Hi you all.
I have a (once) wonderful Wu Ling oolong from Taiwan that seems to have gone stale. I've been keeping it in a canister that's not completely airtight (won't do that again ) for about 2-3 months.
Is there some way to save this tea? I've heard that roasting can bring back some of the flavor. Can you roast a tea with you normal pots or pans?
Sverrir
Re: Oolong gone stale. What to do?
I know it works well with sencha.tsverrir wrote: Is there some way to save this tea? I've heard that roasting can bring back some of the flavor. Can you roast a tea with you normal pots or pans?
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I've found this method quite handy for sprucing up stale oolong just before it hits the gaiwan:
http://tea-obsession.blogspot.com/2008/ ... -fire.html
http://tea-obsession.blogspot.com/2008/ ... -fire.html
This just revived the tea (drinking it now). Thanks for the link.Proinsias wrote:I've found this method quite handy for sprucing up stale oolong just before it hits the gaiwan:
http://tea-obsession.blogspot.com/2008/ ... -fire.html
S.
In my own totally non-traditional and convenience-minded way, I lightly roasted some stale-ish light-roasted TKY in my toaster oven on the lowest baking setting for about 10 minutes. I made a pouch out of aluminum foil so the tea wouldn't get directly exposed to the heating element. Gave it a nice medium-roasted flavor and definitely revived tea I would otherwise have not enjoyed much. With this method, it would be very easy to go to high roast so I had to watch it really closely.
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