Hehe, I was about to say that! Overheating is what makes tea bitter instead of delicate, like it should be. And go figure, the person I learned this from considered tea and cooking like chemistry.
I was also going to say that, according to my boyfriend, the proper way to make a cup "dirties" several dishes. Use one pot to boil, another pot with hot water in it to warm it first. You pour the water out of the pot you were warming, use it to brew in, and pour the water you were boiling (after it's at the temperature your particular tea demands) into the brewing pot. And then serve it from that one.
Incidentally, I just got a cast iron teapot today, imported from Japan, that came with specific care instructions. ^^
Oh - that's also an advantage to cast iron pots and to handle-less teacups, now that I'm thinking about it. If it's too hot to touch, it's too hot for the more delicate teas like greens and whites.
Ohh, so that's what the deal is with handle-less teacups...? Or is there some other advantage to using them? I'd just thought it was to be old-fashioned/traditional, although impractical, because of the hand-burning thing.
I'm not sure if that's the actual reason. But I think of it this way. Europeans tend to do tea a bit more bitter. Asians tend to do the more delicate green teas. Bitter teas are made with boiling water. Delicate teas are made with water you can safely stick a finger into. European teacups have handles. Asian teacups do not. Therefore I came to this conclusion.
Yeah, that's how my mom explained the best way to make a pot of tea was, as well.
...except that, even though we had a nice metal and a nice ceramic teapot, the latter of which could be used for brewing and such, I usually just made bitter green tea with boiling water,and learned to like it like that
...sometimes with a lot of sugar.
But sometimes not.
And, frankly? Orion? This comic made me grin. So very much. Useful therianthropic information or no, I can always appreciate a happy tiger. *lap lap lap*
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Date: 2006-03-27 09:29 pm (UTC)I was also going to say that, according to my boyfriend, the proper way to make a cup "dirties" several dishes. Use one pot to boil, another pot with hot water in it to warm it first. You pour the water out of the pot you were warming, use it to brew in, and pour the water you were boiling (after it's at the temperature your particular tea demands) into the brewing pot. And then serve it from that one.
Incidentally, I just got a cast iron teapot today, imported from Japan, that came with specific care instructions. ^^
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Date: 2006-04-08 12:16 am (UTC)...except that, even though we had a nice metal and a nice ceramic teapot, the latter of which could be used for brewing and such, I usually just made bitter green tea with boiling water,and learned to like it like that
...sometimes with a lot of sugar.
But sometimes not.
And, frankly? Orion? This comic made me grin. So very much. Useful therianthropic information or no, I can always appreciate a happy tiger. *lap lap lap*