茶席

Tea session

Choose your tea, pour, and let the timer count each infusion. A soft bowl chime sounds when it's time to decant, even if you've wandered off to another page. Times are starting points for a small gaiwan; trust your own taste and adjust as you go.

For a full log of your sessions, teas and teaware, there's Gaiwan for iPhone.

Tea
30seconds

Infusion 1 of 8 · rinse the leaf first

Water
95 °C
Steeps
30s20s25s30s35s40s45s50s

The first infusion is longer while the balled leaf opens.

Music for the session

The tea room stream: calm solo qin, shakuhachi and koto, 17 pieces, shuffled for as long as you sit. The music dips while the chime sounds.