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[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 hours ago (4 children)

This doesn't work. The water has to be boiling

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

You're definitely making tea wrong if you're putting the tea in boiling water.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

It gets bitter if you use water that's too hot. For black tea you'll want to bring it to a boil, then take it off the heat and you can pretty much immediately add the tea then. For green tea you want it quite a bit cooler than that, and so forth.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

That's basically what I do. I use a water boiler and put the boiling water into a cup or can with tea bag or more often tea strainer. Sorry if I was implying anything other than that

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Oh, I was just trying to be silly by taking you too literally :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

It was silly of you to think you can "just be silly". This is a very serious community for all I know

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

Listen, if I'm using years old mass market black tea, scalding it is hardly going to make a difference. It's like saying your fucking up freeze dried coffee because your water is too hot.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

I shudder at the thought of freeze dried coffee being even more fuckef up than it already is.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 hours ago

just wait one or two more years.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I guess you've never made iced tea then

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago

Not with salt water