{"id":44,"date":"2026-10-10T16:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T16:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-tea\/how-hot-should-the-water-be\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T15:06:47","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T15:06:47","slug":"how-hot-should-the-water-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-tea\/how-hot-should-the-water-be\/","title":{"rendered":"How hot should the water be?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Most bitter cups of green tea are brewed with water that is too hot, not with tea that is too cheap (sample note).<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Boil fresh water, then leave the kettle open: after two minutes it is around 90\u00b0C, right for oolong; after five, around 75\u00b0C, right for sencha. Black tea and pu-erh want water straight off the boil.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Every tea from our shelf comes with a brewing card. Start with its numbers, then change one thing at a time.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boiling water makes green tea bitter. A kettle, a little patience and these numbers fix it (sample note).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brewing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions\/70"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}