"Dog Ma 1" (reply w/o spam) wrote in message
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Using an egg timer to brew black teas has really made a difference over
just
wandering off for a while. (Electronic timers don't seem to fit the
aesthetic.) I've only found 3-minute timers in kitchen shops. Would really
like a 5-minute "hourglass" that I can mark for 3.5, 4 and 4.5 minutes.
Anybody know where to find such an item? Google didn't turn up a US
source,
but I might have set the search too narrowly.


People's views probably differ on how critical +/- 20% is brewing time, but
if you're view is that it *is* important, I would suggest considering
something other than an egg timer, or testing the egg timer so see if you're
actually getting the timing you're expecting.

I won't bore you with the details, but I was in the psotion of having my
staff test the accuracy of a egg timer product a few years ago and we found
that timers labeled as "5 minutes" averaged at 3:40. When we confronted the
manufacturer about this he said the product was labeled incorrectly and
should have been identified as a 4-minute timer. Even then, it was about
10-15% off.

Just a thought. I use a digital.

Warren Liebold