The Tea Portafilter

Our Tea Portafilter decentespresso.com/portafilter when used on the Decent Espresso Machine, will make tea taste better than you thought possible. "How so?" you say. Firstly, because our recipes use repeated short infusions of 30 seconds, each time flushing and using clean water. This avoids over-extraction, which leeches tannins out. The clean water, every 30 seconds, is also a better solvent than already-brewed water. Next, the temperature of the water and the vessel is precisely controlled. We provide recipes for different kinds of tea, from black to green and delicate white teas, to tisanes, over temperatures ranging from 105ºC to 70ºC. All informed by Scott Rao, who wrote about tea in his book "Everything But Espresso".
Our tea portafilter does fit other espresso machines. However, because the Decent offers precise control over time, temperature and pressure, we can craft tea recipes that can't be done on other machines.
We've been working on these recipes for about a year. They're pretty good now. Good enough that you can just pick one and hit START. But... we're also continuing to improve the tea recipes, with active involvement of tea enthusiasts in our Decent community.
Find it here:
decentespresso.com/c?filter=t...

[@ted_maul]

This looks fantastic.

[@Andy-ux3ge]

I love this machine because it can also make decent coffee, not just tea ;)

[@decentespresso]

Yes the tea drinkers are happy too!

[@petervansan1054]

shame shipping price is insane...

[@kylefurness11]

Shipping to where? Mine was $30 to the United States and the package arrived in 2 days. They also included free steam tip o-rings, a grouphead gasket and a drain tube at no charge!

[@garzascreek]

@@kylefurness11 - A year later current shipping is much more ($178) but not insane for a heavy suitcase with 2-day air freight direct from Hong Kong to US West Coast on a $4,100 machine.

[@Armedcor]

Can’t wait to try this. For something like a compressed Pu’erh are you doing any kind of wash on the tea leaves before running the tea profile?

[@decentespresso]

This is already being done with the tea profiles, which are based around the Gong fu style brewing.

[@Saucisse_Praxis]

Amazing ! I just wish I could purchase a Decent without selling two of my kidneys.

[@DennisHew]

BOH Cameron Highlands tea is actually from Malaysia :D

[@clokcc]

Yes it is

[@R3yne]

We vietnamese use plenty of it for milktea lol

[@scottintexas]

When will this be available for purchase on the site (price?)? Perhaps I overlooked it on the site. I presume there is no residual coffee flavor when properly rinse after each shot?

[@decentespresso]

Just made a dedicated page for it, a few days ago: decentespresso.com/portafilter

[@chatreez]

Is the handle of this tea portafiler interchangeable with decent’s coffee portafilter? Thinking of getting the wood tea one then swap with the black of the other portafilter.

[@decentespresso]

Yes, same handle.

[@tommihommi1]

Isn't water/tea retained in the valve part of the tea portafilter?

[@stefanherzog]

Yes, there is and I was wondering how to deal with this.

[@andrewcramer7214]

What is selling me on the decent is that you can also make filter coffee right in the portafilter, or by using the decent spray head basket for a pour over. Will we get more videos on these methods in the future? I feel like it's a very underhyped ability that the decent has.
I can't wait to be done saving and click order!

[@decentespresso]

yep, it's the next video on our todo

[@andrewcramer7214]

@@decentespresso ohh boy I can't wait!!! Thank you for all you do for coffee and espresso. Your changing the industry for the better!

[@danger_pig]

doesn’t the pour over only work on the xxl?

[@andrewcramer7214]

@@danger_pig afaik it's works on all of them, but the xxl will give you more flexibility.

[@chasp_0784]

@@andrewcramer7214 what would the xxl have that the other don’t re the pour over ability?

[@NAWAF-vc1px]

Hi Thanks for sharing. I am wondering about the build material. is this tea portafilter tested for lead? any lead in it?

[@decentespresso]

It's cast stainless steel, and tested for now detectable lead.

[@NAWAF-vc1px]

​@@decentespresso pardon me does that mean it has lead or not?

[@decentespresso]

@@NAWAF-vc1px No detectable lead. Can't sell anything with detectable lead any longer in the EU. Well.. actually they tolerate a little bit, but our independent lab tests are finding no detectable lead at all.

[@freakeses]

I love this decent esresso machine.. I totally sold, but where can I find the tea filter for my infusions? ❤

[@decentespresso]

Here: decentespresso.com/portafilter

[@i_Lndr]

@@decentespresso because it was discontinued, it saved my 4k as i wanted a machine i can do both tea as well as espresso. Wonder why it was discontinued

[@dpac9579]

Is this no longer for sale?

[@sillerelyt1]

I am a new user (very much enjoying thus far), but when I used the tea profile it made in excess of 3+ cups of tea based on the flow volume rate. Definitely not the 1-cup that is shown in the video here. Curious if there is a way to see your settings in more detail? Or if there is a weight limit I should be entering?

[@decentespresso]

did you the tea portafilter, or a normal basket?

[@higgsbozo7372]

Just tried the black tea profile. How much tea is supposed to come out? On mine - huge amounts of tea came out and I had to stop it during the second infusion.

[@decentespresso]

Enough for a full Ikea teacup. Are you using the tea portafilter, or a normal one? Anyway,... for tech support, TH-cam is really not good. Can you post on Diaspora?

[@higgsbozo7372]

@@decentespresso I am using the tea portafilter. Just got it today. I was brewing into a smaller cup. Will use a bigger one next time. Tea was really good anyway!

[@decentespresso]

@@higgsbozo7372 great! about 300ml cup btw. I'm working on a profile with a "total tea desired: ..." slider.

[@higgsbozo7372]

@@decentespresso Great. going to make myself a 300ml cup of tea!

[@speedracy]

This is very interesting, is there a recipe for matcha? Matcha is typically ground very fine and the tea powder is actually meant to be consumed in it's entirety.

[@decentespresso]

In theory, it should work. I've seen cafes to do it with this portafilter.

[@feldin3894]

that should never happen… you hand whisk matcha

[@REMY.C.]

@@feldin3894 and when cars were invented, people said "that should never happen, you walk for 1000km..."

[@speedracy]

@@decentespresso so maybe after the shot dump the puck into your cup and whish that into the drink?

[@emreismetece]

@@decentespresso can you please make a video with matcha or kratom tea which is very fine-nano ground ?

[@zcytf15]

have you tried whole leaf tea with the tea portafilter?

[@decentespressotech]

yes, that's usually what I use.

[@i_Lndr]

This is now discontinued product for what reason idk

[@vuantramn9886]

Is that portafilter work on rocket boxer

[@decentespresso]

it should, yes.

[@UAE78]

It's a good idea but how I'll get rid of coffee tasting in my cup of tea

[@decentespresso]

They are different portafilters, performing a simple flush while switching the portafilters would get rid of any coffee residue.

[@matiaskabakian5184]

@@decentespresso should I be concerned with the tea flavor somehow impregnating the group gasket ?

[@alanduong2055]

Are you going to do any more tea videos?

[@decentespresso]

We can! Anything specific you would like to see covered?

[@onetimeaccount]

@@decentespresso Interesting topics could be whether there is enough space in the portafilter for the expansion occurring with whole leaf tea....or whether whole leaf tea in general gives good (comparable? better?) results compared to preparing it gong-fu style.

[@chillcooking3119]

Did he actually reference gongfucha? Pleslantly Suprised

[@decentespresso]

Yep, I learned about gongfu while visiting the (excellent) Hong Kong museum of tea ware: hk.art.museum/en_US/web/ma/tea-ware.html and it was my inspiration for the tea recipes on the Decent

[@TheDJRiffin]

The Frenchman is frustrating :(

[@MrMarki134]

Thank god they didn't say that they invented tea.

[@tenlittleindians]

The price on those espresso machines reminds me of computer prices when they were also thousands of dollars.

[@tommihommi1]

you mean today? The decent is to espresso machines like getting a RTX 3090, 5950X and 4TB of NVMe storage, compared to the Gaggia being like an entry level office PC

[@tenlittleindians]

@@tommihommi1 At the end of the day it's still just coffee whether we are sipping it out of a solid gold cup or gulping it down from a paper cup. And 99.99% of the population checks email, does a little surfing with a browser and watches a few movies regardless of how many electron ponies are under the hood.

[@patrickdavlin4733]

@@tenlittleindians really going out of your way to make this point, no? Looking forward to seeing you over on the Porsche youtube channel to let them know that a Honda Civic will also get you from point A to point B.

[@andrewcramer7214]

@@patrickdavlin4733 hahahaha nice work!

[@petervansan1054]

great but adding milk to the tea is a sin :D

[@decentespresso]

Each to there own. The tea's taste great black too!

[@shkedov.b]

Oooooo nononononononononono XD

[@DanielTirado]

To many "yeah, yeahs".
Annoying...

[@littlestar5737]

Meh. Not impressed.