i just bought some tea, that is loose, not in a tea bag, how do i make it ?

Question

can someone give me step by step directions ? im not sure if i just sprinkle tea all over the boiling water or what?

i got buddhas garden tea -

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Answer 1

Get a teapot, put one teaspoon of tea leaves per person, and one extra "for the pot" then pour freshly boiled water over the tea leaves. Wait about 4 or 5 minutes. Enjoy your tea!

Answer 2

You will need:
Water
Tea Kettle
Teapot
Infuser (from the teapot, or some other straining device)
Teacup

Once you're sure you have everything ready, just follow these steps:

Start Heating Water: Put some water in your tea kettle and turn it on. How much water? Well how much tea are you making? Put in that much water, plus a little extra. The tea will soak up and hang onto some of the water, so you need a little extra. While the water heats, go on to step 2.

Preheat Teapot: Run your tap water until it's good and hot. Then fill the teapot. Fill the teacup while you're at it. Set them both aside. The idea here is that you're pre-heating them. If they're cold when you add the boiling water, then some of the water's heat will be used to heat up the teapot, making the water colder than desired. This is especially important with an iron teapot. Iron conducts heat easily. If it's cold, it will quickly suck heat from the water. Some folks swirl some of the boiling water from the kettle in the teapot and then discard it immediately before adding the tea. I don't like this method. The water in the tea kettle either cools during this period, or keeps boiling. Nether is desired.

Wait For The Boil: Be patient. It shouldn't be long now. Shortly before the water comes to a boil, follow these steps in a brisk manner:
Pour the water out of the teapot. Give it a quick blotting with a paper towel, if you like. (I do.)
Add tea to the teapot. Approximately 1 heaping teaspoon per 8 ounces of water. (That's why it's called a teaspoon.) Use a real measuring teaspoon. For stronger tea, add some extra.

Steep for the appropriate amount of time: For green tea, steep for 2-3 minutes. I stop at 2 minutes. For black teas, 3-5 minutes. I stop at 3. For herbal teas, 5 minutes or more. Longer steeping times make for stronger tea. But they also make for bitter tea. (Except for herbal teas, which aren't real teas.) If you want stronger tea, increase the amount of tea you use. Don't steep longer.

Ready The Teacup: After the steeping time is up, discard the hot water from the teacup. Actually, you can pour this water over the infuser to quickly heat up the infuser, too.

Pour The Tea: Pour the tea, through the infuser, into the teacup. Put the infuser into the teapot, so it doesn't make a mess.
Enjoy!

Answer 3

You can some in some cheese cloth, cut a small piece big enough two put two teaspoons of tea in the middle bring up all the cloth around it take a string tightly tie it off. Now you boil some water and place the little pouch in IT
let it set for bout 5 minutes and drink.

You can just get a pan or tea pot and full of water and just add for loose tea in the unit bring it a boil, and shut down off burner,let set for 5 minutes, and strain ( a small strainer) 0r something to keep the leaves in the pan or tea pot.

Answer 4

I love loose leaf tea. Put in about a tsp of loose tea into about 8 oz of water. Boil. When it starts to foam up, add about 1/4 cup of milk - or just until you get a good caramel color. Let it heat some more until it boils again. It will be frothy. I get a regular sized mug, add 2 tsps of sugar. Pour in the tea through a strainer into the mug. Stir. I love this with biscotti - favorite weekend breakfast treat.

Answer 5

for every cup of tea add one tablespoon of the loose tea. Pour water on the tea in a teapot, let steep for 5 minutes. Then pour into a teacup through a strainer... If you don't have a strainer you can pour the stuff straight in to a cup and the loose tea will sink to the bottom and you can drink the liquid off the top. ENJOY!!

What kind did you get??

Answer 6

You need a tea strainer.Its only a few buck.If you have a very fine mesh strainer of some sort that can work.Pour water that has come to a full rolling boil over about a teaspoon of the tea.Let steep for about 2 minutes.

Answer 7

I used to have a tea "steeper" for loose tea. A little contraption that looked like two small teaspoons hinged together with tiny holes in them. I lost that in a move, so now I just use a coffee filter. You can make it just like you would an individual cup of coffee or pot in your coffee maker. You can also place filter over your tea mug/cup place tea leaves in center and pour hot water over. With this method, however, you need to be really careful or filter and leaves will drop into mug.

Answer 8

There are some little miniature steepers you can buy at coffee & tea specialty shops. Sometimes they look like metal mesh balls and other times they look like two spoons put together with holes all throughout them. After boiling your water you would put the loose leaf tea in either one and place device in cup and steep for 5-7 minutes. Depending on how strong you like your tea....

Answer 9

You can buy metal mesh tea-balls from alot of tea stores. I accidentally broke mine, so what I've been doing is boiling the water and allowing the tea to steep in the pot. I then pour it through a strainer and enjoy!

Answer 10

Just boil some water put the loose tea in the water and then strain the water