Ivan tea (fermentation of fireweed leaves) - master class

[Lyoshka]

LyoshkaWhat is STEAMED I am not yet catching up, not yet familiar with this and so beautiful

[Den4iG]

Den4iG, STEAMED - fresh leaf steamed in colo-slag over a pot of boiling water; stirred, crumpled by hands, fermentation for about 4 hours - khaki color, drying for half an hour and drying for a day on the window under a napkin in the sun - EVERYTHING! According to the Chinese technology of green tea, practically I wrote this somewhere, probably in the topic about GREEN IVAN-TEA (I still don't know how to send links - you will see) Okay, I'll sleep, in the morning I will lead my son to the kindergarten; see you later. Good luck!

[Alexei,]

Alexei, about steaming - I took a note, I will definitely try, maybe even with raspberry leaves.

They turned out to be almost all rotten in the middle, well, or is it such a core

I have a similar experience. The other day I dug up several roots of fireweed, around the brown and rotten core - a delicate light layer, three millimeters thick, with buds (next year's harvest). Given the shape of the rhizomes, there is no time to peel all this. I threw it away.

[Den4iG]

Den4iG, In the course of only tea, but there is also pressing, and all that. I haven't read it yet, I skimmed through it - there are 273 pages.

Den4iG, In the Tea Gazebo, I dropped the link to the book - it opens!

[Lyoshka]

Lyoshka, downloaded, ATP, let's take a look, I was interested in something tiled, it seems that I already understood how and what to do, I even bought tools, I'm waiting for summer
Here, by the way, I found that the type of pressure when forming tiled tea should be 10kPa. Well, because I had nothing to do I remembered school, counted. It turns out if you take a board with a diameter of 20 cm as a press and put a 32 kg weight on it, then just 10 kPa will come out

[Den4iG]

Den4iG, Well, damn it, do you also remember physics? I, too, hunt with a sheet of poop, press, I guess thoughts

[Denis]

Denis, 200 mm - do you want such pancakes or squares?

[Alexei]

Alexei, Pancakes. Forgot physics, googled and remembered
Just the other day I was in Ashan, at the same time I was spinning at the counters with dishes, looking at what could be suitable for tea, well, I found there a small plastic basin with a bottom diameter of a little less than 20 cm, then it expands. In general, I bought a couple for testing, although I don't respect plastic. I thought about cutting 20 cm circles out of the board, but yesterday I found a cutting board with a diameter of 20 cm made of cedar in the internet, I think I’ll stop by a couple more boards to take. Then I remembered about 10kPa, for the sake of fun I counted and it turned out to be 32 kg, there was still 32 kg weights left to add, I looked in the net - 2-3 thousand are PPC
I want to try to make tiles both through a meat grinder and sheet

[Den4iG]

Den4iG, I see, but how are you going to dry, in the oven?

[Denis]

Denis, I'll try to make oak boards (as in the old days), figure out something like a press. First, you still need to push the raw materials to the juice, and then just lay out and dry; something like this

[Alexei]

Alexei, I think to make a dryer from infrared film, I wrote about it above, I’m thinking about how to make it, I’ve already ordered the film, they should bring it the other day. From oak will be the very thing, only where to get it

and the press ... here men at work recommended me to buy a jack and a pyreth

The guys at work recommended me to buy a jack

I just wanted to write about the jack!

[Ludmila]

By the way, I thought here ...
Ludmila In the topic about bread on Ivan-tea leaven, I wrote about substances such as hanerol, which are released after the 3rd and 4th brewing of Ivan-tea. These substances are effective in the prevention and treatment of cancer. It turns out to be an interesting thing and for the sake of this it is worth confusing and brewing tea 4 times. But a pancake for the 2nd time may also brew tea, but after that it will not be very good.
In the cadet years, they also brewed 1 tea bag 3 times and called this tea white nights number one, white nights number two, etc.
So it turns out that these substances do not have time to go beyond the first 2 infusions ... And if, for example, you brew Ivan-tea in a thermos and brew for example an hour or two (I tried it this way, it turns out quite cool tea, almost chefir), maybe during this time these the very substances will be our happiness

I brewed it in a thermos for the night. You still need to try for an hour or two.

effective in the prevention and treatment of cancer.

Ivan tea is a very interesting plant))

I am also extremely interested in how to brew Ivanushka correctly in order to extract hanerol from him. For ooooooo relevant!

[Natalo4-ka]

Natalo4-ka, 🔗 Look here, there were also Belarusian studies, but there is no about the use of hanerol (it seems), can the drug instruction be downloaded? Hanerol seems to be obtained from the flowering part of the plant, and not from the leaves, so in flowers and buds it's all BUSINESS, IMHO ...

[Natalo4-ka]

Natalo4-ka, 🔗 There is also about hanerol

[Lyoshka]

Thanks for the links, Lyoshka
There are a lot of hanerol in the internet: And about the fact that he is taken from Ivanushka or from his flowers. But everywhere everything is written in science
But about how from our tea to benefit? That is, how to brew it correctly,
what would he "give" this same hanerol

Colleagues, I beg your pardon for getting into your conversation. I'll put in my 5 kopecks about brewing ivanushka and extracting useful properties.
It seems to me that by analogy with cereals and other products that turn out to be amazingly tasty and immeasurably more useful in a Russian oven or in modern devices that imitate the "Russian stove" mode, you can also brew / steam on these modes in the evening Ivan-tea and drink it the next day in the morning. I think there will be just enough time for all the useful and necessary substances from the leaves to go into the infusion. Brewing in a thermos is somewhat reminiscent of this mode, not quite, but: in a hot stove (slow cooker, Shtebochka on special mode) we put milk in a jar, porridge, and Ivan tea to simmer until it cools.

About tea with flowers and buds: this year I have about half of the tea with tops (buds and flowers), the taste and color of such tea differs from just leaf tea - it is softer, lighter, sweeter ... The only thing, after shock drying at 150 g (80 grams in the tea itself) some of the usefulness disappears, so it's better to just drink and enjoy, and if we also get hanerol, then let it be a pleasant surprise.

By the way, Luda also has Fuzzy tea made from young seed pods, this year I also got it with buds and flowers - the taste is simply awesome, it smells like fruit - apples, pears. Maybe, if you need hanerol, it is better to harvest buds, flowers and young seed pods, pass through a meat grinder and not subject to high-temperature drying, so that more usefulness remains?

[Tricia]

Tricia, Anastasia, thank you for your opinion.
So I thought about white-pink that it would be the closest to extracting hanerol from our tea.
I will wait for expert reviews and look for information on the internet. And, of course, wait for the next season and the preparation of White-Pink and Fuzzy.

[Tricia]

Tricia, I do not argue that it is quite possible that thermos brewing will give the best result (effect), but still it is better to write off with those who cured people using ivan tea and other plants (for example, Gerasimov), and not guess ( well no). The usefulness of Ivan tea is UNCONDITIONAL! But also just dried fireweed - has other properties and applications. Everyone gets their own (their) drink (s), even if they adhere to ONE recipe, and in northern fireweed 1-2 amino acids are obtained more, there it is stronger (for example, Vorkuta) I agree that this topic is more than relevant ( especially for sick people) - you need to dig the Internet and search!

[Tricia]

Tricia, Natalo4-ka, There is more information about the WHITE albino fireweed 🔗

thermos brewing

We constantly brew in a thermos. We already have it as a teapot)))))

Brewed in a thermos for two hours and overnight. In two hours the tea was tastier.

Brewed in a thermos for two hours and overnight. The tea tasted better in two hours.

This is yes. At night, I also brewed, brewed and on the road (I was driving for 12 hours). After 6 hours the tea became very strong, I didn't really like it. But an hour or two in a thermos is fine. Now I also brew on the road - I keep it in a thermos for a couple of hours, then I pour the tea into a kettle, heat it up without boiling and again into a thermos. That's how I liked it

After 6 hours the tea became very strong, I didn't really like it.

I also do not like long infused tea.

For Den4iG:
We made pressed willow tea this fall.
Here, on our website, in the section of the Ivan-tea "Alekseevsky" store, there is a photo of what happened.
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Press - hydraulic jack 2t.

Even this kind of press was not enough. The sheet is still pressing, and the edges of the granulated pancake are crumbling.
A kettlebell is not about anything.

Attempts have also been made to whip up tiled tea, although this is country tea. Used an old pastry syringe for cookies. The dispenser available in it allows you to make medallions of various thicknesses. The optimal thickness is 1 cm, the diameter of the medallion is 4 cm. Some collections of leaves are very dense, and some crumble at the edges. The picture shows blackberry, cherry, raspberry, currant and gooseberry tea. All leaves are autumn harvest. This collection turned out to be very dense. Made after fermentation, when rolled a second time to obtain granules. We prepared several options for 15-20 medallions. Once a month, we will try and monitor the change in taste. Unfortunately, all the collected Ivan tea has already been used, so we will wait for next year and experiment if we like this method of preparation. This manufacturing method can be used as a gift option.

[Olga]

Olga, cool

Silence)))))

Silence)))))

Of course - everyone drinks Ivan tea.
What did you want to hear?
Visit our website, order: 🔗
There and pictures appeared new pressed Ivan tea.

Visit our website, order:

Thank you)) I prepared my own.)) I drink with pleasure))

Yeah, and no one leaves any feedback!
Here everyone makes ivan tea by themselves!

[elena kadiewa]

elena kadiewa, Lena, what are the reviews? oh, I'm a brake ... I'm talking about reviews of my homemade tea ...

I didn't sign the jars, now only by smell, but there are a lot of different ones, and remember what and when it should be. But all are delicious!
That's just after storage from tea from boxes - fluffy - slightly disappointed.

Yeah, and no one leaves any feedback!

it's true, don't leave. because they are too lazy to order through the store. there are phones in contacts, everything is by phone and email, and reviews - you need to register on the site, place an order, and then do not forget to come back there and unsubscribe. But everyone who really likes Ivan tea, in principle, was satisfied. There were people who had never tasted ivan tea before, they bought it and they did not like it. But these are those who generally did not like Ivan tea, and not specifically ours.

[Den4iG]

Den4iG, 🔗 Come in oak plates and see if it will be possible to order boards

I congratulate all tea-makers on our holiday - TEA DAY!
Lyudochka, wherever you are, Thank you for everything! For tea, for the team that you gathered and rallied around you, for the benevolence, kindness and responsiveness of everyone who gathered to you for seagulls! We miss you!

[elena kadiewa]

elena kadiewa, yes, Lenus, today we will meet and drink a cup of our tea to Lyudochka's health and good luck !!!

health and good luck Lyudochka !!!

Hello everybody!! Is everything okay with Lyudmila?

Gal, do you remember, it was with this topic that everything began ...

Hello everybody!! Is everything okay with Lyudmila?

Sergey, there have been no messages from Lyudochka for a long time, we hope that everything is fine with her.

Hello tea-makers)) Happy New Year! How is Lyudmila?

[Sergei]

Sergei, we do not know, I recently said hello, everything seems to be good.

, everything seems to be good.

Good)))

The tea season is just around the corner, although it is still winter, but now I am more and more worried about drying and meat grinder.
All summer they dried in the oven, and she received a huge load. She needs an assistant. Tell me about dryers, there are so many of them, but which one is better suited for tea? So that the temperature is uniform and there are a lot of pallets, and there may be any nuances.
I am silent about the meat grinder, now I can draw even circles, but the manual meat grinder could not stand it, by the end of summer I began to chew everything
I want to be ready in all weapons by the start of the season.

I specially bought the airfryer for this purpose, I didn't like it!

[Divnay]

Divnay, Irina, in dryers the temperature is 70 maximum, and for tea, generally at the beginning of drying, a higher temperature is needed.

Lyud, why didn't you like AG? It's fast there, and the blowing speed is adjustable. For some reason, I'm not very good in the oven, but I'm used to AG, in it I dry only all teas for two seasons.