Mine

Boil 1 gallon water with a pinch of salt. Remove water from heat and drop in 1 gallon size lipton tea bag. Let it sit for 5 minutes. Remove tea bag. Add 3/4 cup sugar and 3/4 cup country time lemonade. Let cool down slowly and then refrigerate.

9/27/2007 9:23:15 PM

4 cups of ~200F water + 4 family-size tea bags for 4 minutes
add 1 cup sugar and dilute to 1 gallon

[Edited on September 27, 2007 at 9:28 PM. Reason : except i usually use splenda instead of sugar]

9/27/2007 9:27:52 PM

Boil 1 gallon water with a pinch of salt. Remove water from heat and drop in 1 gallon size lipton tea bag. Let it sit for 5 minutes. Remove tea bag. Add 3/4 cup sugar and 3/4 cup country time lemonade. Let cool down slowly and then pour down the drain, then find something that doesn't taste like scrote drippings to drink.

9/27/2007 9:28:34 PM

scrote drippings

haha, wtf

9/27/2007 9:29:26 PM

Quote :

"Boil 1 gallon water with a pinch of salt. Remove water from heat and drop in 1 gallon size lipton tea bag. Let it sit for 5 minutes. Remove tea bag. Add 3/4 cup sugar and 3/4 cup country time lemonade. Let cool down slowly and then pour down the drain, then find something that doesn't taste like scrote drippings to drink. "

9/27/2007 9:29:55 PM

bring to boil 1/3 gallons of water. Place 2 tea bags into pot and let boil for 30-45 seconds. Remove pan from burner, and let it sit for around a minute or so. Pour pot into gallon jug, filling the rest of the jug with more water. Mix in 2 cups of sugar, and BAM!

9/27/2007 9:30:03 PM

damn son, i think that's called syrup

9/27/2007 9:31:17 PM

Bigman, are you too cool to drink tea? you a yankee or something?

9/27/2007 9:37:27 PM

i put 5 of the small lipton teabags in a coffee maker (where the filter and coffee grounds normally go). sprinkle a little baking soda on top of the teabags. run 10 cups of water through the coffee maker. pour into a gallon pitcher with 2 cups of sugar. stir until the sugar is dissolved and add cold water until it fills the gallon pitcher.

straight from my granny's kitchen

9/27/2007 9:57:57 PM

Quote :

"bring to boil 1/3 gallons of water. Place 2 tea bags into pot and let boil for 30-45 seconds. Remove pan from burner, and let it sit for around a minute or so. Pour pot into gallon jug, filling the rest of the jug with more water. Mix in 2 cups of sugar, and BAM!"

this is basically what i do

9/27/2007 10:11:32 PM

wtf, you people do all sorts of complicated shit

Put 3-4 Lipton Family (can't remember) tea bags in 2 cups of water, microwave for 2 minutes. Pour one cup of sugar into a jug. Squeeze out the tea bags and pour the concentrated 2 cups into the sugar. Fill the jug with cold water, stir, ready to serve.

9/27/2007 10:15:36 PM

Water, sugar, tea bags.

Who the fuck puts salt in god damn sweet.

Fucking Yankee

9/27/2007 10:19:42 PM

get in your car
drive to bojangles
purchase tea
profit.

9/27/2007 10:20:37 PM

Lipton tea is crap too btw.

9/27/2007 10:20:40 PM

why do people put a bit of baking soda in it

ive had friends who did this and i dont know why

9/27/2007 10:26:02 PM

probably b/c it gets bitter when you over-steep it

9/27/2007 10:28:02 PM

my new time & effort saving method

bowl of h20 with two large tea bags (FL brand, ftw)- microwave 5min
let steep for a while...
pour concentrated tea into pitcher
add ~1/2 cup sugar, stir until sugar dissolved
fill pitcher with cold h20. stir.
place in fridge until chilled

perfectly refreshing- not too sweet


Country Time Lemonade mixed in sounds absolutely awful- but I hate lemon flavored teas.
2 cups of sugar in Granny's tea, huh? WOW... just wow.

9/27/2007 10:36:45 PM

lemonade + tea

what the fuck is that shit

ever heard of a lemon wedge?

[Edited on September 27, 2007 at 10:41 PM. Reason : ,]

9/27/2007 10:40:47 PM

Boil a pot of water with two tea bags (don't know the actual size). Pour it into a jug, fill the rest with water, add 2 cups sugar

9/27/2007 10:43:37 PM

^ do you boil your tea bags?

9/27/2007 10:49:30 PM

boil some filtered water in a teapot

scoop loose green tea into french press

add water

steep

press and pour tea into mug

add a couple drops of organic stevia leaf [water] extract

or sometimes honey

drink warm or chill

9/27/2007 10:59:51 PM

Quote :

"4 cups of ~200F water + 4 family-size tea bags for 4 minutes add 1 cup sugar and dilute to 1 gallon"

Correct sir.,

9/27/2007 11:01:09 PM

arnold palmer. that guy is a drink mogul!

9/27/2007 11:05:05 PM

Quote :

"why do people put a bit of baking soda in it"

i'm not sure why, but my grandma says it makes it darker. it tastes fine to me. if it ain't broke, don't fix it kinda thing i guess.

9/27/2007 11:09:20 PM

When I'm on a budget I just use the 2 family size, but when I need good tea (like with the fresh lemon wedge) I have to use 4 bags.

However, I'm a hot tea fan - and i go green, herb, and black - they're all uber tasty with fresh fruit rind and honey, maybe a cube or 2 of sugar. Salivating just typing this... geez.

9/28/2007 12:03:11 AM

Visit parents
Ask for glass of iced tea

9/28/2007 12:06:55 AM

fill small saucepan with water, drop 2 family size teabags into it, bring to boil on stove, as soon as it boils i turn the burner off and let it steep.

in the meantime i have dissolved 3/4 cup of sugar in hot water in my pitcher.

once the tea has steeped i pour the tea into pitcher and top off with cold water



baking soda helps with the tannins in the tea, it keeps it from souring. Bojangles tea does this after about a day and a half, they need baking soda

9/28/2007 12:16:02 AM

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"scrote drippings "

LOLOLOLOL

9/28/2007 1:12:35 AM

Quote :

"arnold palmer. that guy is a drink mogul!"

What show is that quote from?

Was it Scrubs?

9/28/2007 1:44:40 AM

Quote :

"get in your car drive to bojangles smithfield's purchase tea profit."

watch out for the owner though

10/1/2007 9:05:53 AM

lemon + sweet tea = to me


Gallon of tea = three family sized lipton tea bags + water + 1 1/4c of sugar

10/1/2007 9:09:52 AM

Quote :

"get in your car drive to bojangles smithfield's purchase tea profit."

Quote :

"[watch out for the owner though "

lol I ate at Smithfields Friday evening

and I was thinking to myself... "man, this fruity bastard would have to kill my momma to make me quit eating here"



[Edited on October 1, 2007 at 9:19 AM. Reason : .]

10/1/2007 9:18:46 AM

full tea pot ---> boil ---> take off heat add ~4 large teabags ----> let sit for 5 minutes ----> remove bags ----> pour into sugar and ice in container (still ~180 or so) ---> chill in fridge ----> drink

10/1/2007 9:18:56 AM

Quote :

"Bigman, are you too cool to drink tea?"

i try not to drink things that taste awful

tea, sewage, booze, urine, coffee, bile, etc.

[Edited on October 1, 2007 at 9:48 AM. Reason : MMM, LEAF/GRAIN/BEAN SWEAT]

10/1/2007 9:47:37 AM

^
I sorta feel sorry for people like you

it's funny how you declare how bad certain things taste, despite the fact that people clearly enjoy them

you see

it's not that these or other beverages (and foods, for that matter,) actually taste bad

it's that your brain is somehow retarded and therefore unable to enjoy life's myriad subtle pleasures

think about it

most people enjoy tea, coffee and/or booze, and it's not because they're crazy or unable to taste properly

you're the one missing out on this obviously pleasurable world of flavor

didn't you ever wonder what it would be like to enjoy the way these things taste?

wouldn't life be easier and more pleasurable if you didn't have to censor your palette?




oh, and btw

i wouldn't be surprised to learn that sewage, urine and bile and terms used to describe the bouquet of fine wines

10/1/2007 10:09:59 AM

10/1/2007 10:38:44 AM

two lipton tea bags in boiling water on stove...steep for 5 minutes. i have no idea how much sugar it is, but it's just like my grandma told me "put your pinky in the bottom of the pitcher, and fill with sugar from the tip of your pinky finger to the first line on your joint"...pour in tea from stove, stir, fill the pitcher with ice water til full.

10/1/2007 10:45:27 AM

Boil half a gallon of water. Steep 3 family sized bags of Louzianne for a few minutes. Add two cups of sugar and mix it in till it dissolves. Add ice cubes to fill the tea to the top, and to be able to instantly drink it in its cooled state.

10/1/2007 10:55:59 AM

Btttea

3/9/2014 5:58:37 PM

boil a half a gallon of water. take off stove and put in a large lipton tea bag. let sit for a few minutes. Add 1/3 cup of sugar. you want sweet tea, not tea colored syrup. Also, why does bojangles tea always taste like it is about 3 days old?

3/9/2014 10:01:12 PM

boil a large pot of water with 4 teabags in it for 3 minutes. pour 2 inches of sugar into wide mouth gallon size glass jar. pour tea into jar. put on lid and shake to dissolve sugar. fill with water and put it in fridge.

3/9/2014 10:47:07 PM

I use 7 family-size Luzianne bags, and let it steep for 7 minutes. Add a random amount of Splenda and fill the rest of the jug with water.

"7 and 7" is the rule I was taught.

3/9/2014 10:58:32 PM

Black tea should be steeped at 95°C for 3-5 minutes for maximum caffeine extraction and minimal bitterness. boiling it and steeping it longer than that releases tannins. maybe some of you love that astringent taste in your tea, but if you didn't do that, maybe you wouldn't have add 4 tablespoons of sugar per cup.

3/9/2014 11:06:28 PM

Boil 1 quart of water. Remove water from heat and drop on a 1 gallon size lipton tea bag. Let it sit for 5 minutes. Remove tea bag. Add water to reach a gallon. Add 1/2 teaspoon of powder caffeine. Add 1/4 cup of lemon juice.

I don't like to drink sugar, but I'm a pretty big fan of stimulants.

3/9/2014 11:21:05 PM

3/10/2014 9:11:03 AM

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"Lipton tea is crap too btw."

What's better?

3/10/2014 9:47:18 AM

Man, this thread reminds me of just how long it's been since I've lived in North Carolina... Or anything really considered the south.

3/10/2014 9:52:14 AM