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Newbie here. How do you guys measure your water/tea ratios? I bought a teapot weeks ago (with a removable infuser) and when I try brewing green tea for two people (since I can't seem to use it for one; water won't reach infuser) there doesn't seem to be much infuser space for tea to spread out.

The way I've been doing it is using a mug to measure out two 1/5th cups of cold water and two cups of boiling water (for green tea; I assume that's roughly the right temperature) and putting them in the teapot. Then putting two teaspoons of tea in the infuser and putting that in.

Feels like I'm doing it the tedious way (since I don't have a temp gauge yet) but also should I just get a smaller teapot? Should I increase/decrease water/tea ratios? Ideally I'd love to fill the whole put with water and know instinctively how many teaspoons of tea to use for that amount of water, but I can't.