Grow Your Own Tea

Let's make tea from leaves! This is a skill requested by The Robot Wolf over on Patreon! I love tea, and something about making tea from leaves makes me feel like an herbalist from a fantasy setting! If you want your request to move to the front of the line, consider joining! Link below!

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[ProfessorWowa]

I just want to say thank you, you got me back into crafting after years. And now I'm making money crafting jewelry and close to making it my primary income. Even if you don't have a million subscribers you do have an impact on people.

[olivierhuc]

steaming tea prevent leaf oxidation. u got a green tea, congrats!

[thehalfa]

The Modern Rogue just did a couple great episodes on tea, great next step in education

[TheMariusDarkwolf]

Some of it may be the drying time. I know that for the big companies they let the leaves dry for days and weeks in huge buildings basically designed for the purpose. Admittedly that's primarily for black tea (which honestly is just let dry and oxidize for longer). Great video as always

[meh]

Primarily if you're comparing it to store bought bagged tea, that is ground up to the pount thar theres a bunch of poweder shoved into the bag with leaf bits. So its like steaping tea and powder drink mix. It's also the lower quality leaves that go to the bags so its going to be far more astringent. Loose leaf is often more smooth depending on the style, Japanese teas are rolled tight and often crushed/chopped into smaller bits to have a richer vegetable flavor compared to Chinese tease. If you like how you prepped it something like long jin or monkey picked teas would be a good place to poke around with loose leaf.

[whoahanant]

Some teas have a prime time to pick for maximum flavor I'm unsure for your plant.

I grew Chamomile this year and I know the best time to pick was when the flowers were full bloom and not drooping. The drying methods and times can also factor into how flavors work. I usually just air dry all my plants and they look super aesthetic hanging from places by twine or sitting in a bowl. Though air drying can take quite a while so dehydraters are another option I've seen being used.

[KulaniChamalya]

I'm from Sri Lanka.We have tea land but we don't use tea leaves like this, thank you so much brother ❤️ Ayubowan🙏

[WilliamRuppelt]

You can make tea out of dandilions you find on the street too. Most people see them as weeds. But they actually contain medicinal properties so don't throw them away when you uproot them.

[skarinblackraven]

If you wanna learn herbal infusions this is a great place to start. Also an infusion would be a fancy way of making herbal potions.

[wildside]

You are my favourite YouTuber and all ways inspire me to make something

[thehalfa]

Now to start growing my very own Skill Tea

[aaronlittle]

Very cool, sir. I can picture your druid making tea out in the wild.

[therobotwolf]

Now I want to convince my dad to get chocolate mint again and try this cause it seems fun

[patsisota]

Your one of my favorite subscription. Thank you. Any best brand used for your air dry clay?

[jarekmace]

I wonder how well it would work to dry using a cooling rack on the top shelf and a cookie sheet on the lower shelf. Might not have to turn them.

[rockinrswoodshop]

Need to watch modern rogue dude! They just did a couple of episodes all about tea!

[alexandermoran]

I love to have some tea with my brother cause he has a nice tea set
Also I finally posted the picture of the gun holster I made had to use a fork cause I lost my diamond punches really wish I hadn't lost them use a fork is hard

[EmsLife]

Prob not strong enough bcuz you steamed it first?

[YeetMaster]

My friends would probably make some Tea-HC if you know, you know

[poniel]

It's very simple... it's not as strong because you didn't add bourbon. I know... I'm a tea enthusiast.