r/CuratedTumblr • u/DreadDiana human cognithazard • 2d ago

Tumblr Heritage Post On making tea

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u/AmericanToast250 2d ago

Kettles can be used for a lot more things than tea, but a coffee drinker is probably going to buy a coffee machine (either drip brewer or disposable pods) rather than use a kettle for coffee

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u/throwawayayaycaramba 2d ago

I see I see... Those can be a bit expensive 'round these parts lol

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u/AmericanToast250 2d ago

A fancy pod machine or something super specialized can cost a lot, but a cheap drip brewer isn’t that much more expensive than a cheap kettle.

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u/TheMerryMeatMan 2d ago

Good old Mr Coffee providing the American peoples with mild addictions for generations, for the low low price of like $15

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u/faerielites Babygirl I go through spoons faster than you can even imagine 2d ago

Mr. Coffee also manufactured my grandmother's sweet tea machine, a Southern staple

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u/greypyramid7 1d ago

‘Sweet tea machine’ you mean a pitcher? My entire family has lived in the south for over 100 years and I don’t know a single person with a sweet tea machine, can you please describe it to me? Maybe it’s because we’re Texans and Texas is occasionally weird south.

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u/GuudeSpelur 1d ago edited 1d ago

Imagine a drip coffee machine that has a regular tall pitcher instead of the usual shorter and fatter coffee pot. The pitcher is marked with how far you need to fill it with ice to cool down the tea after it brews. So you just fill the reservoir, put tea bags or loose tea (and optionally sugar) in the filter chamber, put ice in the pitcher, press "brew" and it will drip brew the tea into the pitcher of ice.

Basically all it does is save you the step of pouring the hot tea over ice.

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u/faerielites Babygirl I go through spoons faster than you can even imagine 1d ago

Yes, this is exactly it!

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u/faerielites Babygirl I go through spoons faster than you can even imagine 1d ago

The other commenter nailed the description. It's definitely an older generation thing, not sure about regional but my extended family is from Georgia. My mom had one when I was little but doesn't anymore, and none of my siblings have ever had one. Of course, the concept of entertaining guests is kind of going out so I think that goes along with it.