Tea: Yunnan & Nilgiri

[michellesolomon]

The good people over at STeaP had their first tea showdown, such that viewers could submit their favorite teas which would be prepared as per viewer specifications and drunk by the shows hosts. Because both chrismasto and I submitted entries (chrismasto, the Upton GFOP China Yunnan; me, the Craigmore Estate Nilgiri OP), we decided to film a pre-contest submission in

Comments

[whitiger]

Holy Cow this rocks!!! I throughly enjoyed it... again. :)
BTW what is that tea making contraption of Chris' I want one :)

[michellesolomon]

Ooh, are you a tea nerd, or just a tea appreciator? :-) That contraption you see us using is the IngenuiTEA, which is pretty cheap and indeed a fairly nifty thing. (For his birthday last year, I gave Chris an electric tea maker, the TriniTEA.)

[whitiger]

Actually... I don't drink "tea". At least not from the tea plant. I am an herbalist! I have more strange and unusual herbs in my closet than most people will see in their life time. I am suppose to be drinking high amounts of herbal tea on a daily basis. But I find that having to strain my tea through a tiny tea ball extremely tedious. And my tea pot is small and I am unable to get inside to wash it. (Not that it should be a big deal... I have only ever used bottled or distilled water in it so there shouldn't be any buildup.)

However I find all the different teas fascinating. I just discovered that there are things called flowering teas. Very fascinating!

Back to your video though. I find it extremely interesting, highly entertaining, and just plain fun. Even though I don't drink chai or regular teas, I have throughly enjoyed watching your videos! :)

[michellesolomon]

Chris' mom actually gave me a glass teapot that came with (one package of) flowering tea, so I think I can make one pot of flowering tea. I'm kinda intrigued myself, and I think I'll be able to convince Chris to make a video of it, when we get around to making it.

(I'd love to see those herbs you have!) :-)