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Blog Key Takeaways: 1. **Challenges of Decaffeination**: All true teas from the Camellia sinensis plant contain caffeine, and removing caffeine without compromising the tea's quality is challenging. Most methods either damage the leaves, leave an unpleasant aftertaste, remove antioxidants, or are difficult and expensive to implement.2. **Water Processing Method**: Water processing is a simple, home-based method where you steep tea for about 30 seconds, discard the liquid, and re-steep the leaves. However, research indicates this method only reduces caffeine by about 9%, making it ineffective.3. **Ethyl Acetate Method**: The most common commercial method uses ethyl acetate, a solvent that removes...

It was first mentioned in a letter. England's East India Company  had been attempting to build relations in isolated Japan, where, for centuries already, tea occupied a place of high praise and spiritual reverence. It was mentioned by Richard Whickam who had tasted it in his far-ranging travels and now begged the good Company to transport home with them a barrel of what he called "chaw", which along with "chaa" is of course an alteration of the Hindi "chai" and Arabic "shai". By 1660, tea was officially presented to the court of Charles II, whose new wife, the Portuguese Lady Catherine is said...

“Arthur blinked at the screens and felt he was missing something important. Suddenly he realized what it was. "Is there any tea on this spaceship?" he asked.” From 'The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy   A good compliment is worth a lot. A good compliment from a brilliant mind can provide esteem and pleasure for a lifetime. We rarely forget them when they're true, sincere, and beautiful. But compliments are not simply reserved for people. You'd be amazed (or not!) by some of the things that have been said about tea in literature, by literary geniuses, by the characters in...

Are you a tea snob?   Read this comprehensive list of signs and score yourself.  I know a few total snobs about wine, coffee, and tea.  This post discusses tea snobs. If you're a tea snob and I hurt your feelings, I apologize in advance.  You look down on tea bags -  Perhaps there was a time in your life that you used tea bags, but now you can’t understand the folly of tea bags. You keep your tea in your purse because restaurant tea bags. You’re polite about this, as you pull out your own prepacked DIY tea bag...