Is There A Trick To Making Clear Iced Tea?
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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 MoreIced Tea?
Comments (40)Boo.. we have a Keurig at work, but I find that since coffee runs through the thing, the tea is off-kilter, taste wise. (I'm not impressed with the coffee, either. Rather watery.) The absolutely most revolting tea I ever had was when I stopped off at a small Mississippi town to sleep in, on my way down to New Orleans. There were two restaurants -- a Bugger King and a Chinese place. I went to the Chinese place. I asked for tea. It came -- sweet. ICK. I asked for a new cup, not sweetened. The waitress told me it was only available... sweet. Chinese tea?? You had to be kidding me! I had her replace it with water, fortunately not sugared up. (After that, I ordered the most innocuous item on the menu -- if they can't get tea right, forget anything interesting!)...See MoreDiet "tricks?"
Comments (50)Hey Thanks Everyone! Ali, as far as SO goes, he doesn't actively discourage me. He actually wants me to lose weight. He really just doesn't agree with how i do it I think. He says he doesn't like me to be deprived of anything. So if i am low carbing, he will break his roll in half and put it on my plate, or give me some of his fries......so irritating. Or bring home a brownie. He tells me "Eat what you want,just stop eating so much." Then he will turn around and say, "If you're hungry, you need to eat." Ugh. Keep in mind this is a man who cares NOTHING about food or being hungry and will wait until I either shove it in front of him or come close to passing out to feed himself. Last time I told him, "You don't tell me how to diet, and I won't tell you how to quit smoking like i know anything about it....OKAY?!?!?!!" But, yeah, he knows about my walking and other exercise. I just don't mention anything about the food. He will figure it out eventually. Mama, I saw that too. But I do not really agree with her "methods" either. When she was on the Biggest Loser, they worked out 8 or more hours a day and gave them diet pills to aid weight loss. Not to mention her affinity for screaming at people and calling it "motivation." If she tried that brand of motivation with me, it might be dangerous for her feelings. Not to get personal with it, but i find her overly masculine manner and condescending personality off putting. Maybe that's why i don't put much stock in what she says. Besides, I am really not sure I am doing "keto" specifically. I don't really follow plans like that. But I could be and just don't know it. :) biondanonima,I do exercise for the other health benefits really. Any weight loss resulting from it would be a bonus. Otherwise, i work a 12 hour night shift desk job, then go home and sleep. If I don't purposely get up and walk, my fitbit registers less than 2000 steps a day. A little more if I am home. The nurse we have on staff at my job advised me to get up and move a lot more. So I do. I get what you are saying though. The doctor I went to said that when low carbing, exercise, especially in women, doesn't really do much for weight loss, but is good for maintaining any progress and is important for overall wellness. I feel that you are right about calories though. I mean as I said, when i did this diet the first time i didn't worry about calories at all and the weight fell off. I think i might have been overthinking that aspect of things. I actually went digging and found my old food journals from that time. I did find that eating WHATEVER low carb foods i wanted, and it seems, in any amount that i wanted did appear to work. One day: (keep in mind i work 5pm-5am) 6 pm- 6 devilled eggs (made with mayo, bacon and cayenne pepper) 11 pm- Atkins shake (dark chocolate royale), Jif to go cup, 1 string cheese 5:30 am- 2 scrambled eggs with bell pepper, green onion, and cheese Another: 5:30pm- Salad with lettuce,tomato, cucumber, olives,avocado, 1 hard boiled egg pepperoni, cheese and Olive garden dressing 12 am- same as above(no egg) 3 am-Atkins shake 6 am- 2 slices bacon, 1 sausage patty, 1 fried egg Last one I promise: 5:30pm- Rotisserie chicken breast, small can green beans with lotsa buttah 9pm- Chicken broth (1-1/2 cups about) 12 am- cucumber slices dipped in ranch (homemade and FULL FAT BABY) 2 am-Atkins frozen meal, sugar free jello (black cherry) 6 am- 1 scrambled egg with cheese According to my journal, or as i call it "Amylou's BIG FAT diet book," I lost 3 pounds that week.....interesting. I don't remember being QUITE as hungry as I am now though....See Morecarolb_w_fl_coastal_9b
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