grades, six leaves and four blends · in China it is "red tea"
Built as a memo rather than a table: the thing worth hanging it up for reads across the room, with the full reference in smaller type below it.
Three sizes in one archive — from a sheet on the fridge to a poster on the wall.
Times are for loose leaf, 2–3 g to 200 ml. A teabag needs two to three times less: what is inside it is ground far finer.
The letters on Indian and Ceylon packets — OP, FOP, BOP, F, D — are not varieties or flavours but grades: the size and wholeness of the pieces after sorting. There is no orange in "orange", the origin of the word is still argued over, and the size really is encoded there.
Here is the useful part. A whole leaf gives slowly and therefore needs four to five minutes. A broken one gives faster: three. The fannings and dust that fill teabags give everything within a minute, and after that only tannin follows.
So the same tea loose and in a bag needs different times, and an "over-brewed bag" is not bad tea but the wrong minute. The letters F, T and G before a grade mean more buds, not a stronger cup.
Why the numbers can be trusted. Every countable number here is computed from data rather than typed in, and the sheet must pass 5 independent checks before it is allowed to build — how many items there are, the order they come in, and the claim in the highlighted box itself. If one fails, there is no file.
