Do you drink loose leaf tea? Then you need a glass teapot with infuser. They are the best way to brew loose tea leaves. I love watching the color of the tea slowly seep out from the infuser and spread throughout the pot. Not only does it look cool, it also makes it easy to brew the tea to your desired strength. And if you like flowering teas, a glass teapot lets you … [Read more...] about Best Glass Teapot With Infuser (Updated Jan 2019)
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Small Electric Kettle – 9 Best Travel Kettles (Updated Jan 2019)
I travel a lot and like being able to brew my own tea on the road. The best way to do that is with a small electric kettle that doesn't take up much space in my bag (bonus tip: stuff the inside with t-shirts or socks to save even more space) and doesn't weigh so much I get hit with overweight baggage fees. But finding a small travel kettle turned out to be surprisingly … [Read more...] about Small Electric Kettle – 9 Best Travel Kettles (Updated Jan 2019)
Matcha Green Tea Kit Kats From Japan
Leave it to the Japanese. Of course they cam up with matcha green tea Kit Kats. They are, after all, well-known for adding unusual flavors to familiar food items, like Hot Chili Squid flavored or Seaweed flavored potato chips (an exhaustive list would go on for pages; just browse through the Japanese snacks section on Amazon to see what I mean). As a tea-related site, … [Read more...] about Matcha Green Tea Kit Kats From Japan
102 Matcha Green Tea Recipes That Are Healthy And Tasty
Matcha is the healthiest of all the teas, but it is unfortunately also the most difficult to prepare correctly. Luckily, it is very easy to use in cooking and pairs especially well with sweet flavors, hence the abundance of desserts among the 102 recipes below. Before we get to the recipes, here's some brief information for those who are not that familiar with matcha or are … [Read more...] about 102 Matcha Green Tea Recipes That Are Healthy And Tasty
Matcha McFlurry at McDonald’s
I have mentioned the green tea powder matcha a few times on this site. Since it is made up of ground tea leaves, meaning those leaves are consumed whole, it is the healthiest tea available. It is complicated to brew, however, so the easiest way for most people to enjoy green tea powder is to cook with it. In Asia, a lot of companies already add it to various products, … [Read more...] about Matcha McFlurry at McDonald’s
Brewing Tea For Dummies
This title might be a little misleading for those who are familiar with the 'Doing Something' For Dummies series of books. Unlike those books, I'm not going to teach you how to prepare tea in a manner so simple even a dummy can understand—guides on brewing tea have been done on every tea-related website, including 80% of the pages on this site; instead, I'm going to teach you … [Read more...] about Brewing Tea For Dummies
How to Prepare Green Tea Like A Chinese Tea House
When you think of having a cup of tea in a tea house in China, you likely imagine them using an overly complicated process to brew the tea. It's somewhat romantic to believe they learn how to prepare green tea from their ancestors, using secret methods passed down through generations, but that's not really the case. True, some tea houses do use the traditional gongfu style to … [Read more...] about How to Prepare Green Tea Like A Chinese Tea House