Why should I prefer tea dust over crumbled tea leaves at home?
I just noticed that the red coloured packet of tea contains the tea dust!
This is very surprising. Tea dust available in that kind of packet means that it is available for home use, otherwise it would have been in a tea bag. For commercial use, I don't think selling such small packets makes sense.
How am I supposed to use this tea dust at home? Why should I prefer it over the normal crumbled leaves of tea?
Best Answer
You don't necessarily want tea dust. The reason commercial producers grind it so fine is to maximize the flavor output and steep speed with the least amount of tea, but and this is my opinion only, I think that makes an inferior tea.
Good tea just uses more leaf so it can reach the desired richness in less than 5 minutes.
Steeping for longer draws more tannins out of the leaf and woody bits and makes tea more astringent, and so does grinding the tea too finely.
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\u201cDust tea is generally the better option if you want to prepare tea or tea latte quickly. Whole leaf tea is nearly always the ideal option if you want all of the health benefits, flavour profiles, taste, value for money, and quality while reducing waste or blending with milk and sugar,\u201d she says.Is dust tea good for health?
Tea is rich in antioxidants, and this ensures cell health, preventing the onset of cancer. It can also benefit the skin, keeping it healthier and preventing premature ageing. There are two kinds of teas - roasted (dust teas) and unroasted (leaf teas). Leaf teas are richer in antioxidants and phytonutrients.How do you use tea dust?
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I agree with Escoce that you personally may or may not want the dust form of tea, but it can be used in the home. Using it is a little different from leaf teas. If you are used to steeping whole leaf (or at least, large piece) tea and then pouring through a wire mesh tea strainer, you will find that the tea dust goes straight through the mesh. You need to strain it through something finer.
Many (most?) tea bags are made of a sort of filter paper, some are made of very thin silk. You can place a clean square of silk in your tea strainer (large enough that it completely covers all the mesh with some to spare) and pour the tea through that, or you could also use a paper coffee filter if you have those available.
There is also something called a tea sock which is basically a tube of thin fine-mesh fabric (sometimes silk, sometimes nylon or polyester) closed at one end. If you use this, you put the tea dust in the "sock" and steep the tea using the tea-sock the way you might use commercial tea bags.
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