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britt · 2nd Degree Black Belt Joined: 22 Oct 2007 Posts: 175

For those who wish to roast their own tea, here is a link to an electric bamboo tea roaster. It is currently sold out, but it does look interesting.

It is made and patented in Taiwan, where many oolongs with various degrees of roasting and oxidation add quite a variety of different tastes to tea. The temperature control is variable, and I am guessing it could be used for making houjicha, not just oolong.

http://www.houdeasianart.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=29&products_id=329

Oni · 2nd Degree Black Belt Joined: 15 Mar 2008 Posts: 194

This is also found at teacuppa.com.

Dreamer · Posted: Jun 16, 2008 1:41 pm Post subject:

I'd love to see that research too, but unfortunately I don't expect anyone is motivated enough to do it. All I know for sure is that it aluminum is so abundant in our world (soil, air, food, water, etc) that it is virtually impossible to avoid. I also know that there is a big question hanging around as to whether aluminum plays into the formation of Alzheimers. So I try not to cook with it when I can avoid it. My aluminum baking sheets are very beat up and so more likely to be "sharing" aluminum with whatever I put on them, so I tend to use parchment with them. When my cooking pots and pans needed replacing, I chose stainless. I do still have an aluminum stovetop popcorn popper (great popcorn!!!). When it pops its last pop (the mechanism that turns the stirrer will probably break soon), I'll replace it with stainless too.

I guess I should have prefaced my "too toxic" comment with words to indicate that that was just my personal opinion.

I value research and a mentor of mine taught me to always ask "Can I see the research on that?" so I appreciate your comment.

Happy Sipping,
Dreamer

trent · Posted: Jun 24, 2008 12:34 pm Post subject: