you need to be slow maxxing. you need to be reading long, fat books. you need to be making 48 chocolate chip cookies. you need to spend hours watching wildlife. you need to spend 15 mins making coffee. you need to breathe in and out. you need to be slowwwwwww

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      5 days ago

      That’s how I make tea. Steep it for a few hours. Then throw it out and try again.

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        If you don’t mind peppermint it is a great tea to do this with.

        Tastes good hot or cold with ice and you can steep it for a long time without it getting bitter.

        If you forget it just put it in the fridge when you encounter it later.

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          I can’t second this, fresh my peppermint tea tastes like peppermint, when I let it steep too long it tastes, let’s say, leafy and more like spearmint, and leaves a feeling in my mouth like I’ve chewed on rubber. The freshness is gone, I guess the menthol evaporates. I take two bags, and let it steep for no more than 5 minutes.

          I hope my descriptions make sense, taste is hard to describe!

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            That’s fair, I like that spearmint taste and am not sure I’ve ever noticed that mouth feel.

            I guess YMMV

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      Be me, have a coffee machine that needs 30 minutes to preheat. Forget you preheated it and let it go into energy savings mode. Reheat it and forget it again. Have a headache for half the day because you’re feeling the addiction. Take a nap.

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      i love my aeropress. boil the water, actively make it in a couple minutes, then pour into an insulated mug you can’t put in the microwave so when it inevitably sits on your desk for a day you can’t put it in the microwave.