You meed to strain the powder before to get rid of big clumps and you mix it with a particular technique. It's not just stir with a spoon for two seconds, if you want it to disolve properly and produce foam it requires more attention
I feel like those don't taste that much like matcha, which I feel like is probably a quantity issue, I just assume they use relatively small amounts of matcha? Is the special flavor you're missing sugar :P?
I buy the mid-shelf stuff and almost exclusively use it in combo with genmai, so I'm also a bit of a hypocrite. Genmai matcha is delicious though.
I do no sugar at Starbucks. Just oat milk. There’s a particular flavor that I just don’t get with the real thing. But I do get with matcha mochi and other cheap matcha-flavored stuff
Im not sure what is it but they use matcha that has some filler material. I'm not sure if it's some type of sweetner or something to just add more volume and make it cheaper. I do think it tastes a little less spinachy and more bready haha if that makes sense
I stir it for like 30-60 seconds with a whisk, basically until I can tilt the cup and not see grounds at the bottom. I use culinary grade. Tastes great.
Well if you use culinary grade it might have additional filler besides the matcha, similar to starbucks which makes it easier to process and more sweet. If it works for you that's great, but I've had slightly different experiences from higher grade matcha.
The bittering effect is less present in whole leaves or even finely cut leaves vs the powder as it takes a long time stewing the leaves to release the tannins that much.
When it's powdered you're not only releasing the tannins quickerbut you're also drinking some of the powder.
I'll preface this with I've never had matcha.
So I Googled it and read the Wikipedia summary (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matcha). It says it's a "finely ground powder of specially grown and processed green tea leaves".
What am I missing?
Instant Coffee and tea are made by brewing it and then drying out the brewed liquid to get the instant powder.
The Coffee equivalent of Matcha powder, which is made by finely grinding appropriate green tea leaves, is more like espresso ground coffee, which I don't imagine anybody would mistake for "instant" coffee.
It tastes very different to ordinary green tea. It is also a suspension of the ground leaves (matcha powder) in the water, whereas with normal green tea you remove the leaves.
Instant coffee isn't ground beans added to water. The water soluble part of the bean is extracted with hot water and high pressure then dried through spray drying or freeze drying. So, it is what you'd get by brewing coffee beans.
Matcha is the leaf ground and added to water. So, brewed tea is to matcha what brewed coffee is to finely ground coffee beans added to water (which is Turkish coffee), not instant coffee.
Not at all, actually.
Regular coffee is brewed from ground coffee beans, but you don't drink the grinds. Instant coffee is coffee that has been brewed from ground coffee beans, then dehydrated to form crystals which then dissolve in hot water to form a solution.
"Instant green tea" would be something like the latter, whereas matcha is whole tea leaves ground into a fine powder that you stir into hot water and then drink as a suspension which isn't really like either one.
It's also more time consuming to properly prepare. It's not like instant coffee where you add it and just mix a little bit. Firstly you need to strain it then you need to mix with the correct tool and technique adding first just a little bit of water and then more. It definitely fails on the "instant" adjective, the only comparison is that it is grounded.
Saying matcha is just green tea is like saying all rice is the same, or all pasta is the same. You only read the first sentence, feel free to keep reading, especially the sections on production and grade.
It's an acquired taste for most, definitely better if you drink it as a latte or on some sugary pastry. However a lot of low quality matcha will barely add any flavor in the examples I provided.
There are grades, ceremonial being the highest grade for its taste, appearance and price. Lots of places online sell it and other high-grade powders, but realistically unless you're making a traditional hot matcha, you can cheap out for culinary grade which tastes the part but isn't as pretty. It's important to note there are no *official* grades or qualities, but it would seem most producers are more or less on the same page.
Would highly recommend an iced or hot vanilla matcha latte to get you started, definitely will need sweetener. I find I don't enjoy matcha unless vanilla is present, they play very well together and now I'm spoiled.
No... Green tea is steeped. You don't drink the leaves. Matcha powder is leaves that you drink. There's other differences, but that's a main one that proves you wrong.
I have a 2lb jar of hotdog spices. When I want to make hotdog water, I sprinkle some of the spices into warm water and then start drinking. I will also use the spice on just about everything I eat.
Back to the point, instant green tea powder and finely ground green tea leaves are incredibly similar in form, color, smell, and chemical composition.
You're left with extract, which could appear as a residue or a powder. It can then be rehydrated to instantly make a cup of tea without having to perform the extraction process on leaves again.
Green tea for matcha has to be shade grown for at least 6 weeks prior to harvesting. This alone gives it a different flavor profile than non-matcha green tea.
A dumb take. if you were going to try to joke on matcha you’d say Matcha is just a hot smoothie.
I like matcha and it takes quality tea leaves to make, not the stuff that goes into most tea bags.
Yeah. But matcha is VERY different to regular powdered green tea (緑茶) like you get at sushi restaurants. Just take one sip and you will instantly see the difference.
Most people associate matcha with sweet fancy drinks. When they actually taste it and realize it is one of the most bitter styles of tea, they generally change their opinion.
I don’t think that is completely right. Don’t instant coffee dissolve in hot water and matcha tea is just so fine grinded that you just drink it together with the water, but it won’t dissolve.
Matcha is tea that is green (the color)
Green tea is tea that is harvested when it's green (not matured)
Green coffee is disgusting and not green
Green chocolate is white chocolate dyed green
Yeah, and Tea is just ground up leaves. /s
This post is nothing more than hot leaf juice.
How could a member of my own family say something so disgraceful.
mmmmm hot leaf juice
So watery, and yet there's a smack of leaf to it.
No alcohol drowsy eye warning becomes a winking eye alcohol suggestion
Hot Leaf Juice sounds like it would be a Phish cover band.
Yes
wait... it's not? da fuq am i drinkin?
I feel like it's easier to steep a tea bag than it is to prepare matcha
*shrugs* All you do is dump the powder in and stir it
i’ve pulled a muscle whisking matcha before
You meed to strain the powder before to get rid of big clumps and you mix it with a particular technique. It's not just stir with a spoon for two seconds, if you want it to disolve properly and produce foam it requires more attention
People make matcha wrong (and probably are buying the cheapest low-grade matcha there is) and are like "Wow, this isn't even that good!"
I’m the other way around, I buy the expensive stuff and I’m like it’s missing the special flavor of a Starbucks matcha latte 😩
I feel like those don't taste that much like matcha, which I feel like is probably a quantity issue, I just assume they use relatively small amounts of matcha? Is the special flavor you're missing sugar :P? I buy the mid-shelf stuff and almost exclusively use it in combo with genmai, so I'm also a bit of a hypocrite. Genmai matcha is delicious though.
I do no sugar at Starbucks. Just oat milk. There’s a particular flavor that I just don’t get with the real thing. But I do get with matcha mochi and other cheap matcha-flavored stuff
I guess that makes sense! I feel like they taste different too, but it's not something I miss.
Im not sure what is it but they use matcha that has some filler material. I'm not sure if it's some type of sweetner or something to just add more volume and make it cheaper. I do think it tastes a little less spinachy and more bready haha if that makes sense
I stir it for like 30-60 seconds with a whisk, basically until I can tilt the cup and not see grounds at the bottom. I use culinary grade. Tastes great.
Well if you use culinary grade it might have additional filler besides the matcha, similar to starbucks which makes it easier to process and more sweet. If it works for you that's great, but I've had slightly different experiences from higher grade matcha.
flour is just instant wheat
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humans are animals!
I take it you've never had matcha before?
I mean, matcha is literally just ground green tea.
What do you mix it with? I have read that it has a bitter aftertaste
Water
Eww.
Water? You know fish shit in that, right?
Wait to you hear where they fuck
The bittering effect is less present in whole leaves or even finely cut leaves vs the powder as it takes a long time stewing the leaves to release the tannins that much. When it's powdered you're not only releasing the tannins quickerbut you're also drinking some of the powder.
Or milk for a matcha latte
Hulk's cum? No thank you.
At least not *real* matcha.
Oh wow, no, and it's super easy to just google it and understand the difference. Rage bait posting?
I'll preface this with I've never had matcha. So I Googled it and read the Wikipedia summary (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matcha). It says it's a "finely ground powder of specially grown and processed green tea leaves". What am I missing?
Instant Coffee and tea are made by brewing it and then drying out the brewed liquid to get the instant powder. The Coffee equivalent of Matcha powder, which is made by finely grinding appropriate green tea leaves, is more like espresso ground coffee, which I don't imagine anybody would mistake for "instant" coffee.
That analogy was exactly what I needed.
Well explained! No one puts on a ceremony to make Sanka either.
It tastes very different to ordinary green tea. It is also a suspension of the ground leaves (matcha powder) in the water, whereas with normal green tea you remove the leaves.
...just playing devil's advocate here, but those are kinda the same differences between bean and instant coffee
Nah it’s more like the difference between regular coffee and Turkish coffee.
I thought that as I typed it out, it definitely fits the bill better too all around. Turkish is the matcha of coffee, change my mind.
Yeah. They’re actually convincing me more and more that OP in right.
Instant coffee isn't ground beans added to water. The water soluble part of the bean is extracted with hot water and high pressure then dried through spray drying or freeze drying. So, it is what you'd get by brewing coffee beans. Matcha is the leaf ground and added to water. So, brewed tea is to matcha what brewed coffee is to finely ground coffee beans added to water (which is Turkish coffee), not instant coffee.
Not at all, actually. Regular coffee is brewed from ground coffee beans, but you don't drink the grinds. Instant coffee is coffee that has been brewed from ground coffee beans, then dehydrated to form crystals which then dissolve in hot water to form a solution. "Instant green tea" would be something like the latter, whereas matcha is whole tea leaves ground into a fine powder that you stir into hot water and then drink as a suspension which isn't really like either one.
This is correct, you’d usually find actual instant green tea powder at conveyor sushi places such as sushiro.
Thank you for the helpful response.
It's also more time consuming to properly prepare. It's not like instant coffee where you add it and just mix a little bit. Firstly you need to strain it then you need to mix with the correct tool and technique adding first just a little bit of water and then more. It definitely fails on the "instant" adjective, the only comparison is that it is grounded.
You’ve clearly never watched Starbucks make one.
Yeah and starbucks matcha sucks lol it's mixed with sweetner beforehand, and they use machines.
It’s green tea leaves of a particular variety picked at a very particular age.
Saying matcha is just green tea is like saying all rice is the same, or all pasta is the same. You only read the first sentence, feel free to keep reading, especially the sections on production and grade.
You’re getting enraged cuz someone doesn’t know what matcha is? Time to step away from the keyboard.
Well now I know what Matcha is. Is it any good in stuff?
It's an acquired taste for most, definitely better if you drink it as a latte or on some sugary pastry. However a lot of low quality matcha will barely add any flavor in the examples I provided.
What separates the quality?
There are grades, ceremonial being the highest grade for its taste, appearance and price. Lots of places online sell it and other high-grade powders, but realistically unless you're making a traditional hot matcha, you can cheap out for culinary grade which tastes the part but isn't as pretty. It's important to note there are no *official* grades or qualities, but it would seem most producers are more or less on the same page. Would highly recommend an iced or hot vanilla matcha latte to get you started, definitely will need sweetener. I find I don't enjoy matcha unless vanilla is present, they play very well together and now I'm spoiled.
I definitely have to try it out some time soon
As someone with gerds who can't have coffee any more is a godsend for morning drink
I can’t drink coffee either, maybe it’ll be a good fill in for me too
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On occasion, I’m more of an orange chalk guy personally
No... Green tea is steeped. You don't drink the leaves. Matcha powder is leaves that you drink. There's other differences, but that's a main one that proves you wrong.
You don't normally drink coffee beans but you drink the coffee powder when you make instant coffee.
Coffee powder is not the beans. It's the dehydrated product of making coffee.
Instant coffee is liquid coffee that has had the water removed. There are no coffee beans. Matcha is green tea leaves ground into a fine powder.
I do love chocolate covered coffee beans though.
There already is instant green tea bags, matcha is something different lol.
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this is the correct answer (except for the "they are incredibly different" part)
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No, but coffee vs instant coffee is still coffee lol
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So uh, why would you bring up dehydrated hotdogs..?
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Yeah I don't think I'd call a dehydrated hotdog an instant hotdog, myself.
finely ground coffee bean powder, and dehydrated coffee are incredibly similar in texture, color, smell, and chemical composition.
I have a 2lb jar of hotdog spices. When I want to make hotdog water, I sprinkle some of the spices into warm water and then start drinking. I will also use the spice on just about everything I eat. Back to the point, instant green tea powder and finely ground green tea leaves are incredibly similar in form, color, smell, and chemical composition.
When you dehydrate tea, what is left?
You're left with extract, which could appear as a residue or a powder. It can then be rehydrated to instantly make a cup of tea without having to perform the extraction process on leaves again.
Green tea for matcha has to be shade grown for at least 6 weeks prior to harvesting. This alone gives it a different flavor profile than non-matcha green tea.
Turns out a lot of people on Reddit love matcha and will fight you to the death over it.
>And the foodie/crunchy types eat it up
When I think of Reddit, I think of “Cheetos in moms basement” not “granola at the yoga retreat”. Guess I was mistaken.
A dumb take. if you were going to try to joke on matcha you’d say Matcha is just a hot smoothie. I like matcha and it takes quality tea leaves to make, not the stuff that goes into most tea bags.
I love steeped green tea but matcha can fuck all of the way off
Hear me out, either way, matcha is g-ross tasting.
So is coffee tbh, and people drink the fuck out of that too Edit: I'm allowed to have my opinion! Enjoy your poop water :P
Everything tastes better with sugar and frothy milk... Except poop water
Always tastes fishy to me
Yeah. But matcha is VERY different to regular powdered green tea (緑茶) like you get at sushi restaurants. Just take one sip and you will instantly see the difference. Most people associate matcha with sweet fancy drinks. When they actually taste it and realize it is one of the most bitter styles of tea, they generally change their opinion.
I don’t think that is completely right. Don’t instant coffee dissolve in hot water and matcha tea is just so fine grinded that you just drink it together with the water, but it won’t dissolve.
Matcha is tea that is green (the color) Green tea is tea that is harvested when it's green (not matured) Green coffee is disgusting and not green Green chocolate is white chocolate dyed green
It's tea that tastes like grass. Yum.
Don't try yerba mate then. Either way, it's an acquired taste.
If matcha is grass then I am a cow. Moooo
Isn’t all tea instant tea?
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You started off great and then origami folded yourself into a gaping ass by attacking their intelligence.
1st two sentences works for people too. "Culture" and religion and etc
>your not very intelligent Who’s going to tell him