Introduce Yourself

[martinl]

Hello everyone,

I am completely new to the world of tea. I first came into contact with it at the beginning of this year when I began to explore green tea in more depth during my trip to Japan. Of course, I couldn't resist bringing a few varieties of green tea home with me.
When I stood in the kitchen to prepare my first cup of tea, I thought to myself: there must be an app that can tell me the right temperature and brewing time for my new teas. Unfortunately, I only found a few very old apps, most of which were extremely unclear and often impractical.
And then I had an idea: I've been interested in programming and app development for a long time. As luck would have it, I wasn't very busy at the time. So I saw it as a challenge: I wanted to program a good tea timer app. What started as a simple pastime quickly turned into a very intensive hobby. During development, I realized that I lacked in-depth knowledge about teas. So I went to the local tea merchants here in Lucerne (Switzerland). I showed them a beta version, which was met with great interest.
During our conversations, the strengths, and weaknesses of the beta version immediately became apparent, and I received valuable feedback for the now completed version. Along with the feedback, I also brought home my first high-quality oolong and pu-erh teas.

I enjoy my morning teas and am excited to see where my journey will take me next. I am also looking forward to further feedback on my new app. It is now available in the iOS App Store under the name “Steep Timer”. I am happy to provide promo codes. Just get in touch with me.

Best regards from Lucerne
Martin

[Léon]

Hi Martin,

You could also just prepare the tea and drink it when you feel like it. You could also prepare the tea without any technology.

For me tea is freedom. No clock, no thermometer.

Nothing at all to worry about. (Exception: the quality of the tea).

[Jlee1096]

Hello,

I am excited to have found this forum. I've enjoyed tea, specifically green, for a long time. I have recently begun to research the interactions of clay pots with tea and found this site during my research. Perhaps some of you with some experience in this may like to suggest your favorite potter/kiln or clay and the tea you enjoy it with.

Looking forward to learning more

[aet]

Hello everyone,

I am completely new to the world of tea. I first came into contact with it at the beginning of this year when I began to explore green tea in more depth during my trip to Japan. Of course, I couldn't resist bringing a few varieties of green tea home with me.
When I stood in the kitchen to prepare my first cup of tea, I thought to myself: there must be an app that can tell me the right temperature and brewing time for my new teas. Unfortunately, I only found a few very old apps, most of which were extremely unclear and often impractical.
And then I had an idea: I've been interested in programming and app development for a long time. As luck would have it, I wasn't very busy at the time. So I saw it as a challenge: I wanted to program a good tea timer app. What started as a simple pastime quickly turned into a very intensive hobby. During development, I realized that I lacked in-depth knowledge about teas. So I went to the local tea merchants here in Lucerne (Switzerland). I showed them a beta version, which was met with great interest.
During our conversations, the strengths, and weaknesses of the beta version immediately became apparent, and I received valuable feedback for the now completed version. Along with the feedback, I also brought home my first high-quality oolong and pu-erh teas.

I enjoy my morning teas and am excited to see where my journey will take me next. I am also looking forward to further feedback on my new app. It is now available in the iOS App Store under the name “Steep Timer”. I am happy to provide promo codes. Just get in touch with me.

Best regards from Lucerne
Martin

steeping parameters could have many variables which are hard to convey in some app as a preset thing. Apart of they type of the tea , there is a factor like size of the leaves ( you would have to make some optical recognition feature ) , depth of fermentation / oxidation ( not always visible by optics ) , in puerh tea also the storage ( that one can very vary and hard to determine / set in some analogical scale ) and last but not least, the quality of the leaf it self ( higher quality leave , in many cases, can hold longer times without getting astringent..etc. ) which I'm not sure how to put this in some app like a scaled variable to calculate with.
Let alone the fact , that your preset parameters don't have to resonate with other tea drinkers preference. Like some people like very dark coffee like shu puerh some people not.
So it might be working for some specific tea like JP green, I don't know. For sure not on Chinese tea though.
I believe there are many apps, the Tea Pal comes into mi mind ( not sure if they have steeping function there ) .
The scales, stop watch and thermometer you are going to use probably first year, maybe less , then just will brew the tea without any thinking like you did before with tea bags and such.