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Author: Square PegSquare Peg Date: Sep 5, 2008 17:59
I have been trying to learn more about what makes a difference when
brewing tea. There are several parameters. I have been brewing a 3-4
cup pot, putting it in a thermos bottle, and drinking it over a couple
of hours while working at my desk.
The next day, or sometimes later that same day, I try again with
slightly different parameters.
One problem with this method is that I don't trust my taste memory
from the day before, let alone several days before. I could do several
1-cup brews in quick succession, but that is a lot of measuring.
How useful would it be to draw 3-4 cups from the same pot every
minute?
Let say I put 8 g of tea in a 4-cup pot and bring 32 oz of water to a
boil. I pour the water over the tea and start a timer. When it gets to
1 minute, I pour off 8 oz through a strainer into cup #1. At 2
minutes, I pour off another 8 oz into cup #2. At 3 minutes I pour off
another 8 oz into cup #3, and at 4 minutes the last 8 oz into cup #4.
Now I have 4 cups to compare side by side.
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Author: Square PegSquare Peg Date: Sep 5, 2008 22:10
On Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:59:24 -0700, Square Peg
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>I have been trying to learn more about what makes a difference when
>brewing tea. There are several parameters. I have been brewing a 3-4
>cup pot, putting it in a thermos bottle, and drinking it over...
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Author: Square PegSquare Peg Date: Sep 6, 2008 00:08
On Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:59:24 -0700, Square Peg
wrote:
>I have been trying to learn more about what makes a difference when
>brewing tea. There are several parameters. I have been brewing a 3-4
>cup pot, putting it in a thermos bottle, and drinking it over...
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Author: Lewis PerinLewis Perin Date: Sep 6, 2008 12:55
Square Peg writes:
> On Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:59:24 -0700, Square Peg
> wrote:
>
>>[...]
>>How useful would it be to draw 3-4 cups from the same pot every
>>minute?
>>
>>Let say I put 8 g of tea...
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Author: Square PegSquare Peg Date: Sep 6, 2008 16:43
On 06 Sep 2008 15:55:58 -0400, Lewis Perin panix.com> wrote:
>> If the cups are not drawn at 1-minute intervals, as in the SteapTV
>> video, then the table is as follows:
>>
>> Cup# Water Min g/cup Tea-Min Cum Ave
>> 1 3 cups 3 2.00 6.00 6.00 2.00
>> 2 2 cups 5 3.00 6.00 12.00 2.40
>> 3 1 cup 7 6.00 12.00 24.00 3.43
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>> Note that the tea-minutes are not equal to the g/cup.
>>
>> If my calculations are correct, this method is a better way to compare
>> steep times than I thought.
>
>Realizing that your first computation was wrong led you to an
>interesting thought. But the tea-minute will have merit only if N
>tea-minutes yield the same result in the cup (assuming the same kind
>of leaf) with, say, N g/cup for one minute, and 1 g/cup for N minutes.
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Author: Lewis PerinLewis Perin Date: Sep 7, 2008 14:34
Square Peg writes:
> On 06 Sep 2008 15:55:58 -0400, Lewis Perin panix.com> wrote:
> >>> If the cups are not drawn at 1-minute intervals, as in the SteapTV
>>> video, then the table is as follows:
>>>
>>> Cup#...
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