The BladeForums.com 2024 Traditional Knife is ready to order! See this thread for details:
https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/bladeforums-2024-traditional-knife.2003187/
Price is $300 $250 ea (shipped within CONUS). If you live outside the US, I will contact you after your order for extra shipping charges.
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My wife's always been a big tea drinker, and keeps several varieties on hand. Green tea is all I drink, but it has to be a good, loose green tea. Like Gunpowder or Dragon Well. I always add honey.
Yes, sir - it's a good one! And more than most any of us need on a daily basis. I'm pretty sure there's another just like it new in the box collecting dust in the closet if you have anything you'd like to trade - either for this user or the one in the box, depending. It was the Sep 2021 BOTM - 420HC, 2 flat ground blades w/long pull notches, clip & sheepsfoot, black burlap micarta, made 500 of them.And I could get along just fine if all I had was that Buck 301.
Thanks. I have one of the Blade Forum stag models from a couple years ago that doesn't get enough pocket time as it is. It's funny. For 30 years I carried the same stockman in my pocket every day, and was just fine. Now, I find it a challenge to carry the same knife for more than a few days in a row. First world problems, I guess.
That Blade Forums 301 is a good-looking knife, for sure. Yes, first world problems indeed. I probably carry more knives in a week than my grandfather owned in his lifetime.Thanks. I have one of the Blade Forum stag models from a couple years ago that doesn't get enough pocket time as it is. It's funny. For 30 years I carried the same stockman in my pocket every day, and was just fine. Now, I find it a challenge to carry the same knife for more than a few days in a row. First world problems, I guess.
Oolongs are typically amber color and lighter. That looks more like a black tea, but not sure about that. It is best to measure the weight of tea per cup as opposed to using a volume measure such as a teaspoon. I have a jewelers scale for that. Typical weights vary but generally are around 3.5 grams per 8 oz. cup. I use 3.7-4.0 grams because I like stronger brews.
That’s great to know - thank you! I’ll weigh out my next few cups and see what I learn and settle in on. And if I get bored, I might try Google translate on the tin. There’s a QR code on one side. I tried it but it’s apparently behind the Great Firewall of China and wouldn’t work for me.
I may be slightly anal about tea. LOL. I just weigh it in my stainless steel infuser then put that muther in the cup and voila. Love tea.
Semper Fi to you, too,
Boattale
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It is a deep hole you are entering. LOL. A Gaiwan is a traditional tea pot (but smaller than a real pot). I own one but never use it. I have a traditional teapot (English style) and a glass one for stovetop. Like a Gaiwan, you dump the loose leaf into the pot and pour in boiling water (rolling boil at approximately 212F). I use a strainer to separate the leaves from the tea when I pour into a cup. You can buy these cup strainers on Amazon, they fit on top of a standard cup or mug. I have a friend who is familiar with Chinese culture, and he calls this making tea "grandpa style." Otherwise, I use my stainless infuser that fits into a cup. Plenty of room for the leaves to fan out and steep.
Thank you!
It's all Engrish to me. LOL. Thanks for the explanation.If translate straightforwardly, Hong Cha in Chinese Pinyin = Red Tea, Hong = Red, Cha = Tea, people call Hong Cha (Red Tea) is because of the color of water (brewed from tea).
But in real world English, Hong Cha is translated to Black Tea, (Black = Hei in Chinese Pinyin)
And, in fact, there is Hei Cha as well, it's translated to Dark Tea sometimes / somewhere.
I guess this is why people not sure "why Chinese black tea is identified as red tea in English speakers", and Chinese people not sure "why Hong Cha is identified as black tea"
SFMF!