Suggestions
Hi,Looking for suggestions for the board, what you would like to see for the future of the board, what could be done better, banners if any would like to create and post them, etc.
If you have any general feedback and suggestions to give, feel free to post here as it would be appreciated.
Thanks!
microwave
Is microwaving water for tea bad?
Infographic thread. Types, consumption guides, whatever.
I'll even tolerate herbal "teas" (which you should be referring to as tisanes, if you know what's good for you).
Okay tea folk. We know that it all starts with the best water. So lets get down to business and discuss the best bottled water for tea.
My personal picks, what I have tried.
1.Chippewa Springs - A This is the best water for brewing tea I have found.
2. Nestle Pure Life - A- , This cheap water is surprisingly good for brewing tea. I suspect because its from Nestle that it is formulated for coffee & tea
3. Ice Mountain - B- or C+, It works okay. For expensive green tea this water starts to suck. But there are worse. For black tea maybe I don't notice
4. Evian - B This makes good tea. But damn thats expensive ass water. Also you know how this water is high in silica, so it has that unique mouth- feel. It makes good tea, but the tea still tastes like you are drinking Evian so its a bit distracting in my opinion.
5. Fiji Have not tried this brewing tea with this water. Need /tea/ special ops to confirm.
6. Deja-Blue D- This water sucks to make tea with.Brew green tea with this water & the taste and color is all off. Barf.
7. Glenwood Englewood . D This water is also horrible to brew tea with. Mineral content from hell. It also sucks just to drink plain. Barf.
8. Buhl Brand water. C- , This water tastes okay by itself but also makes crappy green tea. Color wrong, taste wrong. Probably work for black.
9. Buffalo Bon's water C- Again this water tastes okay by itself but does not make good green tea. color off, taste off. Will work for black.
What other water have people tried ???
What is the best tea kettle to get?
Is electric or traditional better?
I've only ever had regular bagged tea, PG tips etc., and I feel like I'm missing out on something. wat do
Alright we are going to do this.
What is the most ball blasting, teeth grabbing, mind wankingly best tea/tea blend of all time?
>tfw pay 17 bucks for a small amount of matcha from republic of tea
>tfw its fucking shit
Daily reminder to read the brewing suggestions and compare it to what you already know, if its dead wrong, that should be a sign.
I drink builder's tea.
Fite me irl.
I demand a tea that tastes like coffee
but not bitter or sour like tea
British Faggots
I bet all you fags are british
__Tea Recs__
What tea would you recommend to someone who has little to no experience drinking it?Any /tea/ps?
If coffee is roasted bean, why roasted rice is tea?
Brewing Tea for hours
After I get that first sip I add a cup or two of water and let it brew out until there is nothing left.
Music
About tea, hot drinks, and anything you like to listen to while preparing/having a cuppa.
Teapot thread
What's a good material for a teapot?
I've been looking about antiques lately and I've been unfamiliar with some materials.
Mostly like Jade, Tibetan silver, and porcelain.
Are they safe to drink from, are they stove safe?
Also, share your teapots.
Darjeeling gives me a throbbing erection.
So, is the tea worth getting?
Is herbal "tea" acceptable in this board?
What's your region's most popular herbals? Here's Mountain Tea. Probably second most popular herbal after Chamomile.
This is going to sound goofy but whatever. I brewed what I consider the perfect cup of jasmine tea the about a month ago.
I can't reproduce it for shit.
Pic related, it's the tea bags I used. What is the secret??
Tea club
OK me and a couple friends are starting a tea club for co workers. we also enjoy Nordic hymns. we want a name for the club that incorporates these both in to each other. like a Nordic hymns tea club. any ideas. Pic unrelated.
Current lustings
Hello, /tea/! Found your board because your owner shilled around. What are you currently lusting after?As for myself:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00B75BINU?psc=1
http://www.davidstea.com/birthday-cake
Chinese Farming and Regulations
i usually follow a rule where i dont put anything in my body thats from china. they tend to have lousy regulations over there, and even though something may be certified as organic, some things contain lead or other contaminants in some studies years back.
i recently came across this royal king organic black tea. im not sure if i should be drinking it though, id like to protect what few brain cells i have left. but i fuckin love tea.
what are your thoughts on such matters, /tea/?
Anyone have experience blending their own teas?
I want to make a tea that is reminiscent of liquorice, but all the pre-mixed ones I've tried have liquorice root in it. This results in hideous, dirty dishwater tasting tea.
Instead I just want fennel + anise + black. Any tips for amounts?
Anybody have some good tea "recipes"?
>tfw you find a long-ass hair in your puerh cake
>you have to break the whole thing to get it out
The morning delight.
Hey /tea/sers. What kind of tea do you brew when you get up in the morning? I always brew some straight black tea (preferably assam or ceylon) and add a dash of milk.
Pic is from wiki's page about tea. It's a russian empire tea-weighing station from before 1915.
What are you drinking?, black tea with roses and white chocolate for me :)
Buying Tea
What are some decent online tea shops? I want to buy some loose leaf tea and Amazon has a shit variety if you ask me.
QTDDTOT
I'm porting over an idea from /k/.
This is a Questions that don't deserve their own thread.
post small questions here, answer them here.
I'll start. What's the best way to clean a metal teapot?
You Can Order Custom Tea
its http://toatea.co
I just got a super delicious oolong + pu'erh with coffee beans and marshmallows.
>order about 1.5 kg of tea from yunnansourcing
>my first bigger tea order from china
>package gets opened at import customs
>there's no invoice in it
>they send me a letter asking for it
>gonna have to pay tax on that shit
>oh well, be a good goy and send them the invoice
>"well, that's that. at least nothing bad happened to my tea during transpor-"
>suddenly I recall reading stories about customs people literally cutting open the mylar bags with tea and then just throwing them back in the box
>mfw
Masala chai
Post your tea spice mix, /tea/I generally use, for two cups in the pan,
6 cardamom pods
2 or 3 sections of a large anise star, or eqvuivilant
Large pinch or two of powdered cinnamon(dont have any sticks)
~1/2 tablespoon peppercorns
How do I learn more about the Russian/Turkish/Persian tea culture?
Small blog posts just don't explain things too well.
The idea they have is to make tea concentrate.
Do bananas like tea?
Yeah, we do!
Hello /tea/
Hello, /tea/. I just wanted to let you know that I'm the new board owner of >>>/kind/, and I'd appreciate it if you'd take the time to drop in and say hello. It's not really devoted to the discussion of topics pertaining to the culinary arts or tea in particular , but I think kindness is or should be a virtue valued by all, irrespective of our interests or hobbies!
Partnership
I was searching for boards to bump, and, I know this is going to sound crazy, but I think we should form an alliance with>>>/shark/
Tea sets
Post em. The good, the bad, the weird, etc.
Steeping
What are your preferred steeping methods? Personally, I prefer the gaiwan.
>tfw you see a nice tea at your local grocer
>tfw you buy said tea
>tfw the tea turns out to be shit
sencha
best tea.
What's the best flavor of tea?
If you guys live on the west coast of the US, this site is pretty fucking legit. I bought tea from them a few times and went to a tasting with the owner once.
http://www.teahabitat.com
GLORIA LUX BRITANNIA
Hello >>>/tea/>>>/britannia/ here-
Would be interested in a formal alliance between our boards?
If you accept please list >>>/britannia/ in your board announcements, then post on >>>/britannia/ to let us know and we will do the same for >>>/tea/
>All civilized persons shall drink tea
>Happy tea time
ALL HAIL BRITANNIA
Hey guys
what do you think of the new default name?
/tea/,
What is the optimal temperature of drinking the heavenly beverage?
Tea utensils: pots, bowls, cups etc
who /a/esthete here?
I want to try making my own tea blend. But I'm unimaginative.
What sort of ingredients do you guys put in your own blends, if you make any?
Sweeteners
How do you sweeten your tea, if you do?I recently dropped sugar and started using honey instead. It tastes pretty good; I did try jam in a moment of desperation. It sort of worked.
KETTLES
Recommend me a good kettle / electric kettle that I could buy on Amazon.
/fringe/ here (the board is currently hacked.. RIP),
what teas would you recommend to a wizard?
So what kind of cookies/snacks do you guys like drinking with your tea?
/cgl/ here!
Does /tea/ like to drink tea alone, or with a group? Do you have a tea house you like to go to? Have you hosted a tea party? What makes a tea party good?
If you don't like tea parties, is there a reason why?
Lapsang Souchong
Finally got around to ordering some Lapsang Souchong. I've always wanted to try it because I love all things smoky. The brand is Talors of Harrogate, and the reviews seem good enough, but I was wondering if there was a more preferred brand out there.Please share your experiences/preferences with Lapsang Souchong, whether it be steeping techniques, brands, or whatever else.
What are the supposed health reasons people avoid black tea for? When I tried googling, I got those sites that come off like sensationalist hippie shit with no science behind their claims OR side effects only found in animals and not humans.
Fermented Tea
There is a board for jun and kombucha, for anyone who came here looking for that.http://www.8ch.net/jun/
http://allrecipes.com/recipe/russian-tea/
http://www.samovartea.com/5-steps-to-the-ultimate-russian-tea/
is this true? russians put tang and strawberry jam in their tea?
Serious discussion
How do you get your water hot?
A board about tea and no one invited Shinku?!
I demand you all prepare your finest tea for me this instant too make up for this rudeness!
AMA
I have worked for a tea importer for 8 years. Ask mea anything, /tea/
What do you guys do with your spent tea leaves?
Lately I've been cold brewing my Oolong. Get as much out of it as I can before putting them in the fridge with cold water.
Iced tea-ish. Surprisingly good.
Anyone tried chicory? what's it like?
Anyone here like kratom tea?
Hey
anyone do tea ceremony?
I study Urasenke school
/coffee/ faggots
http://8chan.co/coffee/res/151.htmlLook at this shit.
Why must this disgusting beanwater board try to take everything from us?
Fuck tea, regards Coffee :DDD
Ever thought about growing your own?
Anyone else really enjoy Yerba Mate? I have been making it in a cafetiere and tastes good but looking for other brewing methods.
High Tea at Emirates Palace in Dubai
English style high tea at a 7 star hotel in Dubai!It's so over the top, they even sprinkle gold on the sandwiches.
I just thought it was interesting, you never really get a look at Dubai on the ground.
Is anyone else surprised about how much we actually have to talk about here
tl;dr: I took some camellia sasanqua leaves from a yard, gonna see if it makes decent tea or what. currently drying the leaves out.
x-posted to >>>/poverty/
So, tea is made of camellia sinensis
a shitton of people plant camellias in their yards, but not usually c. sinensis
instead they plant c. japonica and c. sasanqua and others. anyway I decided to google around and see if its possible to make tea from these other types of camellia…the answer seems to be yes, although the results for it aren't very abundant:
>camellia japonica
http://pandragonathome.blogspot.com/2009/11/making-black-tea-from-your-camellia.html
http://inpraiseofshadows.wordpress.com/2011/06/01/tea-from-the-camellia-japonica/
>camellia sasanqua:
http://www.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/welcome/blue_mountains_botanic_garden/garden_features/blooming_calendar/Camellias (In Japan, the Camellia sasanqua has a long history in cultivation for practical rather than decorative reasons. The leaves have been used for centuries to make a form of tea and the seeds or nuts have been a thriving Japanese industry long before there were any written records.)
http://tcpermaculture.blogspot.com/2013/01/questions-from-readers-growing-your-own.html
anyone on /tea/ tried this? any advice?
>mfw people drink anything but PG tips
COFFEE IS JUST BEAN TEA
Hi /tea/. I have a question, and im starting with a statement of fact.
>Boston Tea Party was property destruction committed by whites
>Whats everyone so mad about the current riots for?
>Does this effect the cost of tea in China
Pu Erh Nerds
Anyone else nuts about this shit?Fuckin sweet rice flavor is my jam
my fav tea is malcom x tea :^)
/jp/
Dear /tea/,>>>/jp/ has been liberated from the long night of mismanagement.
I welcome you and all /jp/sies in exile to help reinvigorate our community.
I apologize if you happen to use another board which I have posted this on and have already seen this. Feel free to dispose of this / ban me I only mean to bring good will.
Does anyone have tips on brewing silver needle/yin zhen tea here? In videos they always have the leafs assume vertical position neatly (pic related), but I only have a mess floating. I have tried different temperatures and whatnot, but nothing seems to fix it. The taste is often fine, but not what I got in the tea shop, and it's pretty expensive so I can't experiment too much.
Any /tea/ps?
How 2 bring more /tea/ drinkers to this board? Suggestions?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yde88uHysMI
cozy video of some people making tea in a bamboo stalk
Share Knowledge
Crossposting this in a number of boards. Share how our world is a product of the past.Share any knowledge you have (books, articles, stories, whatever) about how certain societal and social "norms" are actually products of typically unseen or forgotten historical developments and chains of events.
Any field is welcome. Usually relevant to the board this post is in.
Examples:
>The development of drawing-room culture, or the development of the modern "living room," based on the invention of the Western "chair."
>The state of modern Europe as influenced by the Hapsburg Family.
>The modern American conception of the banana as a result of genetic mass-monotony; basically America only sells one strain of banana for some reason. Hence all bananas look the same.
Go!
do any of you know where i can get good ginseng tea? cant seem to find any. i had some once and its all ive wanted since.