Interesting! I'm always looking for a few ways to trim minutes out of
my morning, because no matter how hard I try I always wake up late and
end up rushing out the door with tea in hand. I'll have to attempt
this, though I might not be able to swoosh so violently -- with my
klutzines I'm sure I could burn myself easily. In japan my host family
taught me to swirl the pot, but I think that was more to distribute
the flavor of the green tea evenly right before the infusion was
ready. The only concern I'd have is that the swooshing would hasten
the cooling of the water too much. It seems like it'd expose the tea
to a lot of cold air that way. Or are you saying your brewing
container is filled to the top and sealed to prevent spilling. But
hey, whatever gets me out the door faster..

Tiffany


(Space Cowboy) wrote in message . com...
I've been experimenting with swooshing infusions of green and oolong
and too some extent BOP blacks to reduce infusion time and produce
consistent taste in multiple infusions. I have a 1 liter cylindrical
pyrex pot 4in wide and 7in tall set in plastic cradel with large
handle for easy gripping to produce the circulating motion of the tea
from rotation of the arm and fixed wrist It is a modified Bodum
French Press with filter gill and grate reset to level of spout. In
all cases infusion of boiling water is 500ml/5g to facilitate the
violent rotating circular swooshing of the tea where the leaf and
water climb the walls of the cylinder and fall back in a tumbling
action. So far to my surprise all vigorus swirling infusions seem to
require only 15sec(!) no matter the type. The biggest bonus multiple
infusions remarkably taste consistent with same type of infusing. I'm
easily getting a good consistent second tasting infusion for BOP
blacks while the others at least three. 500ml(16oz) seems to be the
optimum for this brewing technique. I stumbled on this because this
is the size of my everyday cuppa and I knew the slough walls of a
Brown Betty are known for their rolling infusion. The one exception
so far uncooked cake Puer which takes it time no matter what.

Jim