On making Tea

Right now I'm sitting down with a hot cup of Teavana Tea writing this article/blog. After using the equivalent strength of Thor's hammer. I was able to pry off the top to the airtight metal containers that Teavana sold me for the low price 7.50 a tin I bought 2. I bought this tea well I don't really remember exactly when. It's been a really long time but what the heck it still smells good well at least one of them does. I remembered I had the tea a few weeks ago but realizing that I have none of the proper utensils or equipment to make loose leaf tea. As well as all of the other fruits and other things added to the tea. I have no  tea strainer, teapot or other tea making utensils. But I decided to Google how to make tea. Google auto fill wrote the Teavana part in for me surprisingly. It seems that this tea place has a little secret. That has been exposed on numerous blogs and other websites. The instructions that you are given on how to make your own tea that you have bought from their store differ from how the tea shop makes the in store samples. They use a ton more tea leaves and an immense amount of sugar German rock sugar to be more precise. This makes for a more tasty tea then you can make at home following there instructions. I have no clue what German rock sugar is. I've only been into their stores one time. I must have missed that when I bought the $130.00 tea. Needless to say after reading all of these articles on how they make there tea as well as other people. I decided to give it a shot anyway. Now I have watched tea making videos before believe it or not. I've seen the way Europeans make tea with milk and whatnot. But that kind of tea is not for me. So I decided to empty a few tea bags of regular cheap Walmart brand decaf tea. I removed the staples and the string and attempted to pour the tea into a different bag didn't quite work but oh well. I measured out 1.5 teaspoons of(insrt name of tea) and poured it into the now empty teabag clinching the bottom of the bag so as not to lose any. I tied the top and bottom with the original teabag string. Grabbed my mug my thermometer filled the mug with hot water. Popped it into the microwave that Cody would never allow me to use set it on three minutes took it out carefully measured the temperature of the boiling water and waited for it to drop to the appropriate temperature for the tea I was making appropriately labeled on the side of the Teavana tin. When it was just 2° higher than it should have been popped the homemade teabag in seeping it for five minutes. According to the directions for that specific tea. Once again I don't have any German rock sugar but plain white table sugar will have to do. Once it was cool enough to drink I realized it tasted pretty freaking good! I did all of this without some special tea maker machine, tea strainer, no hotplate or other B.S. thusly saving hundreds of dollars on tea and tea making supplies that I never plan to buy again that was first bought on just a whim. Thankfully because I just ran out of soda and gatorade. http://oi61.tinypic.com/2aetfcz.jpg


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