Hi, can loose leaf tea be infused more than once?!

Yes! Loose-leaf tea can be infused more than once. In fact, for teas from Southeast Asia, including most green tea and oolong tea, making multiple infusions is the norm rather than the exception. For some high-quality oolong teas, and Pu-erh, it's regular to make 3-7 infusions out of the same set of leaves. When you buy very high-quality tea, it's wasting your money to NOT do this.

With black teas it's less common but, especially if you use more leaf and a shorter brewing time, you can also do this too.

On my tea site I have a guide about how to make multiple infusions of tea:

http://ratetea.net/topic/multiple-infusi…

Can you let them sit overnight? I wouldn't go this long, but it's usually fine to leave the leaves for a few hours. I think it's best to brew the tea in one sitting, but you don't need to do it immediately. Make however many infusions the tea can handle and then when the leaves are out of flavor, toss them (preferably composting them!).

YOu can, but its taste is horible. The falvour and caffiene are used in the first soaking.

Drying the leaves is going to make you have watery leaf water the nest day.

It's what the Irish people did in the famine- they were too poor to afford tea, so they re-used the leaves, but it was fooling themselves, they knew it tastes crappy.


Tea leaves are delicate, and second soaking- sorry, you'll taste it once, then never do it again.

yes.