Cloudy Tea
Uploaded on Sep 26, 2007 / 149 views / 3208 impressions / 12 comments
Description
Further contribution to the cloudy iced tea controversy.
16 comments
2. masto 1:28
http://www.uptontea.com/shopcart/item.asp?itemID=TA53
3. FirstClown 1:44
It looks like it might make a "darker" tea. More tannins perhaps?
4. FirstClown
We will get to the bottom of this, for STeaPle everywhere! (I'm totally stealing STeaPle, by the way)
masto
I leave it to you to do the experiments. I'm just here to inject confusion.
5. gamwyn 0:07
STeaPle, haha that's great
6. brandice 0:18
Fantastic! :) hahaha...
7. brandice 0:48
I agree. Not clear.
8. brandice 1:54
Maybe the in-tact-ness, that's an interesting threory. :)
9. brandice 2:13
The best part of the experiment is the drinking of the tea! :)
10. raphael 0:21
Do you use hot or cold water to prepare your icetea? A friend of mine, who owns a bar, told me that using cold water and letting steep one whole night gives good results. I didn't try yet.
masto
I use a machine which boils the water.
11. box-seven
Is it possible that there is two types of cloudyness. One that is bacteria based and one that is "dust" (for lack of a better word) based. Good research
FirstClown
While bacteria can grow in tea, it is very rare to have it happen if the tea is properly made (hot water and refrigerated after cooling). There is a risk of having this happen with "sun" tea, but it should take months for this to happen in regularly steeped, non-sweetened ice tea.
http://www.snopes.com/food/prepare/suntea.asp
So most of what you see in iced tea is going to be of the "dust" kind. I'm pretty sure that the dust is the tannins that could up the tea. Adding a little hot water is said to clear it up, but I have not tried that yet.
12. sek0910 0:44
looks like a big glass of Jack Daniels to me
1. masto 1:11
http://www.uptontea.com/shopcart/item.asp?itemID=TB30