Space Cowboy wrote:
> How many people want me to **** them off? Okay if you ask for
> it. Boiling water is for your health. IMHO anecdotal
> experience I don't think water temperature is that much of a
> variable when making tea. You allow me to taste your desired
> result I'll use boiling water and come pretty close. You can
> check my posts from the past. At some point the kettle will
> cool to 160.

I meant brewing Sencha using boiling water, not water that has
boiled and cooled to 160. If indeed, as you say, "there is no
fundamental difference in taste no matter what method or how [one]
brews the tea", then water temperature shouldn't matter.

> You should really be making tea according to your taste and not
> some percentage formula based on differential rates of
> extraction. If you do use that formula you will have to boil
> your water. Also note this formula doesn't have a clue about
> what you mean by 'lovely'.

That's just my poetic way of saying the tongue is a finer
instrument for flavor analysis than any machine. Certainly you
agree with this.

--crymad

>
> Jim
>
> crymad wrote:
>
>> Space Cowboy wrote:
>>
>>> I know that taste is proportional in the sense there is no
>>> fundamental difference in taste no matter what method or
>>> how I brew the tea. As soon as the water hits the tea all
>>> the taste components come into play.
>>
>> Then give me a method of brewing Sencha that uses boiling
>> water. This would free me from having to hover over a pot of
>> heating water waiting for a precise temperature. Naturally,
>> I'll want it to taste as lovely as when brewed with 160
>> degree water.
>>
>> --crymad
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