About your scale and water quantity - the entire thread is missing for me. I
saw it by accident when I went to Google this group for an old post of mine.

Anyway, don't obsess about it because it depends on your personal taste. For
example, the standard is 2.25 grams per 6 oz. water. However, for some teas,
I brew 2 grams per 8 oz water and for some, I brew 1.75g per 8 oz water.
(Since I don't use milk, I use the extra 2 oz capacity for tea.) For those
proportions, any difference between the amount of cold water heated and the
amount of hot tea resulting from the steep is negligible.

Play with it and have fun, okay? It'll help you distinguish the small
differences when you use a spoon, but a scale is most useful for drinkers
like us with teas that won't measure well in a spoon like the more
voluminous teas.

HTH.

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On Dec 3, 2:25 pm, "Bluesea" > wrote:

> Anyway, don't obsess about it because it depends on your personal taste. For
> example, the standard is 2.25 grams per 6 oz. water.

Just curious to know which standard this is?

The only specified standard I know is the one that the world's tea
tasters adopt for black tea tasting i.e. the International Standards
Organization ISO3103-1980 (Tea - Preparation of a liquor for use in
sensory tests) which decrees "a mass of tea corresponding to 2 grams
per 100 ml of liquor". Translated to the size and volume of the
ubiquitous and ISO specified tasting sets - "maximum capacities filled
to the partly serrated edge are 310 +/- 8ml for the large pot (I call
it a mug) and 150 +/- 4 ml for the small pot" these require 5.6 grams
of tea in the large tasting set and 2.8 grams in thes small (or half
size) set. To put all this into a traditional (and British Colonial)
context the ISO specified weight of 5.6 grams is the exact weight of
an old English silver shilling - as was used by the old tea tasters as
a make shift weight in their hand scales long ago.

Nigel at Teacraft

"Nigel" > wrote in message
...
> On Dec 3, 2:25 pm, "Bluesea" > wrote:
>
> > Anyway, don't obsess about it because it depends on your personal taste.
For
> > example, the standard is 2.25 grams per 6 oz. water.
>
> Just curious to know which standard this is?


It's from the description for the OP's scale.


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After receiving another response like yours that the difference in
water quantity before and after steeping should be negligible I took a
closer look at what I was doing and realized I was using a poorly
designed infuser with a solid bottom that was holding in water.

I like your advice not to obsess, and I'm having lots of fun trying
different teas, all greens and whites. This all started with a trip
to Harney's tasting room. Before that all I knew about tea was that I
didn't like my mother's Red Rose, and that the bitterness and
astringency were almost painful.

The scale is helping me deal with the difference in volume between a
fluffy white tea and a dense genmai cha. Also, when I figure out my
favorite teas, it'll help me measure out the amount that gets me a
good (or great) cup of tea with minimal bitterness.

On Dec 3, 9:25 am, "Bluesea" > wrote:
> About your scale and water quantity - the entire thread is missing for me. I
> saw it by accident when I went to Google this group for an old post of mine.
>
> Anyway, don't obsess about it because it depends on your personal taste. For
> example, the standard is 2.25 grams per 6 oz. water. However, for some teas,
> I brew 2 grams per 8 oz water and for some, I brew 1.75g per 8 oz water.
> (Since I don't use milk, I use the extra 2 oz capacity for tea.) For those
> proportions, any difference between the amount of cold water heated and the
> amount of hot tea resulting from the steep is negligible.
>
> Play with it and have fun, okay? It'll help you distinguish the small
> differences when you use a spoon, but a scale is most useful for drinkers
> like us with teas that won't measure well in a spoon like the more
> voluminous teas.
>
> HTH.
>
> --
> ~~Bluesea~~
> Spam is great in musubi but not in email.
> Please take out the trash before sending a direct reply.

> wrote in message
...
> After receiving another response like yours that the difference in
> water quantity before and after steeping should be negligible I took a
> closer look at what I was doing and realized I was using a poorly
> designed infuser with a solid bottom that was holding in water.

I have a glass infuser that came with a glass teapot that's like you
describe. I quit using it early on because the slits let tea fragments and
rooibos out and it was too hot for me to handle long enough when I tipped it
to drain.

> I like your advice not to obsess, and I'm having lots of fun trying
> different teas, all greens and whites.

They're my favorites, too.

> This all started with a trip
> to Harney's tasting room. Before that all I knew about tea was that I
> didn't like my mother's Red Rose, and that the bitterness and
> astringency were almost painful.

LOL - Dad drank Lipton. I hate Lipton and gave up on tea until a friend's
mom from San Francisco opened my eyes to the world beyond it.

> The scale is helping me deal with the difference in volume between a
> fluffy white tea and a dense genmai cha. Also, when I figure out my
> favorite teas, it'll help me measure out the amount that gets me a
> good (or great) cup of tea with minimal bitterness.

Yes .


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> On Dec 3, 9:25 am, "Bluesea" > wrote:
> > About your scale and water quantity - the entire thread is missing for
me. I
> > saw it by accident when I went to Google this group for an old post of
mine.
> >
> > Anyway, don't obsess about it because it depends on your personal taste.
For
> > example, the standard is 2.25 grams per 6 oz. water. However, for some
teas,
> > I brew 2 grams per 8 oz water and for some, I brew 1.75g per 8 oz water.
> > (Since I don't use milk, I use the extra 2 oz capacity for tea.) For
those
> > proportions, any difference between the amount of cold water heated and
the
> > amount of hot tea resulting from the steep is negligible.
> >
> > Play with it and have fun, okay? It'll help you distinguish the small
> > differences when you use a spoon, but a scale is most useful for
drinkers
> > like us with teas that won't measure well in a spoon like the more
> > voluminous teas.
> >
> > HTH.
> >
> > --
> > ~~Bluesea~~
> > Spam is great in musubi but not in email.
> > Please take out the trash before sending a direct reply.
>