Taint wrote:

I think we need to counter that with another visit from this far more uplifiting brew.

Yes, please!

I feel that way about tea sometimes.

sofaking wrote:

How this teabagger is able to make iced tea so creepy is beyond me.

Fuck him. He's not making iced tea. His concoction is liquid cotton candy (candy floss to you Canadians and Limeys) with a weak tea flavoring. There are two kinds of proper "iced" tea, at least in my part of the world. One you pour while hot over ice and the other is stored in the fridge. The latter must age at least a full day in the cold.

I don't much like the hot tea over ice way of doing things, as the tea is quickly diluted.
Below is my recipe. It wasn't passed down to me but is the result of years of experimentation. I've tried to emulate the flavor of tea an aunt would make. She would actually store several gallons of the concentrate and dilute as needed.

Boil water in sauce pan.
Remove from burner.
Add 5 Lipton or Tetley Family Size tea bags.
Cover to retain heat, steam, flavor and as a barrier to bugs, dust, thrown objects, etc.
Steep 15- 45 minutes, or until you remember you're making tea.
Add 3/4 cup sugar to a one gallon container suitable for storing in the fridge.
Pour contents of the sauce pan into the one gallon container. Hold on to the tea bags or you'll have to fish them out. Dumbass.
Fill the rest of the container with cold water.
Stir to dissolve sugar.
Place in refrigerator and age the tea (and presumably yourself) at least 24 hours.
Begin drinking tea.
If kept in the fridge, the tea will keep at least a week. If you're a nasty bastard you might grow mold on the inside of the container lid in that time.
Enjoy.

The biggest piece of stupidity is when he removes "the cardboard tags to keep your tea from tasting like cardboard."  The rest of the civilized world hangs those fuckers over the edge of the pot and uses them to remove the bags later.

And on that note, who does NOT have a fucking tea kettle to boil water in?  Saucepans are for cans of green beans.

I have a fairly new GE electric kettle, and it is the most used appliance in my kitchen.  It's made so the base of the kettle actually doesn't get hot, it's just insulated plastic around a recessed plug that docks it into the baseplate.  You can take a kettle of boiling water, and set it in your hand and walk around with it.  It's fantastic.

Dirckman wrote:

I just buy my tea in bottles from the local grocery store.

Philistine.

whosasailorthen wrote:

jesusluvspegging wrote:

I have a fairly new GE electric kettle, and it is the most used appliance in my kitchen.  It's made so the base of the kettle actually doesn't get hot, it's just insulated plastic around a recessed plug that docks it into the baseplate.  You can take a kettle of boiling water, and set it in your hand and walk around with it.  It's fantastic.

We had one of those plastic ones... it lasted about a year then coughed up it's cookies.  Get a real kettle... get one made in the 1950's, made of chrome-plated brass... it will last you for the rest of your life (and very likely your kid's life).

This one's been used multiple times a day for two or three years now, with no signs of backing down.

Being the only heathen who does not drink tea in my family I can't give precise directions.  They pretty much all use large glass jars set out in the sun to make tea and swear it's the best way.

OK, since most of you seem to understand a kettle is a necessary component of tea making I would direct some of you to Stevia vs. sugar to keep your insulin levels in check.

Fuck knows toe is trying to sweeten shit up so much around here the switch might do us all good.  :)