On 2014-11-14 14:26:19 +0000, Lewis Perin said:

> 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 190º 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.

Again you and I will have to agree to disagree. I will concede that
boiling water can be used on leaves that seem totally spent because
sometimes you can get one last pot of liquor out of them.

Otherwise the extreme temperature drives off the volatile oils that
constitute some of the more interesting flavor components in tea. At
least that's my take on it.