i ordered some puerh.
would it help or not to use a clean coffee grinder to pulverize the
leaf?
then it would be like teabag leaf size ?

would this get more flavour out, or be more bitter ?

yes,
i am new to puerh
alan

writes:

i ordered some puerh.
would it help or not to use a clean coffee grinder to pulverize the
leaf?
then it would be like teabag leaf size ?

would this get more flavour out, or be more bitter ?

I'm afraid that would make it considerably more bitter. That's
assuming you have ordered raw/green/sheng Pu'er, not
cooked/black/shu. If you have the latter, bitterness might not be
much of an issue. In any case getting more flavor out of the leaves
isn't usually a problem; many people find Pu'er too strong, if anything.

yes, i am new to puerh

Then maybe you'd like to introduce yourself to it gently?

/Lew
---
Lew Perin /
http://www.panix.com/~perin/babelcarp.html

I would also suppose that pulverizing the leaf would ruin one of the
great aspects of puer, which is that you can brew the same leaves over
and over and get a whole bunch of different cups of tea with just a
few grams of leaf. You can do the same with oolong, but puer tends to
have more staying power in my experience. With tea dust, as you find
in tea bags or finely chopped leaves even, I think the flavors would
leach out much more quickly and you wouldn't get nearly as much
enjoyment or value out of the tea.

cha bing

On Apr 3, 5:42*am, wrote:
i ordered some puerh.
would it help or not to use a clean coffee grinder to pulverize the
leaf?
then it would be like teabag leaf size ?

would this get more flavour out, or be more bitter ?

yes,
i am new to puerh
alan

Be kind. Keep the coffee grinder far away from the pu-er.
:")
Kevo

On Apr 2, 5:42*pm, wrote:
i ordered some puerh.
would it help or not to use a clean coffee grinder to pulverize the
leaf?
then it would be like teabag leaf size ?

would this get more flavour out, or be more bitter ?

yes,
i am new to puerh
alan

You could use one of these:
http://tea.timzhao.com/CTCOM/teapot/PIC/042.JPG

Alex wrote:
You could use one of these:
http://tea.timzhao.com/CTCOM/teapot/PIC/042.JPG

There's a good demo of this tool in Miyazaki's extraordinary movie
"Spirited Away."

-DM

On Apr 4, 7:45*am, DogMa wrote:
Alex wrote:
You could use one of these:
http://tea.timzhao.com/CTCOM/teapot/PIC/042.JPG

There's a good demo of this tool in Miyazaki's extraordinary movie
"Spirited Away."

-DM

I think it is a herb pulverizer...

kevo

DogMa writes:

Alex wrote:
You could use one of these:
http://tea.timzhao.com/CTCOM/teapot/PIC/042.JPG

There's a good demo of this tool in Miyazaki's extraordinary movie
"Spirited Away."

Ah, thanks for reminding me of _Spirited Away_! Just thinking about
it makes me smile.

By the way, there's a memorable tea scene in that movie - *everything*
in that movie is memorable - though it isn't Japanese tea. Charles: I
don't know if there's enough tea in the movie for your purposes, but
sheer greatness has to count, no?

/Lew
---
Lew Perin /
http://www.panix.com/~perin/babelcarp.html

On Apr 4, 10:27 am, Lewis Perin wrote:
DogMa writes:
Alex wrote:
You could use one of these:
http://tea.timzhao.com/CTCOM/teapot/PIC/042.JPG

There's a good demo of this tool in Miyazaki's extraordinary movie
"Spirited Away."

Ah, thanks for reminding me of _Spirited Away_! Just thinking about
it makes me smile.

By the way, there's a memorable tea scene in that movie - *everything*
in that movie is memorable - though it isn't Japanese tea. Charles: I
don't know if there's enough tea in the movie for your purposes, but
sheer greatness has to count, no?

/Lew
---
Lew Perin /

I just have to pop in to say that Hayao Miyazaki is pure genius. I own
his entire library as well as anything put out by Studio Ghibli.
Spirited Away is amazing. Some other of note for anyone interested:
Grave of the Fireflies, Howl's Moving Castle, Princess Mononoke, Porco
Rosso, and Nausicaa. Also Metropolis is another great Anime.

- Dominic

On Apr 4, 8:17 am, "Dominic T." wrote:
On Apr 4, 10:27 am, Lewis Perin wrote:



DogMa writes:
Alex wrote:
You could use one of these:
http://tea.timzhao.com/CTCOM/teapot/PIC/042.JPG

There's a good demo of this tool in Miyazaki's extraordinary movie
"Spirited Away."

Ah, thanks for reminding me of _Spirited Away_! Just thinking about
it makes me smile.

By the way, there's a memorable tea scene in that movie - *everything*
in that movie is memorable - though it isn't Japanese tea. Charles: I
don't know if there's enough tea in the movie for your purposes, but
sheer greatness has to count, no?

/Lew
---
Lew Perin /

I just have to pop in to say that Hayao Miyazaki is pure genius. I own
his entire library as well as anything put out by Studio Ghibli.
Spirited Away is amazing. Some other of note for anyone interested:
Grave of the Fireflies, Howl's Moving Castle, Princess Mononoke, Porco
Rosso, and Nausicaa. Also Metropolis is another great Anime.

- Dominic

Yes, good Miyazaki is very much like a good tea - spiritually
fulfilling in the kindest way. I collect his works as well, and have
some very rare stuff on DVD (e.g, Future Boy Conan, Marco, and his
music video "On Your Mark"). I even have his son's first Studio
Ghibli film, Tales of Earthsea.

The tool shown in the photo matches one described in Lu Yu's Ch'a
Ching, used to grind tea leaves for the Tang Dynasty style tea.

On Apr 4, 10:27*pm, Lewis Perin wrote:
DogMa writes:
Alex wrote:
You could use one of these:
http://tea.timzhao.com/CTCOM/teapot/PIC/042.JPG

There's a good demo of this tool in Miyazaki's extraordinary movie
"Spirited Away."

Ah, thanks for reminding me of _Spirited Away_! *Just thinking about
it makes me smile.

By the way, there's a memorable tea scene in that movie - *everything*
in that movie is memorable - though it isn't Japanese tea. *Charles: I
don't know if there's enough tea in the movie for your purposes, but
sheer greatness has to count, no?

/Lew

Thinking of it makes my heart warm & fuzzy, Im gonna make it my
weekend stay home movie~! I like especially the song that was sung by
Wakako Kaku on harp, "Itsumo Nando-demo" - Always With Me; it touches
the soul immensely in a simple way, tho I dont understand a word
sung...

Kevo