Okay I can't deny that this completely works
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This is my tea gear.
The thermos is for maté (hot), and the pitcher is for tereré (cold). There are people who get really into it (of course, like anything) and will tell you which yerba is better for maté and which for tereré, and also which type of guampa (the recipient) is best for each one.
I just use whatever. For maté, I have some chamomile that I add on top of the yerba, and for tereré I throw mint leaves into the pitcher of ice water.I have a bunch of guampas, some just for decoration, but the two I have here are the ones I actually drink out of. One was hand-carved out of some wood indigenous to Paraguay, and the other is just cheap and metal inside.
You really don´t need a guampa/gourd to drink it properly, but I think having a bombilla (the spoon straw thingy) is pretty important. I´m sure people can come up with something comparable, but you can find them cheap online so I´d recommend that if you like maté, get a spoon straw thingy and just stick it in a mug. Additionally, when you are drinking tereré, it makes the whole process so much more refreshing. Whatever you do, avoid any of that maté in tea bags.
All that being said, I usually do prefer coffee.
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Nice, Opti! I like that term, "recipient."
With Chinese tea sets, they call the pitcher the fairness cup. The terminology alone is hilarious, and as Phibes would say, in a "reading poetry in the park" kind of way.I've gone back and forth with tea and coffee so many times. But I think now, for me, tea wins out. Simply because you can get jacked on the caffeine, but the theanine in the tea keeps the caffeine from making you feel wired or jittery. So you just feel generally excellent for about 6 hours and no crash.
(CULTURAL APPROPRIATION TRIGGER WARNING.) I also bought a gaiwan online for about ten bucks. It's basically just a very specifically-shaped tea cup with a lid. But you use them to brew the tea, not drink out of. I like that they're cheap (because I'm absolutely going to break it), quick and easy to use, stupid easy to clean, and no metal or plastic, no silly filtering required.
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I can't wait until he's old enough to drink beer.
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@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!!!
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Oh Christ, not more jam-jar pictures.
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@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!
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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:
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.
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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
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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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Neither do, I unless I'm trolling Phibes. Mason jars are for food storage, syrup, honey, and portable leftovers.
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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.
