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[OT] coca-cola and rust
Christine K. wrote:
The next version, for one cup of tea, is a strainer/teabag formed like a double spoon with a spring that keeps the halves of the spoon closed. You press the spoon halves open and put in (I usually "chomp" with the spoon from the tea leaf container) about one spoon half worth, release the pressure from the handle allowing the spoon halves to close, and put it into your cup with the hot water. I used to have one of those, too. But the tea leaves would escape from it along the edges of the "spoons" and then I'd get leaves in my mouth. It wasn't very leak-proof. Actually, the one I had didn't have a spring, but rather, it would snap shut. But if you put a little too much tea between the spoons, then it wouldn't shut tight. And after a while, it just didn't work as well, and it never shut tight. Joyce |
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[OT] coca-cola and rust
I wrote:
I used to have one of those, too. But the tea leaves would escape from it along the edges of the "spoons" and then I'd get leaves in my mouth. It wasn't very leak-proof. Actually, the one I had didn't have a spring, but rather, it would snap shut. But if you put a little too much tea between the spoons, then it wouldn't shut tight. And after a while, it just didn't work as well, and it never shut tight. Actually, I just looked at the picture you posted. The one I had wasn't like that. Mine actually did look like a small spoon, or rather, two spoon heads facing each other. It was made of solid metal, not a mesh, but the metal had little holes in it. You would open it, put in the tea, and then snap it shut, and then place it into a cup of hot water in the same way you'd put a spoon into the cup. The one you pictured does seem more stable, less likely to let the leaves leak out along the edges. Joyce |
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There was even a theory that Jews had a lower percentage of alcoholism than other populations because the "attraction" was taken out of it by not making it forbidden. I don't buy this theory, because addiction doesn't come from being attracted to the forbidden... and anyway, is it even true that Jews have fewer Not sure about alcoholics, but teens are most definitely attracted to the forbidden. Mind you, they might not become alcoholics, but kids who grow up in communities where alcohol is 'forbidden', tend to binge drink a whole lot more when they get the chance to. -- Victor M. Martinez Owned and operated by the Fantastic Seven (TM) Send your spam he Email me he |
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I wrote: I used to have one of those, too. But the tea leaves would escape from it along the edges of the "spoons" and then I'd get leaves in my mouth. It wasn't very leak-proof. Actually, the one I had didn't have a spring, but rather, it would snap shut. But if you put a little too much tea between the spoons, then it wouldn't shut tight. And after a while, it just didn't work as well, and it never shut tight. Actually, I just looked at the picture you posted. The one I had wasn't like that. Mine actually did look like a small spoon, or rather, two spoon heads facing each other. It was made of solid metal, not a mesh, but the metal had little holes in it. You would open it, put in the tea, and then snap it shut, and then place it into a cup of hot water in the same way you'd put a spoon into the cup. The one you pictured does seem more stable, less likely to let the leaves leak out along the edges. Joyce Yep, it doesn't leak as long as I don't put too much tea inside. I've noticed that one spoon half is enough as the tea will swell when immersed into the hot water and fills the whole ball (both halves) when wet. Also one has to make sure that there are no strips of tea between the "jaws" of the spoon halves when shutting it, otherwise the tea leaves may leak out. -- Christine in Vantaa, Finland christal63 (at) gmail (dot) com photos: http://photos.yahoo.com/christal63 photos: http://community.webshots.com/user/chkr63 |
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[OT] coca-cola and rust
Joyce, you can also get bamboo tea strainers that are made for catching any
leaves that want to come out of your teapot along with the tea. They definitely never rust! After a while they turn the color of tea, but there's no harm in that. Easy to find in any oriental grocery store, and they don't add a metallic taste to the tea. |
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[OT] coca-cola and rust
On 2006-03-25, penned:
Adrian A wrote: I remember one of my sister's school friends put a tooth in a glass of coke, it completely disolved in about a week. Ewwww!! They should have filmed it with a time-lapse camera - that would be good propaganda for a dentist! When I got my root canal, the endodontist had a lovely picture in the bathroom: an old lady with a broad smile and only one tooth in her mouth. The caption: "Only floss the ones you want to keep!" I've heard the statement before, but I thought the picture made it particularly effective. -- monique, who spoils Oscar unmercifully pictures: http://www.bounceswoosh.org/rpca |
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"Christine K." wrote in message ... Marina wrote: wrote: Pat wrote: But a ceramic teapot. Preheat it with boiling water before you make tea. Pour out the hot water, then add loose tea, then add simmering hot water and let it steep for a while. When you pour the tea, slowly, into cups, the leaves (or flowers, twigs, roots, whatever) will stay in the ceramic pot. No need for a strainer. I have a ceramic teapot. Whenever I pour tea, some leaves always come out into the strainer. Are you saying that pre-heating the pot before making tea will keep the leaves in the pot when you pour the tea? I had a ceramic teapot with a built-in strainer, also ceramic. That one broke. Now I use a stainless-steel "teabag" in my current porcelain pot. The "teabag" is a strainer of stainless steel, formed like an egg, with a chain with a hook to attach it to the edge of your cup if you're making just one cup of tea. It opens into two halves and you put the tea leaves inside. It does get gunky, but it's not rust, it's the tea that discolours it. Doesn't affect the taste. I rinse it every day before use, and put it in the dishwasher whenever I remember. I sometimes use tebags of the ordinary kind, buy the tea "ready-bagged". And this is what DH Janne also uses when he drinks tea. The next version, for one cup of tea, is a strainer/teabag formed like a double spoon with a spring that keeps the halves of the spoon closed. You press the spoon halves open and put in (I usually "chomp" with the spoon from the tea leaf container) about one spoon half worth, release the pressure from the handle allowing the spoon halves to close, and put it into your cup with the hot water. If I make a pot of tea I can either put several teabags into the pot with the hot water or use a long kind of filter bag I buy. It's a long and narrow bag made of filter paper, like coffee filters. You put the desired amount of tea leaves into the bag and put the bag into your teapot but let the top of the bag hang out, held by the lid of the pot, to keep the tea leaves from escaping into the pot and then into your cup. You gave me an idea. I used to drink coffee and still have some coffee filters lying around. Now I can try to make a filter bag for tea leaves. I found that when I put a lid on a cup of tea with boiling water and let it seeps, most of the tea leaves will often sink to the bottom of the cup. No need for a strainer. But it has to be just right befort that happens. Winnie Grabbed a quick photo of both the teabags (I happened to have two different brands, shaped slightly differently) and the spoon formed thingy and put them into the trusty old Yahoo Photos: the spoon: http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/christ...dc.jpg&.src=ph or http://tinyurl.com/o8e7f the bags: http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/christ...a3.jpg&.src=ph or http://tinyurl.com/onxlw -- Christine in Vantaa, Finland christal63 (at) gmail (dot) com photos: http://photos.yahoo.com/christal63 photos: http://community.webshots.com/user/chkr63 |
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coca-cola and rust
I was told of another use for Coke:
When you get a cold, drink some boiled Coke with some fresh lemon juice added. Winnie "PatM" wrote in message oups.com... (Snort) Old custom in the south! Peanuts in your Coke bottle! Maybe not in Kentucky, then. But you are NOT *that* old, even though Nehi, not Coke, was the favored refreshment in my childhood neighborhood. Nobody but the grownups drank tea. Matthew Back in the late 70's I went to school in NY for a year. They called it "soda", which was new to me as we called it "pop" back in Montana, AND they put peanuts in the bottle. Of course I came back talkin about soda, and doing the peanut thingy, and everyone thought I was nutty!LOL Mythbusters did a big segment on the Coke uses myth and, according to them, pretty much disproved everything but as a meat tenderizer. Maybe someone else can remember more particulars about that show. PatM |
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"EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" wrote in message ... Well, of course having been raised a WASP, our only dietary considerations were financial rather than religious. ;-) I never thought about it, but before the advent of soft drinks, what DID a kosher household serve its kids as a mealtime beverage? (Although if they were Russian Jews, maybe weak tea?) Certainly, before some sort of refrigeration, children in many cultures were served a waterd down version of the wine or beer the adults drank, but SFAIK, Jewish families were more abstemious (except for the holidays). When I was a kid, we didn't have a refrigerator . I think I drank tea. Definitely soup with meals. Chinese kids started drinking tea at an early age. We go for Dim Sum and ate them with lots of tea. Winnie -- NewsGuy.Com 30Gb $9.95 Carry Forward and On Demand Bandwidth |
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