Iced Tea Concentrate
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MasterBlaster
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I prefer coffee in my cave.
Me too.
R
RentalDude
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I've never been much of a coffee drinker in fact I don't own a coffee maker. Brewing tea on the stove really does heat up my whole apartment and is not something I like to do when the weather is already making me melt.
Carl as for steaping tea in the fridge...I need to look into this more but using a family size tea bag to get a 10 or 12 oz glass of tea? I'd like try using a single regular size bag. I like flavored teas and they are a bit too spendy to use three bags for one glass. Also I don't take sugar in my tea but those who do may find the fridge brewed tea less the ideal.
There maybe some risk in drinking sun brewed tea but I bet more people in my town have died crossing the street at the wrong time then from a glass or two of sun brew.
Carl as for steaping tea in the fridge...I need to look into this more but using a family size tea bag to get a 10 or 12 oz glass of tea? I'd like try using a single regular size bag. I like flavored teas and they are a bit too spendy to use three bags for one glass. Also I don't take sugar in my tea but those who do may find the fridge brewed tea less the ideal.
There maybe some risk in drinking sun brewed tea but I bet more people in my town have died crossing the street at the wrong time then from a glass or two of sun brew.
Paul B
I dig hammocks.
sotc
Dormant hero!!
thats cause you dont have sun up there
Paul B
I dig hammocks.
its just a short season is all, the last two days we have been near 30 degrees!
lumberjack
Young man on the go
Jerry I used a glass because it was handy. The tea was way stronger than I would drink. If you'd like I could try our regular recipe (3 FS packs per gallon) tonight and see how it goes. I'll add sugar later assuming it works out.
A tea brewer costs $20 and has a fairly low heat output (more efficient than a pot methinks).
My comments regarding sun tea are for my volumetric self. Beginning of supper last night, this was full, meaning I had 122-124oz with my jumbalia and crackers w/ deviled ham.
Che
Treehouser
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New twist on the concentrate.....I've gone through a couple gallons since I first tried it. I like it, REALLY cut down on the diet colas. But it was a PITA to keep measuring....I took a cow tag marker (paint pen) and marked my big plastic tea glass at 1-1/4 cup, then put another mark at 2 cups.
Now I just pour it in and be done with it.
Now I just pour it in and be done with it.
SkwerI
Treehouser
Bump for this thread-
I use a second coffee maker for making tea now. Tea leaves a residue in the coffeemaker which will affect the flavor of the coffee IMO. I buy the regular tea bags instead of the 'family size' because they are about half the cost. And instead of just piling the tea bags in the basket, I use a coffee filter and cut open the tea bags, dumping the loose tea into the filter. This way I only need 9-10 bags to make a gallon of tea (each pot is a half gallon, I run two pots of water through the tea).
I'm trying to gradually reduce the amount of sugar I use also. Store bought tea is way too sweet but unsweetened tea is undrinkable and sugar won't dissolve in cold tea. I was using about a cup per gallon, now I'm down to about 3/4 cup.
