Okay I can't deny that this completely works
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@Loki said in Okay I can't deny that this completely works:
The marketing and ritual is very impressive. I wonder whether the process or the product has more impact on your state of mind.
For non-believers it probably looks like an incredible time suck.
Well it's not supposed to be this grand, ceremonious thing. I'm not talking about getting organic bamboo spoons and cups with jade inlay. The teapot I picked up costs 10 bucks. A one-month tea supply is another 10. And you can do the same process with a french press if you wanted to.
It's just fundamentally different: social vs. "grab it and go." To make it in the way I described, you're going to have a ton of tea that can do 10+ infusions, and the later brews are far better than the first one. So you either waste the hell out of it with your one cup, or find someone to help you drink it to make it worthwhile. As for what's more potent, drinking 10 cups of freaking tea is a hell of a lot different from drinking just the one.
But yeah, I'll allow that that's not the typical American model. (Which is why I'm so ignorant to it.) Diners, Starbucks, Tim Ho's, even Phil'z don't do this.
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@Doctor-Phibes said in Okay I can't deny that this completely works:
@Aqua-Letifer said in Okay I can't deny that this completely works:
@Doctor-Phibes said in Okay I can't deny that this completely works:
Oh Christ, not more jam-jar pictures.
Don't worry, man. After watching a couple of YouTube videos last night, I'm of course now an authority on the matter, and even today I'm working on a video tutorial to illustrate just how wrong you've been all this time. I'll be happy to share!
Hey, it's probably no worse than drinking bleach.
Verily, I have seen the light, my friend. And it is now, inside the body. I don't know about ultraviolet, but it is indeed very powerful.
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@kluurs said in Okay I can't deny that this completely works:
Aqua - What green tea are you using, and where do you procure it? It it available online?
Yep. I get a lot of mine from Davidson's. They're also on Amazon. For me they hit the right balance of "not mass-produced crap" and "can easily obtain and in bulk."
It's whole leaf but not fancy beyond that.
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Hey, they do a breakfast tea. Might be worth a shot once I quietly bury the Red Rose in the composter.
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Ruh-Roh.
#Solidaritea: Yorkshire Tea and PG Tips join brands in backing BLM
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/jun/09/yorkshire-tea-and-pg-tips-respond-to-anti-blm-boycott-with-solidaritea -
Only a hipster would drink from a wide mouth...
How to make tea (with baking soda):
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@Jolly said in Okay I can't deny that this completely works:
Only a hipster would drink from a wide mouth...
How to make tea (with baking soda):
It's not a wide mouth, it's a gaiwan.
And you gotta remember where I grew up, man.
My best friend growing up was our neighbor two houses down (read: 2.4 miles.) He was my age and we went to school together. My family worked in town, about an hour away. His mom and dad worked on their farm. I stayed with them after school until my folks got back from their jobs for years.Which meant I went through an assload of homemade cornbread and sweet tea. Was awesome. What we liked to do when we got older was to take the trail in the woods to his grandmother's house. Because there, for a few easy chores you could get sweet tea, cornbread and homemade syrup from whatever fruit was around.
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@Aqua-Letifer said in Okay I can't deny that this completely works:
@Doctor-Phibes said in Okay I can't deny that this completely works:
I can't wait until he's old enough to drink beer.
LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT HOMEBREW!!!
lol
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Ok, I bought Aqua's tea from Amazon and tried brewing it both the normal way (i.e. a 2 minutes) or his short-term strategy with 10 seconds - toss, then another 10 seconds and done. When brewed 2 minutes, it had a strong and bitter flavor. With another batch using 10 seconds, it felt a little too weak. I upped it to 15 seconds for the brewing - and that seemed better. No bitterness - a little stronger flavor. This tea clearly requires a shorter brewing time. It's a decent green tea.
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@kluurs said in Okay I can't deny that this completely works:
Ok, I bought Aqua's tea from Amazon and tried brewing it both the normal way (i.e. a 2 minutes) or his short-term strategy with 10 seconds - toss, then another 10 seconds and done. When brewed 2 minutes, it had a strong and bitter flavor. With another batch using 10 seconds, it felt a little too weak. I upped it to 15 seconds for the brewing - and that seemed better. No bitterness - a little stronger flavor. This tea clearly requires a shorter brewing time. It's a decent green tea.
Right on, Kluurs. Yeah, the three factors to balance are how hot the water is (which I do by letting it sit; I don't use a thermometer because that's just way too anal), how much tea you use (I do 10-12g per 7oz water, roughly), and how long you steep it for. Generally speaking I agree with you, but there's still some personal preference to consider that requires some finagling.
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I threw out the Red Rose shit, and ordered a big box of Yorkshire tea from Amazon.
I shall be brewing it for at least 4 minutes in boiling water, and drinking at least 4 cups a day.
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Saxons, man. ...Saxons.
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What I find particularly nauseating is that the red rose is the symbol of Lancashire, and these twatbastards named their tea after it.
Proud supporter of Plan 2525. Everything you think, do and say will be in the pill you took today.
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@Doctor-Phibes said in Okay I can't deny that this completely works:
What I find particularly nauseating is that the red rose is the symbol of Lancashire, and these twatbastards named their tea after it.
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I assume it's important to use bottled water.
When I lived in San Francisco, the tap water was yech. When I lived in Tucson, we had a system installed because the water was so hard and full of minerals -- also tasted yech. Here in Portland (suburb of), the water tastes relatively good, but not as good as the areas that get their water from the Bull Run reservoir.
I use tap water for coffee. I suppose if I were to try the tea stuff, I'd be required to use bottled water for purity.
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@Rainman said in Okay I can't deny that this completely works:
I assume it's important to use bottled water.
When I lived in San Francisco, the tap water was yech. When I lived in Tucson, we had a system installed because the water was so hard and full of minerals -- also tasted yech. Here in Portland (suburb of), the water tastes relatively good, but not as good as the areas that get their water from the Bull Run reservoir.
I use tap water for coffee. I suppose if I were to try the tea stuff, I'd be required to use bottled water for purity.
We have good enough tap here, so that's all I use.
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@Rainman said in Okay I can't deny that this completely works:
I assume it's important to use bottled water.
I have never used bottled water for tea in my life. I suppose if you're going to drink it out of a Mason Jar or sieve it through a Japanese silk purse or something, then you might want to boil it first so that you can be absolutely sure that the revolting taste has nothing to do with the water.
Other than that, I wouldn't bother.
