Wednesday 9/23/09 Average cost for tea?

[JazzNGreenTea]

Seems my post did not go through, so hopefully it only shows up once.

For Japanese Greens I like to stay to about $15 per 100 grams. For special occasions such as Shincha season I am willing to go up to about $25. For other teas I have been sticking with sample sizes until I figure out my tastes a bit better.

[Zanaspus]

I have no problem spending $20-30/100 of oolong, but my penchant for young sheng pulls my "average" well under $10. After all, a young Menghai cake works out to about three dollars and change per 100 grams.

[brad4419]

My cost veryies depending on the "kind", A good oolong I would pay up to $30 for 100g because you get more out of them and I like them so much. Greens would be about $25 max. Black teas are at the bottom where I pay like $10 max for 100g.

organic sencha for breakfast, having a oolong session tonight to cram for an exam tomorrow.

[MASALACHAAAAIIIIII]

Like many of the others here I would say 15$, higher quality greens, whites, and blacks can be kinda AHHHH! Thank goodness making masala chai is CHEAP!!! hahahaha, evens it out...sike!

Had some Puttabong this morning, opened up a new bag of Sae Midori this afternoon. Yummy yum yum a roo! Now to battle some physics and geomechanics...! I laugh at principal stress calculations...

[DoctorD]

I'd say currently $15-20, but that's just for my personal stash of greens and oolongs; if you count the rather large amounts of cheap blacks I buy to concoct breakfast blends for other family members, the average dips considerably. I think my average price has probably crept up some over the last couple years. Still, some of us need to watch our cash flow, and my possibly idiosyncratic palate tells me that some sort of law of diminishing returns starts to kick in above $15-20, at least for the kinds of stuff that make me purr.

A couple cups of my usual Chinese greens earlier in the day. Tonight it's a glass of cheap Australian shiraz out of a box--too tired, for various reasons, to haul out the teaware...

[Victoria]

On the average I guess $25-$30? I don't really pay all that much attention, some are more some are less, and as Trey says the taxes and shipping are sometimes as much as the tea, or so it seems. My tastes are seeming to run higher and higher. I find I don't reach for my "daily brewer" types, always looking for more wow.

Crazy busy day today, only one tea - Groomtree Estate 2nd Flush, and I was not paying attention and over steeped it, but I drank it anyway.

[JBaymore]

Getting onto yesterday's cost tangent, tea can be a very good yet inexpensive drink. I figure around 25 cents per steep following my average.

Now if one stockpiles a LOT of tea, then it can get costly (not to mention the TW factor).

Ahhhh....but now you have to add in the cost of tea "hardware" that we have purchased to prepare and enjoy the tea! Bet THAT changes the equation a bit.

best,

...........john

"He says, looking at his nice antique Japanese cast iron furo for Chanoyu that he picked up this summer in Japan."

[Chip]

Getting onto yesterday's cost tangent, tea can be a very good yet inexpensive drink. I figure around 25 cents per steep following my average.

Now if one stockpiles a LOT of tea, then it can get costly (not to mention the TW factor).

Ahhhh....but now you have to add in the cost of tea "hardware" that we have purchased to prepare and enjoy the tea! Bet THAT changes the equation a bit. [/i]

Yes, that is the "TW factor" I was referring to. That changes everything.

[JBaymore]

Oops... sorry... didn't get the "TW" abbreviation. DOH!

best,

...........john

[skywarrior]

I try to stay less than $15 if I can help it. By the amount of tea I have, I suspect I've spent a lot on lower cost tea.

But it's all good!

[AlexZorach]

I'm not really sure how to vote on this poll...because I don't order my tea all at once. I may order a package from one company but then I buy small boxes in Chinatown or other random ones in other stores if I come across something interesting and reasonably priced.

For me, anything around 100g for $5 seems pretty reasonable to me, if it's good. More than that and I might sample it, but unless it's absolutely outstanding I won't buy it on a regular basis...this is because some of my favorite teas are under $5 for 100-125g. Right now my favorite oolong that I am probably drinking more than any of my other teas is a Ti Kuan Yin that was about 225g for under $6...it's very greenish but has a little bit of roast and a honey-like quality...bought it in Philly Chinatown in a box that had no english on it.