brew (as we have guessed is...

A tea session even alone is an eudaemonic experience. Would you agree to that? (I just went to the dictionary for a definition; so, if I had to do it, so should you. :P ) Anyway, discussion of politics & religion is discouraged here (rightfully so, I believe). Is gambling allowed? I'll bet recent ba...

Leofox is correct that some huge companies selling inexpensive tea (let's call it commercial tea) sell various blends for different countries. (I know someone who goes through the trouble & expense of having Tetley teabags sent to him from New Zealand.) Long ago I compared a couple of such companies...

Championship Black Tea: latest season from Taiwan: The last high-altitude tea leaves harvested to be processed as black tea by the same award-winning farmer/producer family that has made the best balck tea for many years, give a greater amount of tart, fruit flavors than usual. I love it. I did not ...

Dayuling & Longfengxia etc.: So nice to see people enjoying that dayuling from Spring 2020. I also love it but never thought about eating the leaves. I still have a few packs of that DYL fortunately; (the DYL of this season did not seem as good as Spring's was.) For this season I chose to buy longfe...

...... Human ecology developed as a renaming option in the 60s after home economics started receiving criticism for its role in perpetuating negative gender stereotypes. For me, not a matter of perception, rather, a matter of control. Situations & people are often discouraging people from feeling f...

.....in some ways faj is using layman terms for: limit of quantitation vs limit of detection vs range of linearity. Also in terms of variability, he expresses them similarly to concepts of repeatability and intermediate precision. :roll: I did not realize that you technical & scientific people were...

I know from experience that my life partner tends to have a lower threshold for detecting smells (she will smell "something" at lower concentration), but I tend to be better at making sense of an "olfactory landscape" (identifying ingredients, deciding how much spices and herbs to add, etc.). Who h...

Drinking same tea now with gaiwan. The difference is, as always, startling: Leofox, you detect so much difference in the use of different types of vessels for steeping the same tea! It is fortunate that you enjoy the tea prepared in both vessels. I notice that changing what teaware I use for prepar...

.... both seem restrained in aromatics and body. Frustrating. This happened last winter as well. Using more leaf, again. Slightly cooled liquor has nice bolder flavor though. Thankfully I have quite a bit of quality yancha. I am confident that I don't feel anything is lacking as far as "body" conce...

Been sampling high mountain Oolongs the whole morning - the rumours are true (at least for what I tried, confirmed by the vendor) that this years winter harvest is low in yield and not as good as last year... Teas lack the typical winter body and aftertaste I’ve come to appreciate over the spring a...