Ok if you were following my twitter or talked to me in real life recently, you’re aware that I am in love with McAlister’s tea.\u00a0 I actually hate tea in general, so to like something in the category of hating things let alone loving it is quite an incredible step.\u00a0 So after realizing that it’s not cost effective to eat there 4 out of 7 days of the week like I had been, I needed to take steps that allowed me to cut some costs.<\/p>\n
In my travels across the net, people have said that McAlister’s tea is actually just Lipton, which according to Hammeron is just insane because Lipton is like the cheapest and not-extravagant kind of tea one can buy.\u00a0 But I thought I’d give it a whirl.\u00a0 While at the store though I thought to myself, I know for a fact they brew this stuff, meaning I need some kinda method that allows for easy creation of said tea.\u00a0 One website suggested just using a coffee machine so I strolled down the coffee machine aisle and found this Mr. Coffee Ice Tea Machine<\/a> for $15 bucks.\u00a0 $15 I’m reminded is 3 gallons of McAlister’s tea.<\/p>\n Anyway, machine in hand I went home and tried to make myself some magic.\u00a0 My first attempt was 2 qt. line worth of water with 2 tea bags on full strength brew!\u00a0 I poured it, had a sip, then gagged.\u00a0 I realize that taste is the taste I remember of tea and hence the hatred of it.\u00a0 So I added sugar and took another sip.\u00a0 Still gross.\u00a0 I continued to add sugar until it would no longer dissolve and it was not at all close.\u00a0 This wasn’t working out so well.<\/p>\n I got some advice from someone at work about tea, and she said that the secret is disolving the sugar in the really hot tea after brewing so it disolves faster.\u00a0 I read around a bit more and this time I felt like I’d be more sure in this calculation.\u00a0 I went to the 3 qt line worth of water, switched it to medium brew, and added 2\/3rd of a cup of sugar into the container for the hot tea to pour into.\u00a0 I took a sip, and it’s not McAlister’s tea, but it is drinkable and fairly enjoyable.<\/p>\n So I feel like I’ve come pretty close, but at the same time am disgusted by the amount of sugar I’m using for this.\u00a0 I wonder how much sugar is in the other stuff I drink though, because maybe 2\/3rds of a cup for that amount of water (which I don’t understand because there’s no way that line indicates 3 quarts but then again, the pitcher is really huge) isn’t so much.\u00a0 At the very least, I spent 17 bucks on probably more tea than I’d buy at McAlister’s so I’ll be alright on this investment I think.\u00a0 I feel like I should be buying some lemons though to pop in there.<\/p>\n BSH says I oversold the tea though, so maybe it’s not as good as I say it is, but I tend to think so.\u00a0 Hammeron is going to try it out in a week, I’ll get his reaction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ok if you were following my twitter or talked to me in real life recently, you’re aware that I am in love with McAlister’s tea.\u00a0 I actually hate tea in general, so to like something in the category of hating things let alone loving it is quite an incredible step.\u00a0 So after realizing that it’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nothing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timothyhanson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timothyhanson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timothyhanson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.timothyhanson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.timothyhanson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.timothyhanson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2176,"href":"https:\/\/www.timothyhanson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions\/2176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timothyhanson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.timothyhanson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.timothyhanson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}