Tea-Totaled said

Dirt in my green tea

I can’t find a previous thread on this. I just brewed a pot of green tea I got pretty cheap in a Vietnamese grocery store and noticed that the leaves were very dirty when I dumped them out. I’m not sure what it was. They were small black particles very charcoal-like. Needless to say I did not drink it. Has this ever happened to you?

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Ricardo Caicedo said

Hasn’t happened to me, but surely something is wrong with that tea.

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Cwyn said

This is likely char from wok or roasting, burnt edges on the leaves. Is there a smoky odor? This can settle and integrate into the tea.

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Tea-Totaled said

Oh, that makes sense! Thank you! It did have a smokey flavor and the leaves were balled into pearls. The ash was probably trapped in the leaves as they were rolled.

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