/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Just picked up pic related today, wanted to try and get into tea after learning more about the stuff. Supposedly this was supposed to be good for 8-10 infusions, I got up to 5 before giving up, it just kept getting worse each time. I'm sure I did something wrong, maybe y'all can help me figure out what it was. I used the right side pic for steeping the tea, filling the top chamber up fully with about 2 teaspoons of tea in the chamber. Each infusion was done with boiling water and I let the water sit for about a minute or two before pouring. What should I change? Longer detention time? More tea, less tea? Advice appreciated.