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Default I make my love China Tea

Oregonian Haruspex > writes:

>On 2014-10-13 11:17:06 +0000, abcsilicone said:
>
>> 3 ,pour the boiling water from higher to the teaware ,let the tea circle
>> moving into the teaware .

>
>Don't you dare pour boiling water on tea. That's only suitable for
>teas that have been peed on by rats in the smelly hold of a clipper
>ship and need to be sterilized because of disease.
>
>These days we use water that's no warmer than 190ยบ Fahrenheit.
>


It depends on the leaves. And even then, theres more than one way to
do it: different temperatures tend to bring out different attributes in
the tea.

/Lew
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