Tea Brewing Measurements

Video Transcript

"So how much tea do you use to make your cup of tea? Depends on how much water you're using. I always use a standard, instead of eight ounce cup, I do a sixteen ounce, cause most of our mugs are about sixteen ounce. When you're making a sixteen-ounce cup of white tea, which is very volumous, there's two types here, you need a lot more tea to get that flavor. The best way to actually measure tea is to use a scale, but nowadays, access to a scale is not as readily, so you always have to eye eyeball it. So when a tea is very light and volumous, you want to use a lot of it, a lot more of it, especially when it's a white tea, when the flavor is very light. So for a sixteen-ounce cup of tea, I always recommend to use a full scoop, a little more. You can't go wrong with using too much white tea leaves, because you can always use it for a second brew. When you're brewing an oolong tea or any other types of green tea, as rolled up in very, very tight pellets, you want to use a little less. Why? Because there's so much tea leaves already, but a tea maker has rolled it up into very small balls so it's compact. For example, this much tea is as heavy as this whole plate of tea leaves, same with the oolong teas. All you need is a very few pellets. After that, you can get about sixteen ounce, and you can make more of this specific tea by adding more hot water once you finish your cup, by reusing the same tea leaves. For herbal teas however, not teas made from the tea plant, you want to use a lot of it. The health benefits of tea, you want to be able to create as much of it as possible. A) it doesn't get bitter, and B) you can't make it wrong; more of it is not as bad. Rooibos is a very, very, very safe herb to drink. It's very high in caf, sorry, it's not high in caffeine, it's caffeine free. But it's very high in vitamin C, and when you're making a cup of Rooibos, the flavor is not overpowering, where you have to feel like you're choking or it's drying you up. It what it does is it replenishes your body with nutrients, and it does not have any caffeine, so it doesn't hy- dehydrate your system, okay? So, only a little bit for denser tea, and a lot more for fluffier tea."