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I’d wondered about the bugs. I guess that’s one thing the heating of the tubes is hoping to rid of. Then I have dead bugs in my tea.
Bamboo itself is pretty beautiful. There’s some growing around here wild in some spots, even. I’ve never seen it quite so thick as what I’ve seen growing wild in S.E. Asia, however; guessing it never gets hot enough?
Bamboo tea tools are on my wish-list, though I’m not certain they’re particularly nessecary for anything – they just look nice. Bamboo is getting a new “trendy” face here in the U.S. lately, as apparently it grows fast enough to make it “sustainable” for kitchen items. Too bad the stuff’s pretty heavily processed.
M.
I’d a feeling that what I’d have access to would be pretty low end. Nonetheless, they are pretty attractive. If I find one at an agreeable price, perhaps I’ll nab one just to have a bit of decoration for my tea cabinet.
M.Chawang: Basically, statin is used in modern medicine to lower cholesterol. It does this by stopping the liver from making as much cholesterol as normal.It is thought that high cholesterol is bad, but new research disagrees. Cholesterol is so important that, if food does not give you enough, your liver will make it for you (up to ~1400mg worth). Conventional wisdom states that high cholesterol by itself will give you heart problems and clogged arteries.Statin, which is given to prevent clogged arteries and heart problems, is also known to cause a number of physical problems in addition to lowering liver cholesterol production. These things include memory damage and muscle damage.I am trying to find out if there was a study showing just how much statin gets out of pu’erh leaves and into the brew itself. I was concerned that an infusion might result in enough statin entering the body to cause harm.Leo: I had typed up a response, but the new captcha alternative and my browser at work really do not get along. Basically, you are correct – I meant to type nano grams and not milligrams. However, I have discovered that the highest content pu’erh contains something around 4μg (micrograms).Average pill does appears to be in the 4-5 mg (milligram) range.So I am probably fretting over nothing. Assuming 100% of the statin infused out, I’d need to drink 1,000 cups / day at 4μg per cup to reach the average dose.M.I believe I may have been influenced by the film Ip Man; if I recall, the titular character drank from his one handed using his thumb on the lid ring. Haven’t been able to do that with mine – either I get no flow, or it goes sideways.
I’ll remember when I come to visit China to use both hands 😀
M.
Found this on the Wikiped:
Factory numbers (fourth digit in recipe):Kunming Tea Factory
Lan Cang Tea Factory or Feng Qing Tea Factory
Pu’er Tea Factory (now Pu’er Tea group Co.Ltd )
Six Famous Tea Mountain Factory
unknown / not specified
Haiwan Tea Factory and Long Sheng Tea Factory
Does this mean there’s only 8 (9?) factories making Puerh in the entire country? Also, what’s with #7 being unknown? M.
Agreed; growing very distant from them myself.
I’m still in a phase where I make use of broken leaf loose teas. I find those chill alright overnight. Since they’re relatively inexpensive I’m willing to experiment, so I did this with ok results:
Get 500ml of water to 80C.Drop in large tea-ball with ~5g of leaves. Cover. (I did this in a measuring cup)When steeping is complete, funnel into a metal (or glass, I used metal) bottle.Chill overnight.
I filled a .75L bottle by rebrewing the same leaves and steeping longer. A fine cup of tea it was not, but it got me through class last week. I used Hime brand Genmaicha, which by its nature is sweet. Wasn’t particularly bitter or anything the next day. Not sure how this works with better leaves or longer time chilled, though.
I’m going to have to invest in one of those “Tiger” brand thermos’ that Leo has. Not found a US distributor that has an order form, but I haven’t dug too deep just yet.
M.
Oh! Here’s an example of the much prolific Arizona Tea:
“Nutrition” facts:https://caloriecount.about.com/calories-arizona-beverage-green-tea-i100153
Something like 25 ounces per can. That’s a lot of sugar.
M.
Thanks! Took me long enough – kept forgetting.
I’d also like to know how to prep tea for a thermos; I used to steep broken leaf bags in a BPA free PET blender bottle – didn’t work well in the long run.
M.
I forgot about this thread a bit!
Thanks for sharing Leo. I figured the closer to Ground Zero you get for tea, the more option’s there would be. I may have to import some of these, just to put them on the “Have Tried” list, though undoubtably I’ll acquire some of Taoti teas when I roll around to Hong Kong in the next few years (another thread on that incoming). I’ll admit the packaging is pretty attractive on those, but I can’t go judging a book by its cover (or tea by its wrapper).
That said, I don’t think they advertise tea brands here in the US. I don’t watch much TV though. I remember Brisk used to advertise with the same long-running commercial; a melting snowman in the summer heat reinvigorated by a cold can of Brisk (Brisk also being an adjective to describe low temperature, so a bit of a lame pun).
Agreed with ICE that nothing tastes like a cup of tea. Probably the worst offender is “Honest Tea” brand “Just Green Tea”. It’s one of those fair trade teas, comes in a glass bottle (not common here in the land of Old Bay anymore) and is utterly bitter. I’m going to assume they boil the green tea leaves for 10 or more minutes to make that tea. For ~1.25USD, it’s also one of the cheapest and pretty much the only completely unsweetened tea here. It has the interesting gastronomic quality of stimulating appetite. I buy one occasionally to remind myself why I don’t buy them more often – I’ll admit I originally liked the bitter.
I wonder what obsticles lie in making decent quality tea industrially. I’m guessing they just get huge quantites of machine picked leaves, probably from lowest bidder farms (which probably have poor quality control in the fields). Honest Tea probably gets their stock from India or Sri Lanka and that Japanese brand above probably imports leaves too. I ought to try and “can” up some cheap quality tea, let it sit a while and see what the result is. Will have to do the same with higher quality stuff.
I’ve wondered how well this all would keep, the finer brewings. I have considered making a steel travel bottle (c. 20oz) of tea the night before and taking that on trips. Will attemt and cross compare for everyone.
Thanks,
M.
“Nutrition” facts: