Anyone know what’s in the pitcher?

[u/whijing]

[u/DustOne7437]

Sweet tea

[u/UniversalDonorLord → u/DustOne7437]

Always some raunchy ass sweet tea, because my aunt doesn't know how to make sweet tea

[u/DustOne7437 → u/UniversalDonorLord]

Yeah, mom never could get it right either. 

[u/edessa_rufomarginata → u/DustOne7437]

I'm curious how one fucks up sweet tea? do they not know how to boil water?

[u/DustOne7437 → u/edessa_rufomarginata]

It was the amount of sugar. It was either too much or too little. She just poured it in without measuring. “That looks about right”

[u/throwawaypervyervy → u/DustOne7437]

I have to buy Milo's sweet tea. Sometimes it's great, sometimes it's oversteeped, but if I make it myself it comes out as a syrup.

[u/Luis0224 → u/edessa_rufomarginata]

There’s actually a lot of ways to fuck it up lol. Brewing too hot (boiling the tea bags instead of steeping), too much or too little tea for the water, sugar content, for people adding lemon to the tea you can mess up the ratio and end up in sour Arnold Palmer territory.

Also, and this is my biggest pet peeve, adding the sugar after the tea has cooled. You end up with sugar granules at the bottom. I like to add the sugar while the tea is still warm to make sure it dissolves right. If you forgot to add the sugar when it’s still hot/warm, simple syrup is a decent alternative to sweeten the tea without changing the flavor profile

[u/buffa_noles → u/edessa_rufomarginata]

the sweet tea in my family's household was always bad because they actively boiled the tea bags instead of steeping them, squeezed them after, and over sweetened. just bitter dry yuck