/ck/ - Food & Cooking

MERICA' FUK YEA

I dont care for tea, but the other day one of my friends insisted that i tasted an "expensive tea".
He said i should take a sip and guess.
I sniff it, it smells like old hay.
I taste it, it tastes like old hay.
I say, "hay".
He claims it was liquorice root.

I have never tasted liquorice root, but now i can only assume that it tastes like fucking hay.

Ugh... I'm running low on my tea collection now. Very sad when I went to the store to find refills, to find out my very favorite was discontinued.. Why would they do this to me!? Pic related.

I got some genmaicha, black tea with tangerine, gui hua niu nai wulong cha, and Kirkland Signature brand matcha green tea blend.

They're all wonderful.

tea and alcohol threads consistently embarrass /ck/

Green tea: Lung Ching Xi Hu Superior.
White tea: Silver Needle.
Rooibos blends: Blueberry+Lingonberry, Applepie, strawberry cream, green rooibos aloe vera.
Black pu-erh tea, 6 years old (forgot the name).
2 Black tea blends.
Herbal tea: Ginko, cats claw, japanese honeysuckle, echinacea, chamomile.

It's time for a restock soon.

>>3717535
To add, none of it is bagged.

I don't have anything right now except some crappy looseleaf black tea from Peet's Coffee. Just moved, which is why I'm out. Gonna pick some up pretty soon though. Drinking a cup of lapsong souchong I got at a shop right now, and it's pretty good.

>>3717517
mostly true, sadly

>>3717535
>White tea: Silver Needle.

my niggah

My herbal tea collection.

My herbal tea collection. 2

>pondi cherry (a cherry fruit tea)
>carmel darling rooibos (a caramel rooibos tea)
>blueberry bang (a blueberry rooibos tea)

not in the picture (at my girlfriends)
>rooibos earl gray
>some other fruit tea.

I'm curious, how well known is mate outside Latin America.

Where are you from and have you ever had it? There is a hot, cold and one that is toasted before brew.

>>3717719
OH! almost forgot....got my bi lou chun
thats over at her house too :(

I have no pictures but I've got some Milk Oolong, Genmaicha, some chai I forget the name of, and a green tea called Emperor's Clouds and Mist.

I got it cause the name sounded cool.

do you guys put any sweeteners in your tea?

>>3717774
>>3717774

generally speaking, no.
there was a black tea that i bought that was not too good, had to put some honey in that. as well as a coconut black loose leaf... that was good, but tasted better with honey.

>>3717780
yeah, a little honey is all i usually use.

The jasmine is unpleasant. But a nice container.
The Sleepytime Extra and Peppermint both have to be put in high cabinets because my cats love the smell and taste, and will mutilate the box until they get a bag ripped open to roll around in.

Into Oolongs at the moment.
Green: Genmaicha, matcha, green tea with vanilla, tea/fruit blends with mango, strawberry etc. My personal favorite is a plain green called Emperors Gunpowder.
Black: Earl Grey, Early Grey with strawberry's, black mango tea, amaretto.
Oolong: Sumatra highland chan-chan, milk oolong, creamy nut oolong, tie guan yin.
White: Bai Cui Mei, white pear
Herb (parents tea)- peach, raspberry, blueberry, swampwater.
Misc - birthday cake tea, was my sister's and she forgot it in our cupboard. Tastes overly sweet and disgusting. She also has one with whole jellybeans in it.

>>3717767
Yixing teapot? uguu~

Has anyone ever had any pu'erh tea? I'm thinking about getting some.

>>3717807
Had one called Jumpy Monkey with coffee beans and cocoa nibs, was like drinking weak coffee, but it had more kick.

>>3717812
Where did you get it? I usually order my tea online and the few sites I know of have either no pu'erh or only a few varieties.

>>3717813
Oops, the Jumpy Monkey was actually a mate, kind of close to pu'erh.
David's Tea has quite a selection of interesting flavors of pu'erh. Teaopia doesn't carry that kind, but they do have mate.
http://www.davidstea.com/our-teas/pu-erh-tea
http://www.teavana.com/the-teas/mate-teas

virtually all of my tea comes from Mariage Freres or Harney & Sons and it's basically all in and around the categories of second flush Darjeeling, Assam, and Ceylon.

>>3717517
of course. thats 4chan for you

>>3717823
Also forgot to link Mighty Leaf: http://www.mightyleaf.ca/en/tea/category/83/pu-erh-tea

>>3717517

Gods forbid that the cooking board actually discusses food and drink.

>>3717723

I have a friend who imports it and sells it here in the US. Good stuff.

>>3717826
Damn, that Mariage Freres is hella expensive with that shipping cost.

>>3717723
Known about it for a long time, but never had it.

>>3717774
Rarely. I sometimes add a little honey to white tea (since white tea is very mild) or when I want to make my rooibos a little sweeter. When I offer guests tea, I usually add honey to it.
If I drink a very bitter herbal tea I might use some honey or salt to cut down on the bitterness.

>>3717807
It has a specific, more earthy, taste. An aquired taste.
It's also healthy.

Pu-erh is like the wine of the teaworld, it can get crazy expensive depending on where it's from and how old it is (the older the better).

Where can a nigga get some decent, airtight tea tins?

All I hace in at the moment is some generic Earl Grey and some Lapsang Souchong

>>3718606
I've been ordering these for my tea.
http://www.enjoyingtea.com/smgrtinca.html

Nice, simple tins. They have some other tins with tighter seals, too, if that's what you're looking for.