#tea experiments

[just-somehuman]

Experimented with tea at 2AM this morning. I have come to like bitter tea, oddly enough. The bitterness is awful but I like it for some reason. Also tea with honey isn't as bad as I thought it was? (I'm a loyal sugar user lol)

My tea rankings from my experiments:

1 - Tea with milk + sugar

2 - Tea with milk + honey

3 - Bitter tea

4 - Tea with just sugar

5 - Tea with just honey

6 - Tea with just milk

7 - Raw teabag

[paradife-loft]

finally (f i n a l l y) went out and bought a bunch of whole spices, and have now successfully made my first batch of homemade chai concentrate!

notes for next time:

bit less black pepper?

more ginger (i.e. an actual amount, not just "the small thumb left over in the freezer")

steep everything longer (>10 min for spices, slightly >5 min for tea)

get more loose leaf assam next time I'm buying tea

do I want to make the effort to grab some star anise? maybe

maybe use actual measuring tools for the honey and sugar so I can write down a specific amount for the future

used this time:

5c water

5 english breakfast teabags (steeped at just under boiling)

2 cinnamon sticks

~15 cloves

~12 cardamom pods

1 tbsp black pepper

1/4 tsp nutmeg

~1/4 inch of a vanilla bean

small amount of leftover freezer ginger

approx 1/4c honey and a few tbsp(?) brown sugar

then about a 3:2 ratio of concentrate to whole milk to get to the flavor level I was looking for

(context: trying to replicate the Trader Joe's bottled concentrate's level of Punch You In The Face at a similar liquid ratio, with fewer plastic bottles and ideally more concentrate available in one go)

[moderately-efficient-secretary]

The young master tried a new tea recipe today. He was not satisfied.

[colourless-hydrangeas]

@just-somehuman, you deserve it for your tea crimes.

[mikaelsontrelbrid]

Even the smallest person can change the course of history….

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Kitchen History Season.

[atinyjedi]

I decided to try this cinnamon chamomile ginger tea because I feel like sluggish and in need of cleanse and it's actually working. Yogi tea, you have proved yourself good in both anxiety soothing and cleansing tea and while they're not the best tasting teas I am content with the results.

[babblebuzz]

i made green tea apple cider, i figured hey green tea is gross but apple cider is great so what would happen? what would h app en?

weird. very weird but not bad at all.

[greenwichpips]

green tea + peppermint tea + brown sugar + raw cocoa nibs + milk

LET'S DO THIS