Favorite glassware? For water, iced tea, etc.
Sueb20
4 years ago
As I’m looking at glassware online, I’m seeing reviews on Amazon that mention glasses that spontaneously combust...um, really? I’m looking for nice, regular, glasses that hold approx 16 or 18 oz. Like a good sized glass of water or iced tea. I like the retro look of the Duralex glasses pictured below, but I’d prefer not to own glasses that explode. Any recommendations?
I might buy a matching set of smaller glasses too, if available, but we mostly use larger glasses because we drink a lot of water.
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anyone use an iced tea maker?
Comments (17)I had one years ago and was never crazy about all of the cleaning and the plastic pitcher etc. A while ago, I read a Cooks Illustrated (or America'a Test Kitchen) article on the best iced tea. It sounded crazy, but it works!!! Delicious tea everytime.... in the microwave!! Now I'm an oldfashioned tea lover from the south who loves her tea and consider myself pretty picky so I was shocked that it works! Basically you put the tea bags (or loose tea if you prefer) with water in the microwave. If I'm making 10 cups of tea, I might use 6 cups of water and about 4 family size bags, but I'm very flexible on all this. You heat the water (and tea) on high until bubbles begin to form along the edges of the top of the water and it sort of "moves" a little. NOT to boiling. Let steep for exactly 3 minutes and remove bags or strain. Adjust strength by adding more water. After a few times, you get to know your microwave and water temp and can just set the microwave and not be watching it. I do have to set a timer though to remind myself to go back and remove the bags. Grace...See MoreHomemade iced tea?
Comments (37)Everyone makes their tea differently so here goes mine. They are kinda like differing opinions.LOL 7 tea bags (small ones, not the family size) 1 gallon water 1 cup sugar Directions Boil 1/2 gallon of water and then place in your 1 gallon pitcher. While water is boiling open your tea bags and tie the strings together, this will make it easier to remove them later. Also removed the paper tags on the string. Place tea bags in the pitcher of water (important to do this after the water was already in the pitcher or the tea bags could open). Let sit for at least 1 hour, I sometimes let it sit all day, not more 10 hours. Remove tea bags. Do not squeeze bags when you remove. Add sugar and the additional 1/2 gallon of water and mix well. Chill in the refrigerator and serve....See MoreBaking soda in your iced tea, anyone?
Comments (27)The same guy on the tea forum, when discussing sun tea said he thought it wasn't exactly safe. Something about bacteria being able to grow from the tea sitting outside in the sun for hours. I never thought about bacteria, have made sun tea before and so far haven't gotten sick. I sweeten my tea, hot or cold, by serving, not in the pitcher or pot. The artificial sweeteners are really too sweet for me but if that's all I have on hand I use that. I've never tried honey in iced tea only in brewed hot. Anyone sweeten iced tea with honey?...See MoreIs There A Trick To Making Clear Iced Tea?
Comments (30)Bring up a search for tea and you will learn many things about it that most of us dont realize. Not all tea is created equal, at all. Some comes from the tips of the plant and is the highest rated and then there is the "dust". I suspect that the "dust" is what is in many of those cheap grocery store tea bags. Maybe that is one reason that I came to the conclusion that it was like drinking water. I found some tea tips in loose form and those make the best iced tea that I have had in years. It looks almost as if it were coarse ground, like coffee beans. But, of course, it is not ground. It is rolled as it dries. And, it takes less quantity of tea to brew the same size pitcher. I estimate that I am using at least half of the amount of actual tea than with the tea bag grocery store stuff. I was using up to four of those large "family size, flow through" tea bags. Now I use about 1 tablespoon of the tea tips loose tea for the same amount. Those tea bags were getting quite pricey, too I gave up on those large tea bags for making a pitcher of tea. I suspect that they may be using the lower quality tea in those bags. That is often the case. Since I dont flavor or sweeten tea and coffee, there is no disguising a cheap brew. I would rather pay more for less tea and have better tea. I grew up in a family where we always had a pitcher of tea and it was always unsweetened. It just sat on the countertop and we put ice in our glasses. I grew up military and we used to get what my mom always called the "GI brand". (for the non military, that means government issue and it was the generic term applied to the no name brands sold on bases and posts.)That was the basic military provided one at the commissary that was merely labled as "tea, black" and came in an unassuming plain old brown box. Back in those days the GI brand of things was pretty good and basic stuff. You could buy almost anything in the commissary in the GI brand. That was back before all of the marketing that has created so many highly processed and overly packaged "foods". Given that all tea comes from other places in the world, you have to wonder and to hope that wht you are brewing does not also have a spray of some industrail chemicals on it. The same is true of many spices. You see photos of how some of these things are grown and harvested and it makes you wonder why you pick it up and throw it away if you happen to drop it on the floor of your clean home. Some cultures "rinse" the tea much like rinsing rice. As to why it gets cloudy, the answer seems to be something to do with tannins. I doubt that the cloudiness can be strained out even with a paper filter, but I have never tried to do that. My tea only gets cloudy if I try to store it in the fridge, which I dont. It pretty quickly clears up with a just a small change in temp. And I dont find it to get cloudy in the glass when it is over ice. Maybe it gets consumed too quickly once it gets into the glass for it to have time to get cloudy. Just specualting. I am glad that I found something better, but I find that when I go to buy it again, I have to sift through all the variations because it seems to change all the time and I find the labeling to be confusing. It is an old and complex world, the tea trade....See More
maddielee
4 years agoSueb20
4 years ago
Oakley
4 years ago
1929Spanish-GW
4 years agoI may be “Spanish”, but I’m partial to French. We use an assortment of La Rochere Bees
https://www.larochere-na.com/collections/bee.html
Sueb20
4 years ago
cawaps
4 years agoI have these from World Market in two sizes. I'm not sure whether the large one is available; I couldn't find it on their website other than is this photo for the collection.
https://www.worldmarket.com/product/impressions+glassware+collection.do?_br_psugg_q=impression
dedtired
4 years ago
Lars
4 years ago
mtnrdredux_gw
4 years agoIs it funny that I have all of these. I had the Wms Sonoma glasses at our lakehouse and when we sold that I moved them to our CT house, where I already had the Picardy from Crate and Barrel. Someone gave me the bee glasses as a gift and they are the ones I use most in CT. In Maine I have these:
But really, Sue you need a few of these:
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4 years ago
Funkyart
4 years agoNow I think I need new drinking glasses-- all of mine are a little frou frou (which is funny because I my lifestyle is anything but frou frou). I think I may need new glasses!
I do love my vietri accordian .. they come in many colors but I think this is rose gold
I've had these forever.. the Mikasa Park Lane Iced Tea glass
And what I drink out of most often-- 21oz white wine glass
Gooster
4 years ago
aprilneverends
4 years agoSueb20
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