Okay this tea crap is way, WAY out of hand.
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wrote on 3 Nov 2020, 14:53 last edited by
Hey, we don't put cow secretions into our tea like people in some countries.
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wrote on 3 Nov 2020, 15:32 last edited by Aqua Letifer 11 Mar 2020, 15:40
@kluurs said in Okay this tea crap is way, WAY out of hand.:
Whose your supplier for Asatsuyu Sencha? I’ll have to give it a chance.
Amazon! Arrives in 2 days.
Watch the brewing though. If you don't rinse it, the first infusion takes like 10-15 seconds. The second one is almost immediate. Sometimes the third, too.
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I've occasionally wondered what aging hipsters do in their spare time.
wrote on 3 Nov 2020, 15:33 last edited by@Doctor-Phibes said in Okay this tea crap is way, WAY out of hand.:
I've occasionally wondered what aging hipsters do in their spare time.
I'm also marginally employed. Don't forget that too!
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wrote on 13 Nov 2020, 17:01 last edited by
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wrote on 13 Nov 2020, 17:07 last edited by
You appear to have purchased an artisan tea pot. That sorry excuse for a spout is going to spill the stuff everywhere.
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You appear to have purchased an artisan tea pot. That sorry excuse for a spout is going to spill the stuff everywhere.
wrote on 13 Nov 2020, 17:12 last edited by Aqua Letifer@Doctor-Phibes said in Okay this tea crap is way, WAY out of hand.:
You appear to have purchased an artisan tea pot. That sorry excuse for a spout is going to spill the stuff everywhere.
Master Zheng shits generally in your direction.
(By the way I wouldn't be so into it if it didn't help so much with my mood and blood pressure. Also I legit get pretty high off it so there's that.)
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wrote on 13 Nov 2020, 17:23 last edited by
There's water all over that artisan table you've got it sitting on, so clearly I was right.
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There's water all over that artisan table you've got it sitting on, so clearly I was right.
wrote on 13 Nov 2020, 17:34 last edited by@Doctor-Phibes said in Okay this tea crap is way, WAY out of hand.:
There's water all over that artisan table you've got it sitting on, so clearly I was right.
Ikea cutting board. Basically the polar opposite if "small batch."
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wrote on 13 Nov 2020, 17:41 last edited by
You went to Ikea? Like, in person????
Can this year get any freaking weirder?
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You went to Ikea? Like, in person????
Can this year get any freaking weirder?
wrote on 13 Nov 2020, 17:50 last edited by@Doctor-Phibes said in Okay this tea crap is way, WAY out of hand.:
You went to Ikea? Like, in person????
Can this year get any freaking weirder?
Right?? I'm ready for a factory reset at this point.
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wrote on 14 Nov 2020, 11:59 last edited by
Aqua at IKEA.
I need to let that picture develop a bit.
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wrote on 14 Nov 2020, 12:56 last edited by
Retail Hell. I hate that place.
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wrote on 14 Nov 2020, 14:27 last edited by
I quite like the Swedish meatballs.
We used to go there primarily as they would look after the kids for an hour while we sat silently in the cafe with the hundred yard stare well known to parents of toddlers everywhere.
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wrote on 14 Nov 2020, 14:50 last edited by
I used to joke that if I only had an hour to live, I'd like to do it at IKEA as it would seem like a lifetime there.
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wrote on 14 Nov 2020, 15:59 last edited by
@brenda said in Okay this tea crap is way, WAY out of hand.:
Aqua at IKEA.
I need to let that picture develop a bit.
They have good hotdogs. That's it.
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wrote on 14 Nov 2020, 18:16 last edited by
Don't tell anybody, but I'm quite intrigued by the totally legal high. I've put the organic stuff on my Amazon wishlist and might give it a shot when nobody's looking.
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Don't tell anybody, but I'm quite intrigued by the totally legal high. I've put the organic stuff on my Amazon wishlist and might give it a shot when nobody's looking.
wrote on 14 Nov 2020, 18:33 last edited by@Doctor-Phibes said in Okay this tea crap is way, WAY out of hand.:
Don't tell anybody, but I'm quite intrigued by the totally legal high. I've put the organic stuff on my Amazon wishlist and might give it a shot when nobody's looking.
Not all tea works the same, you gotta shop around a bit. Some stuff is just an extremely good mood booster. Other stuff, like 10-year-old white tea, can very well knock one on one's ass. I feel really weird after too much of it.
Gotta brew it gong fu style though, not western.
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wrote on 14 Nov 2020, 18:40 last edited by
@Aqua-Letifer said in Okay this tea crap is way, WAY out of hand.:
Asatsuyu
It's the organic stuff on the far left of the picture, right?
Don't start backpedaling on me now!
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@Aqua-Letifer said in Okay this tea crap is way, WAY out of hand.:
Asatsuyu
It's the organic stuff on the far left of the picture, right?
Don't start backpedaling on me now!
wrote on 14 Nov 2020, 20:35 last edited by Aqua Letifer@Doctor-Phibes said in Okay this tea crap is way, WAY out of hand.:
@Aqua-Letifer said in Okay this tea crap is way, WAY out of hand.:
Asatsuyu
It's the organic stuff on the far left of the picture, right?
Don't start backpedaling on me now!
Yeah, I've found that that one's pretty hardcore. Like, the walls don't start melting, but I can only drink so much at a time, it's definitely up there with the theanine level. I drink that one every morning.
Just remember, gotta brew it differently. You don't need any fancy ass stuff, even a bowl would work.
I got my dad on it, actually. Not to get too dark or anything, but he was on a pretty strong opioid regimen because of his myriad back and neck surgeries—some successful, some not. He started noticing that, well, maybe he was taking too much of that shit. The prospect of being an addict scared the hell out of him so he quit cold turkey. But amidst all the weird shit that comes from opioid withdrawal, he now had to deal with the pain again.
I sent him a packet of the organic stuff and told him, look, this is gonna seem like weird hippie shit, but just try this for a week and see if it does anything for you. (I told him I wouldn't waste his time with it if I didn't think it would actually be helpful.) He said it helps a little bit with the pain management but it's done wonders for his mood. His back still hurts but he cares a lot less.
This is a guy who was on a painkiller regimen that would stun a horse. He said after about the third day, "y'know I think that tea has a little bit of kick to it! I drank some in the morning, washed the cars, and went out to ref two soccer games." So, yeah, probably something to it.
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wrote on 14 Nov 2020, 20:54 last edited by
Although most of our tea is quaffed with spoonful of demerara in it, we have some white needle and a dedicated brown 'artisan' teapot. Ours is maybe half the size of yours with some of chinese characters and I have a sneaking suspician they say something like 'The smaller our pot, the more you pay'.
