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*I'm ignoring the displacement volume of the tea leaves, which is significant with high tea-water ratios.
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The length of brew time and tea-water ratio are fixed, so the variable that controls how much tea you end up with is the size of the pot.
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The length of brew time and tea-water ratio are fixed, so the variable that controls how much tea you end up with is the size of the pot.
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*I'm ignoring the displacement volume of the tea leaves, which is significant with high tea-water ratios.
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In fact tea has entered the popular idiom ... the term "chai-pani" (literally tea-water) refers to a bribe!
Archive 2005-07-01 Nupur 2005
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Had I pulled such a trick and gotten caught, you could have boiled your tea-water on my tender portions for the following week.
varmints Holly 2006
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Robin blinked in surprise at that, as Gannet carefully poured the last of the tea-water over the fire, putting it out.
The Robin And The Kestrel Lackey, Mercedes 1993
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The evening's repast resembled that of the morning, consisting of tea-water and ship-biscuit.
The Story of Ida Pfeiffer and Her Travels in Many Lands Anonymous
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But, had she also come, that bevy of servants wouldn't again have cared a straw for anything; and on his return, after the party, the bedding would have been cold, the tea-water wouldn't have been ready, and he would have had to put up with every sort of discomfort.
Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books Xueqin Cao
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Bad water; proposing buying tea-water, but refused.
American Prisoners of the Revolution Danske Dandridge
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