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Teadrops in Kansas City, Missouri

1/5

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Well, my experience has been varied. My hubby bought me a very nice, but incomplete tea set for Christmas and they were nice enough about popping the handle off a similar one and hooking it on to mine. (But a teapot with empty handle holes to sell as a gift? Really?) But, that isn’t my gripe, that belongs to the night that I spent over half an hour scoping out teas and products while the two people who were working carefully avoided me. They asked my husband how HE was doing more than once, as he sat in a seat reading. I had on my work clothes and I guess looking like a straight middle aged lady isn’t cool there. I wasn’t real thrilled he went back there to shop, but my tea set did end up being nice once it got a handle.

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I live in Kansas City Mo and am currently obsessed with black tea. I’ve been going through phases. I liked keemun and now I don’t. I’m trying to use them up by adding some golden Yunnan needle to cut the smoke quality. I quit drinking coffee because it affected my blood sugar too much and I’m finding that the really stout teas do too. So Assams and some of the blends are tricky. Right now the Chinese red (black) teas are my current passion. After worrying over the perfect timing for each tea, I have found that I love black tea added generously, brewed at boiling for three minutes for the first infusion and five for the second. Life is so much simpler now and I am enjoying the resulting tea much more than when I was brewing it longer. I do add sweetener, usually Teavana’s German rock crystals, sometimes palm sugar or other experimental alternatives. For my black tea in the morning, I use an infuser basket and an iron teapot. It may not be ideal to basket the leaves, but morning is not the time to be fussy and labor intensive.

Oolong is pretty wonderful too. Especially in the evening. I have some Yixing pots for my evenings, that I really enjoy. One for greener oolongs, one for darker oolongs and one for black teas. Teapots are another obsession, can one have too many? I have a paper porcelain that is perfect for green teas and just got a wabi sabi teapot for flavored teas. I have some larger teapots that I’m finding I just don’t use because I’m the only one in the house that drinks it, so I’m concentrating on smaller ones now. Especially for evening, I like to brew a serving at a time and I prefer a small teapot that with a strainer spot. Then, if I don’t reinfuse, I haven’t wasted as much.

Some of this background helps understand the reviews, I think.

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Kansas City MO

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