Building telemetry for tea a.k.a. Tealemetry (2018)
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Building telemetry for tea a.k.a. Tealemetry (2018)
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Re: Building telemetry for tea a.k.a. Tealemetry (2018)
#2I love this project!
As a fellow tea drinker, I suspect the British would be appalled by my day to day tea-making and drinking method. I boil water, pour it over a teabag into a mug, walk away, and hope that by the next time I notice it, it's down to a reasonable drinking temperature, at which point I remove the teabag.
I'll grant that if I'm making good loose leaf tea, I'm pretty attentive to recommended brewing times, etc, but that's more of a weekend leisure tea exercise.
As an aside, I'm pretty incensed that my new electric kettle overshoots its set temperature and only holds temperature for 30 minutes. I'm semi-seriously considering trying to dump the firmware and improve it.
No, I'm not brewing tea with it. I'm keeping hide glue warm. I dropped my old "glue pot" the other day and needed a replacement now, not tomorrow.
Re: Building telemetry for tea a.k.a. Tealemetry (2018)
#3I love this project! As a fellow tea drinker, I suspect the British would be appalled by my day to day tea-making and drinking method. I boil water, pour it over a teabag into a mug, walk away, and hope that by the next time I notice it, it's down to a reasonable drinking temperature, at which point I remove the teabag. I'll grant that if I'm making good loose leaf tea, I'm pretty attentive to recommended brewing tim…
Author here -- before I made this I did the exact thing as you!
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#4I love this project! As a fellow tea drinker, I suspect the British would be appalled by my day to day tea-making and drinking method. I boil water, pour it over a teabag into a mug, walk away, and hope that by the next time I notice it, it's down to a reasonable drinking temperature, at which point I remove the teabag. I'll grant that if I'm making good loose leaf tea, I'm pretty attentive to recommended brewing tim…
Author here -- before I made this I did the exact thing as you!
Leaving the teabag in as well? I thought that'd be sacrilege in England.
Re: Building telemetry for tea a.k.a. Tealemetry (2018)
#5I Love it! I built something very similar for a hackathon a few years back. Aside from emitting metrics to a server with a simple real-time graph rendered in a browser, I also had it connected to a janky servo that would lower a tea-bag or loose-leaf tea container only after hitting a target temp (e.g., 180F) and lift the container back out after a target time (e.g 3 minutes). Then I could continue monitoring the graph until the temp dropped down to a non-tongue burning level and it would notify me as well. While neat for a prototype, the setup was too clunky to actually use regularly, but I've often thought about making a nice version of it.
A friend of mine also made an actually cool looking build along these lines too. His doesn't emit metrics viewable on a graph, but it uses LED indicators to show temp ranges on the drink stand itself (though I suppose he could always build internet-of-shit integrations in the future, haha). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gJ1Rk6mqHM
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#6As you continue the chart to 10°C and below, it starts becoming acceptable again!
I love cold-steeped tea, especially in summer. And it just might be the healthiest way to prepare it[1].
[1] - https://nutritionfacts.org/video/cold-steeping-green-tea/
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#7I love this project! As a fellow tea drinker, I suspect the British would be appalled by my day to day tea-making and drinking method. I boil water, pour it over a teabag into a mug, walk away, and hope that by the next time I notice it, it's down to a reasonable drinking temperature, at which point I remove the teabag. I'll grant that if I'm making good loose leaf tea, I'm pretty attentive to recommended brewing tim…
If you are going to leave the tea leaves in the water continuously, you could consider buying some loose leaf tea. Just throw a few grams in the glass and then add boiling water. This style is commonly referred to as "Grandpa style". Since loose leaf tea is less broken up it will become less bitter than leaving a tea bag in.
Re: Building telemetry for tea a.k.a. Tealemetry (2018)
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#9I love this project! As a fellow tea drinker, I suspect the British would be appalled by my day to day tea-making and drinking method. I boil water, pour it over a teabag into a mug, walk away, and hope that by the next time I notice it, it's down to a reasonable drinking temperature, at which point I remove the teabag. I'll grant that if I'm making good loose leaf tea, I'm pretty attentive to recommended brewing tim…
Nah, that's the British method. Just add milk :)
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#10that's what I've always wanted, awesome!!