Nothing cools you down on a hot summer day like a cool, refreshing glass of iced tea. The only problem: most iced tea recipes call for a ton of sugar, which makes them almost as unhealthy as a soda. But there is a way to get a great-tasting iced tea without resorting to sugar. Or […]

You want to like it. But you just don’t know how to make green tea taste good. You really want to take advantage of all the health benefits you keep hearing and reading about. You also want something you can drink that isn’t loaded with sugars or other unhealthy additives, but isn’t just plain water. […]

You really want to give yerba mate a try, but you are a bit afraid. You know there is a lot of tradition behind this drink and you’ve seen people enjoying it in an almost ritualistic fashion. And you have no idea how to make yerba mate tea the right way. The traditional way. I […]

Sometimes you end up with far more tea than you could ever drink. Perhaps you simply brewed too much hot tea by accident. Or you made a large batch of iced tea that you hope will last for several days. But how long does brewed tea last? Short answer: it lasts up to 5 days […]

You keep hearing how loose leaf tea tastes better than tea from a bag. Not only that. It costs a lot less, too. You want to make the switch. The problem: brewing loose tea seems way too complicated. Everyone you ask and every site you read gives different information. One says to steep the leaves in boiling […]

Any tea drinker knows that tea stains. What many don’t know is how to get rid of those tea stains. If you’ve tried to remove a hardened tea stain from your dishes, your clothes, your carpet or a nice sofa, you undoubtedly realized just how stubborn these stains can be. And if you drink a […]

Why would you ever need to clean your kettle if you only use it to boil water? I mean, you use water to clean it, so how does putting water in it make it dirty? Both of those questions are very reasonable. But if you’ve been using a kettle for a while, you’ve no doubt […]

How to use a tea kettle? Isn’t that a no-brainer? Yes. And No. It turns out there are multiple ways to use a tea kettle. And multiple types of tea kettles. For this article, I will focus on traditional stove top kettles, but even there, we need to look at several type. Specifically, I will […]

Aren’t they the same? Matcha is a form of green tea, after all. That’s true. Matcha is green tea. But not all green tea is matcha. Both matcha and regular green tea leaves come from the same plant: the Camellia Sinensis. And both are processed as green tea. But that’s where the similarities end. The […]