Tea

Recently ended up neck deep in Japanese teas, love them so much! In particular genmaicha.

I know it should be loose leaves, but I usually use a paper tea bag, because I don’t like to clean the tea pot. 100C for 30seconds. Delicious.

1tbsp loose leaf black tea into a tea infuser with just under boiling water for 4 min or so.

I am a pleb, but it's bags for me. Yorkshire Gold. 4 mins at 80c.

I also do iced Yorkshire with 6 bags. 16 fl Oz water at 80c. 4 mins. Simple syrup to taste. Ice to fill.

I've tried other methods but they all feel so involved compared to simply dunking a bag.

Recently decided i didn't like the plastic in teabags so i got a small spherical metal strainer. I use loose leaf Yorkshire tea from tesco, add three quarters of a teaspoon into the strainer, pour boiling water through the strainer into the mug, swish it around for a minute. Many, many times a day :-) i'm gonna start a mini-compost bin for the used leaves :-)