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I've always struggled with making tea, but suddenly I found some pretty nice tips!
1. Always start with spring water or distilled water (ideally spring), and make sure it's fresh and cool. Brita-filtered water isn't bad either, unless the water you put throughout the filter to begin surrounded by is so bad this it is cloudy and reeks of chlorine and metals. If you entirely have to use tap water (and admittedly, the tap water is pretty good in a few areas), it is all the more critical that the water is cold, as hot tap water can carry sediments from the tap along investing in it (YUMMY!)
2. Bring the water to a full, rolling boil in a stainless steel kettle, and then remove the kettle from heat immediately, as water which is allowed to boil too for a while now loses the oxygen gas dissolved in it and can cause your tea to taste rather blah and flat. In fact, this is another grounds why you'd ask for to craft with cold water instead of hot, as cold water has the ability to hold other oxygen gas as opposed to hot water.
3. When using loose tea (which you if do, when possible, in place of bagged tea), issue on one heaping teaspoon of loose tea for every teacup of water (about six ounces) and place it into the teapot. A superb rule of thumb is to use "one teaspoon of tea for each person and an extra one for the teapot," but you can tweak presently depending on your tastes. When I'm not in the mood to go to all the trouble of loose tea and teapot, I use bagged tea, or I might sometimes put a superior teaspoon of loose tea to a little handheld tea strainer (think of a miniscule ball of wire mesh such a opens and shuts when you squeeze the handle) - that I bought at a Barnes and Noble café, of all places - and stick this in the mug; I sometimes even just put the loose tea into a mug and let the bits settle to the bottom before I drink - either the present or I might put a fine strainer more than an extra mug and pour the tea to it according to the first mug before drinking.
4. When you pour the water within your loose or bagged tea in a teapot or a mug, generate sure the pot/mug is preheated. Pouring hot water into a cold pot/mug drastically comes down the water's temperature in the beforehand few seconds and would effect the predictability of the steeping time for your tea as well as the quality of the flavors that get steeped out. This certainly isn't a big purchase among certain teas, acutely sites as mint or oolong or chamomile the you are able to steep ceaselessly and ever without harming the taste (in fact, it improves them!), but the flavor of a tea who needs to be steeped *just right* (like green tea) could be seriously compromised. The easiest way to preheat the pot/mug is to pour a bit of your heated water into the pot/mug and rinse it on all sides, discarding the water once you are done. THEN you can put in your tea, and finally, the water.
Learn how to make a cup of tea at my tea blog: http://makeacupofteaforbeginners.blogspot.com
