the intrinsic art of making the perfect cup of matcha often requires a special bamboo whisk. Unlike a wire whisk used for ...

The most iconic accessory is the whisk. Traditional Japanese whisks, called chasen, are made from bamboo. They help the matcha powder — made from finely ground tea leaves — dissolve.

Despite having a "vegetal, grassy" flavour that's "almost as divisive as Marmite", said Fiona Embleton in Glamour, matcha is rapidly ... out on the electric whisk, too). Enriched with 450 million ...