Is storing tea in the ziplocks that many tea shops sell their teas in (something like this:
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I find that the teas I buy locally taste great at first, but as time passes (a couple of weeks), flavour tends to disappear.
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Bags have many different levels of gas permeability, another words, clear plastic literally breaths.
Completely foil lined bags seem best all around, no see through plastic. Very general rule of thumb, if you can see through it, it is likely not ideal since it allows light in and likely air as well.
The degradation could also be from the tea aging, but is likely a combination of factors.
Completely foil lined bags seem best all around, no see through plastic. Very general rule of thumb, if you can see through it, it is likely not ideal since it allows light in and likely air as well.
The degradation could also be from the tea aging, but is likely a combination of factors.
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Out of curiosity, which teas do you get from TeaSource? Have you had the Bonnie Blink? Handmade Nilgiri? Wild Kwan Yin? Are any of their greens good? I got the worst long jing of my life from them, but also some fine Darjeeling.greenisgood wrote: yeah, the tea i get from TeaSource is in "ziploc" bags
TeaSource sells those bags for like 10¢ each, BTW. I think they may be made of mylar ... the stuff they make helium balloons out of.
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No lie ... insipid. Everything that green tea haters say about green tea. But when I compared the price to the premo stuff I get on line, I realized I was expecting too much. The thing is that the staff was so in awe of this LJ. I guess they never had real LJ.joelbct wrote:lol, that bad, huh?Salsero wrote:I got the worst long jing of my life from them
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OCD side of me has to throw one more tid bit in, the silver kinds are further graded by gas permeability. Some are rated much better than others for gas permeability.
The one in your photo appeared to have a see through front.
OK, one more thing. One thing a good bag has over tins, you can remove a lot more air prior to closing. The lower the leaf gets in the tin, the more air is in the tin attacking less and less leaf. But I think tooooo much!
The one in your photo appeared to have a see through front.
OK, one more thing. One thing a good bag has over tins, you can remove a lot more air prior to closing. The lower the leaf gets in the tin, the more air is in the tin attacking less and less leaf. But I think tooooo much!
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Oh wow, thanks for mentioning that. I never thought of it like that.Chip wrote:... One thing a good bag has over tins, you can remove a lot more air prior to closing. The lower the leaf gets in the tin, the more air is in the tin attacking less and less leaf. But I think tooooo much!
Tea tea tea... I like tea...
Meaning, theoretically, the stuff at the bottom would be "better"?... One thing a good bag has over tins, you can remove a lot more air prior to closing. The lower the leaf gets in the tin, the more air is in the tin attacking less and less leaf. But I think tooooo much!
I almost feel like the bigger leaves are staying at the top of my bags and the smaller, crumbier ones are sinking to the bottom. So that the teas get worse and worse as the leaf level of the bag drops.
p.s. that pic I posted was randomly taken from google to give an idea, and is not my actual bag
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And yet I use the Upton sample tins for daily use tea because they are relatively small. But the tea in those are usually used w/in a few weeks.Smari wrote:Oh wow, thanks for mentioning that. I never thought of it like that.Chip wrote:... One thing a good bag has over tins, you can remove a lot more air prior to closing. The lower the leaf gets in the tin, the more air is in the tin attacking less and less leaf. But I think tooooo much!
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