Everything You Need To Know About 2nd Infusion

Everything You Need To Know About 2nd Infusion

What is a second infusion or resteeping?

Did you know that the same green tea leaves can be steeped more than once? Steeping the green tea leaves for the second time is known as the second infusion. In Japanese, it is called nisenme (nisen-me 二煎目) for the second infusion and sansenme (sansen-me 三煎目) for the third infusion.

Resteeping is slightly different than your first infusion of tea. Unlike other tea types, green tea leaves only have limited inf...