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By tps12 (Thu Aug 18, 2005 at 04:39:29 AM EST) tea, recipe (all tags)
1 bag tea
1 c   water
sugar and milk or lemon

Bring water to boil. Add tea and simmer until brown and fragrant. Add sugar and milk or lemon to taste. Garnish with doily and serve piping hot.

Serves 2.

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I tried your recipe by gazbo (4.00 / 2) #1 Thu Aug 18, 2005 at 04:45:14 AM EST
When I added the teabag and milk, it overflowed :-(

Also, the first time I did it I didn't use a Pyrex cup, and it cracked when I put it on the cooker to simmer.

I recommend always assuming 7th normal form where items in a text column are not allowed to rhyme.

Frinkspam by DesiredUsername (4.00 / 5) #2 Thu Aug 18, 2005 at 04:55:51 AM EST
Just to make sure we cover all our international, not to mention interplanetary, interstellar, intergalactic and interuniversal, brethren:

1 cup =
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Whoops by DesiredUsername (2.00 / 0) #3 Thu Aug 18, 2005 at 04:57:56 AM EST
A little obnoxious. I should have picked the best ones. "number1can" "xestes" (who doesn't want to measure ingredia in "xestes"?) "nebuchadnezzar"....oh man, I can't choose. They are all winners to me.

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englishbeerbarrel by tps12 (4.00 / 2) #13 Thu Aug 18, 2005 at 05:22:26 AM EST
Personally, I do all my calculations in rootbeerbarrels.

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Wooh! by squigs (2.00 / 0) #5 Thu Aug 18, 2005 at 05:03:16 AM EST
Wow!  Where did you get that lot?

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Frink by DesiredUsername (2.00 / 0) #8 Thu Aug 18, 2005 at 05:07:17 AM EST
http://futureboy.homeip.net/frinkdocs/

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Addict! by MohammedNiyalSayeed (2.00 / 0) #11 Thu Aug 18, 2005 at 05:18:59 AM EST

Frink has created (another) monster!


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Frinkydink by DesiredUsername (2.00 / 0) #14 Thu Aug 18, 2005 at 05:23:24 AM EST
A gallon of gasoline has enough energy to propel a 200 lb person to 1.2 km/s:

((gallon gasoline)/(200 pounds))^(1/2) 1242.270435651651 m s^-1 (velocity)

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i blame by sootzoo (4.00 / 1) #22 Thu Aug 18, 2005 at 07:32:34 AM EST
the section entitled "advanced farting."

The Macho-Asshole relationship advice paradigm: "Fuck that bitch. Fuck her up the ass." -edward
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but how many smoots? by Greener (2.00 / 0) #25 Thu Aug 18, 2005 at 09:07:01 AM EST


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A smoot is a unit of length, not volume by DesiredUsername (2.00 / 0) #26 Thu Aug 18, 2005 at 09:26:01 AM EST
equal to 1.7018 meters.

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But he couldn't have been two dimensional by Greener (2.00 / 0) #27 Thu Aug 18, 2005 at 12:56:26 PM EST
Why didn't the MIT guys bother to get his volume at the same time they got his length. He could have become the new universal standard for measurement.

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Urgh. by ambrosen (2.00 / 0) #4 Thu Aug 18, 2005 at 04:58:21 AM EST
Now I've got a wet boil.

Fuck you, tps12. by ambrosen (2.00 / 0) #6 Thu Aug 18, 2005 at 05:04:41 AM EST
You simmer the frigging tea in the water?

Can you not make a cup of tea? Are you American or something?

Hello by me0w (4.00 / 1) #7 Thu Aug 18, 2005 at 05:04:55 AM EST
Is the sugar, milk and lemon optional?



shoot by tps12 (4.00 / 2) #15 Thu Aug 18, 2005 at 05:23:54 AM EST
I meant to add an "(optional)" next to them on the ingredients list. Thanks. Nice to get some constructive criticism (hello, people, this isn't Slashdot).

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Constructive criticism by ambrosen (2.00 / 0) #17 Thu Aug 18, 2005 at 05:34:30 AM EST
comes with constructive stories.

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-1; too vague by ad hoc (4.00 / 1) #9 Thu Aug 18, 2005 at 05:07:56 AM EST
the list is endless. Needs a total rework.
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Also, by toxicfur (2.00 / 0) #21 Thu Aug 18, 2005 at 06:46:50 AM EST
Does not specify that the milk and lemon should not be used simultaneously. The or isn't enough for some people. I do not care the think about the redneckslovely Southern USians I used to serve hot tea to, who would then request a new cup as they had somehow created a cup of brownish curdled liquid.
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Surely you're joking, Mrs Toxicfur. by ambrosen (2.00 / 0) #29 Fri Aug 19, 2005 at 01:16:42 AM EST


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Dear oh dear by herbert (4.00 / 1) #10 Thu Aug 18, 2005 at 05:11:05 AM EST
Your recipe should be revised to include the following.

Equipment: teapot, tea strainer, milk jug, sugar tongs.
Ingredients: biscuits.
Steps: warm the teapot, warm the cups, strain the tea, serve with the biscuits, etc.

Also some mention of having extra hot water on hand (for topping up) might be appropriate.


American writes tea recipe by nebbish (4.00 / 7) #12 Thu Aug 18, 2005 at 05:21:33 AM EST
Gets it wrong.

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The correct way to make tea by hulver (4.00 / 5) #16 Thu Aug 18, 2005 at 05:29:23 AM EST
Hot water
Tea
Milk

Boil your water, fill the teapot with the boiling water and leave for 1 minute then discard.

Add your tea to the tea pot.

While you are doing this, re-boil more water. (Obviously you have the kettle boiling before you discard the warming water in the tea pot, you don't want to leave it too long). Then pour the still boiling water onto the tea in the tea pot and leave to steep. Don't forget to replace the lid.

Depending on the strength you like your tea, leave for 2-5 minutes. Any longer and the tea will stew.

Pour the tea through a strainer into your cup, add a dash of milk.

Ah, nectar.

Don't forget to lock your tea away again, or the servants will steal it.
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i go to step two by 256 (4.00 / 3) #18 Thu Aug 18, 2005 at 06:14:35 AM EST
and then was confused by your indication that i should still have the teapot i discarded in step one.
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Join the 21st Century by wiredog (2.00 / 0) #20 Thu Aug 18, 2005 at 06:18:40 AM EST
I heat my teapot by filling it with an inch of water and then putting it in the microwave, while the batch of water for the tea is boiling.

I also boil the water for the tea in the microwave.

Earth First!
(We can strip mine the rest later.)

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You know all that jazz about superheating? by gazbo (2.00 / 0) #23 Thu Aug 18, 2005 at 07:52:26 AM EST
Actually happened to me once.  Totally fucking awesome!  I boiled a cup of water in the microwave, then when I put the teabag in it all started boiling over everywhere.

Kinda glad I didn't start with the sugar, as it may have done them whole "explode in your face" shenanigans.

I recommend always assuming 7th normal form where items in a text column are not allowed to rhyme.

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Brilliant, isn't it. by ambrosen (2.00 / 0) #28 Fri Aug 19, 2005 at 01:15:30 AM EST
I had it with milk, making hot chocolate.

The way to do it is heat it to a rolling boil, then leave it exactly where it is to cool (I'm excellent at leaving half heated cups of tea in the microwave overnight or somesuch), then heat it to above boiling point again.

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whoa, with milk? by tps12 (2.00 / 0) #31 Fri Aug 19, 2005 at 04:34:04 AM EST
I would have thought the milk solids would serve as nucleation points.

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Apparently not. by ambrosen (2.00 / 0) #32 Fri Aug 19, 2005 at 04:37:41 AM EST
I assume it was homogenised milk, even though at the time I tended not to buy it.

IIRC, the fat globules in homogenised milk are absolutely tiny, to describe it scientifically.

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What, no mint? by xth (2.00 / 0) #19 Thu Aug 18, 2005 at 06:17:06 AM EST


[Thanks for your interest in xth's comments. This accont is now spent]
Wrong-o by theboz (2.00 / 0) #24 Thu Aug 18, 2005 at 07:52:55 AM EST
Step 1: Drive to Starbucks.
Step 2: Yell, "Gimme some tea, bitch!"
Step 3: Pay for tea.
Step 4: Drink the tea, dumbass. You shouldn't need all these steps just for some freaking tea.
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If something's worth doing by hulver (2.00 / 0) #30 Fri Aug 19, 2005 at 03:23:03 AM EST
It's worth outsourcing to a minimum wage flunky.
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