i like arizona ice tea
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Yup, that is some good stuff. You should try the new Green tea with gingseng. They added honey to it. Taste quite good.
Wow. That's a little weird that you brought up that subject because I finally found a competitive way to make ice tea against Arizona tea. Your timing is good because I just honed my tea recipe last week. Let me explain:
I have several Asian co-workers who introduced me to dry herbal tea leaves (it was served hot, as it is customary). I went bonkers over drinking the succulent tea because it BLEW THE DOORS OFF Lipton tea's taste. BOOM! CRASH! (just like that). I have tried to enjoy the weak taste of Lipton tea, but the acceptance never happened. For me, Lipton tea has always been bland.
Well, I drove with an Asian friend over to an Asian food market store and they have one aisle just dedicated to selling tea herbs! HEB (grocery store) would never do something like that! Anyway, I have bought several different herbal tea and ALL were good! You can easily control the intensity of taste (strong or weak). My favorite is Oolong tea. This is my recipe that I will happily share
fill the coffee maker about 9-10 cups of water.
2 Tablespoons (leveled) of dry tea leaf (add less if you want a weaker taste)
3 packages of sugar substitute (those small pink packages)
put the tea leaf and sugar in the coffer maker bin (where the coffee grinds normally are placed)
When then coffee maker is done, put about 1 teaspoon of lime juice in the coffee pitcher.
Let the coffee cool down, and place it in the refrigerator to make it cold.
The reason I use sugar substitute is that it goes THROUGH the coffee maker filter. Regular sugar has grains that are too big to go through the coffee maker filter. My Asian female friend laughed at me and said, "Why do you put regular sugar in the coffee glass pitcher instead?" I told her, "I don't know".
I am not an expert, but I do THINK that a coffee maker does a great job of extracting the flavors from the tea leaves and it is VERY convenient. I cannot think of any other better way to make tea. I have been able to reuse the dry tea leaf, too. But it will mold if left too long.
The cool thing about buying the Asian tea is that some containers do not have a "feminine" look to it. I bought a tea can that had a ferocious dragon! I have to drive about 30 miles to the Asian store to buy the dry tea leafs. Yes, my local grocery store (2 miles away) does carry dry tea leaves, but it is very expensive. At the Asian store, it is cheap. I pay $4.00 - $6.00 for a can, plus I can get a cool looking can design. It feels kind of weird that a white guy, like me, goes into an Asian, but it's cool and very interesting to see the Asian cultural side of life. I mostly drink the hot version of the tea, especially when I'm practicing on my unicycle during the cooler weather.
Since I gave out a tea recipe, and if you try it and if you experiment further, would you let me know how you improved on the taste? The best thing about making your own tea is that is CHEAPER THAN ARIZONA tea!
I have several Asian co-workers who introduced me to dry herbal tea leaves (it was served hot, as it is customary). I went bonkers over drinking the succulent tea because it BLEW THE DOORS OFF Lipton tea's taste. BOOM! CRASH! (just like that). I have tried to enjoy the weak taste of Lipton tea, but the acceptance never happened. For me, Lipton tea has always been bland.
Well, I drove with an Asian friend over to an Asian food market store and they have one aisle just dedicated to selling tea herbs! HEB (grocery store) would never do something like that! Anyway, I have bought several different herbal tea and ALL were good! You can easily control the intensity of taste (strong or weak). My favorite is Oolong tea. This is my recipe that I will happily share
fill the coffee maker about 9-10 cups of water.
2 Tablespoons (leveled) of dry tea leaf (add less if you want a weaker taste)
3 packages of sugar substitute (those small pink packages)
put the tea leaf and sugar in the coffer maker bin (where the coffee grinds normally are placed)
When then coffee maker is done, put about 1 teaspoon of lime juice in the coffee pitcher.
Let the coffee cool down, and place it in the refrigerator to make it cold.
The reason I use sugar substitute is that it goes THROUGH the coffee maker filter. Regular sugar has grains that are too big to go through the coffee maker filter. My Asian female friend laughed at me and said, "Why do you put regular sugar in the coffee glass pitcher instead?" I told her, "I don't know".
I am not an expert, but I do THINK that a coffee maker does a great job of extracting the flavors from the tea leaves and it is VERY convenient. I cannot think of any other better way to make tea. I have been able to reuse the dry tea leaf, too. But it will mold if left too long.
The cool thing about buying the Asian tea is that some containers do not have a "feminine" look to it. I bought a tea can that had a ferocious dragon! I have to drive about 30 miles to the Asian store to buy the dry tea leafs. Yes, my local grocery store (2 miles away) does carry dry tea leaves, but it is very expensive. At the Asian store, it is cheap. I pay $4.00 - $6.00 for a can, plus I can get a cool looking can design. It feels kind of weird that a white guy, like me, goes into an Asian, but it's cool and very interesting to see the Asian cultural side of life. I mostly drink the hot version of the tea, especially when I'm practicing on my unicycle during the cooler weather.
Since I gave out a tea recipe, and if you try it and if you experiment further, would you let me know how you improved on the taste? The best thing about making your own tea is that is CHEAPER THAN ARIZONA tea!
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I buy it buy the case, every 3 weeks or so I go up to sams club and get 3 or 4 cases. Arizona = ice tea of the gods
Originally posted by: cavearea
3 packages of sugar substitute (those small pink packages) ...........
The reason I use sugar substitute is that it goes THROUGH the coffee maker filter. Regular sugar has grains that are too big to go through the coffee maker filter. My Asian female friend laughed at me and said, "Why do you put regular sugar in the coffee glass pitcher instead?" I told her, "I don't know".
Yup she is right, you can mix sugar directly into the decoction later. Not to mention that those "small pink packages" are know to grow lab-rats unwanted extra organs like ears etc....
I prefer to stick to regular sugar. Not worth having an extra ear grow on my back like a lab-rat...
If you like tea, you can also try Indian tea, they are also quite strong and you don't have the hassle of dealing with tea-leaves.-j
i just bought a case and i'm quite satisfied. =) the honey does add something to the green tea. quite refreshing
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