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Re: Tea thread as suggested by WolFish!
« Reply #45 on: April 16, 2017, 04:45:09 AM »
I don't see the point of fruit tea. It just smells amazing, and tastes of nothing.

Plus they use flavourings, even in the organic stuff. It's way better for you (and far tastier) to just use a bit of fruit juice in hot water. :M

A friend of mine who lives in Chile owns a tea shop. He was one of the first to import fruit tea to the country, apparently.

I dunno, it seems too convenient. I mean he's gonna advertise his tea shop, isn't he?

He's done well, actually.

When did he start? Fruit tea was a hype when I was a teenager, more than 35 years ago.
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Re: Tea thread as suggested by WolFish!
« Reply #46 on: April 17, 2017, 01:33:22 AM »
I don't see the point of fruit tea. It just smells amazing, and tastes of nothing.

Plus they use flavourings, even in the organic stuff. It's way better for you (and far tastier) to just use a bit of fruit juice in hot water. :M

A friend of mine who lives in Chile owns a tea shop. He was one of the first to import fruit tea to the country, apparently.

I dunno, it seems too convenient. I mean he's gonna advertise his tea shop, isn't he?

He's done well, actually.

When did he start? Fruit tea was a hype when I was a teenager, more than 35 years ago.

10-15 years ago. Something like that.
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Re: Tea thread as suggested by WolFish!
« Reply #47 on: April 17, 2017, 04:58:34 AM »
Not ALL herb teas are awful. One that isn't is balm tea (Melissa officianalis), lemon balm, and a bit of lime zest and juice added.

Very refreshing in hot weather. I use it to flavour tea, as in actual tea, C.sinensis tea-tea but also on its own. Just fill a jug full of freshly picked chopped balm, its nicest of all when its in flower and a mixture of old  leafy growth and flowering steps, along with freshly sprouted young leaves is used.

And another, is to be made from a mushroom. Fly agaric, Amanita muscaria, it tastes, and smells, like meat. Its pure, distilled essence of umami in effect. The mushrooms HAVE to be dried first over a long duration very low heat oven flame, so low it almost goes out, at least overnight, best done crispy dry, that will break with a snap rather than exhibit bending.  This converts a neurotoxin, ibotenic acid, into the psychoactive isoxazole compound muscimol via decarboxlation, since ibotenic acid is quite unstable. In sub-psychotropic quantities it makes for an excellent flavouring for meats cooking and when used as a psychoactive or herbal medicine (for it can be used for both, the quantity determining effects) it can be taken as a tea, and when this is done, brewing it up by simmering the preserved mushrrooms in water the smell in the kitchen is overpoweringly savoury, meaty but sweet.
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Re: Tea thread as suggested by WolFish!
« Reply #48 on: April 17, 2017, 06:32:00 AM »
That was my point. The fresh ones made out of real fruit and herbs ARE good. The stuff in the shops are mostly just teas with maybe some dried fruit or herbs PLUS flavourings.
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Re: Tea thread as suggested by WolFish!
« Reply #49 on: April 17, 2017, 09:24:25 AM »
I buy only a few herbal teas, and avoid the ones with hibiscus. 
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Re: Tea thread as suggested by WolFish!
« Reply #50 on: May 06, 2017, 07:33:52 AM »
I don't see the point of fruit tea. It just smells amazing, and tastes of nothing.

Plus they use flavourings, even in the organic stuff. It's way better for you (and far tastier) to just use a bit of fruit juice in hot water. :M

  So fruit tea doesn't taste as good as it smells?  I'm sorry to hear that.  :-\
the herbal tea we get here is quite good. The fruit tea I have is a blend of dried fruit otherwise it may be that I could make them from juice, but where would I find blueberry juice in the amount needed to make a few cups of tea? I do dry my own fruit which is better for making blends and doesn't go bad like juice would. Today I am having Tulsi tea. It has Holy Basil in it. It is good and doesn't need much sugar.
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Re: Tea thread as suggested by WolFish!
« Reply #51 on: May 06, 2017, 08:43:54 AM »
I don't see the point of fruit tea. It just smells amazing, and tastes of nothing.

Plus they use flavourings, even in the organic stuff. It's way better for you (and far tastier) to just use a bit of fruit juice in hot water. :M

  So fruit tea doesn't taste as good as it smells?  I'm sorry to hear that.  :-\
the herbal tea we get here is quite good. The fruit tea I have is a blend of dried fruit otherwise it may be that I could make them from juice, but where would I find blueberry juice in the amount needed to make a few cups of tea? I do dry my own fruit which is better for making blends and doesn't go bad like juice would. Today I am having Tulsi tea. It has Holy Basil in it. It is good and doesn't need much sugar.

  Is Holy Basil anything like the green leafy basil that goes in spaghetti sauce?  :fatchef:
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Re: Tea thread as suggested by WolFish!
« Reply #52 on: May 06, 2017, 01:12:38 PM »
I don't see the point of fruit tea. It just smells amazing, and tastes of nothing.

Plus they use flavourings, even in the organic stuff. It's way better for you (and far tastier) to just use a bit of fruit juice in hot water. :M

  So fruit tea doesn't taste as good as it smells?  I'm sorry to hear that.  :-\
the herbal tea we get here is quite good. The fruit tea I have is a blend of dried fruit otherwise it may be that I could make them from juice, but where would I find blueberry juice in the amount needed to make a few cups of tea? I do dry my own fruit which is better for making blends and doesn't go bad like juice would. Today I am having Tulsi tea. It has Holy Basil in it. It is good and doesn't need much sugar.

You can get sachets of pure cherry juice from Holland & Barrett I think. But yeh, whatever works for you. :) Which fruits do you dry?
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Re: Tea thread as suggested by WolFish!
« Reply #53 on: May 09, 2017, 11:12:55 PM »
I don't see the point of fruit tea. It just smells amazing, and tastes of nothing.

Plus they use flavourings, even in the organic stuff. It's way better for you (and far tastier) to just use a bit of fruit juice in hot water. :M

  So fruit tea doesn't taste as good as it smells?  I'm sorry to hear that.  :-\
the herbal tea we get here is quite good. The fruit tea I have is a blend of dried fruit otherwise it may be that I could make them from juice, but where would I find blueberry juice in the amount needed to make a few cups of tea? I do dry my own fruit which is better for making blends and doesn't go bad like juice would. Today I am having Tulsi tea. It has Holy Basil in it. It is good and doesn't need much sugar.

  Is Holy Basil anything like the green leafy basil that goes in spaghetti sauce?  :fatchef:
different. not sure if they are related. the spice is too pungent for a tea for me. the other kind is also called tulsi; i'ts just right.
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