When a tablespoon of tea is called for
Do you guys just use an ordinary tablespoon from your cutlery drawer? Or are there tea-specific table spoons that are better (deeper) so that you actually get a table spoon and not some very ranom amount?
I have both teavana’s perfect teaspoon, as well as David’s perfect teaspoon, which is significantly larger.
This shouldn’t stress me out as much as it does.
Also it’s Friday. everyone wins.
When our teas call for a tablespoon, we mean an actual measuring spoon tablespoon. We use measuring spoons to explain how much tea is needed. Regular kitchen spoons vary in size and often contribute to over leafing. Measuring spoons with the deep bowl work best and are the most consistent.
Yeah that’s it. Kitchen spoons vary in size so much, and are also too shallow if you ask me. Thanks for clearing that up. I’m going to look at our measuring spoons tonight—hopefully they’re both deep and wide enough to contain the leaves.
Don’t feel bad. It stresses me out too.
I also have DAVIDsTEA’s perfect spoon, but I’m not exactly sure what that equates to. In my head it’s about 1.5tbsp, but IDK. I should take a scoop of rice with it and put it in to a baking tablespoon and see what the difference is.
Oh perfect! That’s how I’ve been operating all this time!
(And I meant 1.5 tsp, not tbsp in the above!)
Be aware, davids has sold two different sizes of perfect teaspoons in the past. The newer one is more like 2.5tsp. See this thread here:
http://steepster.com/discuss/5905-davids-perfect-teaspoon-dot-dot-dot
I just filled mine with rice and poured it into my baking tablespoon and it filled it. So my spoon contains 15ml, while a tsp contains 5ml. So… 3x as much as a regular tsp?
That’s a lot bigger than I expected! Yours must be a 2.5 tsp one, which is almost a tbsp. A tbsp is 3 tsp, usually.
Thanks for the heads up, Dinosara.
Yeah – seems like it’s equivalent to a tbsp! That might explain why I go through my Butiki teas so quickly! Bow I know better – thx.
It makes sense that their perfect tea spoon is nearly a tablespoon if the perfect tea mug they sell is 16oz (which it is) because I think the smaller perfect tea spoons (1.5tsp) are for an 8oz mug. I’ve always gone by the general rule of 1tsp per 6oz of liquid, which would be 3tsp/1Tbsp for 16oz.
I mostly just use the kitchen spoon, but I haven’t tried a measure spoon yet.
Ah lahk ter way out mah teas when I perpare it. Ah use 4g per 8-12fl/oz when Ah be down home drinkin’ mah teas. If it bee too week, Ah lahk ter use more of dem leaves. Too strong? Den Ah actually play wit dat durr steepin’ tahm. 2min ferr a nahce green usually duz the trick, but less if it gets too dam bitter. Howevah, you know, ferr doze tea snobs lahk me, we don’t even drink doze green teas dat get bitter on ya…
I use the general 1.5 teaspoon rule of thumb as well… Unless its my Ahmad tea or tea leaves I know is “richer” or brewed out stronger, like my ground tealeaves for “teh” from Singapore as well.
I do have a set of icetea spoons “special” just for serving ice teas though and my MIL uses some really smaller than the modern teaspoon (the real English almost like doll dainty tea spoons) for tea services in her house. Very old school.
No proper measures for me as Chinese tea drinker.
Like my mommi, we like to eye it whatever takes our mood.
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