My jaw was on the floor when she dropped that tiny bit of resin from the stick into the pot and it became like 5 cups of some of the most beautiful tea I've ever seen, man this is easily the most interesting thing that I've seen this week and now I wanna go to China to get just this
@@SF7PAKISTAN you can get it on my website to direct from the same Tea leaves and the same farmers! But yes, it is a ton of fun to go to China and do it in person
Nice, thanks for showing us to increase interest in your commercial endeavor. I just enjoyed my tea made from leaves, since they are cheap and I don't have to go on a super long journey carrying tea around. Nice gimmick though, interesting how this was developed out of necessity.
I find it hilarious that you even have to discuss sanitation. The whole time I'm watching I'm thinking "I bet the stuff they're making in that pot is even better than the production facility" It's the people that make the tea! Making the tea resin! People really think they don't know what they're doing? Hilarious. Thank you for showing us this fascinating process.
@@AviFagan yeah I just don’t want to get sued because there are laws (and we follow them) about foreign food facilities and cleanliness and while I personally drank the homemade resin right down, I don’t want people being like “that isn’t up to code!” Hahaha
@@jessesteahouse I'd looooooooove to get my hands on some of that homemade tea resin tho I also get that it'd prolly be a nightmare to try and sell it here in the US -o-
This is like pocket soup, but tea! Back in colonial America (and elsewhere in the world at various times I'm sure), you could make or buy soup stock that was boiled down until it was the consistency of leather and then carry that to reconstitute when travelling just like this. (The Townsends channel has a video from a few years back on it that's really interesting)
So thicker than bouillon cubes? Which is concentrated soup/beef/chicken/veggie soup the size of a sugar cube. Didn't know they were doing that so far back. It really is a great idea. Not to mention it actually has quite a few grams of protein. Probably good for back packing, camping etc. Just as long as the salt content isn't ridiculous.
@debbiefox6846 ya! It was like a dried out fruit rool up lol. Almost rubbery. Very condensed and let them take months worth of soup base with them on long trips.
I love listening to this guy speak Chinese he's perfect with it (my gf is Chinese), he even uses the little "hmm"s to acknowledge that he is listening and understanding what she is explaining, and "waa" instead of wow.
Okay white guy. As a native Mandarin speaker you are way off. He is fluent but he has a noticeable accent. Mandarin is a tonal language and while some of his pronunciation is good for a foreigner, some of it is also way off tone and thus heavily accented. His vocabulary is good and he can construct sentences fluently as well as understand but he still has a fairly strong accent at times.
@zeitgeistx5239 Thanks for your input, although I'm not sure why you feel the need to call me "white guy"? Firstly what has skin colour got to do with it? And I am far darker skinned than my girlfriend or any other Chinese people who I know. My girlfriend is Chinese Indonesian her first language is Hokkien but she speaks Mandarin with her mainland Chinese friends here in Bali where we live, she also speaks fluent Indonesian, English, and Korean. I just made the comment because I'm used to hearing her and her Chinese friends talking Mandarin and to my untrained ear the guy in the video sounds very similar, it's just a friendly observation it's no big deal.
This is how visiting and interviewing someone in another country should be. If you have the ability, learn the local language. It can unlock doors you never even knew were there
i love how when it's just done reducing, it flows like fresh lava from a volcano. i'm chinese but i learned about tea resin from you. fascinating! thank you for sharing this tradition with the world!
It's like tea molasses! I don't think that doing that, up in the fresh mountain air, is unsanitary- no more so than anyone cooking in their kitchen at home! Can't wait for your UK warehouse to open 😊
@IrinaGreenman cause no one has ever gotten sick from stuff made in their local community, right? It's a silly statement. Not wanting to get sick from consuming something has nothing to do with xenophobia.
I was going to stock those, but I tasted them and I think there’s still a little bit of work that needs to be done on refining it. It wasn’t bad, but I felt like the other resins were better and so we picked the ones that were best now, sister Ai is working on Refining the white tea resin process
The dedication, not just to the craft of tea making, but also to learning the language of the area to the point of effectively being a native speaker, is astounding and massively commendable. The world can always use more of this kind of passion.
OMG! I grew up in Malaysia as a german expat and one day, because I was a naughty boy, I stole something from a chinese construction worker, who was repairing something in our house, believing it was a small chocolate candy. It was super bitter and yuck and really hard and I never found out what it was until right now 😂😂😂 I guess that was instant karma for stealing that poor mans tea.
I hope he was watching you eat his tea resin laughing to himself. I would have. Kids are kids and it is so much fun to watch them learn the hard way sometimes.
@johndeerdrew He had many more in a sort of metal tin, he probably never noticed. I was like 6 years old or something like that and that certainly taught me a lesson.
@lars5174 at least you learned. All in all, it was a cheap lesson too. Those are often the most valuable because they keep you from making the expensive mistakes that can ruin you.
I didn't even realized tea resin even exists. I check online shopping and ordered some. I'm a tea lover and this is way easier than brewing 1.5 liters of tea every 2 days 🤗
That's so neat, a thousands of years old recipe for instant tea! Man, it's so easy to forget that people back then were just as inventive as we are today (broadly speaking, at least), like today's "oh this is going to revolutionize processor manufacturing!" is yesterdays "oh this is going to revolutionize food preservation!"
@@LordHonkInc if ancient people had access to our technology, and had been raised in our education systems, they would be exactly as smart as we are, a lot of times they took the innovation as far as they could with the technology and education they had at the time, and some of those elements might be even past our current skill, but our superior modern technology covers up that we’re worse at some of the other elements
This is amazing! Thank you for making this video, I had never heard of tea resin before. It looks amazing, and probably easier to deal with as an end product than tea leaves, because you simply can't over-infuse it.
The Brilliance of humanity to adjust their food into concentrate to last the journeys across traditional trade routes to sell their products 😊 Dried dates , meat , and concentrated herbs 🌿 😊
Reminds me of the wild lettuce resin for medicinal uses. Very fun to see the og way to make tea resin, and that view is incredible! I'd stand there stirring all day
its amazing what sometimes media can do. i used to ride side saddle on some small events. yeah. one day they build a standing grill for a shoot and it improves the property value. other times they tear down a family with one pilot. using media to improve lives is a skill. i hope people find the good in it instead of the slander or trash media. it was an interesting video.
“Last week for you, so we can have a better view while we make tea resin” wow that’s so considerate and wow. I would rather buy the stuff made in the pot though lol.
Just signed up for my subscription can't wait! Thanks for the tea, the content, and the culture! It's nice to feel this connection/ community with people around the world especially in these times.
@@jessesteahouse did you lie about the source ? It’s fine even if they cook on the mountain and not a lab. It’s a craft passed through generations and that’s the beauty of it for me personally. 🤷🏽♀️
@@curious-r8t no we are always transparent about the source - we made this on the mountain for fun and to share with everyone online, but there are rules about importing food and we need to follow those and in the USA you can’t sell stuff cooked in a giant wok in china hahah
@@jessesteahouse aw thank you. The video was beautiful and so was the view and the aunty that was making the tea seemed so lovely. Thank you for clarifying it for me.
I think; this would last without going bad for thousands of years. Like hundreds of years old wine. Beautiful product I am happy to have learned of this.
I love the bit of history behind making the tea resin. That it’s not just a « this is how it’s made » video. It gives more meaning behind the resin and makes you think more about the tea while drinking it. I’m looking forward to sharing it with my family when I purchase it ! :D
Very effective advertising. I ordered a pack. If it is to my liking, I will probably go for a subscription. I hope it is as tasty as it is labor intensive.
1:48 It’s interesting when discussing the wall of firewood bc you can see it’s a lot of narrow sticks of only a year or two growth, flitch offcuts, squared bits of lumber, etc. Which are a lot cheaper or flat-out waste products from other industries. From what I’ve seen of the US firewood they burn a lot of more older/mature trees (decades old) felled entirely for firewood which are reflected in their price. Just a cause for thought.
only clicked cause never heard of resin before, I assume it's like the taste of a well used teapot, never cleaned like the way I was raised, I'd happily buy stuff done outside like this
Wow, that's incredible! I'd rather but what she's making than from a factory setting, tbh, but I understand to get it to the masses, that's difficult without the factory controlled setting.
I really want to try this. I love tea and honestly don't make enough of it. I used to have a 4 lb compressed tile of red tea with beautiful patterns in it. It made the best tasting tea but had small metal filings in it... I used a corner of that tile and don't remember where it ended up.
It's gotta be the closest thing you can get to being in the tea without drowning in it. 😂 It seems absolutely like a glorious experience from beginning to end.
Suprr happy to see more on the tea resin, i enjoy the pu'er loose leaf and its a great ritual but for day to day the resin is just so much easier, especially when im sick. Just got 150 more of them last month and now im gonna have to get the dog box and then probably buy a hundred of each new one 😭 also wish we could try Sister Ai's handmade tea resin. Id pay a premium for that over a city processor, the nuance of someone (with a load of experience) making something by hand can make such a difference
Yeah just made my first purchase. I really wanted those shou resin you had up, but it got sold out before I could buy some. I'm super happy I waited for these gems. White tea resin?? Whaaaa? Crazy. Gotta have it. I also got the 2019 white tea mini brix. Thanks Jesse. Still getting up the nerve to buy that $100 music of mengsong cake. Maybe some day lol
A tri-axle load of wood is typically $800 (a tri-axle load is 6-8 cords of wood). It takes about 1.5 tri-axel loads to heat my mom's house for the winter. I know a decent amount about firewood as my parents have been heating with wood my entire 31 years of life. We had to do it all ourselves.
@skeetsmcgrew3282 it really depends how you get it. Locally we have a tool handle manufacturing facility, a small one, but they sell a lot of their offcuts and the slabs off the sides of logs, etc, by the truckload in a similar manner, for quite a bit less. Couple hundred bucks a load if I recall correctly. I don't use wood, but have neighbors that do. It varies quite a bit what you can get, based on where you live. Loads of folks cut their own
@@goosenotmaverick1156 Yeah, I mean I think the original intent of a wood stove is that everyone used to have land with trees, as long as you manage your few acres well you've got an endless supply of free wood. For most homes it just doesn't really make sense anymore to use wood, it's dirty and cumbersome and natural gas/electric/oil is readily available and very efficient
@skeetsmcgrew3282 agreed. I'm not personally against it, but for me, heat pump, propane backup for really really cold. I want more trees, not less, myself.
The production method is surprisingly simple of brewing down to increase concentration that a pot of tea turn into a cream, then paste and eventually like resin. It probably will be more expensive to do it on your own brewing small quantity for own consumption given the amount of fuel it takes to keep a stove burning for days. Not to mention the manpower involved in arranging shift duty to watch the brew.
Awesome, awesome documentary, Jesse. Seeing these processes done on site, in the traditional way, by people who are consumate experts and craftsmen, is a huge treat. Many thanks, and a happy belated Halloween! 🎃🎃🎃 EDIT: I would buy the stuff that was made on the mountain, no problem.
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My jaw was on the floor when she dropped that tiny bit of resin from the stick into the pot and it became like 5 cups of some of the most beautiful tea I've ever seen, man this is easily the most interesting thing that I've seen this week and now I wanna go to China to get just this
@@SF7PAKISTAN you can get it on my website to direct from the same Tea leaves and the same farmers! But yes, it is a ton of fun to go to China and do it in person
@@jessesteahouse Would you ever consider organizing a trip for your customers?
I'd love to be part of something like that
Ikr?! My mouth started to water....I never wanted to taste my screen so bad...🤤
Nice, thanks for showing us to increase interest in your commercial endeavor. I just enjoyed my tea made from leaves, since they are cheap and I don't have to go on a super long journey carrying tea around. Nice gimmick though, interesting how this was developed out of necessity.
I find it hilarious that you even have to discuss sanitation. The whole time I'm watching I'm thinking "I bet the stuff they're making in that pot is even better than the production facility"
It's the people that make the tea! Making the tea resin! People really think they don't know what they're doing? Hilarious. Thank you for showing us this fascinating process.
@@AviFagan yeah I just don’t want to get sued because there are laws (and we follow them) about foreign food facilities and cleanliness and while I personally drank the homemade resin right down, I don’t want people being like “that isn’t up to code!” Hahaha
I was thinking the same thing. I bet it’s delicious but I understand it can’t be imported.
@@jessesteahouse I'd looooooooove to get my hands on some of that homemade tea resin tho I also get that it'd prolly be a nightmare to try and sell it here in the US -o-
@@snowsiet5475he has an online shop! He imports the teas so he can sell to us! The resin is on his website now!
Makes no sense, it's hot! Water is evaporating, what is growing in that?
This is like pocket soup, but tea! Back in colonial America (and elsewhere in the world at various times I'm sure), you could make or buy soup stock that was boiled down until it was the consistency of leather and then carry that to reconstitute when travelling just like this. (The Townsends channel has a video from a few years back on it that's really interesting)
So thicker than bouillon cubes? Which is concentrated soup/beef/chicken/veggie soup the size of a sugar cube. Didn't know they were doing that so far back. It really is a great idea. Not to mention it actually has quite a few grams of protein. Probably good for back packing, camping etc. Just as long as the salt content isn't ridiculous.
@debbiefox6846 Yeah, the consistency of leather, basically.
@debbiefox6846 ya! It was like a dried out fruit rool up lol. Almost rubbery. Very condensed and let them take months worth of soup base with them on long trips.
its like instant coffee.
@@crusher9z9 That's usually freeze dried (or apparently spray dried) though, if I understand the process right.
Love watching the process and seeing that this comes from an actual craftsperson, not an automated factory
Sister Ai is in charge of our whole line of resins so you’re getting it from a good source 🎉
I am incredibly interested in this commodity! This would be incredibly popular in the southern US🎉
I like watching both
I love listening to this guy speak Chinese he's perfect with it (my gf is Chinese), he even uses the little "hmm"s to acknowledge that he is listening and understanding what she is explaining, and "waa" instead of wow.
Okay white guy. As a native Mandarin speaker you are way off. He is fluent but he has a noticeable accent. Mandarin is a tonal language and while some of his pronunciation is good for a foreigner, some of it is also way off tone and thus heavily accented. His vocabulary is good and he can construct sentences fluently as well as understand but he still has a fairly strong accent at times.
@zeitgeistx5239 Thanks for your input, although I'm not sure why you feel the need to call me "white guy"? Firstly what has skin colour got to do with it? And I am far darker skinned than my girlfriend or any other Chinese people who I know. My girlfriend is Chinese Indonesian her first language is Hokkien but she speaks Mandarin with her mainland Chinese friends here in Bali where we live, she also speaks fluent Indonesian, English, and Korean. I just made the comment because I'm used to hearing her and her Chinese friends talking Mandarin and to my untrained ear the guy in the video sounds very similar, it's just a friendly observation it's no big deal.
thanks for bringing probably one of the only english videos about tea resin to us english speakers!
This is how visiting and interviewing someone in another country should be. If you have the ability, learn the local language. It can unlock doors you never even knew were there
Significantly easier said than done
There is no inherent ability to learn a language you just do it
I dont think one has to learn the language for a fucking interview. But you should take a person with you who can translate properly.
she doesnt have to tell me its clean. I would trust her in a heart beat!
dont think she is talking about hygiene, she means its clarity. it isn't cloudy and doesnt contain any small specs of tea leaves.
No chinese is to be trusted ever
i love how when it's just done reducing, it flows like fresh lava from a volcano. i'm chinese but i learned about tea resin from you. fascinating! thank you for sharing this tradition with the world!
It's like tea molasses!
I don't think that doing that, up in the fresh mountain air, is unsanitary- no more so than anyone cooking in their kitchen at home!
Can't wait for your UK warehouse to open 😊
hope it opens soon
This. It's very much rooted in xenophobia
Excuse me, what?
How is this any different than let's say small batch artisinal cheese in the alps?@@Coyoteonthemoon
@@rayvg7709I think they meant concerns about sanitation are rooted in xenophobia?
@IrinaGreenman cause no one has ever gotten sick from stuff made in their local community, right? It's a silly statement. Not wanting to get sick from consuming something has nothing to do with xenophobia.
"White tea resin" !?! Take my money now.
I was going to stock those, but I tasted them and I think there’s still a little bit of work that needs to be done on refining it. It wasn’t bad, but I felt like the other resins were better and so we picked the ones that were best now, sister Ai is working on Refining the white tea resin process
@@jessesteahouse I would imagine it is hard to balance because white tea is steeped below boiling right
@@jessesteahouseAmazing work by Master Ai here!
@@joecobb7153 It could be so, but I think it would take significantly longer to concentrate it into resin without boiling it.
@@9K_111 Yeah you need to boil I think you would have to have white tea leaves that can take the extra temp only way
Man as a person that loves hash finding tea resin is just really cool
i just commented something similar hahhhhh happy holidays
hahaha was thinking the exact same thing, it's like tea RSO
The dedication, not just to the craft of tea making, but also to learning the language of the area to the point of effectively being a native speaker, is astounding and massively commendable. The world can always use more of this kind of passion.
Love these kind of “behind the scenes videos. Keep em up.
Really admire the respect and attention you have brought to this timeless discipline.
this was very interesting. Please do more of these documentary videos.
Thank you! To you, and everyone featured in the video for sharing a wealth of knowledge!
Pumped about tea resin in stock.
Stuff is clutch.
Never heard of tea resin before. Super interesting!
I wouldn't mind stirring that pot with that view! Thanks for sharing an interesting video of "how it's made".
Sister Ai is honestly so cool
Love the rustic history lesson, showing us the way it was made many decades ago.
The sound of rain on a tin roof made this video super relaxing, I haven't heard that since my 3 years in Nepal. Wonderful
OMG! I grew up in Malaysia as a german expat and one day, because I was a naughty boy, I stole something from a chinese construction worker, who was repairing something in our house, believing it was a small chocolate candy. It was super bitter and yuck and really hard and I never found out what it was until right now 😂😂😂 I guess that was instant karma for stealing that poor mans tea.
I hope he was watching you eat his tea resin laughing to himself. I would have. Kids are kids and it is so much fun to watch them learn the hard way sometimes.
@johndeerdrew He had many more in a sort of metal tin, he probably never noticed. I was like 6 years old or something like that and that certainly taught me a lesson.
@lars5174 at least you learned. All in all, it was a cheap lesson too. Those are often the most valuable because they keep you from making the expensive mistakes that can ruin you.
Youre not an expat youre an immigrant. Call a spade a spade
Nooo little German boy, do not steal candy!
Fascinating. Thank you. What nice and skillful people
Im so envious of the company, the view, the cup.... you're awesome man, keep it up! This kind of stuff is so awesome.
I didn't even realized tea resin even exists. I check online shopping and ordered some. I'm a tea lover and this is way easier than brewing 1.5 liters of tea every 2 days 🤗
The tapping during the tea puring ;) og Chinese traditions Right there
my thumbs up is for the nice lady / tea master who is happy to show us!
Everyone involved in this video seems genuinely amazing!
Damn, your Mandarin is good. I'm a native speaker and you're using some 10-yuan words that I'd never use in daily life.
What does 10 yuan word mean? I cant find any English resources explaining this phrase
Lol it’s just “ten dollar word” but Sinicized
That's so neat, a thousands of years old recipe for instant tea! Man, it's so easy to forget that people back then were just as inventive as we are today (broadly speaking, at least), like today's "oh this is going to revolutionize processor manufacturing!" is yesterdays "oh this is going to revolutionize food preservation!"
@@LordHonkInc if ancient people had access to our technology, and had been raised in our education systems, they would be exactly as smart as we are, a lot of times they took the innovation as far as they could with the technology and education they had at the time, and some of those elements might be even past our current skill, but our superior modern technology covers up that we’re worse at some of the other elements
This is amazing! Thank you for making this video, I had never heard of tea resin before. It looks amazing, and probably easier to deal with as an end product than tea leaves, because you simply can't over-infuse it.
2:28 white tea resin? You had my curiosity now you have my attention
The Brilliance of humanity to adjust their food into concentrate to last the journeys across traditional trade routes to sell their products 😊
Dried dates , meat , and concentrated herbs 🌿 😊
Reminds me of the wild lettuce resin for medicinal uses. Very fun to see the og way to make tea resin, and that view is incredible! I'd stand there stirring all day
I wondered why I woke up drooling this morning. It was bc this video hit the internet. Damn that looks good! I want to try it all
As an English man I love nothing more than drinking tea 🍵 👌 tea from China is my favourite varieties
Absolute respect for making this video. It`s great to unite our world and break down it`s differences, using knowledge.
Back in 97, I had a bowl that'd gum up like that. Resin, the gift that keeps on giving!
The scent must be INSANE there, wow
I have always wanted to see how tea resin was made! Thank you for this!
Amazing Chinese, I am impressed
its amazing what sometimes media can do. i used to ride side saddle on some small events. yeah. one day they build a standing grill for a shoot and it improves the property value. other times they tear down a family with one pilot. using media to improve lives is a skill. i hope people find the good in it instead of the slander or trash media. it was an interesting video.
I love China, chinese people are very modest and friendly
“Last week for you, so we can have a better view while we make tea resin” wow that’s so considerate and wow. I would rather buy the stuff made in the pot though lol.
Wow amazing!!!! I can’t imagine how wonderful it must be over there with the secenery and the scents
Just signed up for my subscription can't wait! Thanks for the tea, the content, and the culture! It's nice to feel this connection/ community with people around the world especially in these times.
Thanks so much for signing up!!! The subscription makes this whole thing work 🎉
@@jessesteahouse did you lie about the source ? It’s fine even if they cook on the mountain and not a lab. It’s a craft passed through generations and that’s the beauty of it for me personally. 🤷🏽♀️
@@curious-r8t no we are always transparent about the source - we made this on the mountain for fun and to share with everyone online, but there are rules about importing food and we need to follow those and in the USA you can’t sell stuff cooked in a giant wok in china hahah
@@jessesteahouse aw thank you. The video was beautiful and so was the view and the aunty that was making the tea seemed so lovely. Thank you for clarifying it for me.
I think; this would last without going bad for thousands of years. Like hundreds of years old wine. Beautiful product I am happy to have learned of this.
Finally the tea hash video 😂💙
My thoughts exactly. Same principle of fire in, fire out.
I feel like the vast majority of us tea people would love to get tea resin that's made like this, the old fashioned way.
Just awesome!
Wow, that tea is so beautiful, I bet it tastes wonderful!
Bless you all! What a great video!
Thank you, guys.
What a cool freaking video! I should really try some of your teas, been an avid watcher of your videos since covid started. Cheers Jesse!
The view from that oven is amazing!!
I LOVE the tea resin that's been on your site and can't wait for this! I think tea resin could be the next big thing, to even replace coffee!
This is very cool , and just because it was made in a pot is perfectly good. ❤
Tea resin is always nice to have around
So cool tea resin is a great way to show friends good tea in a way they can see them self using !
I love the bit of history behind making the tea resin. That it’s not just a « this is how it’s made » video. It gives more meaning behind the resin and makes you think more about the tea while drinking it. I’m looking forward to sharing it with my family when I purchase it ! :D
Very effective advertising. I ordered a pack. If it is to my liking, I will probably go for a subscription. I hope it is as tasty as it is labor intensive.
It is fantastic by the way. I love my little tea resins and I've already reordered.
It's almost more like tea 'tar' but I suppose resin sounds better. Very cool to see the process.
Thank you for showing The gorgeous side of China.
1:48 It’s interesting when discussing the wall of firewood bc you can see it’s a lot of narrow sticks of only a year or two growth, flitch offcuts, squared bits of lumber, etc. Which are a lot cheaper or flat-out waste products from other industries. From what I’ve seen of the US firewood they burn a lot of more older/mature trees (decades old) felled entirely for firewood which are reflected in their price. Just a cause for thought.
I just finally made my first order of the coin/orange sampler! Can’t wait to try Sister Ai’s lovely tea 😊❤
Just ordered the sister Ai tea resin sampler, and coin toad! Boosting for the algorithm 🙌 Love your work, keep it up! 🌻🐝
Thats a happy doggy
Very lucky you found those great, kind people
Not really lucky. China is a country full of horrible leaders and great people.
I have never heard or seen tea resin. But! That is beautiful!!
It is so impressive seeing you speak chinese
only clicked cause never heard of resin before, I assume it's like the taste of a well used teapot, never cleaned like the way I was raised, I'd happily buy stuff done outside like this
Wow, that's incredible! I'd rather but what she's making than from a factory setting, tbh, but I understand to get it to the masses, that's difficult without the factory controlled setting.
I'm really into tea and I'd never even heard of this. Super interesting
This is amazing
so interesting thanks for showing and sharing chinese tea culture
Tea tar! Fascinating!! 😃
Such an interesting vid!
I will most definitely be buying both in the near future!!!
Just like maltose that is beautiful
the little history bit was fun, cool to see the process
I really want to try this. I love tea and honestly don't make enough of it. I used to have a 4 lb compressed tile of red tea with beautiful patterns in it. It made the best tasting tea but had small metal filings in it... I used a corner of that tile and don't remember where it ended up.
Yummm, awesome video
Imagine being so addictied to tea that you come up with this, I love it xD.
MASTER OOGWAY AHH LOCATION.
Its funny seeing industrialized tea shops in the most scenic tea shop places ever LOL
Must smell so good
It was unreal
It's gotta be the closest thing you can get to being in the tea without drowning in it. 😂
It seems absolutely like a glorious experience from beginning to end.
I don't know a lick of Chinese, but somehow I can tell that you are very fluent.
Cannot wait to give it a try.
That looks amazing 😍
Suprr happy to see more on the tea resin, i enjoy the pu'er loose leaf and its a great ritual but for day to day the resin is just so much easier, especially when im sick. Just got 150 more of them last month and now im gonna have to get the dog box and then probably buy a hundred of each new one 😭 also wish we could try Sister Ai's handmade tea resin. Id pay a premium for that over a city processor, the nuance of someone (with a load of experience) making something by hand can make such a difference
Yeah just made my first purchase. I really wanted those shou resin you had up, but it got sold out before I could buy some. I'm super happy I waited for these gems. White tea resin?? Whaaaa? Crazy. Gotta have it. I also got the 2019 white tea mini brix. Thanks Jesse. Still getting up the nerve to buy that $100 music of mengsong cake. Maybe some day lol
This was super cool I absolutely want to try some tea resin
Very interesting!
Never even heard of tea resin before! Very interesting
A tri-axle load of wood is typically $800 (a tri-axle load is 6-8 cords of wood).
It takes about 1.5 tri-axel loads to heat my mom's house for the winter.
I know a decent amount about firewood as my parents have been heating with wood my entire 31 years of life. We had to do it all ourselves.
Ouch. $1200 to heat a home for one winter. Wood used to be the cheap way to heat your home, not anymore apparently
@skeetsmcgrew3282 it really depends how you get it.
Locally we have a tool handle manufacturing facility, a small one, but they sell a lot of their offcuts and the slabs off the sides of logs, etc, by the truckload in a similar manner, for quite a bit less. Couple hundred bucks a load if I recall correctly. I don't use wood, but have neighbors that do. It varies quite a bit what you can get, based on where you live. Loads of folks cut their own
@@goosenotmaverick1156 Yeah, I mean I think the original intent of a wood stove is that everyone used to have land with trees, as long as you manage your few acres well you've got an endless supply of free wood. For most homes it just doesn't really make sense anymore to use wood, it's dirty and cumbersome and natural gas/electric/oil is readily available and very efficient
@skeetsmcgrew3282 agreed. I'm not personally against it, but for me, heat pump, propane backup for really really cold. I want more trees, not less, myself.
I went straight away and got a set, it looks so delicious!!
The production method is surprisingly simple of brewing down to increase concentration that a pot of tea turn into a cream, then paste and eventually like resin.
It probably will be more expensive to do it on your own brewing small quantity for own consumption given the amount of fuel it takes to keep a stove burning for days. Not to mention the manpower involved in arranging shift duty to watch the brew.
I'd wonder about the viability of vacuum desiccation.
Awesome, awesome documentary, Jesse. Seeing these processes done on site, in the traditional way, by people who are consumate experts and craftsmen, is a huge treat. Many thanks, and a happy belated Halloween! 🎃🎃🎃 EDIT: I would buy the stuff that was made on the mountain, no problem.
Wow that's really cool