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Tea Steeping Info and Online Timers

Tea Steeping Info and Online Timers

Free Online Tea Timer

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Recommended steeping times:
1-2 min White Tea, 180° F
   2 min Green Tea, 180° F
2-3 min Yellow Tea, 180° F
   3 min Oolong Tea, 190° F
3-4 min Black Tea, 210° F
   5 min Rooibos Tea, 210° F
5-7 min Herbal&Fruit Tea, 210° F
5-7 min Yerba Mate, 210° F


Recommended measurements :
Use 1 flat teaspoon per teacup (6-7oz water), 2 for a 12oz mug.
Two ounces of tea will make approx. 10-12 mugs or 20-25 cups.
Four ounces of tea will make approx. 20-25 mugs or 40-50 cups.


Listen to one of the songs below while your tea gently steeps.

2 Minute, Green Tea, Songs:

1:55 The White Stripes-Fell In Love With A Girl

1:58 The Beatles - She Came In Through The Bathroom Window

2:00 Yardbirds - I Ain't Got You

2:00 The Police - Miss Gradenko

2:02 Aretha Franklin - Respect

2:05 Kansas - The Spider

2:06 Led Zeppelin - Bron-Yr-Aur

2:09 Dave Grohl - FRESH POTS

2:10 Sam Cooke - What A Wonderful World

3 Minute, Oolong Tea, Songs:

2:53 The Temptations My Girl

2:53 King Harvest - Dancing In the Moonlight

2:57 The Who - Pinball Wizard

2:58 Robert Johnson "Sweet Home Chicago

2:59 Gnarls Barkley - Crazy

3:00 The Police - Can't Stand Losing You

3:01 Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young - Our House 

3:02 Sweet Dreams + White Stripes Mashup | Pomplamoose ft. Sarah Dugas

3:04 Van Morrison - Brown Eyed Girl

3:05 The Beatles - Here Comes The Sun

3:06 R.L. Burnside - Performing Jumper On The Line (HD)

3:07 Neil Young - Heart Of Gold

3:07 The Beatles - Something

3:08 John Lennon - Imagine

3:08 Looking Glass - Brandy (You're a Fine Girl)

3:10 Queen - We Are The Champions

3:17 Sublime - Santeria

4 Minute, Black Tea, Songs:

3:54 The Rolling Stones - (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction

3:55 The Who - Who Are You? 1979

3:56 Radiohead - Creep

3:57 Norman Greenbaum - Spirit In The Sky

3:59 Bob Dylan - Maggie's Farm (Champaign 1985)

3:59 Pink Floyd - Another Brick In The Wall (Part 2)

3:59 Everclear - Father Of Mine

3:59 Everclear - I Will Buy You A New Life

3:59 James Taylor - Carolina in My Mind

3:59 Spirit In The Sky Norman Greenbaum

3:59 The White Stripes - Seven Nation Army

4:00 Auld Lang Syne - Royal Scots Dragoon Guards

4:00 T. Rex - The Motivator

4:00 The Rascals - In The Midnight Hour

4:00 The Rolling Stones - Dead Flowers

4:00 Saint Paul and The Broken Bones - Apollo

4:01 Pink Floyd - Brain damage/ Dark side of the moon

4:01 The Who - Summertime Blues (1975)

4:01 The Jimi Hendrix Experience - All Along The Watchtower

4:01 R.E.M - What's The Frequency, Kenneth?

4:02 Peter Gabriel - Games Without Frontiers

4:03 Bobby McFerrin - Don't Worry Be Happy

4:03 The Beatles - Let It Be

4:03 Peter Gabriel - Shock The Monkey

4:03 ZZ Top - Got Me Under Pressure

4:03 Gotye - Somebody That I Used To Know (feat. Kimbra)

4:06 Blind Melon - No Rain

4:08 The Animals - House of the Rising Sun

4:09 Neil Young - Old Man

4:12 The Rolling Stones - She's A Rainbow

5 Minute, Rooibos Tea, Songs:

4:58 The Beatles - Free As A Bird

5:00 Lynyrd Skynyrd - Sweet Home Alabama

5:00 R. L. Burnside - Rollin and Tumblin

5:01 Joe Cocker - With a little help from my friends

5:02 Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind)

5:04 David Bowie – Space Oddity

5:04 Electric Light Orchestra - Mr. Blue Sky

5:06 The Who - Baba O'riley

5:07 Eric Clapton - Bell Bottom Blues

5:08 George Harrison and Eric Clapton - While my guitar gently weeps

6 Minute, Herbal Tea, Songs:

5:54 Charlie Watts - Charlie's Drum Kit

5:55 Bob Dylan - Mr. Tambourine Man (Live at the Newport Folk Festival. 1964)

5:55 Rod Stewart - Maggie May (from It Had To Be You)

5:56 Steely Dan - Do It Again

5:59 Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody (Official Video Remastered)

6:00 Pink Floyd - Another Brick In The Wall

6:01 Taken from Concert For George - While My Guitar Gently Weeps

6:05 Beau Jocque and The Zydeco Hi-Rollers - Boogie Chillun

Longer times for long tea steeping songs:

8:01 Eric Clapton - Layla (Madison Square Garden 1999)

9:03 Lynyrd Skynyrd - Free Bird

10:00 David Bowie - Blackstar

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