Good black decaf?

[caligatia]

Anyone know of a good black decaf? I love black teas, but I'm trying to cut down on my caffeine intake...

[shogun89]

Anyone know of a good black decaf? I love black teas, but I'm trying to cut down on my caffeine intake...

You can have any black tea you want with almost no caffeine. Take you pot and leaves and pour boiling water in, let steep for about 10 seconds pour this brew down the drain, refill pot with water steep for desired time and drink your 95% caffeine free black tea.

Its that easy! Hope this helped!

[Salsero]

You can have any black tea you want with almost no caffeine.

Sorry, Shogun, although this is an oft repeated urban myth (yes, even tea has them!) it is very wrong. See Mary R's TeaMuse article and a search of the forum will show lots of discussion.

[shogun89]

You can have any black tea you want with almost no caffeine.

Sorry, Shogun, although this is an oft repeated urban myth (yes, even tea has them!) it is very wrong. See Mary R's TeaMuse article and a search of the forum will show lots of discussion.

Huh, thanks for pointing that out for me Sal. I hate giving wrong information!

[Salsero]

I hate giving wrong information!

No problem. I looooove correcting people!

[caligatia]

Thanks, Sal! I'd heard that myth before and thought it was fact...

[Chip]

I remember posting this suggestion myself. It is too bad it is not true. I got the info from vendors.

[Jack_teachat]

How about just discarding the first brew altogether, not that I condone such behaviour

[Salsero]

How about just discarding the first brew altogether, not that I condone such behaviour

Here is a post by Alan Lewis from Yahoo's TeaMail with a handy shorthand way to estimate the caffeine remaining in your tea:

• Aug 8, 2008
  All;
  
  Here's a simple shorthand for the "caffeine removal" data (originally
  from Nigel):
  
  "Caffeine has a half-life of 3 minutes."
  
  or, more accurately but less succinctly:
  
  "Caffeine in tea leaves has a half-life of 3 minutes when exposed to
  boiling water."
  
  The numbers cited follow a classic "half-life" progression. (Don't be
  scared; it's math, but it's very simple math. And it doesn't have
  anything to do with radioactivity, at least not in this case.)
  
  In the test data, you can see that about 1/2 of the caffeine is removed
  from the tea leaves after 3 minutes. But that doesn't mean that all of
  the caffeine is removed after 6 minutes. Instead, after each 3 minutes,
  1/2 of the _remaining_ caffeine is removed. This applies for each 3
  minute interval:
  
  Steep time Amount of caffeine remaining Caffeine removed
  ----------- ------------------------------------- ----------------
  3 minutes 1/2 = 50% 50%
  6 minutes 1/2 x 1/2 = 25% 75%
  9 minutes 1/2 x 1/2 x 1/2 = 12.5% 87.5%
  12 minutes 1/2 x 1/2 x 1/2 x 1/2 = 6.25% 93.75%
  15 minutes 1/2 x 1/2 x 1/2 x 1/2 x 1/2 = 3.125% 96.875%
  
  This "model" matches the test data very nicely, except for the 15 minute
  mark, where the test data says 100% of the caffeine has been removed
  from the tea leaves.
  
  Sincerely, Alan D. Lewis

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Assuming that the method is accurate, 3 minutes in boiling water will reduce your caffeine by one half.

[Chip]

Does this mean that boiling water poured over the leaf, or leaf remaining in actual boiling water?

I googled alan lewis teamail and only found this topic, nothing else. Any more info on this Sal?