April 2026
How she makes it
No timer, no thermometer, and better than mine every time.

She fills the pot, she does something else, she comes back. There is no measuring. When I asked her how she knows, she said the tea tells you, which is not a useful answer but is also not wrong.
What she is actually doing is under-filling the pot and over-filling the leaf, then pouring early. Strong tea, short steep. It is the opposite of the way it gets written on a packet.
I put times and temperatures on the product pages because they help when you are starting. She has never read one.
Written in Dubai · Faty Tea, single origin from São Miguel

