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There aren't any good sources for it online in America but it is pretty fucking bitter

fuck off amerifat

mfw this amerifat expected matcha to taste like one of his ice cream sundaes

>>11319150

I had matcha before, it wasn't bitter at all...

Maybe one was "organic" and one wasn't? I don't fucking know. Anyone want a picture of the stuff I bought the first time? It was from a health food store that was bottoming out all their stuff because they were changing locations.

>>11319155
a bit disappointed your real matcha doesn't taste like the super sugared ``matcha flavored'' milkshake??

friggin merfats...

Here's the matcha I got the first time that wasn't bitter at all, but I swear the new bitter matcha is really caffeinated because I never got this much energy from picture related.

>>11319165

Forgot my pictyre, this was the non bitter stuff.

The stuff I'm drinking now was from eBay and doesn't have any brand logo or anything like that.

>>11319155
It was probably a 'matcha flavored ice tea drink' or something.

Look, matcha is crushed up tea. You are ingesting the entire thing. It goes against every principal of making good black tea, large leaves, careful steeping time. It's going to be bitter. That's why you drink it with sweet snacks.

You boiled it didn't you?

>>11319171

I used almost boiling water and then put the matcha and water into a blender.

Did I fuck up? I know you can drink matcha cold too but I never drink cold tea.

>>11319179
well green tea should never be steeped with water hotter than 180F (usually 170 is preferred) so... yeah

>>11319179
Since matcha is made from gyokuro which needs to be brewed at 140F, I think that any water near boiling was too hot.

>>11319179
holy SH&T dude you are pretty much the biggest fucking stupid american i have ever read a comment from

who the fuck boils green tea? fucking IDIOT

>>11319196
please no bully, even if he did boil green tea

>>11319196

What is the ideal way to prepare matcha?

Cold? I also see a lot of people recommending I mix in milk, but wouldn't that ruin it?

What's your take on this?

>>11319210
you are lucky as H*LL i am feeling incredibly gracious and kind today

http://www.yuuki-cha.com/matcha-green-tea-powder

now don't you EVER boil green tea again fucking loser

>>11319219
Their little matcha starter set is actually pretty cute and affordable

>>11319219
>http://www.yuuki-cha.com/matcha-green-tea-powder

>drinking shitty jap piss like a fag
Drink coffee like a man.

>>11319234
here's a real american dumbass who loves paying 2 dollars for fast food coffee every morning and actually believes he's getting good quality coffee

l
o
l

>>11319234

Coffee is bad for you though, there's a reason the people from okinawa live to be like 110. It's not just the matcha, but it's certainly a large part of it.

>>11319234
>drink coffee like a fat balding mid 20s white boy

le fixed ;D

>>11319247
you're probably right nobody with a true love for coffee wouldn't have respect for the teas

>>11319252
a lot of things that are bad for you if you draw the line at coffee what is there left to enjoy

>>11319266

Most people in america don't enjoy coffee and only drink it for it's caffeine content.

>>11319247
>>11319258
Holy F*%K he just got owned!

>>11319234
heh, i see you're a coffee drinking just like me good sir *tips fedora*

>>11319234
Janny if you're going to present your opinion don't get so butthurt when somebody iceburns you and delete all their posts.

/jp/ why is green tea so popular? I hate it.

>>11319269
oh believe me i know
but hailing from the pacific northwest i'm pretty familiar with hipsters that take their coffee very seriously

i had a french press once

>>11319324

High caffeine content, so it gives you a ton of energy, and it's EXTREMELY healthy for you. I wouldn't be surprised if it's why araki & Sakurai stopped aging.

>>11319324
1. It makes you alert: caffeine
2. It ALSO makes you relax: L-theanine

It's awesome when you need to concentrate. I like coffee but when I really want to focus it's green tea.

Oh yeah it also tastes good.

All tea and coffee tastes like warm bitter water to me what am I doing WRONG here?

>>11319365
It's more about the feeling after rather than the taste. Need to solve a math problem? Drink green tea. Need to go outside but you're feeling anxious? Drink green tea.

It's a drug basically.

>>11319252
Live fast die young /jp/ rock n roll lifestyle

I always boil tea of any kind at 482F ( 250C ). Is that wrong? It tastes fine to me most of the time.

>drink a cup of matcha
>shit myself 30 minutes later

Am, am I dieing /jp/?

>>11319391
so you steep them in steam?

Is it wrong to add sugar to black tea?
I bought some decent quality leaves online quite a while ago and I haven't even been able to try them more than 3 or 4 times, it's just so weird compared to my usual green tea. I considered adding sugar to it, but does that ruin it? Is it just something you grow to enjoy?

>>11319407
Pressure boiling

>>11319415
>Pressure boiling
what's even the point? you're making tea not boiling the meat off bones

>>11319425
I don't know, I'm not >>11319391
and he's lying anyway.

>>11319407
I just put the tea leaves in the water before it starts boiling then leave them there until it does.

A maiko served me matcha one time, for tea ceremony. It was my first time and I almost threw it up, it was so dark and bitter. Luckily I was able to swallow it down respectfully and proceed.

>>11319155
>>11319169
Some matcha powder is sold with sugar mixed into it.

>>11319413
Black tea is usually enjoyed with sugar and/or milk in the western world. My experience is that just a bit of both will take the edge off the bitterness.

>>11319775
Actually, since I'm here, have this.

>>11319351
>>11319339
Funny, coffee is pretty much caffeine yet all it does is make me sick and tired.

>>11319559
now swallow this bitter treat

>>11319869
What a weird looking fish.

>>11319339
>green tea
>high caffeine content
ಠ_ಠ
Green tea typically contains somewhere around 30mg per cup, while black tea is around 60mg, and coffee being over 100mg.

Caffeine pills are typically 200mg.

I drink Japanese green tea pretty much daily unless it's too hot but I don't really like matcha.

I'm running low on my current tea (gyokuro karigane), and im looking for something new to try (still green tea, preferably).

Any recommendations? Genmaicha looks good, and matcha is interesting but seems like too much work, I've just been boiling water in a teapot and then pouring it in with the tea in an infuser cup, not sure if matcha would work like this or not

I've got to get some fukamushi sencha this winter.

>>11319872
sushi might look weird at first but it is best enjoyed by cramming the whole piece into your mouth with your bare hands.

>>11319784
This goes completely against my method of preparing green tea. I think I'll make a parody someday though with green tea instructions.

i hate any tea except green because its too hot

i can't drink anything hotter than 55C

>>11319928
I've noticed this horrible trend in American restaurants where the sushi is like jumbo sized. How am I supposed to fit all that in my mouth without biting on it?

>>11320347
You could let it cool down, you know...
>>11319784
This guide is terrible. Please do not take it seriously.

>>11320385

humongous faggot spotted

>>11320385
That takes too long

>>11319784
I've never felt so angry since reading George Orwell's tea guide

'true' matcha, as in the stuff that you use in Japanese tea ceremony and not the stuff that you get in restaurants is actually incredibly bitter.

source: I took a class on it.

>>11320385
>>11320419
It's pretty obviously a joke, lighten up. I have a good laugh every time I read it.

ive been drinking green tea that comes in bags recently
i feel shame but it also tastes pretty good so i don't know what to think

>>11320514
There is nothing wrong with enjoying tea of any quality. So long as you're happy, keep enjoying it.

When did they ban tea threads on /ck/?

Is /jp/ to other boards what /x/ was to /b/?

>>11320556
my japanese name is unko kisama

>>11320556
So the thread was removed? I was wondering what had happened. I don't normally go there, but I did go to that thread when I stopped by for food ideas.

It's funny how the janny got so buttburned that he hasn't even deleted the picture of the penis yet.

>>11319252
What's bad about coffee? It's my favorite drink

>>11321572
I don't understand.

is this the tea they always drink in my chinese cartoons that they make with the little brush?

>>11320556
kurinkita

pee in itl ol

>>11320347
Ever noticed how japanese sip their noodle and tea and make a lot of noise?

You know why it makes noise? Because they take air with pasta/tea as well and it makes it easier for the sound to travel without losing decibels: air is mostly made out of vacuum, while pasta/water means more collision so soundwave lose their strengh- but are actually faster too!-

Now, why is adding air making it cooler? it's not as much the air as the FLOW of air.
As we all know, we need to add energy (temperature is one form of energy) to transform 100℃ liquid water into 100℃ gaseous water (aka steam); This ammount of energy is named enthalpy of vaporization (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enthalpy_of_vaporization).).

It is to be noted that the vapor pressure equilibrium (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vapor_pressure)) also plays an important role. As we can infer from the terminology it IS an equilibrium. What does that mean? It means that even at 20℃ (standard ambiant temperature) some water will transform into vapour. Which is why water evaporates slowly, even without boiling!

Now, if we need energy to transform liquid water into gas water (steam) and that temperature is energy, it means that the water evaporating TAKES energy fromm somewhere!

And if it's an equilibrium, if you change the composition of the air above water to something that contains less gaseous water (steam), you will provoke some liquid water to turn into gaseous water (steam)!

So if you blow above hot water, it will evaporate faster, and the liquid water will get cooler.
OR if you slurp tea/ noodles and take an airflow alongside, you will cool them down while ingesting them!

Now you too understand the dark japanese ars magna of つるつる!!

>>11322389
Kill yourself.

please let this /ck/ shit die

>>11322402
this

we need more space for touhou threads

>>11322405
So much mad.

>>11322413
it's okay, I didn't ask you to prove my point

del

Just call it tea you stupid weeaboo faggot

>>11322460
I don't think there are any teas like matcha

>>11322460
Matcha isn't regular tea and requires special preparation. To just call it "tea" would be misleading.

matcha is a load of shit unless you buy the really expensive stuff.

and blenderizing it? really?

>>11322561
Then don't call it "regular tea"

weeb

>>11322588
matcha is irregular tea

>>11322588
i'm intrigued, what should he call it if he doesn't call it "tea" or "regular tea" but can't call it "matcha". "weeb juice"?

>walk up in the club
>what up I got a big cock
>walk the dinosaur

>>11320556
Nokadota. I like it better than my actual name.

>>11322617
weeb juice sounds good.

>>11322617
>weed juice

I like it!

Are you supposed to drink the matcha powder that's left over?

>>11327093

yes, it shouldn't be lumpy

In regards to bitter matcha, it means the water was too hot or you went wild and whisked it for way too long (which would require impressive amounts of stamina). You know you got it right when the liquid has a taste to it like someone added msg to it but without the salt. Smell should be strong and taste should be pretty green with a little bit of sweetness. No sugar/milk necessary.

>>11327770
Is there a specific technique to getting rid of the lumps?

>>11327815

I've tried various things, and the only guaranteed way to do it with storebought matcha (usually vacuum packed) is to pass it through a mesh/sieve beforehand. Obviously doing this every time you want some tea would take up way too much time, so if you just presift in small batches it works fine.

You can get a special container for it if you want (chaki or natsume I believe?), really anything that will hold enough tea for maybe a week or so will do. It works out better this way anyways since digging around in a container full of compacted matcha with the scoop usually results in massive clumps and sometimes a mess.

There are some suggestions that involve putting a little bit of water with the unsifted matcha, mushing it around with the whisk then pouring in the rest of the water and whisking as usual. You would have to spend quite a bit of time just getting the lumps to dissolve this way, and usually what ends up happening is a bunch of matcha gets stuck to the whisk.

>>11320556
>lu
What?

Add sugar

Matcha + Brownie = Awesome

>>11330452
No!
Matcha + Sweet snacks = Awesome

>>11336798
i hope thats cocaine

Did you order it from Japan? I never had matcha but I drink green tea all the time.

>>11319179
>I used almost boiling water

Yeah, try it again with 70C water.

>>11319324
Popular on /jp/ you mean. It's because everyone here saw animes drink it, they tried it, and liked it. It tastes good and makes you feel good.

>>11336781
>>11336798
>>11336845
Cute!

>>11321572
>People under age 55 who consume at least 28 cups of coffee per week, or about four cups per day, have a more than 50 percent increased risk of dying from all causes compared to their non-coffee-addicted peers.

http://www.naturalnews.com/041714_coffee_consumption_mortality_risk_beverages.html

Coffee is good for somethings but you shouldn't drink too much anonymous!

>>11336858
>可愛いでうね！！！
I believe thats what you meant anon.

How the fug is this Otaku Culture?

The coffin thread had more sense than this.

>>11336960
weeb shit = on-topic

>>11336960
Tea otaku.

>>11336963
>>11336976
#rekt

>>11320556
Mimotefu
Rinmitemotokatate

I uh.

>>11337083

Sup, Cody McDonald

>>11336930
I average about four cups a day...

I noticed that it kinda does fuck up my system. I have big high where I'm gung-ho, and then for the rest of the day I don't wanna do shit and I just shit around and funpost on /jp/.

I've tried cutting down before but I always go back. Is cutting down to one cup a day the key to being able to wake up before 9 without feeling like shit? Please help/respond, you are my only friends.

>>11336798
Looks like a twinkie

>>11337667
Try switching to green tea!

>>11337725
o-okay.

It doesn't fulfill the tickle in my head as much though, and after about five or six cups it makes me nauseous...

thank you for responding

>>11337667
Drink more coffee when you feel tired.

I drink instant coffee. How many spoons is a "cup"? I usually make it in a big cup, about 2 full spoons. How much can I drink per day and stay safe?

Is it possible to make matcha if you suck at whisking? I'm afraid of getting it everywhere, and I end up whisking it lightly.

>>11337807
spoon is not a unit of measurement.

>>11337813
How can someone suck at whisking?

>>11337822
>spoon is not a unit of measurement.
Grass is green. What's your point?

>>11337827
How many file-cabinets full of sand does it take to fill a swimming pool?

>>11337822
A teaspoon is.

>>11337667
>Is cutting down to one cup a day the key to being able to wake up before 9 without feeling like shit?

I wake up before 8:00 every day, and I never drink coffee or feel tired.

Go to bed 10 hours before the time you want to wake up, because it will take you a while to get to sleep. When you wake up in the morning, you will probably have a full night's sleep. Then, drink a lot of water as soon as you wake up, and wash your face to freshen up. Eat a good breakfast as well.

Bam, you are now feeling better than ever and no coffee needed.

>>11337848
Spoon (teaspoon) is a common measurement for coffee, tea, sugar, etc.

That coffee death study seems loaded. Coffee is healthy, it has more antioxidants than tea.

>>11337848
Let's say we have a pool 20ft by 15ft. Goes from 3ft to 5ft.
Volume is (20 * 15 * 3) + (2 * 20 * 0.5 * 15) = 1200 cubic ft

Average filing cabinet is 2ft x 3ft x 4.5 ft
Volume is 27 cubic feet

1200 / 27 ~ 45 file-cabinets.

The material contained in filing cabinets doesn't matter as long as we are talking about non-compressible rigid-body structures.

>>11337879
True, coffee has more antioxidants per cup consumed, but think about it this way:

You can drink 10+ cups of green tea a day, and be perfectly fine
Drinking 10+ cups of coffee a day would be bad for you, so in the long run, drinking tea would give you more antioxidants while keeping you healthy than coffee.

Still, that study does seem pretty damn loaded.

>>11337883
>Let's say we have a pool that equals <valid units of measurement>
>Let's assume that the filing cabinet is <valid units of measurement>
>Let's assume the spoon in question is <valid unit of measurement>

My point was that none of those things are valid units of measurement.

>>11337822
>spoon is not a unit of measurement.
Have you ever baked anything in your life?

>>11337848
I dunno. I know it takes me two spoons of instant coffee to make a decent cup.

>>11337898
I don't see how it's bad for you even in large amounts. Caffeine dependency, I guess, but really caffeine hasn't been proven unhealthy.

>>11337858
I'll write this down and try it, thank you.

>>11337879
>>11337898
It could just be a matter of causation vs. correlation. As in, people who live high-risk lifestyles are more prone to drinking lots of coffee.

Such as me. I picked up my four-six cups habit when trying to quit drugs and drinking. Of course, I'm still at a much higher risk for relapsing, and my activities as a drunk racked up a few dangerous debts. Plus there's suicide and all that.

Can I buy good tea off amazon? I've never been a fan but I want to start drinking it.

>>11340606
there are better alternatives. where are you from?

>>11340607
The states, in Texas.

>>11340610
try den's tea if you don't want to import. they have a sampler for $3 including shipping that you can redeem towards your next purchase

>>11340619

what if you were from canada, in toronto

>>11340622
zencha has free shipping and it should be cheap enough to avoid customs
I have no idea, though

>>11340619
Den's is actually a bit more expensive then yuuki-cha and it doesn't have as much choice. You have to make sure you account the fact that they're 50g pouches and not 100g.

>>11340653
I started ordering my tea from Yuuki-cha this year as well. I'm European anyway, I've just heard that Den's is the best tea store stateside and some people may not want to import if it's their first time ordering tea.

>>11338046

This picture does things to me. She seems lost. So sad, so lewd, yet she seems to enjoy it.

>>11340782

>>11337667
the behavior of wasting time here all days will not be changed even if you stop drinking coffee. but at least you can waste more time for your life if you switch to matcha or green tea.

>>11319126
>drinking powdered tea
AMERICLAPS

test

>>11348232
what are you testing?

test2

>>11348235
His stealthyness i suppose.

I've had 'the good shit' in a couple of high quality sushi restaurants, and japanese markets, and no, it shouldn't, if you make it right. Oddly, the type of container used affects the consistency and flavor of it, in my experience.

>>11337858

10 hours of sleep is way too much, it's unhealthy.

6 or 7 is best per night, I also lift and exercise every day.

>>11340782
The perfect wife.