Tea steeping temperature lookup
Green tea wants water at 80 °C (175 °F), gyokuro only 60 °C and black tea a full boil at 100 °C. Type the tea named on your tin and get the kettle temperature in both units, from one fixed chart. Free in your browser.
- Free
- Runs in your browser
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- Your data stays on your device
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Worked example
- Tea
- Green
- Label
- green
- Family
- green
- Temp c
- 80
- Temperature (°F)
- 175
Tea steeping temperature is the search people type when a tin says green tea and they need the kettle number, not a vague pour-just-off-the-boil guess. This tea steeping temperature lookup turns a single tea-type phrase into fixed ideal water temperatures in Celsius and Fahrenheit from a stable culinary chart.
How tea type maps to steeping water temperature
Tea leaves are not interchangeable when it comes to water heat. Delicate unoxidized greens and whites bruise and turn bitter if you drown them in a rolling boil, while fully oxidized black teas and most herbal tisanes need that full boil to extract body, aroma, and color. This capability encodes a fixed lookup table of ideal steeping water temperatures for common tea types so that a recipe card, a kettle preset, or a quiz always agrees on the same number.
White tea sits at eighty Celsius (one hundred seventy-five Fahrenheit). Generic green tea and jasmine-scented green also sit at eighty Celsius. Yellow tea matches that same cool-green band.
Japanese sencha is cooler still at seventy Celsius (one hundred sixty Fahrenheit), and shade-grown gyokuro is the coolest row at sixty Celsius (one hundred forty Fahrenheit). Matcha, which is whisked rather than steeped in a pot, uses eighty Celsius so the powder stays sweet. Oolong and roasted hojicha step up to ninety Celsius (one hundred ninety-five Fahrenheit).
Darjeeling and pu-erh sit just off a full boil at ninety-five Celsius. Black tea, herbal blends, rooibos, chamomile, and peppermint use one hundred Celsius (two hundred twelve Fahrenheit). Yerba mate is held at seventy Celsius to avoid a harsh brew.
These are fixed chart targets for lookup and display, not a live scrape of a tea board and not a substitute for tasting. The capability does not time the infusion, does not size leaf grams per millilitre, and does not convert kettle dial marks; those are different search intents. What it does provide is a deterministic dictionary so that green always returns the same pair of numbers, which is exactly what dual-unit brew cards, LMS quizzes, and smart-kettle apps need when they refuse to invent chemistry.
Where a tea steeping temperature lookup shows up in real work
Home brewers translating a tin that only says green tea into a kettle number avoid the classic mistake of pouring boiling water over sencha when every lookup comes from one chart. Tea-shop staff and cafe baristas can map a ticket note of gyokuro or matcha to a cooler set point before they open the tap. Food bloggers and cookbook editors publish dual-unit lines and need one oracle so Fahrenheit and Celsius never drift between drafts of the same infusion chapter.
Recipe apps that store a favorite tea can resolve the label once and store numeric targets for smart-kettle alerts. Culinary and hospitality schools teach infusion literacy; a deterministic chart makes quizzes and demos reproducible across classrooms without arguing over which blog table is correct. Content pipelines that normalize free-text brew instructions can replace ambiguous phrases with canonical keys and fixed temperatures before re-emitting localized copy.
If you later need oven preheat conversion among Celsius, Fahrenheit, and gas marks, or a beef-steak doneness internal temperature, treat those as separate search intents and landings rather than overloading this tea-steeping page; the same house keeps those tools distinct so SEO and product contracts stay clear. The chart is a lookup, not a physics model: altitude, kettle lag, and leaf grade stay outside the contract on purpose so goldens and client UIs stay stable.
What you can do with it
Smart kettle presets
Map a user choice of green or gyokuro to 80 °C / 175 °F or 60 °C / 140 °F so a kettle app can hold the pour temperature.
Dual-unit brew cards
Editors emit consistent Celsius and Fahrenheit steeping targets from one fixed tea-type chart for every tin and blog post.
Hospitality quiz and LMS checks
Grade tea-type-to-water-temperature items with a deterministic oracle that rejects unknown labels cleanly.
FAQ
Which tea types are supported?
white, green, yellow, oolong, black, pu-erh, herbal, rooibos, matcha, gyokuro, sencha, hojicha, darjeeling, jasmine, chamomile, peppermint, and yerba mate, plus short forms such as green tea, wu long, and camomile.
What temperature should I use for green tea?
This chart uses 80 °C (175 °F) as the generic green target. Named Japanese greens differ: sencha 70 °C / 160 °F, gyokuro 60 °C / 140 °F, hojicha 90 °C / 195 °F.
What does it cost?
The browser tool is free and runs locally.
Why shouldn't I pour boiling water over green tea?
Delicate unoxidized leaves bruise and turn bitter in a rolling boil. Most greens are brewed at 80 °C, and Japanese sencha is cooler still at 70 °C (160 °F), while black teas need the full boil.
What water temperature is best for oolong?
Oolong is brewed at 90 °C (195 °F), the same step as roasted hojicha. That is hotter than green tea but just below the full boil used for black tea and most herbal blends.
Related tools
For developers — API access
Everything on this page is available programmatically. This section is for teams who want to wire it into their own systems; everyone else can just use the tool above.
API endpoint
Prefer to automate it? One authenticated POST creates the task; the result comes back by webhook or a signed link. The same capability also runs here on the web, by email and from Telegram — and soon from our app too.
Call it from your stack
curl -X POST https://api.kit.forhosting.com/cook/tea-steep-temp \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $KIT_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"tea":"green"}'const res = await fetch("https://api.kit.forhosting.com/cook/tea-steep-temp", {
method: "POST",
headers: {
"Authorization": `Bearer ${process.env.KIT_KEY}`,
"Content-Type": "application/json"
},
body: JSON.stringify({
"tea": "green"
})
});
const { task_id } = await res.json();import os, requests
res = requests.post(
"https://api.kit.forhosting.com/cook/tea-steep-temp",
headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['KIT_KEY']}"},
json={
"tea": "green"
},
)
task_id = res.json()["task_id"]<?php
$res = file_get_contents("https://api.kit.forhosting.com/cook/tea-steep-temp", false, stream_context_create([
"http" => [
"method" => "POST",
"header" => "Authorization: Bearer " . getenv("KIT_KEY") . "\r\nContent-Type: application/json",
"content" => '{"tea":"green"}',
],
]));
$task = json_decode($res, true);body := bytes.NewBufferString(`{"tea":"green"}`)
req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", "https://api.kit.forhosting.com/cook/tea-steep-temp", body)
req.Header.Set("Authorization", "Bearer "+os.Getenv("KIT_KEY"))
req.Header.Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)Example request
{
"tea": "green"
}Example response
{
"task_id": "tsk_a1b2c3d4e5f6a1b2c3d4e5f6",
"type": "cook.tea_steep_temp",
"status": "queued",
"_links": {
"result": "/tasks/tsk_…/result"
}
}The API is asynchronous: the call returns a task_id immediately and the result arrives by webhook. Polling is capped at 1 req/s per task.
Pricing
Published price — no tokens, no invented credits. A failed task is never charged.
Errors
| HTTP | Code | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
401 | unauthorized | Missing or invalid API key. |
402 | insufficient_balance | Your balance doesn't cover the task price. |
404 | unknown_type | That task type doesn't exist. |
429 | rate_limited | Too many requests. Use the webhook instead of polling. |
Technical notes
Enter green, black, oolong, white, pu-erh, herbal, or a named style such as sencha, gyokuro, matcha, darjeeling, jasmine, chamomile, or yerba mate, plus common short forms such as green tea or wu long, and receive the canonical type with temp_c and temp_f. The table is intentionally fixed so recipe apps, cafe kettles, and API clients always agree on the same green-tea target instead of scraping conflicting blogs. Unknown labels fail with a clear invalid_input message listing known types.
How tea type maps to steeping water temperature
Validation runs first: missing tea, empty strings, and unknown phrases fail with invalid_input and are not charged. Aliases such as green tea, pu-erh, wu long, english breakfast, camomile, and yerba mate normalize to the same rows as the canonical keys so free-text forms stay forgiving without becoming fuzzy classification.
What you send and what you get back
Send one required field named tea, a string such as green or oolong. Example: black yields one hundred Celsius and two hundred twelve Fahrenheit. Use the free browser form while standing at the kettle, then call the same contract from scripts when you generate bilingual brew cards or validate that a user-selected tea maps to a numeric set point. The same value may arrive under common aliases tea_type, type, kind, variety, or name when you reuse form field names from other kitchen tools. Matching is case-insensitive; hyphens and underscores collapse to spaces, so Green-Tea and green_tea both resolve to the green row. On success the response includes tea as a stable snake_case key (for example yerba_mate), label as the human phrase, family as the oxidation or infusion family, temp_c and temp_f as integers from the fixed chart, note as a short reason for that heat, known_teas as the list of accepted English labels, plus formula and method strings that document the table lookup for audit logs. Example: tea equal to green yields tea green, label green, family green, temp_c eighty, and temp_f one hundred seventy-five. Unknown strings such as coffee or kombucha fail with invalid_input and a message that lists known types so clients can show a picker instead of retrying blindly. Pricing for successful API calls is the published base of $0.002 per item; validation failures do not consume prepaid balance. Wire temp_c into metric kettle presets and temp_f into US kettle presets, and use label plus note for human-facing copy next to the pour. Canonical keys include white, green, yellow, oolong, black, puerh, herbal, rooibos, matcha, gyokuro, sencha, hojicha, darjeeling, jasmine, chamomile, peppermint, and yerba_mate, so a form can also ship a closed picker instead of a free-text box.
Where a tea steeping temperature lookup shows up in real work
Meal-kit cards that ship a loose-leaf sampler can attach the same numbers the API would return, so the printed insert and the companion app never disagree. Because this capability is a pure parse engine, API pricing is the published base of $0.002 per successful item and failed validation does not consume balance.
Technical questions
How does the tea steeping temperature lookup work?
It normalizes your tea-type phrase, resolves common aliases, and returns fixed ideal water temperatures in °C and °F from a table of white, green, oolong, black, pu-erh, herbal, and named styles.
What happens if I send an unknown tea type?
The request fails with invalid_input and a message listing known types. Failed validation is not charged.