I was rummaging around my files and found this old (but still useful) Flash program from days gone by. It has been noted in the past that ArcStone is a hotbed of tea consumption.

Since we are so busy it’s often hard to time the perfect steep, resulting in a bitter and undrinkable liquid. My solution was to create the Steep Master 1000, an interactive steep timing system.

Keep reading for detailed operating instruction for the Steep Master 1000 and tips on creating the perfect steep.

Creating Steeps Of Unparalleled Quality
Once you have experienced a perfect steep, it’s quite hard to enjoy a steep of any other quality. Unfortunately, the faculties of most tea drinkers are simply not refined enough to consistently create perfect steeps.

Enter Steep Master 1000; the simple, affordable, and sophisticated way to insure every steep is an exemplary example of tea perfection.

Using The Steep Master 1000
The first step to using the Steep Master is placing your utmost trust in its advanced steeping AI. Thousands of programming hours have gone into perfecting millions of lines of code all culminating in the worlds most accurate, sensitive, and intelligent steeping software.

No other steeping system come close to matching the Steep Master 1000’s features and ease of use. You need but to learn only three simple steps to start enjoying steeps of the highest quality.

Step #1 – Choosing Your Tea
First select the type of tea you are steeping. The system is preprogrammed with the six primary types of tea. If your tea is a blend choose the type that comprises the highest percentage of the blend.

Step #2 – Select Steep Number and Cup Size
Next select the number of your steep. If you are steeping the same tea for a second or third time, more time will be needed in the water to extract the proper taste. Only attempt to steep teas of the highest quality more than once. Re-steeping an inferior tea will result in a bitter sulfuric mixture of water and tea resin.

Next select your cup size. With larger cups must come longer steep times. We have used advanced neural-net programming to imbue our steeping AI with the sensibilities to accurately time steeps for the most common cup sizes.

Step #3 – Begin Your Steep
Once your setting are dialed into the Steep Master, you can begin your steep. It is paramount the instant you depress the start button the tea enters your water. Any variation in the timing of this procedure will cause over- or under- steeping.

While your steep is steeping, a real-time display of the progress is presented in Steep Master. You may temporarily leave your steep, the Steep Master will alert you with an audible alarm when the steep is ready.

It is suggested that you remove the tea from water no later than five seconds after the alarm sounds. Don’t fear if you are not in the immediate vicinity of your steep when the alarm sounds. The Steep Masters advanced software / hardware integration and motion sensing functions will utilize your computers web camera to accurately judge your distance and slightly vary the timing such to allow for your travel time back to the steep.

Enjoy
Please return as often as you like to utilize the Steep Master 1000, and enjoy the thrill of perfect steeps no matter what the situation comprises.

Tags: Enlightening, tea, Tools, Useful

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