/ck/ - Food & Cooking

I know how to make tea concentrate the way a Copt I know makes it, if that's close enough to what you're asking?

He gets a litre of water, boils it, adds, no joke, a heaping cup of shit-quality loose tea, let it steep a while then strain and add a cup of sugar. Pic related is the brand they buy. It's really, really cheap stuff from a Chinese supermarket. It's sold in Arab supermarkets, too, though it's cheaper at Chinese ones.

The brand is Golden Dragon. The variety is "Orange Pekoe SCENTED" whatever that's supposed to mean. Orange pekoe is a grade of the size of the loose tea, not a scent, wtf.

This tin is 150g and costs $2.99. The 450g/1lb tins cost $5.

This is the top of the tin, by the way. I didn't take a pic of the sides, sorry, because it's all in Chinese anyway other than the orange pekoe thing.

Anyway, they store this in the fridge and add a bit of it to some water and/or milk when they want tea. The recipe given yields about ten servings of tea or so and can be taken hot or cold.

>>8149052
>The brand is Golden Dragon. The variety is "Orange Pekoe SCENTED"
>add a cup of sugar
nasty

how you gonna not know what a teapot is

>>8149059
Kinda.
The last time I brought this recipe up on here was when someone was asking about chifir', which is basically the Russian version of the same thing. I think chifir' isn't sweetened, though I could be mistaken.

>>8149029
buy an electric kettle and loose leaf you idiot

>>8149029
I have a coffee maker i use exclusively for tea. And another one for coffee.

>>8149139
That's actually a p good idea.

>>8149139
Forgot to add that loose leaf is great, but teabags are also fine. It really depends what you get.

Rooibos is ok for evenings when you want to cut down on caffeine.

>>8149139
>>8149156
I do, too, but most tea drinkers turn their nose up to the idea. Until they try the tea.

>>8149164
It's sort of the same deal as people who scoff at filter coffee. But it's really less of an issue with tea. I honestly haven't tasted any better tea than I make through my coffee maker.

>>8149052
>waifu scented tea sounds great

On a srs note, I was under the impression that orange pekoe is a grade, not a kind of tea? How can it smell like a grade?

>>8149139
I used to do this too, can confirm it's delicious. If I ever get the counter space, I will get a little 4-cup coffeemaker and start doing it again.

>>8149193
I thought it was a whole grading system.

>>8149193
Did you stop reading at the very sentence that mentioned OP scented? The next one goes into it.

>>8149182
A friend owns a bakery café proudly championing Chemex™ brewed coffee. They brew several pots of coffee in their modified Erlenmeyer flasks in full view of all patrons and passersby and pour the results into vac flasks, serving customers from those. The place has received several accolades, including from NYT, Gourmet magazine and others.
However!
In the back, they have a Bunn-O-Matic and brew coffee with that when they run low on a particular coffee and the place gets too busy/crowded to brew another pot. And not one customer has ever, ever brought up that they've noticed a difference.

I've even accidentally tested it myself.
I have a pair of vac flasks of my own at home and decided to brew some coffee for everyone at my former office one morning. I don't recall which brand (yes, brand) of coffee I used, but likely Maxwell House French roast.
See, near that office, there's this café that was included in Gourmet Magazine's top 10 coffee joints in the country. I stopped in there on the way in to work. Grabbed a bagel or something, I don't recall, but one of my coworkers must have seen me in there. When I put the coffee out for everyone, he assumed it was from that place and jokingly called me 'big spender' in this creepy Betty Boop voice he does because they charge $3.50 per cup.
Everyone was very appreciative and there were several claims of how that coffee place make "the best coffee!" and "I would make coffee myself if I could do it like they do it." I never bothered correcting anyone.

Moral of the story: coffee is a huge Emperor's New Clothes scam if ever there was one.

/blogpost

Put a teabag of Yorkshire tea / assam / some other strong black tea blend into a cup that holds about 300ml of water
Boil water and pour it into the cup
Leave for three minutes and remove the teabag
Add milk and sugar to taste.

Having something onhand and ready, and nice and cold is definitely a way to reduce soda consumption.

I make a pitcher of tea at bedtime, nuke a 1qt pyrex measuring cup with 2 big pitcher teabags in there. And, just leave it alone when it beeps. Go 10 minutes. Transfer to fridge pitcher to cool, or pour over ice.
Vary the flavor as you wish. Luzianne is a good base (it's orange pekoe black). I will throw in one or two "flavored" tea bags like peppermint herb tea, or constant comment orange-cinnamon. Sweeten when hot, or make yourself some simple syrup. Honey with flavor such as orange blossom is subtle too.

Try decaf bags or herb bags as half the power of the pitcher, so you can go to town having several glasses.

I highly recommend the powdered KLASS or Zuko mexican drink mix. Some are low sugar, and contain real bits of fruit. Guanabana, pina colada and cantaloupe are ridiculously refreshing, and can be used a Tbsp per quart. Add a tsp of that to a big giant glass of iced water and crushed ice and feel less thirsty.
Or the old fashioned aqua fresca:
https://youtu.be/Fi5RpvVDwGE?list=PLX98sAmndWt3-nX6mPd9IEZ6FY8dMfJRv

>>8149233
My knowledge of tea is limited, it could be.

>>8149248
To be honest I only replied because Orange Pekoe is my waifu. I don't even drink tea.

>>8149029
Don't use actual tea, use unsweetened herbal tea. Wild berry zinger is great.

>>8149052
Orange Pekoe is named after the Dutch Royal House of Orange, who preferred it as their tea. Nothing to do with flavour, colour or aroma.

1. Buy a glass electric kettle with a nice removable lid. Aim for larger capacities.

2. Don't throw away the useless lid-bound strainer that cramps the bags/leaves, resulting in a sub-optimal steep. It's actually useful this time.

3. Fill the kettle to maximum capacity and boil accordingly.

4. Once boiled, dump in a proportional amount of bags/leaves and brew.

5. Hold the strainer and pour the brewed tea through it and into storage containers of your choice.

6. Iced tea for days my nigga

7. Clean out your damn kettle (hence glass with removable lid), repeat as needed.

1. take a pot
2. fill it with water
3. let it cool down
4. pour it into pitcher (you can add lemon/lime if you want to)
5. stick it in the fridge?
enjoy

fill a big pot with water and boil
turn off fire once it boils
throw in loose leaf or tea bags (experiment with the amounts if you like it strong or not)
let it cool down enough to put it in a pitcher
put strainer over pitcher if you use loose tea
you can add lemon/lime to it if you want
stick it in the fridge?
enjoy

>>8149139
how? do you put tea leaves in where coffee beans should go?

My parents are heavy tea drinkers and they buy Ahmad Tea London regular black tea.

It's cheap and better quality than most other black tea's I've seen on the market, so if you plan to drink 2 liter tea a day, give Ahmad Tea London a chance.

There is a slight difference in the taste and quality of tea, and the water you use to make the tea with - but the difference is slight ...and I only drink 2-3 cups a day unlike my parents, so I buy teabags with fruit taste, herbal tea or rooibos for when I want to feel comfy.

>>8150081
>2016.756830601
>can't into reading comprehension

JUST USE A FUCKING KETTLE YOU STUPID IDIOT DUMB FUCKING AMERICAN CUUUUUUNTS

>>8150249
Yeah, I will usually put tea leaves in a filter where the coffee goes. Remember that tea is "stronger" than coffee, so you don't need as much per cup of water. Also remember that tea will expand a lot when wet.

If you got teabags, you can put them there too, just make sure they go to the bottom of that filter holder compartment, so the water drains through them.

And also remember to have a seperate cooker for coffee, or else your tea will smell and taste mocca.

>>8149029
My sister likes to take big, glass, gallon jugs and set them out in the sun with a fuckton of teabags in them, down here it gets pretty warm during the day so after a whole day of sitting like that you've got a jug of okay tea.

>>8150970
i do this too. i use black tea and some generic herbal tea from kroger. 7.5/10 would make over the summer.

this thread is pure cringe

>>8152319
Is this /b/? Either explain your grievance or just simply stay off the thread, moron.