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Multiple Infusions
Does anyone have any experience with multiple infusions?
I've been reading up on the differences between bagged tea versus loose leaf, and I'm going to be switching more to the latter, partly because I'm working from home now and using my French press to make tea is now my norm.
There's a tea boutique around the corner from my place that sells loose decaf sencha. It costs a bit more than what I would pay for a bagged equivalent, but the quality should be much higher.
I've read a bit about infusing your leaves multiple times, but I've never tried it. I figure it's possible to get 2 to 3 infusions from the same leaves and still get a decent tea, but I don't know yet.
I read somewhere that the trick is to infuse subsequent rounds longer than the first. So, for example, the 2-minute infusion for green tea becomes 4.
I'd save a lot of tea money doing this.
Has anyone done this? Does anyone do it regularly?
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