April Sipdown Challenge Prompt – Ching Ming Festival – drink a Chinese green tea
This note is to serve as a reminder how not to make flash chill tea.
I have been working outside most of the morning but the temperature is climbing to 90F today and I was dressed for 60F. I decided to flash chill my green tea with lunch.
Mistake 1 – I didn’t add extra leaf, which I should have done since the melting ice is going to add a lot of extra water.
Mistake 2 – I used old ice which probably had absorbed some freezer odors since we really haven’t been using ice much as hot weather is just now coming on.
Mistake 3 – since I knew I had failed to add extra leaf, I didn’t use as much ice as usual for fear of making this entirely too watery. So my tea was cooled off but not refreshingly cold and I was eating outside.
I hope I learn from my mistakes so that future flash chills this summer go better than this one. This is a stellar tea and deserves better treatment.
Oh dear!
Days like this sometimes happen!
I will do better next time! Fresh ice, more ice, and more leaf!