/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>18099755
>Kick on kettle, place leaves into gaiwan, beep-beep, pour in.
If you're trying to get uber cozy and you're not preheating your gaiwan, throwing the leaves in, and smelling them dry as they warm up, you're missing out. Really really missing out, I'd give it a shot.

>>18050670
Need some advice.

So I just went and bought the large hugo teapot from t2tea. Usually I use this 200ml glass hario teapot with a spring on the spout and make tea according to the instructions in the paste bin, but I wanted something that I could brew large amounts of tea in for multiple cups instead having to re-steep the leaves every cup, as well as something I could use for any type of tea and that would also retain heat.

So I made a pot of 1 litre of tea with 8 grams of mt. dianhong, and brewed for two minutes like I usually do, but when I poured a cup it tasted like water, despite having a decent hew.

I've made tea like this before without an infuser, (just pouring the tea straight from the teapot into a thermos with a small metal tea basket to catch the leaves), does the use of an infuser in a large pot affect the steeping process that mich or have I done something wrong? just want to be able to sit and read witha large pot of black tea desu.

Does using the keep warm function on a zojirushi water boiler deoxygenate the water or spoil it for making tea? also is an electric kettle with preset temps good enough for serious tea drinking?Up till now i've always just used a regular electric kettle because I've only ever drunk black tea.

Whenever I make a cup of black tea I always dump out the boiled water after each steeping and use fresh water for each subsequent pot. The reason being is that I was always told that boiled water is deoxygenated that it's best to use fresh water. Now that I want to get into green tea, i'm looking to change my kettle out for something so that I can get the temperature to the right temp without having to baby it with a thermometer.

Also what kettle/scales/ tea paraphernalia do you guys use?