{"id":63,"date":"2004-02-04T10:31:01","date_gmt":"2004-02-04T10:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/wp\/?p=63"},"modified":"2013-03-07T18:06:37","modified_gmt":"2013-03-08T02:06:37","slug":"a_good_pot_of_t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/a_good_pot_of_t\/","title":{"rendered":"A Good Pot of Tea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Actually, I&#8217;m asking: How do you make a good pot of tea? Mine always seems bitter and I&#8217;ve been using a quasi-scientific method of elimination to determine the cause, but no luck. I try steeping in fresh boiled water for two, three, five minutes, or just leave the dang tea bag in there. I usually use two cups of water per one-cup bag, but have experimented with one cup per bag, 4cups\/bag, etc. I try pre-heating the pot with boiling water; pre-heating the glass or mug with boiling water. With sugar or honey and without.<br \/>\nI have a nice tea pot. The Moms picked it up in Japan 30 years ago and recently passed it down to me. It&#8217;s off-white and porcelain-looking, your typical round tea pot. Wicker handle. Small screen inside over the entrance to the spout. Cute little round lid with breathing hole. Don&#8217;t generally do more than rinse it out, but cleaned it briskly once or twice with scrubbing and dishsoap.<br \/>\nThe actual tea I currently use is Tetley, Orange Pekoe, box of 170, round, one-cup bags. Had similar Red Rose brand before, same result. Suggestions?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actually, I&#8217;m asking: How do you make a good pot of tea? Mine always seems bitter and I&#8217;ve been using a quasi-scientific method of elimination to determine the cause, but no luck. I try steeping in fresh boiled water for two, three, five minutes, or just leave the dang tea bag in there. I usually [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[8],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1555,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions\/1555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}