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Green tea from my blue bowl
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Apr 23, 2024 22:24
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The glaze looks crazy in direct sunlight. I have a gaiwan and some cups with it also
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Nov 20, 2020 06:37
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I had some gyokuro at 11 pm in my very small pot (only 100 mL) so hopefully it doesn't keep me up all night
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Nov 22, 2020 08:13
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If you're into teaware, the game Nioh 2 has a cool little thing tucked away in one of its later-game mechanics where you collect tea utensils to boost various passive stats like luck and such, but each piece gets evaluated by a character who then tells you some of the actual real-life history about the teaware, and you can find things like matcha bowls and caddies and urns and such and the sheer variety of them is pretty stunning
It's a very cool thing to be tucked away in an obscure submenu of a video game about slicing demons in half
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Nov 22, 2020 20:33
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id never turn down moomins anything. that looks like a righteous batch there, friend.
question from a former bean water consumer, how do i make tea stimulate my bowels like bean water does? i've made the switch, but i need some clearing out.
Drink a lot of it
Ripe fermented Pu'erh teas tend to make me go
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Nov 23, 2020 19:16
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i've been looking at some of that stuff, but don't know if i have the hardware to make it well and get the most out of it.
let's see your tea loadouts, my dudes. mugs, kettles, etc.
Do you have a pot and some hot water? Then you can get plenty out of a Pu'erh
Gongfu is the preferred method for brewing but it's not absolutely required to enjoy the tea. That said, it can be done relatively cheaply. You can get a glass gaiwan for 10 bucks and that's the only part of the setup I would say is "necessary." Maybe also a filter that can sit in your cup so you don't dump leaves into the cup you're drinking out of.
Edit: in fact I am going to drink some now, here is some of my load out
The tea in the little bamboo caddy is a V93 Tuocha and it tastes like chocolate
Heath fucked around with this message at 20:17 on Nov 23, 2020
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Nov 23, 2020 19:50
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I got my new tenmoku chawan today and I will be putting it to use tomorrow
Yes it's my third one why do you ask
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Nov 24, 2020 02:24
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I will never use a handle
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Nov 24, 2020 02:49
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It's decently heavy, and these bowls are supposed to be used with two hands, in the very famous presidential style
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Nov 24, 2020 06:16
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I want some Duck poo poo but the local tea shop can't get it. I've only had it once and I'd like to try it again
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Nov 25, 2020 08:11
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Sippin' some Japanese green tea with my breakfast
I had matcha today. It was real good
I'm learning that with Japanese greens of all sorts that cooler is better. I've been wetting my powder with a touch of 55°C water and mixing it into a paste, then getting it up to about 68°C and adding the rest of the water to whisk. It preserves the sweetness
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Dec 3, 2020 03:39
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I've had probably literally hundreds of matchas in the last 5 or 6 years and nothing is worse than a burned matcha
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Dec 3, 2020 04:05
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It's tea time!
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Dec 5, 2020 21:22
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Jealousy levels: high
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Dec 9, 2020 05:17
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When your gaiwan fills up so the lid don't quite sit. That's the poo poo
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Dec 11, 2020 07:25
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I had some "Strong Fire" Taiwanese Tieguanyin today. It's like regular Tieguanyin but with a slightly nuttier taste
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Dec 15, 2020 08:36
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Also, most tea in the US seems to be served with sugar (or as presweetened drinks) but I don't really understand why, if you have access to decent tea leaves.
Most Americans have a completely warped sense of taste and cannot conceive of a drink like tea that is a primarily nasal experience. Friends I've tried to get into tea can't help but load it up with sugar because they otherwise "can't taste anything"
To me that's part of the appeal, since I spent my teenage years gorging myself on soda until my teeth rotted, as an adult it's nice to drink something that demands a little more mindfulness in its preparation and enjoyment. Having it be my little morning ritual makes it feel more special and like something I can look forward to rather than something I just do. But the society we're in abhors such things
A lot of Americans also get their exposure to tea through a handful of sources:
1) if you grew up in the South, chances are the "tea" you drink is sweet tea, which like many southern things is a slow suicide-by-food where there's something like a 1:1 ratio of tea to sugar
2) perhaps you get some kind of tea-based latte from a restaurant like Starbucks that is loaded up with sugar - they serve matcha drinks that are something like 15 grams of sugar to 1 gram of actual tea powder, which is the case for most "cooking" grade matcha that is intended for confections rather than to be drunk
3) grocery store bagged teas which are made from the refuse of the tea sorting process in factories after picking. Most bagged and flavored teas use what's called "tea dust" which are the leaves that are too broken and small to be sold as loose leaf after the higher quality leaves are separated. These get mixed with other non-tea flavoring agents and are sold in the US as artisanal blends or some nonsense. The result is that you get bags of tea with leaves that are significantly smaller and often significantly older than the equivalent loose leaf. When you steep them, because they're already broken up, they will release all of their tannins into the water very quickly, and make the tea very bitter and overwhelming. Companies try to cover this up by adding acidic flavors like citrus, and on top of that most Americans have no concept of brewing parameters so you get people leaving the bag in the tea to steep for 5+ minutes, in boiling water regardless of the type of tea, which makes it taste awful, and so they add a couple spoonfuls of sugar or honey to get it back to being palatable
This is why I'm big on gongfu brewing, because it demonstrates in dramatic fashion what advantages there are to being mindful about how you brew it. People are always impressed by how powerful, flavorful and diverse a brew I can get out of a tea after five to ten seconds when they've been brewing bags for five to ten minutes their whole lives
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Dec 15, 2020 17:41
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Drinking jasmine tea and eating fruit this cold rainy morning and wondering what the hell I'm doing with my life.
Doing it right by the sounds of it
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Dec 27, 2020 23:32
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I made a short video in which I brew a Taiwanese oolong using the gongfu method if you would care to see it in action
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Dec 29, 2020 01:02
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I had never heard about tea pets before, they look so rad.
I think if I broke a beloved cup I would have to try and emulate kintsugi somehow.
E. Also happy new year! Time for milky black tea to sooth my head and irritate my stomach lining
My friend got me a kintsugi kit for Christmas so I've been doing a lot of research on it
Things to note are that a lot of modern repair methods are not food safe! Or the repair epoxies are not temperature resistant so drinking something hot (like tea) can weaken the bonding and break it again
So be sure to confirm your method and materials before trying to fix something unless you just plan to make it a decorative piece
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Jan 1, 2021 07:17
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Read that as True Crime
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Jan 2, 2021 19:36
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I am having a lil gyokuro for my first meal of the day at noon
I did exactly this today 
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Jan 8, 2021 06:48
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Every time I think about making pu erh I think of my aunt saying "what in the HAYULL is POO AIR?!" really loud in a coffee shop in the early 2000s and I do not know why it stuck but it did.
It's a good story
I didn't think puerhs had been available in the states that long ago. Feel like they're a recent thing
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Jan 8, 2021 11:03
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Uhhh what if it has multiple pictures to capture the whole stash or multiple videos
The internet is big, post them
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Jan 10, 2021 20:12
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that's similar to genmaicha, which is green tea w/ toasted brown rice. check that bidness out.
The shop I get my tea from has matcha infused genmaicha, which is basically just ceremonial grade powder mixed in with the genmaicha. It strengthens the green tea flavor and gives it a thicker liquor and adds caffeine
Only downside is that the matcha all washes off on the first steeping but after that you get just regular ol' genmaicha which is also good. If you like the toasty flavors it's great, and it tends to come relatively cheap, since it was invented as a way to stretch out tea leaves by cutting them with the rice to bulk it up and make a tea that could be more widely available to a lower price point
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Jan 14, 2021 21:44
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Matcha! It's good!
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Jan 16, 2021 19:47
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Yeah tea isn't anywhere near coffee in terms of caffeine content
Tea does have L-theanine in it that gives something of a calming effect to the brain, which tends to make the caffeine rise a little less abrupt than you'd get from coffee or soda
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Jan 18, 2021 22:22
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ALSO I kind of want to get one of these stupid things
These are a good brew option, just make sure you clean it thoroughly
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Feb 4, 2021 21:39
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I frequently brew loose leaf green tea in a mug and just drink some of the tea leaves. I know this is a weird thing to do but I've gotten to really like it. But I should probably learn to drink normal person tea too.
They have a name for that, it's "grandpa style" brewing
If you get some high quality Japanese green gyokuro, you can straight up eat the leaves after they're spent with a little bit of sea salt or soy sauce and they are delicious. Wonderful on rice or sushi
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Feb 4, 2021 23:30
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Forgive me father but I have sinned
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I chose coffee today instead of toasted Yerb
Neither of those are tea, so it's really a lateral sin
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Feb 5, 2021 01:28
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Taiwanese teas have been unilaterally excellent in my limited taste testing
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Feb 5, 2021 05:20
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Genmaicha in my mouth
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Feb 10, 2021 19:40
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I have ordered one of those super glad shiboridashi for my green tea. Words cannot express my hype in this moment
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Feb 11, 2021 09:03
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pics or it probably happened but i wont get to see what ur thing you got is
It is in the mail
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Feb 11, 2021 09:15
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I had some Dragonwell this morning and it was good
I don't know how to describe the flavor of greens except to say "grassy" but sencha grassy is much different from Dragonwell grassy
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Feb 13, 2021 00:48
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I have been told my tea bowl looks like a grape cut in half. I tend to agree re: this assessment
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Feb 19, 2021 21:22
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hmmm 7pm green tea sesh seems irresponsible for the whole going-to-bed-on-time thing but it's chilly and i want something warm
It's Friday. Go nuts
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Feb 20, 2021 01:00
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Milk oolong is good and rules, you've made the right choice. Report your trip to flavortown to us at your leisure
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Apr 23, 2024 22:24
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I ordered a shiboridashi like two weeks ago and it hasn't showed up yet. I fear it is in the ether
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