/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>18237777
You in the us?
Cheapest way to get started is a finum brew basket, a mug, hot water and tea leaves.
Buy 100g of this tea
https://yunnansourcing.us/collections/black-tea-spring-2022/products/high-mountain-red-ai-lao-mountain-black-tea
Scoop a spoonful into the brew basket, add boiled water, wait 4 minutes and enjoy sweet flavorfull tea without excessive tannins and bitterness like english breakfast or teabags.
If you live somewhere else i can suggest som different shops but you should be able to find those finum brew baskets all over usa and europe on Amazon/ebay/shops like that.
Don't use those little tea balls they don't have enough room for the leaves to expand and they will make a weak cup of tea.

>>18184953
Absolute easiest way to start out is to get a finium brew basket, or a stainless steel equivalent, you can find em all over amazon ebay etc. Pic related
Then you can brew your tea right in a regular coffee mug
Hold off on the cup and saucer stuff, if you want to go traditional it will depend if you want to drink western style teas, Chinese teas or Japanese teas as each school would use different teaware.
Assuming you are in the us i would recommended this
https://yunnansourcing.us/collections/green-tea-spring-2022/products/early-spring-cui-ming-premium-yunnan-green-tea
Japanese green tea is obviously also good but it has a very strong savory/umami aspect that can be a bit shocking if you have only had green tea bags before. But to be clear it is very good if you are into that kind of thing.
However if you would rather have Japanese tea then i guess this tea
https://ippodotea.com/collections/sencha/products/shoike
You can get good quality Japanese green tea cheaper but it involves ordering from japan and its not worth it to buy a bit to try