Today I made a green tea that has been laying around for a long time. I don't even know what the name of it is but I've had it forever. There wasn't much of a flavor to it. It was mostly just green water.
So, does green tea loose it's flavor if stored a long time?
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I think you can get away with it if you put green tea in oxygen barrier bags for 6 months. But yes, green tea starts to lose its freshness after 1 month. However this is a moot point considering that most greens take 3 months to get to your door step.Ti wrote:A month? That's not very long. I was going to buy a bunch of green but I don't want to have to chug it all down in a big hurry.
What about matcha? Last as long as thawed seafood?
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Thats what I thought. It's probably older than a month when you get it.hop_goblin wrote:
I think you can get away with it if you put green tea in oxygen barrier bags for 6 months. But yes, green tea starts to lose its freshness after 1 month. However this is a moot point considering that most greens take 3 months to get to your door step.
What's an oxygen barrier bag?
A few months ago I drank a fairly standard second flush sencha with a use by date of 1992 on the packet, granted it was sealed, but surprisingly it had a fair bit of flavour and I didn't go blind! 
Seems to me that the key to freshness is in good packaging, the clock really starts ticking once it is opened!
Seems to me that the key to freshness is in good packaging, the clock really starts ticking once it is opened!
When I open a package of green tea I divide the contents up between a few small canning jars. I place all of the jars in the fridge except the one who's tea I'm using. When I'm done with the jar I'm using I just pull another from the fridge, wait enough time to allow the glass to warm up to room temperature, open that jar of love, smell, and enjoy.
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Actually, it is a bag that is less permeable to oxygen through the walls of the bag...and even at the seal. A clear plastic bag such as a store bought Zip Lock is not an oxygen barrier bag.olivierco wrote:A package filled with nitrogen in order to avoid contact for the tealeaves with oxygenTi wrote:
What's an oxygen barrier bag?
It is usually foil lined, and sometimes multi layer.
Nitro flushing will increase longeity if using an oxygen barrier bag. Double and tripling the bags will also help...
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[quote="Ti"]Think these might help? Anyone ever try these?
http://www.mgc-a.com/ageless/product.html[/quote
Yes, I actually have a box of them, but I did not buy them from this site. I use them in my tai ping and other greens. It makes common sense to do so sense oxygen is teas worst enemy.
http://www.mgc-a.com/ageless/product.html[/quote
Yes, I actually have a box of them, but I did not buy them from this site. I use them in my tai ping and other greens. It makes common sense to do so sense oxygen is teas worst enemy.
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I do what Smells_Familiar does with his green tea. I usually buy my tea in 1 pound quantities to get free shipping (ha). That goes for my green and white tea. I then divide it into three or four ounce quantities into mason jars and then use a vacuum sealer on them. It seems to keep the tea very well. I tried using the vacuum bags with the sealer but sometimes it crushed the tea if I used too much vacuum so I like the jars better.
I was going to refrigerate mine, but I read in another thread on here, it is not good to refrigerate tea leaves. Maybe it all depends on what it is stored in?Smells_Familiar wrote:When I open a package of green tea I divide the contents up between a few small canning jars. I place all of the jars in the fridge except the one who's tea I'm using. When I'm done with the jar I'm using I just pull another from the fridge, wait enough time to allow the glass to warm up to room temperature, open that jar of love, smell, and enjoy.
