• Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world
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        27 minutes ago

        Most of us for sure. The southern way of making tea is to boil water with the tea bags in it until you have a black concentrated bitter concoction. Next you mix it with four to five times the amount of water and add enough sugar to trigger a diabetic coma. Then you put it in the fridge and serve it over ice. I can’t have it anymore and stay alive. I’ve grown used to making my tea in the British shall I say worldwide way. After having tea this way for a over a decade I can’t stand the smell of sweet tea. I do make a large batch of unsweetened tea to drink over ice in the summer. I have to use four to five times as much tea with less water added. I do not over boil the water to make it palatable to me.

        The few times others have drank it they have commented on how its not bitter. I don’t think very many us realize good tea is not bitter.

        • BigBenis@lemmy.world
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          I lived in Texas for a few years and can confirm, southern-style sweet tea is just tea-flavored syrup.

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      You’re definitely making tea wrong if you’re putting the tea in boiling water.

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          It gets bitter if you use water that’s too hot. For black tea you’ll want to bring it to a boil, then take it off the heat and you can pretty much immediately add the tea then. For green tea you want it quite a bit cooler than that, and so forth.

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            38 minutes ago

            That’s basically what I do. I use a water boiler and put the boiling water into a cup or can with tea bag or more often tea strainer. Sorry if I was implying anything other than that

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                It was silly of you to think you can “just be silly”. This is a very serious community for all I know

      • ✺roguetrick✺@lemmy.world
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        50 minutes ago

        Listen, if I’m using years old mass market black tea, scalding it is hardly going to make a difference. It’s like saying your fucking up freeze dried coffee because your water is too hot.

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          I shudder at the thought of freeze dried coffee being even more fuckef up than it already is.

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    17 hours ago

    Then the Boston Tea Party already turned the ocean into tea in 1700’s. So how long does it stay that way?

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    19 hours ago

    Nah, there is an upper limit on how quick the infusion would permeate the same as you can see it permeate in the cup.

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      19 hours ago

      I’m curious what the upper limit is before the tea leaves have released all they were going to release. I routinely male a 500ml flask of tea with a single tea bag. Could I male a litre?

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        18 hours ago

        It will reach an equilibrium concentration. Then no more can come out. If you then put it in fresh water, more would come out. Etc.