Sweet Iced Tea

uh this sounds totally amazing right now. i have a terrible sore throat and fever and really want to GLUG GLUG forever.

I know, I'm really actually sad my bottle is empty now and the c-store is closed. Today was the first day I'd ever spotted it there.

#1 - 10 Lipton bags for every 4 cups of lukewarm water + 45 mins of steeping time + no stirring or squeezing = awesome tea.

#2 - 1 cup of reg sugar heated gently with 1 cup of water and a few handfuls of crushed mint leaves until sugar dissolves, then cooled to room temp and strained to get the mint out = simple syrup that tastes like being God.

#1 + #2: I may never sleep again.

nice. i saw that stuff the other day, thought about it but ordered something more familiar.

that sounds amazing

laurel

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The teabags went into boiling water, right? Even if cooled down almost immediately. If not you didn't make tea, only brown water.

i hate bottled tea with the fake lemon taste. grodey to the max.

The sweet tea I (mistakenly) ordered in the Louisville airport was pretty good to my otherwise militant unsweetened tea taste buds. I still can't deal with the super-sweet tea that's served farther east.

In any case, both are a vastly better that the fucking abomination fruity tea I occasionally run into in the West. It's TEA - not mango chutney kiwi tea flavored tea. Man, if only Arthur Dent had a gun...

Laurel has tipped you all off to a significant reason that I put on so much weight between 21 and 24. I used to drink homemade sweet tea (with and without mint, but ALWAYS with sugar) every damn day. Yikes.

Damn, its great on a hot day.

I used to just throw herbal teabags into a 1L bottle in the fridge with a few tablespoons of sugar and leave it overnight in the fridge.
I need to get some lipton black and start doing that again now that summer is finally here with a vengeance

^Like daggers into my english heart.

yeah ed I have also been known to not eat every part of a pig

more ears for me

enjoy ur

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man i have been known to consume crazy amounts of sweet tea on the daily

back at boys state they called me tea man

I make and drink sweet tea non-stop all summer. My recipe:

1. Pour boiling water over 6-8 tea bags (6 Lipton, 2 mint or other flavor) and 1 tsp. baking soda (prevents bitterness) in a 26 oz Mason/pasta sauce jar (old Classico jars work perfectly). Cover and steep > 20 minutes.
2. Mix hot concentrate with 1/2 to 3/4 Splenda in a large (1-2 gallon) pitcher until Splenda dissolves. Fill rest of pitcher with cold water and chill.

You can sub part or all sugar for the Splenda too.

my mom used to make sun tea out on the back porch in this giant glass jug. Just let it sit out for an afternoon with like 10 or 12 bags and god only knows how much sugar, chill and glug glug.

"hey there's tea man over there"

"why do you guys call him tea man"

"because he drinks a lot of tea"

Hahahaha

yeah they were some creative motherfuckers

I always wondered how they wrote the dialogue in flight of the conchords

let's say i was making iced tea with british tea bags (which are bigger and seem to taste different to liptons, although that may just be due to different water temperature). what would i do differently? anyone got any numbers here, or am i just going to have to experiment?

i feel like tracer or laurel should know the answer.

i've put it up on howdidyoumakethat -

http://www.howdidyoumakethat.com/content/drinks/one-glass-iced-tea

there are no doubt better ways but this is fast and tastes Real Good. i'm sure that hugh-fearnley whitting's tall has some method involving burlap and tantric sex but you know.

i fucking hate sweet tea by the way.

i love sweet tea, but with real sugar, not simple syrup

Sweet tea is abysmal. Apart from one brand of peach iced tea they have in the vending machines here which is pretty gentle with the sweetness and it is appropriate with the peach.

sweet bottled/canned tea is gross. but fresh iced tea with sugar is a very different thing.

"The table wine of the south" is served way too goddamn sweet down here.

the only recipe i could find written by a brit (and therefore presumably calibrated for british tea bags and boiling water from a kettle) was by delia, who is not to be trusted. ty, tracer.

hang on, is it ok to put water out of a kettle into a glass, or am i going to end up with my shit fucked up by broken glass?

we put glass casserole dishes in the oven...

yeah, but i) they get hot gradually as the oven heats up and have a large heat capacity and ii) they are presumably pyrex not glass

oh

dunno caek it's always worked for me!

i've seen glass get fucked up by boiling water, but i think if the glass isn't too cold and/or thin and the water is below boiling point then you can generally get away with it.

ok, but if i lose my sight then i'm going to be very disappointed

it's an exciting recipe

Hating when people act like "tea" is some generic thing and that Lipton is some generalized standard.

We've got at least one pitcher of iced tea in the fridge all summer, with Luzianne bags used in that Mr. Iced Tea contraption for the default brew. Other loose teas used for variety, or if we run out. My parents are on an iced green tea kick.

Unless you're drinking it in the south, and it's not over-sugared, fuck a sweet tea.

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i don't really like lipton tbh

Would drink a lot more of this in the summer, but iced tea occasionally gives me heartburn for some unknown reason.

no idea what's going to happen when i try this with yorkshire tea

the other day when i asked for my iced tea with cream and sugar the deli guy thought i was batshit

i was like get a grip

My grandfather used to make sun tea all summer.

I know that glug glug feeling that iced tea gives you. It's definitely like you never want to stop drinking it. I just bought 72 tea bags and I probably only drink 4-10 a week so it's a perfect way to use these.

cream in iced tea! oh you wacky americans, always bitching about our tea.. you put cream in yours??
note to self: try cream in iced tea, it sort of sounds yummy

americans do NOT put cream in tea

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^ been hooked on this stuff for years now.

Iced tea is too wonderful to ruin with sweetness.

Iced tea w/lemon is rad...iced tea w/out sugar or anything else kind of tastes like ditch water...iced tea with sugar is an adult-friendly Kool-Aid. Iced tea is something I'll drink at someone else's house, if they offer it, but I don't go out of my way to find it.

Also everyone I know calls it 'ice tea,' incl. myself.

I bought a 100 ct. box of Lipton teabags at lunch spec to make ice tea. I blame this thread.

Ha - I just did the whole "ice tea" thing right there Abs.

Iced tea is too wonderful to ruin with sweetness.

I would like to take up a PayPal collection to repair your tastebuds.

No shame! I just try to look less like the hick that I half-am sometimes.

Dan wld you agree w/my 'ditch water' simile?

i drink ditch water style all the time. it's good!

Maybe I am also revealing hick status by saying I know what ditch water tastes like ;_;

Is there a difference in pronunciation between "iced tea" and "ice tea"? I submit the answer is no.

I disagree about the ditch water. I like it just plain.

I would agree with "ditch water" only there are times when I do want unsweetened iced tea; there's def a very earthy taste to it, though, like the cold is amplifying the fact that you are drinking water that has had old leaves sitting in it.