Chili Ron Posted February 6 Posted February 6 Howdy I tried some lapsang souchong tea with smoke and it sure reminded me of camping. Maybe give it a try during the long cold winter?? Best CR 1 Quote
Rip Snorter Posted February 6 Posted February 6 Used to be around - seems hard to find the last few years. Quote
Rip Snorter Posted February 6 Posted February 6 I don't care to source food from places I can't call to account. Prolly just me. Quote
Chili Ron Posted February 6 Author Posted February 6 My doc restricted my coffee drinkkin....bean prices plummet. I been trying tea but it aint the same.... Quote
Subdeacon Joe Posted February 6 Posted February 6 (edited) 9 hours ago, Chili Ron said: Howdy I tried some lapsang souchong tea with smoke and it sure reminded me of camping. Maybe give it a try during the long cold winter?? Best CR I tried it after I read Centennial in 1975. A lovely tea, pungent, but subtle. Perfect for rainy, blustery days. Or on a clear, frosty morning while you watch the sunrise. Try it as an iced tea. Target and Walmart have it. Or you can order from Stash or Twining Edited February 6 by Subdeacon Joe 1 Quote
watab kid Posted February 6 Posted February 6 ive voluntarily [of my own accord] cut back on my coffee , ive not acquired a taste for tea , i would make cowboy coffee over a campfire tho , ive had it - strain the grounds out and its quite good , i dont care for grounds or tea leaves in what im drinking ...........just me Quote
Alpo Posted February 6 Posted February 6 When I started reading this tthread I decided I would do a little research. And I came across this site. https://letsdrinktea.com/types-of-tea/black-tea/lapsang-souchong-tea/#rec On the site he gives his recommendations. He says it's available on Amazon, but most of it isn't really good. But this stuff is good. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B006LXKK5U//ref=as_li_ss_tl?tag=letsdrinktea-20 Then I saw that it was $29. That seems kind of steep. How much tea do you get for $29? 5 lb? 10 lb? ONE POUND????? $29 for 1 lb of tea? Yeah, I think I'll pass. Quote
Subdeacon Joe Posted February 6 Posted February 6 1 hour ago, Alpo said: When I started reading this tthread I decided I would do a little research. And I came across this site. https://letsdrinktea.com/types-of-tea/black-tea/lapsang-souchong-tea/#rec On the site he gives his recommendations. He says it's available on Amazon, but most of it isn't really good. But this stuff is good. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B006LXKK5U//ref=as_li_ss_tl?tag=letsdrinktea-20 Then I saw that it was $29. That seems kind of steep. How much tea do you get for $29? 5 lb? 10 lb? ONE POUND????? $29 for 1 lb of tea? Yeah, I think I'll pass. That's about 14.5¢(dang, I hate having to open the character map for that) per 8 oz. cup. Homebrew coffee is about 16¢ to 25¢ per cup brewed at home. So $29 for a pound of loose teas is not really unreasonable. About three times the price of Lipton teabags, but about 18 times better. Also, it's not usually an every day tea, at least not for us. Have to be in the mood for it. I've noticed that tea drinkers usually have three to five types that they keep on hand, and brew up depending on their mood. Ours are Twinings or Stash brand English Breakfast, Irish Breakfast, Gunpowder, Earl Gray, and Lapsang Souchong. We have a few boxes of Lipton teabags we got for free that we use for making sun tea in the summer, but those don't really count. Quote
Alpo Posted February 6 Posted February 6 I just got out my powder scale. We must be precise. Three coffee scoops, which is how much I use to make my 12 cup Mr coffee, which is really six cups. Three coffee scoops weigh 420.24 grains. Divide that by the six cups and we get basically 70 grains of coffee per cup. That is one 100th of a pound. It is just recently gone up, but I buy my coffee at Sam's and it was $11.98 for a 3 lb can. That's $4 a pound. That's four cents a cup. I don't know how much tea it takes to make a cup of tea. Tell you true, I have never used loose tea to make hot tea. And it's been a really long time since I use loose tea to make ice tea. So maybe tea is way way lighter than coffee, and therefore you get much more per pound. But when I'm used to paying $4 a pound for coffee, $30 a pound for tea seems outrageous. I just went back through my records, and the last time I bought loose tea - June of '19 - it was $4.50 for an 8 oz box, so $9 a pound. 1 Quote
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