"Alex Chaihorsky" > wrote in message
m...
> > No, don't let the tea dry out between steepings. Don't use tea that's
> > more than a few hours old to resteep.
>
> Why? What is wrong with it? I resteep sometimes leaves that were sitting
> there for a day or two. I may have 5-6 different teas sitting in their
> chahus at the same time during the week and me resteeping them now and
then.
> Never a problem, never a disappointment.

De gustabus non disputandum. I just don't want to drink stuff that's sat
around for hours.

I'd imagine Reno has very low humidity. Here in the American South, stuff
starrts to turn bad in a couple of days if you let it set out on the counter
and it has moisture in it. It's so bad I keep my tea and coffee in a
cabinet with a few big buckets of moisture absorber- I just don't want it to
taste or smell musty at all. Spices in the cabinet will cake up in a month
or so. I suppose a de-humidifier would be the way to go, but that just uses
more power.