checkeredtablesloth:

livebloggingmydescentintomadness:

yrdz:

findinghealthyhappiness:

skylightdreams:

where has this been all my life??

this is how you get tea to not be bitter. I didn’t like green tea until I learned not to brew it with boiling water.

my brother is obsessed with tea and gets really mad and lectures you if you dont brew it right … yikes

protip: since most of us don’t have kettles with thermometers, the way I’ve figured out when to pour the water over my green tea is to either pour when the first bubbles start to break the surface, OR to wait five minutes after the water has boiled and the kettle has clicked off. 

double protip: loose tea tastes worlds better than bagged tea, as bagged tea is often made from lesser quality leaves. I know it’s a pain in the ass, but it makes a big difference. I always thought I hated green tea, until I tried loose leaf Gunpowder green tea brewed at a lower temperature, and now I love it and drink it multiple times a day. I bought a teapot with a mesh basket to contain the leaves, and that makes it pretty easy.

Work at a loose leaf tea store, can confirm this is all correct. There’s also ways to make loose leaf not a pain in the ass like buying tea bags you can fill yourself and then dispose, or metal mesh baskets that aren’t hard to clean.