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And no, the microwave is not a valid option.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

First step is to gather sticks under the bushes.

Start a fire using paper, newspaper, cardboard, then add sticks and make a larger fire.

Heat up water until boiling.

Add tea bags to thermos and pour the water inside. Now we have 2 days worth of hot tea.

Optional delicious step: pop popcorn

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

I usually drink coffee so the water goes in before the teabag, although to be fair the teabag never goes in.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Thankyou for preventing microwave comments. Its an abomination

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Teabag, honey, hot water and then milk (almond in my case)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

You know I've never tried honey in tea... I may do it

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Take your hatchet and slash some leaves in the misty fields of Kerala. Make sure it's monsoon flush, so roughly july to september. Then, chop up an old Ginkgo Biloba that looks wise. Leave it to dry in a Kenyan plain for three years, and head for Nepal. There, you will gather the purest glacier water there is. By then, your tea leaves will be dust. Go buy some Lipton and microwave tap water, it's all you can do at this point. And, uh, teabag first

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sounds like that guy who made a sandwich from scratch: growing wheat, raising chicken etc. He said it was „okay“

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Heh, I'd like to read this

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Tea bags got many microplastics...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

There are definitely companies that use non plastic bags. Usually even compostable. Teapigs, Traditional Medicinal, Buddha Teas, etc.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Those that are made from this mesh-stuff like that „premium“ Lipton shit? Yeah, I wouldn’t use them. Afaik, paper-teabags are safe?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Who knows, they might soak the paper in arsenic or some shit

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I recently learned this and bought one of those sieve tongs , but because I still have a bunch of tea bags left over, I opted to just rip them open and put the tea in the tongs. Works like a treat, once you figure out how to rip them without spilling everything lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Water.
If the cup is not full enough, I'll top it up (and spill the amount again once I get to my table).

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Tea bag first, then freshly boiled hot water.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This is how you scold the tea

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

This is the only answer

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Milk, then water, then I empty the teabag into it. Duh.

I also like to put the water in the bowl before I pour the cereal in.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Stop right there, criminal scum

Cereal has to go before the water!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Only if you're adding salt and pepper. Otherwise water first.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Neither. Tea bags are for chumps. It's so much tastier to use fresher loose tea leaves of whatever mix you prefer (and you can control how strong you make it, plus you end up with less waste). I just boil the water in the microwave then when it's hot I take it out and add the tea.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

You can buy empty tea bags to fill with loose tea...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

A tea bag floats though. It's better to use the traditional balls or anything else metal that will make the tea sink so it soaks better. Alternatively, there are ceramic teapots that keep the tea leaves below the water level.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

unfortunately, i believe the microwave was not an option.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Does it make a difference that the tea is never in the microwave? It's only the method for heating a single cup of water, not of heating the water+tea set.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Teabag and sugar, then drown it in a scalding stream of boiling water.

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