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Originally Posted by astra
The last time I was in IKEA in December 2009. Did I buy it then? A few years before that? 
Taking it to the office. |
Oh, your poor collegues! You want to poison them! What happened on Friday?
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Originally Posted by ProfCrash
I highly recommend something like the infuser below for brewing tea. It is easy to clean and works well with all teas.
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I use a second tea pot made of stainless steel that has a little, I do not know the correct words for it in English and will take to describing it, has a little net on the inside where the tea is streaming into the pots nuzzle. This way the tea leaves stay moist and slightly warm and I can use them as often as the kind I am using is usable.
As for the black tea getting bitter with longer brewing I tends to do so when I used to much tea. At the beginnig of my teadrinking days I aquired a scales that can do from 1g up to measure them. It is tremendously helpful as I find myself almost all the time erring on the amount that I'd have taken without a scales.
The extrem long steeping times for the whites were something I didn't care to try as anyone else states short times for them. About five years ago I was invited to an afternoon tea in the Ritz Hotels Tearoom. When asking their teamaster which tea he had used as it was incredibly good he told me not only the name, which was on the menue anyway, but also their brewing time, the same as in the chart... Ever since than I did it like that and it is perfect! I guess it is easier to give the brewing times every does give as they are not as complicated and easier to remember for everyone. So the shops are on the sure side.