Step By Setp: Learn How To Brew Gong Fu Tea
Kong Fu Cha Continues: Enjoy Your Tea...
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21. Cheers! Just kidding, we don't do "cheers" with tea. Simply drink it and enjoy it.
22. Hmm, feels like heaven. (usually, tea from round 2 has the best flavor)
To sum it up, we have ...
- The rinse round - just to rinse tea, no drinking from this round.
- Regular round - hot water into teapot, brew for certain time, pour tea into teacup (or faircup for transitional storage), and drink.
- Repeat regular round until flavor of tea diminishes - actual number of rounds varies with tea type, tea quality, and brewing parameters.
Doing the Dishes
1. After all the fun, you are left with a pot of tea leaves.
2. Use the tea digger from the tea tool set to dig out the tea leaves. If you don't have a digger, your index finger will work fine.
3. Use the tea needle to pick the spout. But most teapots have strainers at the base of the spout so this step may be saved.
4. Rinse teapot and teacups. Leave them in a cool, shadowed place to dry.
Some tea drinkers prefer to leave brewed tea leaves inside the teapot to "nurture" the teapot. Yixing teapots do absorb more flavor and take on a fuller color after absorbing the essence of tea. But that is in fact not a good move. Read more on maintaining Yixing teapots.