/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>14379567
1. add leaves to taste / effect (you can start with 1/4th of the bowl)
2. stick the bombilla in there so it's more or less reaching the bottom
3. heat up some water to around 70 degrees celsius (idk how many freedom units that is)
4. add water to leaves, wait a minute until they expand and check if it's not too hot to drink
5. enjoy
6. refill until it loses flavor or until you're satisfied (I like to keep the hot water in a thermal flask)

it's really not that hard since you don't have to worry about brewing times as much as with tea - it's gonna be bitter anyway lol
some other points:
1. this is the easy way to brew mate, there is also another way which is good for especially fine-ground mate and involves molding the leaves into a pile though I forget the exact procedure at the moment
2. remember not to stir the infusion with the bombilla o it might clog up
3. I'd actually personally recommend a 100 ml vessel, since you can often get as many as 10 infusions out of one cup
4. I have a triple filtration bombilla which is good for not getting mate dust in your mouth but does clog up easily - the spoon shaped varieties are usually a good compromise between filtration and not clogging up
5. coldbrew mate is made the same way except with cold water - you may also want to wait longer for it to brew better

>>10769011
works so much longer than coffee it's kinda absurd
I had some at midday and still feeling the effects
>>10769801
just get one encased in metal, the metal holds it together after it cracks for the resin to "glue" it together
>>10770757
you know you can just use a normal cup, right? gourds and palo santo impact flavour a bit, but they're not necessary at all

>>10681809
coffee has the same carcinogens (probably significantly more of them if you drink dark roasts)

that being said, there are many brands of yerba mate made without smoke, and it is more powerful and healthy than any other caffeinated beverage on the market (as long as you make it the traditional way and not like tea)

>>8819384
I like my mate traditional (sometimes with a bit of fresh mint), but a fun thing about mate is that you can brew it with just about anything as long as it's either very cold or 70-80 degrees celsius.
Cold juice, beer and hot milk seem to be the most popular variants.