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Title: primitives discuss iced tea
Post by: franksolich on July 24, 2011, 02:32:59 PM
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Oh my.

This is a long, long, long summer of desolation and barren-ness, what with Mrs. Alfred Packer, the "hippywife" primitive, being absent from the cooking and baking forum.

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elleng  (1000+ posts)        Wed Jul-20-11 12:33 AM
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Iced Coffee and Tea: (Not) Taking the Heat

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/20/dining/cold-brewing-c...

Believe it or not, that's the best post in the cooking and baking forum all week long.

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GoCubsGo  (1000+ posts)      Sat Jul-23-11 01:38 PM
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1. Very interesting! Thank you for posting that!

I usually just brew extra coffee at breakfast and refrigerate it for late. Or, I use instant if I don't drink any for breakfast. Starbuck's instant coffee is quite good. When I make ice tea, I just brew it extra strong and pour it over lots of ice. Works just fine that way.

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cbayer   (1000+ posts)      Sat Jul-23-11 06:12 PM
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2. I used to buy Cool Brew in New Orleans. It is a concentrated cold brew coffee that is really delicious. You can mix it with water, but I always liked to just have it with cold mild.

Can't find it on the west coats though.

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kestrel91316  (1000+ posts)        Sat Jul-23-11 06:45 PM
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3. I make my summer iced tea by the quart in canning jars.

2 black teabags. Or green, or chai, or herb, or whatever you like. Regular sized tea bags.

1 quart canning jar.

Boiling water. Pour water over bags in jar, but only fill the jar halfway. Steep however long you want, then squeeze out and remove bags.

Fill jar the rest of the way with ice cubes, stirring as they melt. They will cool the tea off and dilute it to just the right strength.

Pour over more ice into tall glass and do whatever you like with it - lemon, sugar, milk, etc.

If you get those white plastic caps for canning jars you can just cap the jar and keep the rest of the tea in the fridge. I go through a quart or more a day just by myself in the summer when it's really hot.

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cbayer   (1000+ posts)      Sat Jul-23-11 06:49 PM
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4. I make it by the gallon in an old pickle jar from the local bar.

I usually put regular bags in and let it brew in the sun for a day, but I recently found these cold brew tea bags that work really well if you are in a hurry.

And I finally discovered that it goes bad much faster if I add the sugar to the whole thing rather than just a glass at a time.

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kestrel91316  (1000+ posts)        Sat Jul-23-11 08:18 PM
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5. It goes bad because it's sun-brewed and not made with BOILED water, I bet. I quit making sun tea after a few batches that developed that water mold taste. Never happens with my brewed tea, sugar or not.

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cbayer   (1000+ posts)      Sat Jul-23-11 08:20 PM
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6. That could be it, because the change happened when I started using the cold brew tea.

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Warpy  (1000+ posts)        Sun Jul-24-11 01:29 PM
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7. That's what soured me on sun tea, too and now I just brew it super strong and keep it in a clean glass jar in the fridge and top it off with ice water to make it drinkable.

An interesting choice of wordage there, by the defrocked warped primitive.

She keeps dirty glass jars in the refrigerator, too?

Anyway.

franksolich when desiring iced tea, just drags out the jar of Nestle iced-tea in the cupboard, mixes some with water, and dumps in ice cubes.  As easy as one-two-three.
Title: Re: primitives discuss iced tea
Post by: Ballygrl on July 24, 2011, 02:50:42 PM
I buy the big can of Lipton and make a gallon at a time, I prefer the Diet Snapple ice tea packets you put in bottled water.

I'm a Republican, how come I don't buy the hoity toity iced coffee drinks and the Starbucks instant coffee? I buy the Folgers instant when it's on sale and I have a coupon. I guess I didn't get the "How To Behave Like A Republican" memo.
Title: Re: primitives discuss iced tea
Post by: Delmar on July 24, 2011, 02:57:39 PM
I pull into the drive-thru at McDonalds and get the big glass of sweet tea.  It's not much more than a buck and when you're finished you only need to pitch the styrofoam glass into the trash for an easy cleanup.
Title: Re: primitives discuss iced tea
Post by: BEG on July 24, 2011, 03:52:14 PM
(http://www.shoppingblog.com/2011pics/rush_limbaugh_two_if_by_tea.jpg)
Title: Re: primitives discuss iced tea
Post by: thundley4 on July 24, 2011, 05:36:48 PM
I pull into the drive-thru at McDonalds and get the big glass of sweet tea.  It's not much more than a buck and when you're finished you only need to pitch the styrofoam glass into the trash for an easy cleanup ditch to destroy the environment.

FIFY to piss off lefties.
Title: Re: primitives discuss iced tea
Post by: Delmar on July 24, 2011, 05:44:17 PM
FIFY to piss off lefties.
I was trying to get the same point across with subtlety.  But I forgot, DUmmies are stupid.  You know them better than me.  I defer.
Title: Re: primitives discuss iced tea
Post by: GOBUCKS on July 24, 2011, 06:43:20 PM
FIFY to piss off lefties.
I usually try to toss my trash into a "wetland", because to me it's still just a swamp.

One of the first things I noticed when we moved here to red state hell was that almost none of the rural roads
have a shoulder where you can pull off the road. Up north, all the county roads were built with a shoulder.
I had to ask people how in hell they got rid of their old furniture, without a shoulder by the road. I discovered
that down here you have to use the interstate highways to dispose of bulky trash.

I'm lucky to have a storm sewer grate in front of my house, so at least I do have a place to get rid of used motor oil
and excess paint.

(Are they pissed off yet?)
Title: Re: primitives discuss iced tea
Post by: NHSparky on July 24, 2011, 07:26:50 PM
I'm partial to sun tea (gallon jug of water, 12 regular tea bags, 2-3 hours in the sun), but Scoobie has discovered MIO.  I think it's decent only because I'm a heathen and don't like sugar or sweet tea, but she loves it.

(http://media.onsugar.com/files/2011/02/08/3/192/1922195/27dc438c4f3e92e6_MiO.xlarge.JPG)
Title: Re: primitives discuss iced tea
Post by: Mr Mannn on July 24, 2011, 07:32:08 PM
I don't like sweet tea either.
I brew my own tea 32 ounces at a time. I steep 3 bags if regular tea and two bags of peppermint tea for 15-30 minutes so its REAL strong. Then I pour it still hot into a 32 oz glass of crushed ice. Right away about half the ice melts diluting it, and by the time I raise the cup to my lips its ice cold.

Yeah. I'm gonna make some now.
Title: Re: primitives discuss iced tea
Post by: BEG on July 24, 2011, 07:32:45 PM
I'm partial to sun tea (gallon jug of water, 12 regular tea bags, 2-3 hours in the sun), but Scoobie has discovered MIO.  I think it's decent only because I'm a heathen and don't like sugar or sweet tea, but she loves it.

(http://media.onsugar.com/files/2011/02/08/3/192/1922195/27dc438c4f3e92e6_MiO.xlarge.JPG)

I don't like sweet tea, it's just WRONG.  It's like salt on watermelon.  You should try Lipton cold brew tea bags.  You brew it for only a few minutes. I make enough for a day because it only takes a few minutes. It is really good.
Title: Re: primitives discuss iced tea
Post by: debk on July 24, 2011, 07:36:21 PM
I don't like sweet tea, it's just WRONG.  It's like salt on watermelon.  You should try Lipton cold brew tea bags.  You brew it for only a few minutes. I make enough for a day because it only takes a few minutes. It is really good.

I use the Lipton herbal teas. The lemon, orange and raspberry are really good. I don't make sweet tea either. I may add about half a pack of Splenda to a glass, if I add anything at all. If I add fruit to it, I don't add any.
Title: Re: primitives discuss iced tea
Post by: NHSparky on July 24, 2011, 07:53:34 PM
I don't like sweet tea, it's just WRONG.  It's like salt on watermelon.  You should try Lipton cold brew tea bags.  You brew it for only a few minutes. I make enough for a day because it only takes a few minutes. It is really good.

Oh, I've had the cold brew bags.  Good luck finding them around here, though.  Hell, I say the words, "sun tea" and I'm looked at like I'm from another planet.  We have three grocery stores here in town and NONE of them carry either the cold brew or the family size teabags.

Then again, I get the same look when I mention fish tacos.
Title: Re: primitives discuss iced tea
Post by: BEG on July 24, 2011, 08:11:50 PM
Oh, I've had the cold brew bags.  Good luck finding them around here, though.  Hell, I say the words, "sun tea" and I'm looked at like I'm from another planet.  We have three grocery stores here in town and NONE of them carry either the cold brew or the family size teabags.

Then again, I get the same look when I mention fish tacos.

Ha  :wink:
Title: Re: primitives discuss iced tea
Post by: GOBUCKS on July 24, 2011, 08:51:54 PM
Tea without sugar is a Euroweenie beverage, but to each his own.
What do I know? I'd much rather have a cold Rolling Rock...

And when I was a kid, I was the only one in the family that didn't put salt on watermelon.
Title: Re: primitives discuss iced tea
Post by: BEG on July 24, 2011, 08:55:01 PM
Tea without sugar is a Euroweenie beverage, but to each his own.
What do I know? I'd much rather have a cold Rolling Rock...

And when I was a kid, I was the only one in the family that didn't put salt on watermelon.

You are wrong, want to wrestle? 
Title: Re: primitives discuss iced tea
Post by: Traveshamockery on July 24, 2011, 09:15:44 PM
I make my iced tea from a recipe from Southern Living except without a lot of sugar.  I still put in 1/4 cup of cane sugar, though.  The cane sugar makes a huge difference. 

3 family-sized Luzianne tea bags added to 4 cups of boiling water and steep for 10 minutes.  Add sugar (up to two cups - that's toooooo much sugar for me) and let it dissolve in the pot with the hot water.  Then you add enough cool water to make a 2 gallon pitcher. 

When my son and his girlfriend (now fiancee'  :-) ) were here for a month, I made it twice a day because they drank so much of it. 

I am going to look into that MIO stuff - looks interesting! 
Title: Re: primitives discuss iced tea
Post by: GOBUCKS on July 24, 2011, 09:17:30 PM
You are wrong, want to wrestle? 
Yes. I remember when Andy Kaufman declared himself the "World's Inter-Gender Wrestling Champion". He offered a big prize to any woman who could pin him. He'd get all these really angry muscular-looking chicks, but he outweighed them by nearly 100 pounds, and would toss them around like rag dolls. It looked like a lot of fun.
Title: Re: primitives discuss iced tea
Post by: BEG on July 24, 2011, 09:39:43 PM
Yes. I remember when Andy Kaufman declared himself the "World's Inter-Gender Wrestling Champion". He offered a big prize to any woman who could pin him. He'd get all these really angry muscular-looking chicks, but he outweighed them by nearly 100 pounds, and would toss them around like rag dolls. It looked like a lot of fun.

Woo hoo, just you wait.  :)
Title: Re: primitives discuss iced tea
Post by: Chris_ on July 24, 2011, 10:08:33 PM
I don't like sweet tea, it's just WRONG.  
:o :(
Title: Re: primitives discuss iced tea
Post by: miskie on July 25, 2011, 05:32:10 AM
I'm a total Keurig junkie. One can buy K-cups for pretty much anything, including a ton of different iced teas.
Title: Re: primitives discuss iced tea
Post by: whiffleball on July 25, 2011, 06:19:08 AM
Ice tea without sugar!  Sacrilege to this Southerner.

I prefer American Classic Tea grown on the only tea plantation in America in the Low Country of SC.   Bigelow owns it now, but the tea is the same as it has always been.  If I don't have AC I use Luzianne or Lipton.  But, always with sugar, always.

This summer I've become addicted to fresh squeezed lemonade, though. 
I use two bags of lemons for each gallon and raw sugar to taste.  It's a pain to juice all those lemons, but the payoff is worth it.
Title: Re: primitives discuss iced tea
Post by: Traveshamockery on July 25, 2011, 06:35:01 AM
Ice tea without sugar!  Sacrilege to this Southerner.

I prefer American Classic Tea grown on the only tea plantation in America in the Low Country of SC.   Bigelow owns it now, but the tea is the same as it has always been.  If I don't have AC I use Luzianne or Lipton.  But, always with sugar, always.

This summer I've become addicted to fresh squeezed lemonade, though. 
I use two bags of lemons for each gallon and raw sugar to taste.  It's a pain to juice all those lemons, but the payoff is worth it.


I do love fresh-squeezed lemonade!  I've never seen American Classic Tea but I will look for it. 
Title: Re: primitives discuss iced tea
Post by: Karin on July 25, 2011, 07:05:58 AM
Lots of strong opinions on the iced tea!  Kinda like a chili thread.  Here's my strong opinion:  I don't touch the stuff, it makes me way over-caffeinated and I can't stand that feeling. 
Title: Re: primitives discuss iced tea
Post by: Mike B the Cajun on July 25, 2011, 07:23:13 AM
Jeez...   

No sugar in iced tea????   :panic:

No salt on watermelon????   :panic:

What kind of barbarians are  ya'll???    :o

Title: Re: primitives discuss iced tea
Post by: whiffleball on July 25, 2011, 07:26:29 AM

I do love fresh-squeezed lemonade!  I've never seen American Classic Tea but I will look for it. 

Here ya go:  http://www.bigelowtea.com/plantation.aspx
Title: Re: primitives discuss iced tea
Post by: NHSparky on July 25, 2011, 07:55:54 AM
I'm a total Keurig junkie. One can buy K-cups for pretty much anything, including a ton of different iced teas.

I can buy Jamaica Blue Mountain or pure Kona Peaberry for less per pound than what crappy little K-Cups cost.
Title: Re: primitives discuss iced tea
Post by: BEG on July 25, 2011, 08:37:18 AM
Jeez...   

No sugar in iced tea????   :panic:

No salt on watermelon????   :panic:

What kind of barbarians are  ya'll???    :o



Listen here Cajun, I make the rules...




 :-)











Title: Re: primitives discuss iced tea
Post by: Chris_ on July 25, 2011, 08:43:15 AM
I agree with Mike.

I prefer sugar in my cornbread, though.  I guess that makes me wrong too.
Title: Re: primitives discuss iced tea
Post by: debk on July 25, 2011, 10:38:51 AM
I put salt on watermelon, a wee bit of sugar in my cornbread.

Fresh-squeezed lemonade is awesome. Especially with a bit of raspberry vodka added to it.  :-)

Lemonade and iced tea mixed is quite good too. Use regular brewed tea, not sweetened tea or it will be too sweet.
Title: Re: primitives discuss iced tea
Post by: Chris_ on July 25, 2011, 10:40:42 AM
Wendy's is serving a "sweet berry tea".  I'm pretty sure it's Lipton mixed with Kool-Aid. :-)
Title: Re: primitives discuss iced tea
Post by: debk on July 25, 2011, 10:45:16 AM
Wendy's is serving a "sweet berry tea".  I'm pretty sure it's Lipton mixed with Kool-Aid. :-)

Last summer, Arby's had a blackberry tea and a peach tea. They were really good. They used the type of syrup that's in coffees or drinks. I haven't been back since they took their gyros and the teas off the menu back in the fall.  :(
Title: Re: primitives discuss iced tea
Post by: GOBUCKS on July 25, 2011, 11:02:20 AM
One can buy K-cups for pretty much anything
Wait til stevenumbers hears they go all the way up to "K".
Title: Re: primitives discuss iced tea
Post by: whiffleball on July 25, 2011, 12:10:08 PM
Last summer, Arby's had a blackberry tea and a peach tea. They were really good. They used the type of syrup that's in coffees or drinks. I haven't been back since they took their gyros and the teas off the menu back in the fall.  :(

You know who has good blackberry and peach tea - Macaroni Grill.  I think you can get it sweetened or non sweetened and it's luscious!
Title: Re: primitives discuss iced tea
Post by: whiffleball on July 25, 2011, 12:11:45 PM
I agree with Mike.

I prefer sugar in my cornbread, though.  I guess that makes me wrong too.

I like cornbread either way depending on my mood.  With pinto beans I like it without sugar.  If I'm just having it on the side of some other dish I'll sometimes go for a sweetened version.