Adagio Teas "Fandom Teas"

SIGH...

I bought the Merrill tea...

In my defense, it sounded... dalish-ious.

Ahhaha read this to my trio/family and we've made the joke a few times in two hours.

dragontartare

You know you liked it

Puns are a little like blood magic.

Potentially corrupting, but when properly used, capable of great things.

You need one teaspoon of tea for each cup you want to brew, roughly speaking. (If you're making multiple cups at once, you probably want to add an extra teaspoon to make it a bit stronger.) You probably want a tea pot of some kind. (It's possible to brew it in the cup using various strainer-like devices, but pots are easier and less likely to result in leaves all over the place.) Also a strainer if the pot doesn't have one built in. Put some hot water in the pot and tip it out in order to warm it up before you put the tea in.

If you're making green tea, a thermometer can be helpful because you shouldn't have the water above 80 degrees (Celsius) when you pour it over the leaves or it will be scorched and bitter. If you're making black tea the water should be boiling anyway, and you probably don't need a thermometer to tell you when that's happening.

A word about strainers/infusers...make sure it is something with a very tight weave, so even the smallest bits of leaves can't get through. My personal favorite is Finum.

Man y'all are fancy, I'm used to making tea in a coffee machine. Or a saucepan. Or by throwing a coffee mug in the microwave. :dumb:

I made some Varric yesterday. I couldn't find the strainer ball thingy that I'd gotten at some point, so I used a coffee filter to get the leaves out. It was working fine until I lost my grip on the filter and made a huge mess

It wasn't bad. I think I let it steep too long, and next time I will use more leaves to get a stronger flavor.

Right, I couldn't find the little ball. The leaves were loose in the water, and then I just poured everything through a coffee filter when I was ready to drink it.

Alas, you can't get the Dragon Age or Mass Effect ones on the UK site. I shall have to stick with Twinning's Earl Grey. Considering some of the descriptions, it may be a good thing

Oh yeah, tea and bourbon are like 75% aesthetic to me. If I don't have a fancy cup sitting with me at a table, I have very little interest in either. The teapot really ramps up the luxury of the aesthetic experience so is important to me to enjoying any teas.

Boil water in a pot. Add noodles. Poke impatiently until they are exactly the amount of under done I prefer. Pour in big bowl.

But "soon" I'll have a Hot Water Tap. Ish fancy, and is pretty much an electrical kettle that's attached to the sink.