For beverage enthusiasts, we all know matcha is one of the loveliest green tea to have landed on our taste buds. The enchantment of matcha is violently gripping, from its deliciousness, energy revitalizing capacity all the way to its health benefits. It is therefore forgivable if you can’t get enough of matcha – whisk or whichever variant.
Now talking about the health benefits of matcha, it gets even more interesting. Characteristic to green teas, matcha is rich in catechins. This is a powerful class of antioxidants. Delving deeper, we see that matcha precisely contains a brand of catechin called epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG). This antioxidant is ferocious in fighting cancer. More than its cancer combative capacities, matcha is powerful in lowering your chances of heart diseases. Diabetic patients rightly have a reliable lover in matcha for its ability to buffer spikes in their blood sugar levels as well as controlling your cholesterols. Peace of mind? Yes, you have got it in matcha (the whisk method or the modern method). Matcha has such a powerful capacity to calm your mind giving you that sumptuous relaxation your body deserves. Moreover, matcha is reputable for its ability to always equip you with a good mood as well as enhancing your concentration. However, many times people are torn between the methods of making matcha. Especially, many ask “Do I need a Matcha Whisk to make Matcha tea”.
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Do I need a Matcha Whisk(茶筅) to make Matcha tea?
Customarily, many will go with preparing matcha using matcha whisk. Understandably, this is the traditional and commonest means, but it wouldn’t always be possible preparing your matcha bowl with whisk especially when you are on the go. Most importantly, we will point out here that matcha is a suspension. Thus you wouldn’t have to bother about it dissolving in water.
Therefore for those emergency moments when we really need a cup of matcha tea on the go even when we don’t have our matcha whisk, let us explore some unconventional methods of getting your matcha tea still set nice and juicy.
Alternative 1 of Matcha whisk: Juice bottle
Admirably, this is one ready means to get your matcha set when you are don’t have the services of your whisk. Admittedly, it is less fanciful when measured against the orderly bureaucracy of using matcha whisk. But you can be assured of your matcha tea quickly and with no fuss using your juice bottle. It is all simple. You would bring in your tea and shake adequately.
If possible, it is preferable to use individual packets. A small funnel can also be helpful here especially since we are using a juice bottle in the absence of your whisk. Typically, you can make do with a serving of 3g for your tea if you don’t have your tea pre-measured. Most times – without whisk – to prevent the tea from clumping about your lid, you can take a judicious sip first.
Alternative 2 of Matcha whisk : Adding juice
In other cases where still you don’t have your whisk, you can still treat yourself amiably to more flavor by adding apple juice to your matcha. You can even add orange juice to spruce up its taste getting it really lovable. Adding your apple or orange juice is one healthy way to get around having to add sugar to your matcha. So now the juice bottle gets it done pretty well for us without the matcha whisk. Isn’t it nice and easy? Yes, that is the fun of the quick unconventional method when you can’t go with the traditional whisk method.
Making matcha in the modern method
As we envisaged, it is not every time you will have the time and convenience to go with the traditional means of using the bamboo whisk when preparing your matcha tea. Here again, we will further explore the modern means of preparing your matcha tea using an electric frother.
Even without your matcha whisk, this modern method perse is relatively easier and fun too with the electric frother. Particularly when you want that tantalizing creme-like foam, this is one of the sweetest ways to go without your whisk. Off we go then!
- Step 1: Get your cup.
Preferably a long cup which has a significantly wide bottom
- Step 2: Boil water.
A said you will also need your electric frother, water and your matcha powder of course. Try to raise the temperature of the water a bit!
- Step 3: Get your matcha powder in a bowl.
You can sift to eradicate possible clumps helping the powder to easy dissolution. So add your hot water.
- Step 4: Use the frother to get your matcha into a nice foam
- Step 5: 10 seconds to get it well frothing.
Particularly, begin with the frother at the base of your cup, only moving procedurally up for 10 seconds to get it well frothing.
So here we are, no whisk no problem, the electric frother will get your matcha ready and juiced up enjoyably for your wicked devouring.
How to preserve your Matcha Whisk?
So fine, aside learning the unorthodox method of preparing your matcha tea without the whisk, you may be curious to know how you can prepare your matcha whisk if you have one. While not the most arduous tasks, preserving your matcha whisk spreads through deploying the right cautious measures before you use the whisk for preparing your matcha tea, in the course of using the whisk in preparing your tea and what measures to take after you have used the matcha whisk in preparing your matcha tea.
Step 1 of preserve your Matcha Whisk
It is very important to soak your whisk at the start. Yes, after you have gotten your matcha whisk, fill up a bowl with warm water and insert your whisk for some few seconds. The essence of this preliminary soaking is to allow your whisk to unfurl in the center. This is crucial to how well the whisk will serve us in course of its useful life.
Step 2 of preserve your Matcha Whisk
Okay, now you want to use your whisk to make that delicious tea. The place of taming can never be more emphasized here. Treat your matcha whisk emotionally like a sweet lover when using it. However inanimate, your matcha whisk deserves your love. It is true we can jump on a railway track (with an incoming train) just to save that savory cup of matcha with no lumps, but being forceful with your matcha is not the best way to get that tantalizing froth with no lumps.
Step 3 of preserve your Matcha Whisk
In course of whisking (that is using the traditional way), try to suspend your whisk in the matcha liquid. Applying caution and mindfulness, you can use your whisk to get that froth you desire. It is important not to damage the bamboo prongs of your matcha whisk either. To achieve this, ensure you don’t scratch the base of your bowl with your whisk. Such minimal contact between the whisk and the bottom of your bowl will protect your whisk from quick damage.
Step 4 of preserve your Matcha Whisk
When through with your matcha whisk, you can clean it. This goes a long way in preventing a dense formation of mold around the prong and the whisk generally. Amazingly, cleaning your matcha whisk is so easy and quick for the gigantic protection and longevity it gives your matcha whisk.
How to use your Matcha whisk for much longer?
Even if you have a dozen stacked bullion vans packed in your garage, you wouldn’t like the rigors of buying a new matcha whisk every now and then. How about you use one matcha whisk sustainably for a longer time? Sure using your matcha whisk much longer is very possible when you employ the right precaution and procedures. Oops, it seems our world is littered with procedures, but can we really do without these institutionalized pathways (procedures)? So for a long lasting matcha whisk, here are our procedures:
NO.1 Procedure for a long lasting matcha whisk: Use whisk gently
Always be gentle when whisking with your matcha whisk.If possible, you can run the prongs of your whisk for some few seconds under cold water. That is nice.
NO.2 Procedure for a long lasting matcha whisk: Clean whisk
Make sure no piece of matcha is trapped between the prongs of your whisk, you can make good use of your fingers for this endeavor.
NO.3 Procedure for a long lasting matcha whisk: Drying whisk
Drying your whisk in the open air is very important as well. This is because of the possibility of your whisk developing mold from moisture. It is vital therefore to rid your matcha whisk of excessive water.
NO.4 Procedure for a long lasting matcha whisk: Whisk holder(茶筅筒)
Ideally, you can use a whisk holder for its storage. This has the benefit of protecting the tacit shape of your whisk enabling it to do its job perfectly for a longer time.
Notably, many people are culpable for leaving their whisk in the container it came with. This container in most cases is a plastic cylinder. Leaving your whisk in this plastic container is almost reckless as it will surely molest and distort the shape of your whisk retiring it out of use in no time. As advocated, it is preferable you use the whisk holder. Try as much as possible to sit the whisk upside down getting the inner prong rings well seated in the hole of the whisk holder. This will immensely sustain the shape of your whisk.
For those economically stringent type who reluctantly unzip their purse (to buy) with a tear in their eyes, it is rather fortunate that the whisk holder is reasonably cheaper than the whisk itself. Therefore from a cost management perspective, it makes sense spending less to acquire a whisk holder for the longevity of the whisk than greedily ignoring it only to helplessly buy a new whisk in no time as the previous one quickly goes bad.
So here we are after an exhaustive lecture on how to prepare your matcha tea possibly with or without your matcha whisk. Many would like to know if there are any peculiar advantage of using the traditional method of preparing matcha tea with a whisk. Well, the advantages in this regard are not very loud and shiny enough to place one method extremely above the other.
On the ground of preference (which obviously characteristically varies across people), many would like the “usucha” matcha style where the foam lovably decorates the top. Admittedly, this better achieved when you use the traditional method of preparing your matcha tea with your whisk.
Ridiculously, others would prefer the whisk method to use electric frother not necessarily for the taste of the matcha tea at the end, but simply because they find it much easier to clean the whisk. This could be easily done with hot water although this doesn’t mean that it requires a demanding mountain of effort to clean your electric frother either.
Why many are going with the modern trend of using frother is because of its relative simplicity courtesy of the technology of frother it imbibes. Normally, many will agree that you need a relative level of expertise – or practice so to say – using to master the whisk. In most cases, you would have to whisk continuously for over 10 seconds, else the results could be devastating.
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