cold tea belong to sinkhole
I just gotta say it does not take three minutes for a microwave to heat water
It takes 3 minutes for me as well
then you got something wrong with your microwave, they literally work by heating the water molecules in the food
When I was very young, I tried to make tea for the first time on my own by putting a mug full of water on the burner and turning the heat to the max. When I raised the mug, the bottom just came off and it spilled hot water all over the place. Thankfully I didn’t burn myself.
You turn the stove on with the vessel. Go and do something else did ten minutes. Bam, boiling water
You guys don’t use Turkish Combustion Kettle to boil water?
This post stresses me out so much. Why is how people warm water such a tribalistic topic???
I did not choose to be part of the stove kettle tribe, I was born into it.
Pretty funny to complain about how long it takes to boil water when it would take way longer to cold-brew tea.
You’re assuming they’re doing a good job making cold tea and not just drinking lightly flavored cold water.
You can leave cold brew in the fridge and it’s ready when you want it. For hot drinks, you need to heat up the water, so that’s extra time between when you decide you want tea and when it’s ready for consumption.
Counterpoint: I actually like cold drinks quite a bit, e.g. cooled-down coffee with lots of cold milk, but I rarely have the patience to actually plan for that.
The best is that someone then took this exchange and made it into a Shakespeare script:
I know someone else drew it into a comic but I’m having trouble finding it.
That was magnificent.
Did they suggest putting a mug full of water on the stovetop?? That’s so dangerous. Mugs are not meant for that kind of direct heat, and picking it up will be tricky too.
I’m used to stoves taking at least ten minutes just to warm up
The nice thing about gas stoves is they get hot instantly. I now have an induction stove and it’s a lot slower.
Every study I’ve seen comparing gas and induction stoves shows induction stoves boiling water more quickly. Have you measured it?
Edit: Are you thinking of electric or induction? They’re different.
Fuck gas stoves. Takes twice as long to boil water compared to induction.
Yeah my induction can boil a cup of water in like a minute, minute and a half.
I cold brewed tea before. It’s not bad.
I’m a lunatic, I do both. Hot for actual tea, or cold for tea flavored water with green tea.
Everyone in this entire thread is hearby banned from entering the UK.
Don’t worry, they’re not missing much, though if things get a bit dicy here, we may need to capture these folks and put them in the stocks to unite the country around a common enemy.
Tea. Earl Grey. Cold?
As a matter of fact, Earl Grey makes for a very interesting iced tea. You might combine it with straight black or green tea to dampen the flavor, but in any case, it has kind of a strong, flowery taste that makes for a nice variation.
You can of course brew it cold overnight, if you’re really in to the whole ‘cold’ angle.
I grew up drinking orange pekoe tea from the time I was born. I’ve seen my mom prepare tea with milk and sugar in a baby bottle for my younger brothers so I can safely guess she did the same for me.
And we liked to make it strong! We’d have a giant metal pot that held about 2 liters of liquid, get it at a rolling boil, throw in eight tea bags and let it continue boiling for a minute until the liquid turned into coffee.
I left home when I was 20 to live in other parts of the country and I’ve never met anyone else that made tea properly.
I’ve seen people mildly heat water or microwave it.
The best one was a restaurant I used to go to for great breakfast … I asked for tea a few times because I’m always nostalgic for it. They always made shitty tea and I wondered why … until one day the waitress admitted to me that the hot water tap wasn’t so hot today and she didn’t know why … THEY USED HOT TAP WATER TO MAKE TEA!!!
Tea with milk and sugar in a baby bottle…?
But why? Do they want a cranky baby that doesn’t sleep?
Babies can’t process caffeine in the same way as adults. If anyone is reading this and thinks it’s a good idea to give your child black tea of any sort, you should absolutely wait until the kid is at least 10-12 yrs old… The kiddo will be absolutely wired and it negatively impacts their ability to sleep. Overall this is a very bad idea.
Edit: also refined sugar is a big no no for kids younger than 2 yrs old.
My parents were old time hunters and trappers who were born in the wilderness … so they weren’t up to date with the latest pediatric recommendations at the time.
I’m sorry what? There’s a lot to unpack here
I’m indigenous Canadian and I’m the first generation in my family to be born in a modern hospital. My parents were born and raised in the wilderness and lived a very traditional nomadic life for about the first 30 years of their lives. They had a bit of education and they were very bright people but they had no understanding of many modern things … things like feeding a baby caffeinated drink. All they understood is that it was nutritious and filling.
And it didn’t do me any damage … I think?
faucets and secondary taps for sinks that can deliver filtered boiling or chilled (or even sparkling) water do exist.
This was an old time diner style highway restaurant … they were using the same hot water to make tea as they were using to wash the dishes
In my experiance, the water for washing dishes at resteraunts can get extremely hot, easily hot enough to burn you. I think the idea is that the heat helps steriloze the dishware and more easily break up the fats and oils. Ive never personally seen boiling water from a resteraunt tap, but i have seen water at about 175° which im guessing is around 80° C
Edit:79.4 degrees C, damn im good
I agree, restaurant tap water can be very hot … there is even a faucet in some places I’ve seen from coffee machines that can dispense hot water. But all of them fall just below the threshold of boiling water which is 100 degrees C.
Tea needs boiling water at least for a moment in order to brew properly. I don’t know the science of it … I just know from experience and having had tea all my life. If you place an orange pekoe tea bag in anything but boiling water, it will never steep properly. In any other heated water, orange pekoe tea just comes out bland and not as tasty. Like I mentioned in my early comments, my family used to throw tea bags into boiling water and let it stay in rolling boiling water for about 30 seconds and it immediately brews a potent mixture of dark red liquid that has as much caffeine as coffee.
The only other great sin to steeping tea is to place the tea bag in boiling water and immediately mix it all with milk - that guarantees a ruined steeped tea. You wait about five full minutes for the tea to steep before mixing anything with it.
I’ve been frustrated by friends and family all my life who didn’t grow up drinking tea because they’ll boil some water, leave the water sit for a minute or two until it cools off from 100C or even wait several minutes until it cools off to 80C and then try to make a cup of tea. It drives me nuts when they serve me luke warm tea and then pour in a bit of milk into it all and everything turns white.
As you might have guessed … I love my tea.
Have you ever had sun tea? You get a clear glass container, preferably the kind with a nozzle for dispensing drinks from, then you fill it with water and load it up with a bunch of tea bags, maybe 10 per gallon(?), then you close the lid and set it somewhere in direct sunlight in the morning on a hot summer day. By mid afternoon you can take the tea bags out and put the tea container in your refrigerator.
It’s just as dark as regular tea, but it has a smoother flavor. Typically you drink it iced, since it’s a summer drink for hot days.
Yeah I learned that the hard way washing my hands at my buddies house one time in the kitchen.
