Wet leaves on successive days?
How long can you leave the wet leaves in the teapot? Can you use the same leaves the next day? I have always thrown out any leaves that sat for the night in my teapot - but that is often after only one or two infusions. Can I still use them the next day?
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Same here, I just leave them in my pot.
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If the timing ends up working out, when a tea is starting to fade, but not on it's last legs I'll leave it in a yixing overnight with water in it. In the morning I drink the resulting infusion, give it a flash rinse, then go back to brewing with long times. I got about three days with a 1999 7532. Drinking the infusion the next morning at first was an intensely scary thought. I'd had vastly overbrewed low quality sheng before, and I never want to experience such a thing again. The morning brew is totally different. Quite tasty, usually.
Well we are talking fridge here and not freezer, unless your fridge gets ice coldBubba_tea wrote:I assume you guys are leaving (ha ha... too early on Sunday for a pun..) the leaves in a yi xing in the fridge. When you make your tea the next day, do you warm the pot somehow? I would think adding boiling water to an ice cold pot would be risky.
I wouldnt think it would be a problem, its not like your going to be cooling it down a great deal and than immediately introducing boiling water. I would just take the pot out of the fridge and let it sit for awhile. You could always just warm water up (not nearly boiling) and just pour that over the pot to warm it up if you want.
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For those who missed it, HERE is Phyll Sheng's final blog post about the eleven day marathon brew that Toki (Tim) got him and me involved in. He also lists links to other posts about the marathon.
Note that this style includes leaving the tea leaves brewing for 12 hours or so at a time.
Note that this style includes leaving the tea leaves brewing for 12 hours or so at a time.