Reading a few tea textbooks right now. :blobfoxread: #TeaFacts
Fukamushi Sencha (深蒸し煎茶) is a type of green tea and is the most commonly consumed tea 🍵 in Japan. It is preferred for its rich taste and full mouthfeel. It is best prepared with 70°C (~158°F) to avoid harsh flavors and excess bitterness...
This explains why just dumping freshly boiled water doesn't work, got it.
So a trick from this "A Beginner's Guide to Japanese Tea" is to brew sencha in refrigerated water and leave to steep for 5 minutes. The taste will enhance the umami (Glutamic acid & L-theanine) and sweetness (L-theanine, free sugars) without the bitterness (various polyphenols).
I just tried it on some cheap sencha, and it tastes much better than some warm brewed midrange gyokuro (the expensive type of Japanese tea). :leafeonmoney:
@babelcarp After each steep I empty the pitcher of tea and remove the plunger (so it doesn't continue to cook/steam). Really it would be better if the plunger pulled the tea up and out of the liquid instead of pushing it down. @tea
Mrs Flannestad requested some green tea, so got out the plunger pot to make a larger batch. Trying to remember what timing/ratio I used to use with this thing. 7g in 500ml 190F/90C for 2 mins seemed pretty good. Then second steep for 3 mins.(White2Tea's Emerald Buds green Tea.)
Yay! The National Library's café in #Stockholm has opened again after closing in 2020! And in August the basement restaurant named for an early runologist's enormous note-taking tome will reopen too!
Morning my pet. Do you like being teased over breakfast? I'm holding these scrambled eggs with veggies and cheese just out of reach. You're here to pour my jasmine tea for me and kneel at my feet, after all. You get your treat after you do something for me: tell me what a good pet you are and that you're going to take care of yourself today. ❤️