Actually, most of the caffeine comes out in the first 30 seconds of steeping.
you can Google search for "tea caffeine steep" to find a bunch of sites that say that, and I haven't found anything that says "that's an old wives' tale".
(It's on lifehacker.....) http://lifehacker.com/software/caffeine/cut-80-of-the-caffeine-from-your-tea-206574.php
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Date: 2008-04-01 05:53 pm (UTC)you can Google search for "tea caffeine steep" to find a bunch of sites that say that, and I haven't found anything that says "that's an old wives' tale".
(It's on lifehacker.....)
http://lifehacker.com/software/caffeine/cut-80-of-the-caffeine-from-your-tea-206574.php