What is the Perfect Temperature for Brewing Tea? and More Questions | What’s Eating Dan
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In case it has not been mentioned Tea Source out of Minneapolis is very good
Excellent. Thank you. Good stuff
Do you know if flavored teas , like Mango or Raspberry have more caffeine? Cause when I drink these I am a bit more jittery
< Orange Tea Guy
You say that only Camellia sinensis is to be called "tea" and others are infusions. In the movie Scott Pilgrim v. The World, Ramona Flowers asks Scott "What kind of tea do you want?" and he replies "There's more than one kind?"
Regular teas have pesticides on them. 😱
Oh! And I think you should've mentioned in your last video that white tea, since it still have the active enzymes, will slowly oxidize over time, aging it and creating wonderful complex flavors. One of my favorite white teas was stored in natural conditions in Fujian from 2014 to 2018.
Gyokuro really does do well at lower temps. My favourite method is actually to put the dry leaves in a pot under ice, and waiting for the ice to melt. Despite the temperature, it's much faster than cold brew with other kinds of tea, and is especially nice during hot summer days.
Baking soda also seems to neutralize the bitterness. Southern folks have been using it in their iced sweet tea for years. I only learned about it in my teens, but it really helps the tea flavor to shine as long as you don't over-sweeten the tea.
I like the Mei Leaf YouTube channel. I've never purchased tea from them, but I find their videos to be very insightful about tea in general and Gong Fu tea brewing.
Crimson Lotus is another small batch tea supplier out of Seattle focusing mostly on Pu'er tea. I would highly recommend them!
More tea, please!
Hi Dan – please do a video on non-western greens. Like Asian greens?
This show is criminally underrated ATK should really push this show
Upton Tea Imports is good. They are old school and still have a print catalog but always have an interesting selection.
Adding salt to pu’er is actually one of the traditional way of drinking that, I wouldn’t salt my green tea though, I think salt will broke that delicacy
Harney and Sons has many wonderful teas, tisanes and Herbals, in both loose and sachets. Hot cinnamon is my favorite! Can be ordered from their website, arrives quickly.
Try a pinch of baking soda in a pitcher of iced tea to take away a bitter flavor and make it smooth and mellow.
That squatting comment got me so good!!
Tea videos need to be a regular feature. Thank you for spreading the gospel! 🙂
What was the third source you mentioned for tea? I couldn't understand it, something with "Fine Tea" in it. Also, if you're going to plug a business, which is fine with me, it's always good to link to it in your remarks under the video.
Tea is cooking
Have you tried yaupon? What do you think of it? Do you have a favorite source for it?
The series need to return please.
Thanks for doing this follow-up, Dan! In addition to loose teas from serious tea shops and Asian markets (I'm partial to teas from Taiwan), I love teas from the French tea house, Mariage Freres. For Earl Grey drinkers, their Earl Grey Imperial is the best and the bergamot is transcendent (it's strong, though!). This and other varieties can be found at Market Hall Foods in CA (online also). Lucky people in Paris or Tokyo can visit the Mariage Freres shop with varieties unavailable elsewhere. Dan also discussed hot water dispensers… it's my most used appliance — I use it multiple times a day. I prefer ones with a stainless steel vs. nonstick water chamber, and I've been very happy with mine from Secura for years now (after I wasn't able to find a nonstick one from Zojirushi, a brand I grew up with). It has temperature settings for white, green, oolong, and black teas.
I am such an assassin to tea I will admit. I am a full blown southern babe and love sweet tea. That said, once we hit 60 y/o we had to cut the sugar. So…. I went to a mix of Lipton unsweet, decaff instant tea ( also a marker at 60), and family size decaff tea bags….so bad I know. We add fresh lemon juice over ice as desired. This works for us. My question is what advice do you have for us ol’ folks that require decaff and artificially sweetened tea? Of note is my hubby drinks a GALLON of my tea each day in the summer!