What is the time and temperature profile? What is the setting on the mixer for the stir bar? Should I be growing my own leaves? Should I be going for the powder what is green tea anyway
I’m on a green tea only caffeination cycle and surely some of you have this as your special interest. I’m quite confident ‘bag of bigelow green tea in a half liter bottle’ is not the state of the art.
What should I be doing? How should I be sourcing and steeping these green green leaves?
i actually rly like matcha if you do want to fuck with it. if you use a milk frother to whisk it you don’t have to deal with the tedious ritual of manually whisking it unless you find it meditative and grounding
I see serving sizes on the order of half a cup, what if I need to go for volume (to maintain a sipping habit) does it dilute well or is that kinda not the point of the thing
it’s sort of like the espresso of tea. for matcha a lot of people will mix it with a milk type thing, i find it goes rly well with oat milk. i havent tried a matcha americano with just water so i cant speak to that
lol yeah... if you buy larger amounts you can get away with cheaper/g. and you use like 1tsp for a serving so it does last a while. when i was on a daily matcha thing i made it work out to not too much more $ than drinking good coffee but. yeah
tbc it depends a ton on the quality/grade of the matcha. culinary grade is very cheap but pretty bitter for drinking, it's meant for baking and stuff like that
