this is one of my favorite things here
yes i have tea in the morning
every every morning and in the beginning
i would just have hot run hot water
and have my tea bag into the cup and
then i tried this and i'm like wow
so much better it's so much better
because it takes away all the bitterness
yes
uh from the tea yes and just i would
leave it up to you to explain why this
happens because obviously for me i'm
like this is just better all right
that's called percolation which is water
going through
right so percolation is a type of
extraction where water runs through
something else
okay and it works for things like pour
over coffee
does not work for tea tea wants extended
water contact
okay and then you drain yeah so
percolation not so good so this tea
porter filter was
invented as far as i know in taiwan and
paired up with some custom espresso
machines
we use it in a way that was never meant
to be used we do that at decent espresso
but let me explain what this is it's
basically a portafilter
with a screen okay so you put your tee
in here and water is going to go in here
but what's unusual is it's got a spring
here with a valve
and what the taiwanese company do is
they just run water through and then
they pause for like 30 seconds and run
some water through and it tastes
less bad it's all that bubble tea for
them so lots of sugar
yeah yeah yeah we want to make good tea
with this yeah and with the decent we
can because what we do
is we run water and then we let this
valve essentially be a way to
control what comes out when it comes out
and when it doesn't this thing opens up
at about three bar of pressure
okay so we can do is put water in keep
the pressure under two bar
and then basically let us brew some tea
then flush it gut it and then do another
brew so it's kind of like a traditional
chinese tea
it is the chinese tea and my favorite
way of brewing tea is this little
little teapot pour water in you only
wait like 30 seconds you pour it out
yeah okay and you pour all of it out
it tastes really good so that's what
we're doing with this
uh we'll just make successive brews with
clean water and
the reason the tea tastes so good is
because each time it's a short brew and
each time it's clean water yeah yeah so
starting with clean water you get more
uh stuff out and you'll see i'm gonna
make
builders tea yeah and and it's gonna be
really strong not a sponsored
but not tannic and that was gonna be my
next question so
when i was making tea for years i would
leave the bag in
too long i'm a dummy and then i forget
and then i come back and it's too bitter
right so i mean first of all it's just
overextracted yeah okay
um the other thing is this computer is
going to make it
to the recipe we think tastes good yeah
it takes about three i guess obviously
the other thing is that the tea bag is
not in your cup so you can forget it and
nothing happens that's right
the other thing about doing tea on the
decent
is that we've got recipes for different
types of teas at different
temperatures did you make that yeah i
did but scott rayo
wrote a book called everything but
espresso and he's got a large section on
tea
and when i told him about this he says
he's not interested because tea made an
espresso machine taste bad
yeah i was like give it a chance give it
a chance so he told me all about the
different temperatures
um and i've been doing that and i think
i'm making
really good tea with scott's help so
yeah okay
you can make tea with tea bags or with
loose leaf tea we're gonna do both
okay okay sweet so tea bag super easy
open it up okay and you can do one of
two
things depending if you're really
neurotic and you don't want to drink
tea made with a tea label yeah right
then you do
that yeah okay and then just lock it in
like so then we go to settings and let's
see
i need to unhide so i tap on there okay
and here
tea portafilter black tea chinese tea
japanese tea
dark oolong tizan you have you have a
recipe for all of that
there is also an insane one there's a
tea forum on the internet
with key experts and they were
interested in knowing if they could go
beyond 100 degrees
wow not so much with normal teas but
especially with infusions
yeah so we did that because there's a
little bit of pressure we can go over
100 and not boil
yeah we can make tea to 105 celsius okay
so that actually works which one is that
it is in fact the t-zone recipe
that goes oh yeah yeah up there okay and
uh the temperature there is a hundred
actually these are a hundred degrees
okay so t-zones you wanna do it full
temperature yeah and i've got various
kinds of recipes there so that's less
hot 89 celsius for oolong oolong dark is
higher at 94.
plain old black tea is that green yeah
okay okay
interesting and there's all sorts of
fancy stuff going on here that you don't
need to know about
because basically a bunch of geeky
people myself included have been working
on these recipes for quite a long time
the most recent ones that i'm happy with
um
are trying to always get the same amount
in your cup no matter what's
going on okay okay um all right so
i'm gonna hit okay here i'm gonna get
my handy dandy ikea mug available
worldwide
and all you do is hit start okay
and this takes about three minutes
so what's happening right now is this is
the first infusion so let me explain
what's actually happening with this
instead of letting it just happen
so this first step here just filled
the infusion space with water and didn't
flush any water out
yeah okay and then we waited 30 seconds
and after 30 seconds there was a short
little 10 second flush
yeah and that's what we're looking at
here that's the quite dark tea that's
come out
yeah so in other words we made a small
amount of liquid a small amount of tea
yeah flush it out put clean water in now
wait another
30 seconds what's the green line so the
green line is just holding a little bit
of pressure on the tea i see
so there's our second infusion yeah so
we're making four
short infusions of tea so here we are
okay at the end of that the liquid is
getting quite clear
yeah because clean water has come out
yeah so once again
our first fill 30 seconds pause
flush out the first brew 30 seconds
pause flush out the second brew
that is amazing the nice thing is is
that
this is making awesome tea yeah and you
don't have to think about it yeah
exactly
so can i have another tea is put tea bag
in lock hit start
yeah and then leave for a few minutes
don't think about the brainy stuff
it doesn't matter yeah and you never
have to worry about leaving your tea bag
for too long or taking it out too
too quickly and we're gonna see this
actually one of the things i love
about this is that people buy tea bags
because they're messy
because when you get loose leaf tea yeah
and you have like those little filter
things you have a total mess
yeah yeah not with an espresso machine
because espresso machines have learned
to deal with messy stuff they're called
coffee grounds yeah
same solution applies yeah it's very
clear now yeah
because this is the last infusion
confusion yeah
okay and it also shows you the current
steps so there were basically eight
steps it showed the last one was showing
eight that's right
yeah so here we are yeah there's
our tea yeah it's hard for me to tell
you
mmm that's delicious so first problem is
we don't have milk with me
so this is going to bugs and it's going
to have milk added and she's going to go
mmm that's good tea
yep we here from the next door every day
like she's like good tea good tea yeah
all right
so what i'm going to do now is just open
this up there is some hot water still
here
you can see how strong that is not that
strong yeah because we've extracted most
of this tea bag
yeah that's right this is the cool bit
is you just throw it out
knock it into a portafilter if you want
you can rinse
yeah so this is vietnamese tea that i
really like yeah this one is good i i
don't actually precisely measure it i
just have a spoon that's already in here
okay okay that's how i make it for
normal tea that's going to drink
just one spoonful right i'm going to
drink if i want to make it with milk i
put two spoonfuls in
okay but there we are just loose leaf
tea yeah and the filter's just gonna
handle it
yeah so no need to have a tea bag and
once again just
go in no screens nothing lock it in okay
also what's nice is it takes about 40
seconds for the tea
we probably need a cup that's what i'm
saying is because there's like 40
seconds until it comes out because this
is the fill cycle yeah
okay and we're using the same recipe
yeah uh we are using the same recipe
okay yep
we could go different recipe if i were
using for example a white tea
i would drop the temperature to 70
celsius so
this also makes some of the best tea in
the world for a different reason which
is
our temperature accuracy right that's
one of the main
things one of the things about this
that's right so look at that so we are
totally nailing within wow how close are
we
we are we're looking we're one degree
down seven
centigrade yeah goal yeah so when you
say you want a 94 census
t you're getting a 94 celsius tea right
uh
what's interesting also is some of the
classical chinese recipes
yeah um will involve submerging the
teapot with boiling water and pouring it
on in order to get the t-pop to be
honest
yeah we're doing the same thing right
this is a stainless steel portafilter
yeah that's been brought up to
temperature
inside the espresso machine so it is
actually
like having your own tea servant
that that's a master of all these things
and here we are we've got tea coming out
um i quite like this vietnamese tea it's
still a black tea
it's very nice but it's really gentle
with with milk it's actually quite nice
as well when you have two teaspoons
so um the only thing that's kind of
boring for videos is
the temperature page on the decent is a
nice flat line on the goal so that
there's no drama
yeah yeah so now now we're actually at
within
0.1 celsius of the gold temperature and
in each stage you're going to see
the tea get lighter as it extracts more
and more
that's brilliant it takes about three
minutes to make a cup
now i tried to make faster cups at two
minutes and they're just not as strong
this is how like people can buy this now
from there yeah so you can buy this
so just to summarize the thing about the
deep water filter
is that it is less mess to make loose
leaf teas yeah the teas will taste
better
you can do all the geeky stuff with
temperatures and all that precision and
you don't do anything you just pick a
recipe yeah
you also just get to make more tea yeah
easily just hit start
right okay and it's inexpensive we on
purpose
uh do not charge much the for the t
portafilter yeah because you already
gave us a lot of money for your decent
espresso machine yeah
one thing i noticed also from
interacting with people is that some
people want to buy the decent but
they're worried that their wives or
their partners don't drink that much
coffee yes
but they do drink tea yes but i don't
think it's clear enough that the decent
can also make amazing tea
so that's why we're doing this video
that is the tea
yeah it is quite pretty okay
and what is cool here is i can open this
up okay yeah
and there is my slurry yeah and you're
also it's it's holding the device
holding it yeah so everything's there so
here's what i want to show you is i
knock this out
okay and boom i am now ready to make
another tea so if you're a cafe
and you are sick of doing loose leaf tea
service because it's a mess
yeah this is so fast it's so easy and
you just lock it in
start tea and every tea cup is perfect
and if you have another decent you're
already pulling a shot of coffee next to
it that's right
and look at these two this is the
difference between vietnamese tea
and british tea one you can hold a spoon
in
the other one is delicate and floral
lovely stuff all right i'm going to have
that vietnamese one thank you
sounds good this one's going to bugs the
milk thank you for joining us and hope
to see you with a teacup
in your hand in the near future see you
next time bye bye