What I got this summer

[Jim Liu]

Take a look at what I got this summer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rD_b7RXDo0

Enjoy!

[Sam.]

I'm a little confused. Taking lesser quality tea and dry-heating it in a clay pitcher before steeping it made it better? And I can imagine safer ways to "bake" the tea, even though I'm sure that method is fun to do.

[TIM]

i am not sure if its safe to drink after roasting it like this? Just look at the black ash / residue at the bottom of the roaster!?

[shogun89]

i am not sure if its safe to drink after roasting it like this? Just look at the black ash / residue at the bottom of the roaster!?

yeah, but that would not get to the tea at all. But I too, do not understand how it improves the tea? It just looks fun.

[Jack_teachat]

Looks like a fire hazard to me!

[augie]

Looks like a fire hazard to me!

Ditto . . . I'm skeerd of anything that requires the smoke alarm be temporarily turned off. Or neighbors calling 911 to report that you're cooking meth.

Fun to watch, maybe outside. Great conversation piece.

[CDS]

Burning denatured alcohol will prevent this black soot. Looks interesting.

[Salsero]

Or neighbors calling 911 to report that you're cooking meth.

But if you really are cooking meth, it might be good to have this video to show the cops when they come asking questions.

[silverneedles]

[shogun89]

aside from fire hazard, can someone tell us how this improves tea. I know that roasting an aged oolong to remove moisture and to refreshen it is good but that tea was good in the first place, how does one make a bad tea good by simply roasting it?

It really does look cool and something i might like to own but what is the point of it?

[Salsero]

I believe that gently warming the tea for a bit is supposed to remove excess moisture and freshen it up. Imen discusses this sort of gentle roasting.

There is also a more aggressive sort of roasting done in a fry pan or in the oven that actually aims to rescue an oolong that has been stored poorly or is just stale.

[aKnightWhoSaysNi]

Looks interesting. In the video- it looks like he ended up with nothing more than a Chinese oolong version of Hojicha.