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Use a cup that holds a generous quantity of tea compared to the vessel you are infusing the tea in. This allows for easy dilution when you find a particular infusion is too strong.

For that baking soda works wonders, just rub baking soda with your fingers, a soft cloth, or toothbrush. Just looked it up to verify: sodium carbonate is also called “washing soda”, to distinguish it from sodium bicarbonate or “baking soda”. I’ve never bought or used washing soda, but I now using f...

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Sparkling green tea: not the finest use of some handmade Korean green tea, Jungjak from Morning Crane, but this one has been opened too long for best flavor. And it made lovely sparkling tea. It's the first scorching day of the year, house is closed up and A/C is on (I tried not to but when temp ins...

Many guinomi are sized like gong fu cups....just right.

New items up on Shawn's Etsy right now, including some like this translucent porecelain gem, with the handy flared lower rim that is finger-sparing with very hot teas! https://photos.smugmug.com/Tea/Greenwood-Studios-Wares/i-ZhzvkSJ/0/d2075084/L/Steam-L.jpg If I didn't already have my little gem abo...

I am content with the quality of my sencha and gyokuro packs that are kept continuously at room temp once the bag is open, except for very limited circumstances. Yes, it may take more energy to heat the water than to reseal a canning jar with tea in it, but one is a necessary act if I am going to en...

I can only tell you what I do with my tea, which is leave one package at a time out and open, a quantity that I can finish in 2-3 weeks max. I only resorted to the canning jar because necessity for comparison tasting required multiple packages to be open at once. I have vacuum-sealed portions of tea...

In contrast, while I can appreciate my gyokuro concentrated, I like it better brewed closer to sencha, but in smaller vessels and quantities and savored with fine chocolate

Another option: canning jar with vacuum seal

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A while ago, I kept a few empty bags and tested them on a vacuum sealer, without any content, just to see if they would seal. They are thicker than the bags typically used for vacuum sealing, and it took longer for a good seal to be achieved, but it was otherwise successful. I wonder how vacuum sea...

Best infusion yet with 2014 Phoenix Village light roast Shui Xian Oolong from you non-sourcing. This is a tricky tea that is taken a while to understand. It is responding best with strong floral notes when infused briefly and fairly dilute a bit like a Dan Cong; treating it more like a typical high ...

I trust the bags they are in when still sealed/unopened to be fridge-odor-proof. I refrigerate and remove at least 8 if not 24 hour before opening, and only open what I will use next, one sencha or gyokuro at a time. When I made an exception for our recent gyokuro tasting, I put the remainder of eac...

Fuding Bai Mu Dan from Yunnan Sourcing, floral, fruity (peachy), delicious.