How to Store Tea for Freshness - TEA STORAGE EXPERIMENTS
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- Опубликовано: 16 мар 2019
- Storing loose leaf tea properly is important to keep your tea fresh and maintain the health benefits of tea. Most of us are storing our tea in the worst possible place, so this video shows you the main factors to consider when storing your precious tea leaves.
Instead of giving you the common knowledge about tea storage, we wanted to do some tea experiments. For eight months, we stored Green tea, Yellow tea and Green Oolongs under different conditions to find out how they change. Finally, in this video, I do a blind taste test to find out which tea storing factors are the most important for you to consider.
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Its good to see people who are really invested in tea and take their time to study and research it. Not many people I know are very interested in tea or care for it, especially since I’m 14 so that doesn’t really help. But thank you for your knowledge that you’re sharing this was really informative.
Video about the perfect water quality for tea would be amazing. Greetings from Wuppertal, Germany!
you are a true tea master. watching you discriminate the smallest of details is incredible! I keep all my teas in airtight, lightsafe containers in a darkened cupboard away from the kitchen so I think I'm OK on storage ;) nevertheless thanks for the vid :)
Hi Don, just wanted to thank you for all you do. Your passion is inspirational. I'm a British born Canadian living in Shenzhen for the past 10 years, and although I speak the local language now, I am getting my tea education from you!! I've found a lot of the Fujian tea farms I visited know how to grow very nice tea leaves, but ironically don't know much about brewing a good tea. I own craft beer brewpubs in China. Fortune magazine called us one of China's top 5 craft beer brands, and one of our beers was rated the best in China by the Lonely Planet. We haven't done anything new and cool in a while, and after studying with you, I've got three new tea beers coming. First, and English Pale Ale with whisky soaked lapsang souchong charged with creamy nitro bubbles. Second a Chardonnay soaked silver needle tea in a farmhouse ale. Third a porter with dank Hunan An Hua Fu Zhang tea. If you are ever passing through Shenzhen, please look me up. I'd love to show you around and treat you to some of our brews!
This is like watching a wine taster at work, but more hipster. My solution to storing loose tea was to dump it into small ziplock bags and then put those bags into a pouch I made out of aluminum foil and duct tape. (I was in the middle of the ocean with no access to fancy tea containers). I actually prefer doing it that way because you can make it however big or small you need, and putting it into separate bags inside the main bag reduces exposure to air every time you open it up. I have to move around a lot, and this wastes less space and is way more crush resistant. Don't pull out your tea near a cop though. It looks like something a drug dealer would keep their weed in.
Thank you! Went to Kalhs, a Swedish tea shop, even the "good" teas smelled like mint and artificial flavors.
oh ok so buttered raw spinach then? with a hint of lemon squeeze and gently roasted fois gras? Excellent 🤦♂️
The best way to store green tea for a long term is in my opinion to freeze it. Of course one must pack it well before freezing.
Don, Okakura and Oribe would be bowing in gratitude as I am for all your teachings. I just moved ALL my teas to a lower cabinet in the coolest part of the Zen tea room! I just finished a wonderful gong fu tea party that was one of the most wonderful events in my long life and used all of the lore which I have thus far obtained from your channel over many months. Also, the antixoxidant packet you ship with your tea is a true demonstration of your devotion to quality. Now I know it should be kept and used. Many thanks and wishing you much joy!
I could listen to him describing tea all day. This was so relaxing before bed. I learn so much from this channel. He is my tea coach 🫖🍵
you're so dedicated in what you do wow the amount of patience you have is incredible, very glad you've decided to share your research and knowledge with the world
Well done once again. You guys invest so much time and put so much thought into your videos. I for one appreciate the exceptional effort. Informative indeed! And now I had better recheck my bingcha.
I love these kind of in-depth videos. It's the only way I really retain information and I love that it comes from direct results of live experimentation, and not just a mish-mash of hearsays. Superb video as always !
Love the science and experimentation that you always apply to you teachings. Agree with other comments saying water quality would be great to test in the future!
A highly anticipated video, awesome.
I appreciate that you made the list of factors in order of greatest impact to least impact. It seems in my case the best place for tea is my book shelf, guess I have to make a tea shelf now lol
So it goes for any herbal then .. Thanks good thing to know!!!
Don and Celine- your Best video, yet! Great information and Comparisons. I store my cooked Puerh in a scent free China made wicker tea basket-my purple teas in a another same basket-and my raw puerhs (oldest- a 2006 LBZ) in a purple clay storage jar. All of these sitting on my dresser in the bedroom. My humidity indicator in the clay jar averages around 52% in the air conditioned space. All my other loose teas sit in a dark dedicated cabinet off the kitchen dining area. Cheers and waiting for another Session😃
Such a helpful video.
Wonderful example experiments! Thank you so much for all the time and effort you put into your videos Mei Leaf. Folks the world over are enjoying more pleasurable brews! .. hehehe :) Xx