/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>18002513
>you brew pieces of the bamboo leaf with the tea?
not yet, but i have been saving all the bamboo leaf in case i want to use it. i have been meaning to try including some.
>Im not sure what i think of the tea that way.
whats it like?

>>18002604
>I would really recommend not just using feel, especially at first.
that's probably not bad advice so long as the noob doesn't obsess over detail so much it affects their enjoyment. i think the biggest thing people stop doing as they get more experienced is using exact preset brew times for gong fu. timing is important but improvising and adjusting based on taste will work as well or better than preset algorithms and is a lot less annoying to do. that said i do regularly use a scale, temperature controlled kettle, and keep a timer on hand for when i need it.

>>18002679
>you just want to use it up to clean up some space?
i rotate though my teas so as not to use up all my favorites and for the sake of variety but i don't generally have stuff i feel the need to get rid of. i like most of my tea and if i run out of space just i will make more. the one exception i suppose would be green tea where i want to use it up when it is fresh.

>>18002712
>I remembered there was one caveat with them. They have some obviously fake old puer
i totally forgot as well. i swear we have had this conversation before.