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“A teapet cannot steep into the same tea twice, because it is not the same tea, and she is not same teapet”

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baptnz, to tea
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teapet was rudely and unexpectedly sent back so I had to prepare her favourite @tea to make her feel home again

teapet enjoying the company of a tetsubin, teapot, tea cup, shou puerh, and 2 pastéis de nata on the side

Aknorals, to tea
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I want to get uncomfortably into drinking tea but I'm not sure where to start. Do I get an electric kettle or one of those things that automatically infuses at a certain temperature? What style tea?

I've been pondering this for years and still have yet to come up with answers.

baptnz,
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@babelcarp @david_megginson @tea I recently bought a cheap "milk thermometer" and it's quite handy to check & adjust water temperature by mixing hot/cold (in my case I'm using a hotplate + cast iron kettle, and not yet familiar with the power settings)

baptnz, to tea
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First attempt at making matcha @tea today
(a bit of a fail – it's hard work!)

matcha in container
teaware on table

aburtch, to tea
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Can any people explain the difference between:

English Breakfast
Scottish Breakfast
Irish Breakfast

@tea

baptnz,
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@aburtch @beckett @tea "New Zealand Breakfast" tea from Twinings appears to be Assam with bergamot flavouring and was designed through a competition, though some local brands have their own blend with that name with either kiwifruit or mānuka ¯_(ツ)_/¯

baptnz, to tea
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Late afternoon oolong @tea session back at home, unpacking the tetsubin and trying it with a hotplate

close up on tetsubin and hotplate
oolong tea in pitcher
crowded tea table with teaware

mdsumner, to random
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does anyone have straightforward examples of building up a xml document with xml2? doc seems geared to existing documents ... has anyone written much with this? 😅

baptnz,
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@mdsumner {minixml}? https://coolbutuseless.github.io/package/minixml/

baptnz, to tea
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Âhhh, Paris ! The sights. The 4€ @tea bags. Ironically my weight-limit suitcase sitting beside me is 80% tea & teaware, 20% padding (clothes, as people call them)

Normal trash bag occupying the next table, a maze of passenger tubes and neobrutalist concrete layers through the bleak window, evoking, idk, the underground sewer foundations of the Eiffel tower

baptnz, to tea
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Tried this raw puerh @tea before packing all the teaware (if at all possible) in the suitcase. Not really my taste, but I think I need to try more puerhs to understand the range of tastes (there's only one I really love so far).

baptnz, to tea
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Dragon Pearl Jasmine green @tea accompanied by an early galette frangipane–châtaignes

baptnz, to tea
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"Osmanthus d'Or" (Huangjin Gui) Oolong @tea
Nice colour, but I miss the stronger osmanthus taste of the flower-flavoured version I tried before

baptnz, to tea
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Tried this Castleton muscatel Darjeeling @tea in new gaiwan + matching set from Mei Leaf. Probably a bit too big for solo sessions, but will be handy if I have company

baptnz, to tea
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Christmas morning sencha @tea

glass pitcher with sencha inside

baptnz, to tea
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Long Jing @tea with a hint of pine tree, to celebrate having aged another year (and that other birthday tomorrow, I guess)

baptnz, to tea
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morning @tea looking over at the Hiroshima Peace Pagoda

photograph of a kyusu with sensha leaves and a cup next to it

baptnz, to tea
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"Celebrating" the end of the holiday by unboxing this smaller & flatter kyusu and trying sencha @tea @ 70ºC-ish

baptnz, to tea
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tried some okumidori sencha at a @tea house in Arashiyama today

It came with instructions:

1st brew already done at 50º

2nd and 3rd: use the timer, 5 to 10s at 90º

I enjoyed the first cup, to my untrained palate it tasted pretty much exactly the same as yesterday's gyokuro

I wonder why they recommend (and give us) 90º for the following brews; to me it tasted too astringent and bitter

close up on the leaves

baptnz, to tea
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I'll admit, I had greater expectations than a takeaway cup on the street for my first taste of gyokuro @tea 😅 but I walked 45mins to get here

baptnz, to tea
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Did I need one more @tea pot? No.
Does it fit in my suitcase? Also no
¯_(ツ)/¯C()~

babelcarp, to tea
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I’m convinced by this: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/generivory

Does anyone know if there are cheaper teabags than Lipton?

@tea

baptnz,
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@coolandnormal @babelcarp @tea I wait until one of those bulk catering bags is almost empty and get the dust at the bottom at a discount – broken leaves are way more economical, you don't need to boil water to extract a potent drink

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Uh oh, I found a tetsubin on Sennichimae Doguyasuji st in Osaka. The seller tried his best to put me off - but to no avail.

I asked if it could be used with a hotplate - apparently not :/ any idea why, @tea ? The bottom is flat, I wonder what the problem would be

baptnz,
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@anndroid @tea Hmm, interesting – but wouldn't the gas flame (recommended way) be just as harsh?

baptnz,
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@nathanlovestrees @anndroid @tea That advice (and other answers alongside) was very much in the spirit of sending me away for asking questions in English (and presumably mistaking it for a teapot), so I'm not taking it very literally. It would make sense to me that a hotplate should work, so long as there's a good area of contact at the bottom (another one was curved, so I can see how it would be problematic)

baptnz,
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@anndroid @tea I think I'll likely fill it with hot water, but it'd be nice to keep it to temperature / fine-tune the temperature with a heat source (ideally electric)

baptnz,
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@tea Interestingly, the producer says that induction is fine (albeit at medium setting, to manage heat gradient strain) – https://oitomi.com/blogs/articles/can-nambu-ironware-tetsubin-be-used-with-ihinduction-heating

baptnz,
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@llorenzin @tea It's an uncoated tetsubin - raw cast iron inside. I believe (from random internet posts but also the producer's website) that all types of heating are fine actually, with a mild caveat about induction (keep it on medium), which could heat up too fast and cause internal stress that might damage it over time.

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