/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>12887820
I mean, thanks but don't get me wrong, I know about the gourd and I have been using a bombilla already, I just wanted to now if the method I'm using is right
Honestly I'll just leave it here and hope someone else who drinks mate doesn't find anything weird with it

I bring a little bit of water to a boil in metal teapot to warm it up while I heat a liter and a half of water in a heater. Then I discard the boiling water open the lid to let it cool down a bit, pour nearly half of and a half of water inside the kettle to both to raise the temperature of the water (which might have dropped a couple degrees in the process) and lower the temperature of the kettle to make sure it stabilizes at 80 C°, then I pour 15 grams (1g mate every 100 ml) and pour the rest of the water on it so it's completely covered. Then I close the teapot and I let it settle for at least 15 minutes and start taking cup after cup. A teapot usually lasts a couple hours this way, until the mate becomes too strong. I tried making a second infusion with these same leaves after 2 hours, but it's just colored water.

Basically I'm using the teapot as my gourd. I do pour from it into a cup and drink from a bombilla, because every time I pour I get a healthy dose of leaves in my cup.

Thinking about it, I might just be a smidge too autistic about this, it's a pretty good method. I just wanted to know some other mate drinker's opinion about it to know if I'm fucking something up in the process.