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Wednesday 28 September 2016

Preparing Green tea

Preparing  Sencha
A kyusu急須 ( Japanese tea kettle ) with a 200-300 ml limit is most suitable for preparing Sencha . The volume of the pot appeared in the picture below is around 300ml.
A foreordained spotlight on setting up an ideal tea will normally help you to furnish your visitors with tasty tea.

Reduce the temperature of the boiling point water
With a specific end goal to accomplish the honest to goodness kind of Sencha, it is vital to let the bubbled water cool off first. In this way first, pour the boiling hot water into the vacant kyusu (tea kettle).  The underlying temperature of the bubbled water is approximately 100 degrees celsius.
pouring it first into measurement jar will bring about the temperature to decrease to around 10 degrees celsius.

Alert: Pouring the boiling hot water straightforwardly on the tea leaves without giving it cool off initial a chance to will bring astringent and bitterness to your tea!

Pour the water from the jar into the tea cups. This will assist lessen the temperature by another 10 degrees. It will now gauge around 80 degrees celsius. This is the right temperature(80°C) for good sencha!


Put sencha leaves into the kyusu
Presently embed the tea leaves into the tea kettle. The sum ought to associate with 1 tablespoons ( 6-8g ) of tea. Obviously, the sum may shift, contingent upon your taste.


Pour the hot water on the tea leaf
At the point when the temperature of the boiling hot water in the cups has declined to around 80 degrees celsius, pour the water in tea cups on the tea leaves in the tea kettle. The measure of water ought to be around 300 ml. With these specific cups ( for sencha ) purging all the water from the two teacups into the tea kettle will be only the appropriate sum for your tea. Give the tea a chance to brew for around 45~60 seconds.


Empty the tea from the kettle into the cup
begin to distribute the tea after 45 seconds steeping time. At the point when serving some tea ( like 2 containers in our case) pour a little into every cup on the other hand so the wealthier tea at the base of the pot will be disseminated equitably between all cups.


Follow the instruction of the manufacturer
Always follow the manual of the producer about hot to brew the green tea as not every product are require the same temperature for the infusion, the method here is following the city of Kyoto, Uji.


Preparing Sencha

1) Warm the kettle as well as the tea cups with hot water, then pour the hot water away.

2) Arrange a tablespoon of tea leaf (8g) in the kettle.

3) Pour the hot boiling water gently in stream into a measuring Jar, this may reduce about 10°C of the 100°C hot boiling water.

4) Then pour the jar of the hot water into the teacups gently in stream, this may reduce another 10°C of the hot boiled water. Remember, consider the temperature reduce every 10°C

5) Hence we may have around 70~80°C hot water now which is the ideal temperature to brew a tea, pour the hot water from the cup gently into the kettle ( the picture has extra step of cooling, so it pour the hot water back into the measuring jar then goes into the kettle.)

6) cover the kettle with lid and let the tea steep for about 45 seconds to one minutes.

7) Pour the tea in the kettle pour a little into every cup on the other hand so the wealthier tea at the base of the pot will be disseminated equitably between all cups.


8) Pour every last drop of tea in the kettle.


Green Tea Preparation Table

Tea leaf
Amount of Tea
Amount of hot water
Temperature of hot water
Steeping time
Sencha煎茶
2 gm
70 ml
70~80°C
45~60 seconds
Gyokuro玉露
3 gm
20 ml (can resteep for 3 to 4 times.)
50°C
2 minutes

Matcha抹茶
2 gm
60 ml
80°C

kukicha茎茶
2 gm
70 ml
60~80°C
55~70 seconds
konacha粉茶
3 gm (need strainer)
120 ml
80°C

Hojicha ほじ茶
3 gm
100 ml
100°C
30 seconds
Kyobancha京番茶
3 gm
100 ml
100°C
simmer the kettle on the stove for 2 to 3 minutes.

Preparing Matcha

1) Pour some hot water(80°) in the cup and warm the teacup and tea whisk.


2) Remove the water from the tea cup.

3) put a teaspoon of matcha powder in the teacup.

4) Pour in 60 ml of hot water (80°C) into the tea cup gently.

5) Dilute the powder into the hot water, then whisk the mixture with the tea whisk.

6) Whisk the Matcha swiftly with the wrist like drawing a M rapidly in the teacup.

7) The big bubble will form at the beginning, but then the bubble will become smooth as whisking.

8) Gently brush the big bubbles on the Matcha surface when the Matcha is mixed well.

9) Remove the tea whisk and enjoy the Matcha.

For the tea information, please visit The hidden Japanese Green Tea

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