I wanted a warm drink yesterday morning, but I didn’t want coffee. I thought about just drinking warm water, but then decided to rummage around in the Teachers’ Lunch Room to see if I could find some tea. Digging to the back of a drawer in the microwave cabinet, I found a bunch of teas. I had my choice! I decided on Madagascar Vanilla Red Tea. It’s a Celestial Seasonings product.
I then decided I would experiment: could I make tea by treating it like coffee and running it through the coffeemaker? I tore open the teabags and put the loose tea into a filter… four bags of tea for four cups of water. The loose tea smelled a lot like unburnt tobacco… mmmm.
The result? Good, strong tea. Yay! I think I will do this again someday. It was hot, had some flavor, and didn’t make me all jittery (though I did fall asleep during an afternoon free period and a bunch of kids saw me through the Teachers’ Room door and made fun of me the rest of the day).
Hooray for experimentation! I didn’t get a chance to get any coffee yesterday morning and was so sleepy at noontime. I made a big cup of coffee using a filter, a funnel, and WAY too many coffee grounds. It was stomach-hurting strong.
You don’t have a coffee maker at the CDC? Because if not, that is perhaps the only workplace on this earth (with which I am acquainted) that does NOT have a coffee maker. Remarkable.
We do, but it gets emptied out and washed at noontime. I missed the deadline, dang it.
I fell asleep during my free period yesterday too! Some kid snuck into my room and put my hand in a cup of warm tea.
Did it make you pee?
Don’t eat yellow snow!
We did this at your house once. I was visiting to do my practicum observations with Carol, was pregnant with Tara and sick as a dog (because I was pregnant, not because I was actually ill).
We made hot tea with your coffee maker. It was good. But I promptly went and barfed. Barfing tea is unpleasant.
I always thought that barfing anything was unpleasant.
Indeed. But I think there are levels of unpleasantness. Tea is unpleasant…a vanilla malt is UNPLEASANT! AAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!
I can’t argue with you – you are the expert on barfing. 😉
And anything with tomato sauce is unpleasant.
Beth, is “barfing tea” an herbal variety, or what? I don’t think I’ve seen it in our local foodliners. I was once given PMS tea…which I no longer need (happy dance – one of the perks of aging)…it was icky enough to have made one barf – does that count?
At first I thought you had emptied your pencil sharpeners into the filter and brewed the shavings. Award winning photos…maybe. A good, warm beverage… probably not.
Clever, clever, inventive boy!! Who do you think you are, Lauren???
Dnag. Now Brad’s going to try more crazy stuff, and I’ll have to find a new hobby.
Try brewing tea with Pepsi?
Some tea floats though. I tried this same method with peppermint tea one time and it floated to the top of the filter and came down the sides.
Maybe you should try real tobacco next time. That would keep you awake.