Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-11-11
SKILL OF TEA TASTERS.
By the odOr Alone They Can Tell
the Quality. .
NO eUEsswORK In THE SYSTEM.


ma not 30 much cultivated taste as It
Is a cultivated smell" sald leading tea
expert, when | asked him TO tell me some
thing about hla profession
"of eoursS we sometimes taste but the
fumes from a cup OF tea generally enable US
to Judge OF the value OF the sample from
which It tx brewsd."
Tho expert waA seated at round table
around the edges OF which were ranged
circle OF ordinary tea cups. Beside each
cup vas a small box containing a sample
Of tea. An assistant stood at one side OF tho
table and took from each Of the little boxes
a ANAL quantity Of tea which be weighed
carefully on an apotheeary's scale and placed
Il In the cup opposite the box from which
he had taken the sample. The top Of the
table rey0lyed and when the first Of the
cups had come around to his side again he
stopped the Weighing process. Then he
took up a big brass Kettle and filled each
cup with boiling water, After allowing the
cups 10 stand for minute or two the expert
began his work. He held his head down
over ,he cups so as to allow him to inhale
the fumes nom the cups. lie brought up
the leaves from the bottom VI the cup with
spoon and smelled those also. Then he
took up tho sample bag and poured some OF
the dry eayes into his hand. Ho turned the
sample over carefully and then said to the
ass!atant;
'E se7, very choppy XA." The assistant
made an entry 70 that effect la a book he
held 10 his hand and the expert explained
10 mo that those hleroRyphics Indicated
that The aample numbered l. 367 was iinper-
feet 80 far as the leavea we're concerned and
that IL selling value was Indicated by me
letters XA. The process continued TIL the
samples had been disposed OF. Not once DID
tho expert find 1t necessary to taste the de-
eoctlon In order to give hts Judgment as to
the value OF tie SAMPLE from which 1t had
hoo, brewod
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nu' 10 eApeTts never tRs'e 'e's ~ man
ING UP tNelr JuugmentF asked Tor al
though l had heard OF expert "tsa-taStera'
this was my first acquaintance with tea
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leans ma that tney eau Judge as hieeiy Wy
the smell as by the taste, and We claim
that We have Just as good Judges on this
sldo aa there are on the other side and
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are sure tnae our Judgment u Deter '',ui
thelrs' They know moro about the IN
dian and Ceylon products and OF Congnus
mud souohona. hut Americana can give
,bcr, nointa In tha valuation Of Colonrs
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markets consume more OF thetn'
The expert from whom ] obtained my
information Is graduate OF both the "tast-
ing" and "emelllug' Echools. Ito learned
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