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Anyone drink tea? Have suggestions for a simple recipe? (lm.paradisus.day)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/coffee

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I love coffee, but have a surplus of tea bags that I want to experiment with. Does anyone have suggestions for how to get started with tea? Or a simple recipe to use as a baseline? I'm only working with tea bags at this time, which appear to be 2g. I would also love to know how much agitation you are supposed to do with the tea bag itself.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

For bagged black tea, I use a kettle to boil water, pour it over the bag in a 15 oz mug, and steep for three minutes. If you don't have a kettle, a microwave works fine (contrary to what snobs say), but be aware that it will be hotter than you'd get from a kettle because it also heats the mug. If the tea is bitter, cut the heat and steep time. If it's not strong enough, adding more tea leaves is ideal, but adding heat or steep time can also help.

Edit: I don't agitate tea as it is steeping but I imagine it would have a similar effect to increasing steep time.