hobby #216

Gongfu Tea Brewing

Chinese gongfu cha: brewing loose-leaf tea in a small gaiwan or clay pot with a high leaf-to-water ratio and many short, successive infusions, tasting how the same leaves evolve cup to cup while dialing in water temperature, steep time, and pour technique.

Five Seconds Between Sweet and Bitter

Gongfu Tea Brewing

Five grams of leaf, a scale that only reads whole numbers, and two burnt fingers later, I learned the bitterness was never in the tea. It was in my timing.

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Draining the Leaf, One Steep at a Time Discrete recurrence relations

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