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How long to cook tea

Two things decide it, and none of them is on the clock. Answer them and the time below is yours.

Your time 3:30

Which tea?

Green and white want water off the boil — around 80°C. Boiling water scorches them bitter.

How strong?

How to tell without a timer

Take the leaves out now. Left in, it goes bitter rather than stronger.

Green tea turns bitter about thirty seconds past the timer, and no amount of sugar undoes it. Use water around 80°C, not boiling.

How it goes

  1. Water on the leaves, cover if you can.
Every combination, as a table
Which tea?How strong?Time
Green Light 1:30
Green Standard 2:05
Green Strong 2:55
White Light 2:05
White Standard 3:00
White Strong 4:10
Oolong Light 2:10
Oolong Standard 3:10
Oolong Strong 4:25
Black Light 2:25
Black Standard 3:30
Black Strong 4:55
Herbal / rooibos Light 3:25
Herbal / rooibos Standard 4:55
Herbal / rooibos Strong 6:45

The app does this, then learns

The timer above is the same arithmetic Kitchen Sense runs. The part a web page cannot do is the next bit: you say whether it came out right, and the next one is closer. Free, 68 dishes, no account.

Cooked the same way

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