That’s really great to hear! So happy you were able to benefit from this method 🙏🏻

Keep it up! This is really great to hear 🙏🏻🍵

That’s really great to hear! 🙏🏻

@@theteacrane I have been to Japan twice. I am now going to make this mindful Matcha preparation a part of my early morning ritual. J'avais une copine de Hiroshima. J'ai été deux fois à Kyoto. Toute cette ville est un Musée, et je n'en ai vu que quelques endroits. J'ai visité 3 des 4 principales Îles du Japon. Il me manque Hokkaïdo. Bonne continuation et merci encore!

Thank you! 🙏🏻 looking forward to sharing our matcha with you soon. 🍵

Glad it was helpful!

Thank you!

Thank you 🙏🏻

Thank you 🍵🙏🏻

That’s wonderful to hear 🙏🏻 thank you.

@@theteacrane The other day I mentioned to you hat I had seen blue-coloured "decaffeinated" matcha at my local health food store. I was mistaken. The product in question is made from powdered blue flowers. It is caffeine-free by nature. You prepare and consume it the same way as with matcha tea. Next to this product was actual matcha made from leaves. Not surprisingly, next to that was "Maté", which you no doubt are familiar with. Thank you, and all the best!

Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks 🙏🏻

In Japan it's a ryoro, but they're also common and come in more various styles in China and Taiwan. It's a kind of brazier for charcoal or another type of heating to boil the water in your kettle.

I’d say the morning is a good time for a morning ritual, and in the afternoon for a pick-me-up.

@@theteacrane so for morning, is it before breakfast or after? I know it’s probably up to us, but I am just curious what the tradition is.

@@zoezoe7613 it’s not quite a matter of tradition. Drinking matcha is for the Japanese often not a matter of health and isn’t common at regular households. Traditionally speaking matcha is a means to ceremony and community and is used for hospitality. That is the true traditional purpose of the tea ceremony. And in this case it depends on the season, when to host such an occasion during the day. In the West matcha has simply become a beverage, drunk for health. This is a quite different perspective. Not that it is wrong; just different. Personally I skip breakfast, but have matcha to kickstart the day. It is also a great moment of mindfulness and meditation.

I don’t whisk very long, but I whisk in 2 stages. First I let the tips of the tines of the whisk come in contact with the bottom of the bowl and whisk briskly for 10 seconds. Once I have a foam, I raise the whisk so the tips of the tines now only make contact with the surface foam. For another 10 to 20 seconds I whisk at a slower pace with the purpose to break up the larger bubbles in the foam and create a soft minute foam. I hope this helps.

80~90. Although I have never measured it. It’s usually just off the boil and transferring it to the bowl with the tea cools it down a bit.

It’s always better to go with a good quality matcha, even for thin tea.

Preferences in thickness differ from person to person, and is also different from school to school. The main whisking to create the froth can indeed be completed swiftly, the second part mainly consists of a more shallow and slower whisking motion to break up larger bubbles on the surface to create a more minute foam.

I keep it on a small alcohol flame to keep it warm, but not boiling. It’s sufficiently hot when there are small bubbles floating up in the water. I have never measured it with a thermometer, so I can’t give you an exact temperature. Just let it settle down after boiling, or keep it just below boiling point.

Glad this video helped you! The wrist should be loose, while the shoulder should be tense. The foam is created in the speed of the motion, but not in the force with which you press the whisk down. The tips of the tines should only gently rub over the bottom of the bowl. They should certainly not be pushed down against it. Then the whisk should be moved forth and back in a straight line, from 12 to 6 on the face of a clock. Start slowly, and gradually increase the speed. Keep your wrist loose as you move the whisk back and forth. You'll see you'll get the hang of it soon enough!

@@theteacrane thank you so much!! Hope to get it right soon because it is frustrating

@@jilvia9462 It takes practice, but you’ll get it soon enough 😊👍🏻🍵

You indeed loose a lot of other good components and flavor and aroma in the process. It may be a good option for people who really can’t have caffeine, but I don’t think the rest of us really benefit from an option like this.

@@theteacrane Exactly. Thankfully, the caffeine in Matcha is at just the right level.

Not fragile at all. The tines are made to be bouncy and sturdy. If you want to whisk a frothy foam, then making a fast and brisk motion is necessary and touching the walls of the bowl, and scraping along the bottom of the bowl is unavoidable. In the long run it will wear your tea whisk out. But that too is common since tea whisks are meant to be used, and replaced after a while. Did you know that in the past a new tea whisk was used for every tea occasion? Just to say that they won’t last you a lifetime.

What is probably not mentioned is that prior to use, you need to soak the tines in a little hot water to soften. The tines are only brittle if dry, and when making tea, you do not use the tea whisk when it is completely dry.

Most of my purifying baths are ice cold 🥶

@@theteacrane Ah yes, there are great benefits to this as well.

@@theteacrane No doubt you are familiar with Wim Hof.

@@antonboludo8886 I am indeed

Glad I was able to help you relax ;)

Sometimes people only look at the surface of tea ceremony, and miss what underlies it at a deeper level. Nevertheless, the first step to uncover the deeper meaning of the ceremony, is to understand what it is about on the surface. 🍵

@@theteacrane What it is about on the surface is making a cup of tea, period. A person could make wiping their butt a big ceremony every day but why?

@@choimdachoim9491 because ceremony and rituals give meaning to essentially meaningless things. It enriches the experience of life and the joy and purpose one finds in it. Life is meaningless in essence. Only what we put into it, is what we get out. Rituals and ceremony direct energy and attention towards areas of life that would otherwise pass us by without noticing. You can, if you wan’t to, make a ceremony of wiping your butt, but you also don’t have to. However, who are you to judge someone for doing so? If it brings meaning to their life, then that’s a great achievement!

@@theteacrane I have strong disagreements with you, not that it matters, but I will share a few: You have a depressing attitude toward Life to state that it is in essence, meaningless. I, in my 75 years of interesting suffering, have always found reason and purpose to Life. What I get out of Life is not what I put into it, but what I discover in it. Am I really judging you by disagreeing with you? I always encourage people to do whatever gets them through their day but I also encourage them to, at the end of every day, be honest to themselves about what they had to do to survive another day. A person can live every day carrying the burden of countless "necessary" rituals and ceremonies or they can live every day free like a bird or a fish and just live, just be alive. My preference is obvious. I've experienced too much to weigh my Life down with unnecessary action. I appreciate the discussion so far.

@@choimdachoim9491 I don’t think we disagree too much. We’re both looking to live a happy and meaningful life. The ways we use to reach it may differ, but that is normal as everyone’s path will be different. With ‘meaningless’ I mean that life is as a blank piece of paper. It doesn’t come with meaning attached to it (therefore ‘meaning-less’), and it is up to us to fill it in and create whatever we want on the blank sheet of paper called life. Everyone encounters different stages in life. At one point adhering to rituals may be valuable. At a further stage letting go of the rules may lead to releasing the inner butterfly out of its cocoon. Some people benefit from adhering to ritual approach to deepen their understanding and awareness. And through that may come to see things in a different light, helping them to improve in different areas of life.

Come visit me in Kyoto and let’s chat over a bowl of tea.

@@theteacrane i mean, i want to know if your'e a healthy person and if the matcha did anything (if the matcha did anything aren't the words i would have chose but my thoughts aren't coming right now. Like as if you were 50 years old or late 40s

@@melissasigalas2154 green tea keeps you young! But let’s put that to the test over the coming years.

Can you explain what you mean by ‘tucking?’