Do you ever drink your first cup of hot morning beverage before it gets cold?

Do you ever drink your first cup of hot morning beverage before it gets cold?

  • Always

    Votes: 10 62.5%

  • Usually

    Votes: 3 18.8%

  • Rarely

    Votes: 2 12.5%

  • Never

    Votes: 1 6.3%
  • Total voters
    16
JAS_OH1 said:
Lipton doesn't brew dark enough for sweet tea to suit me. Up here in NE Ohio the iced tea served in most restaurants is a pale tan color and you can see through it. Sweet tea is more available here than it used to be but not the right color. When I first moved up here if I asked for sweet tea they pointed at the packets in the caddy on the table. That will not do.
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When I read ‘Lipton’ I had the same thoughts, that the bags don't contain enough tea.
But then I’m basing that on the liptons tea they have in Spain which I believe is the same stuff they sell everywhere.
It’s not popular in the UK so no longer readily available, I think you can still buy it on amazon but it’s a weak tea compared to Brits favoured brands so lost it’s shelf space to the competition.
The premade liptons ice tea is in some fizzy drinks sections.

A Liptons tea bag generally contains 1.5- 1.7grams of tea and a decent tea bag contains around 3grams.
I have noticed in a lot of Spanish cafes if you ask for tea give you two bags per cup rather than one and that works surprisingly well so perhaps more tea bags is the answer.

I once made Delia Smith’s iced tea from her 1983 cookery book ‘The Complete Cookery Course’ which at the time was a go to cookery book in the UK.
It was awful. Really awful. 6 teabags, so approximately 18grams of tea in only 2 pints of water with 275mls (10floz) orange juice and two tbsp of sugar.

The tea was made with boiling water and left to infuse stew for 20 mins.
I can’t describe the flavour of the eye wincingly strong stewed brew mixed with orange juice other than to say BLURGHHH 😂
So there’s obviously a balancing act between to be had between too little and too much tea!
 
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SandwichShortOfAPicnic said:
When I read ‘Lipton’ I had the same thoughts, that the bags don't contain enough tea.
But then I’m basing that on the liptons tea they have in Spain which I believe is the same stuff they sell everywhere.
It’s not popular in the UK so no longer readily available, I think you can still buy it on amazon but it’s a weak tea compared to Brits favoured brands so lost it’s shelf space to the competition.
The premade liptons ice tea is in some fizzy drinks sections.

A Liptons tea bag generally contains 1.5- 1.7grams of tea and a decent tea bag contains around 3grams.
I have noticed in a lot of Spanish cafes if you ask for tea you get two bags per cup rather than one and that works surprisingly well so perhaps more tea bags is the answer.

I once made Delia Smith’s iced tea from her 1983 cookery book ‘The Complete Cookery Course’ which at the time was a go to cookery book in the UK.
It was awful. Really awful. 6 teabags, so approximately 18grams of tea in only 2 pints of water with 275mls (10floz) orange juice and two tbsp of sugar.

The tea was made with boiling water and left to infuse stew for 20 mins.
I can’t describe the flavour of the eye wincingly strong stewed brew mixed with orange juice other than to say BLURGHHH 😂
So there’s obviously a balancing act between to be had between too little and too much tea!
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I like iced tea mixed with lemonade, but I'd likely not care for orange juice with tea.
 
Barriehie said:
I've worked in a Lipton tea factory and I wouldn't buy those bags... 😬
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But do you know anyone who had any experience in a food factory that wanted to consume their produce? I don’t :laugh:

Edit: I take that back, I do, my friends a cider farmer and he has no trouble sampling the wares 😂
 
SandwichShortOfAPicnic said:
I reckon the short time is the key 😂
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No, I could have happily lived and died there. It was like Willy Wonka and Keebler elves all in one.

First, the place always smelled like a big, lovely bowl of cinnamon-sugar oatmeal. Always. It was all warmth and kitcheny and Grandma’s bosom and childhood and all that.

Second…all the cookies in every variety, some you never see in the shops (my favorite was an oatmeal one that included dried cranberries, white chocolate chunks, and rice crispies worked in), were available to eat all through the day. There were plates and plates of whatever they were baking that day sat out, and every single day, I left with some sort of bag or tray of cookies. Every day.

When I left (not my choice, I was working a short-term contract), they loaded my car down with bags of cookies, and trays of frozen pre-formed cookie dough and buckets of cookie dough of so many kinds of cookies, it was ridiculous. I think we had continuous cookies for two or three years.

On top of that, everyone was happy there. There were maybe 30 employees, most of them related to at least one other person there, family-owned, everyone was great. Even as a contractor who wasn’t involved in anything to do with actually making the cookies, they gave me the new employee tour at the beginning, so I could understand how the cookies were made, and it was fascinating…and I ate a load of fresh-from-the-oven cookies at the end.

I loved it there!
 
TastyReuben said:
No, I could have happily lived and died there. It was like Willy Wonka and Keebler elves all in one.

First, the place always smelled like a big, lovely bowl of cinnamon-sugar oatmeal. Always. It was all warmth and kitcheny and Grandma’s bosom and childhood and all that.

Second…all the cookies in every variety, some you never see in the shops (my favorite was an oatmeal one that included dried cranberries, white chocolate chunks, and rice crispies worked in), were available to eat all through the day. There were plates and plates of whatever they were baking that day sat out, and every single day, I left with some sort of bag or tray of cookies. Every day.

When I left (not my choice, I was working a short-term contract), they loaded my car down with bags of cookies, and trays of frozen pre-formed cookie dough and buckets of cookie dough of so many kinds of cookies, it was ridiculous. I think we had continuous cookies for two or three years.

On top of that, everyone was happy there. There were maybe 30 employees, most of them related to at least one other person there, family-owned, everyone was great. Even as a contractor who wasn’t involved in anything to do with actually making the cookies, they gave me the new employee tour at the beginning, so I could understand how the cookies were made, and it was fascinating…and I ate a load of fresh-from-the-oven cookies at the end.

I loved it there!
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Have they got any jobs going, I could do with changing things up a bit 🤣
 
Every time we go thru the drive thru at Krispy Kreme, I'm always so tempted to ask if they can stand to actually eat the doughnuts.

For those who have never been to a Krispy Kreme, a doughnut shop, the sweet, sugary smell hits you in an almost overwhelming blast whenever you open the door or they open the window in the drive thru.
 
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medtran49 said:
Every time we go thru the drive thru at Krispy Kreme, I'm always so tempted to ask if they can stand to actually eat the doughnuts.

For those who have never been to a Krispy Kreme, a doughnut shop, the sweet, sugary smell hits you in an almost overwhelming bladt whenever you open the door or they open the window in the drive thru.
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I wonder if it's the same in the US as here in Europe due to different food regulations. Either way I've only ever seen a Krispy Kreme vending machine in the UK where I lived, and I loved those doughnuts. But that's probably because doughnut culture is non existent in NL. So I might just not know better.
 
Before I got my mug warmer I was about as prepped as I could get for keeping my coffee hot. The mug got prewarmed with kettle water when I poured into the press. The press strainer was also prewarmed in a bowl. I even got a press that didn't sit on the counter!
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