768 Tasting Notes
Yee-haw! No soapy taste!!
It didn’t taste like mint or even tea, really, but without that sickening swirl of soap it was very drinkable. I have hope that in a few days I’ll be able to actually taste Some Thing. Ah, Minted Monkey, you never disappoint. :)
So, in an effort to help keep my sinuses moist, I decided to have a cup of this tea. It’s not the flavor I want it for, but more the steam and opening of the nasal passages. Good thing I didn’t want the flavor, because it wasn’t good. The post surgery soapy taste is still present in everything I drink. Maybe slightly less today. It’s bound to get better eventually, right? At least this tea is steamy and soothing for my nose. If I just keep telling myself it’s NOT leftover dishwater, it’s bearable.
Soapy. Very soapy. Drinking dishwater would be more appealing. Yuck!
However, I am sure that taste will go away in a few days. Everything I eat or drink right now tastes off, probably due to the sinus surgery on Thursday. Surgery went well, and no splints or heavy packing had to be used. That means that I can breathe a little bit through my nose, and the pain isn’t nearly as intense. I go back to the ENT on Friday for a follow up and debridement. Hopefully once the crusty, bloody mucus is removed, I’ll start tasting properly again.
Happy the surgery went well!
I’m so glad it went well! Here’s hoping things will start tasting better. :)
Thank you! I talked to someone in an online group for my condition and she said the same thing happened to her, only everything tasted a little like burnt plastic. Yuck! LOL She said hers went away in about 2 weeks.
Ouch. I hope you feel better soon!
Happy to hear you’re on the road to feeling better!
So. I have precisely 27 more minutes to eat or drink before the surgery cutoff. I’m indulging in this tea. I was afraid after reading these reviews that I would find it too astringent or bitter to enjoy. I really try to avoid adding stuff to my tea since A.) I’m allergic to milk products and B) one of the reasons I’m drinking tea is to avoid the calories.
But no worries! I don’t find this tea bitter at all! It has a deeper flavor than some others, but that’s not a bad thing. Maybe smoky? Maybe earthy? I can’t really tell you, since I don’t really taste much. (surgery tomorrow might restore my sense of smell for a short time! Then I’ll be opening up tins and bags and sniffing like an addict!)_
Anyway, I have no complaints about this tea. I like the depth of it. In fact, I have time for another cup!
Preparation
My morning cup! The doctor put me on a strong course of prednisone in preparation for my surgery on Thursday. I still can’t smell, but the nose has opened up a bit and my head feels 10 pounds lighter. I wanted one more cup before sending the remainder to another Steepsterian. 4 pearls in 8 ounces of hot, not boiling, water for 3 and a half minutes. Delicious. I can sort of taste something. It gives me excited hope that a month from now I’ll be able to really taste tea!
I left the windows open last night, so it’s cold in my apartment this morning. It’s supposed to be quite hot later, so I don’t want to close them yet. I’ve got a shawl around my shoulders and a hot cup in my hand. So coazy! I love mornings like this. I also had a few squares of dark chocolate with bits of pear and almonds in it to enjoy iwth my tea. If only I had today off this would be the perfect day!
Oh no, I hope everything will go well up to and including the surgery.
Thanks, Fjellrev! Surgery is Thursday, and it’s an outpatient procedure, so I’ll be sleeping in my own bed on Thursday night, and I should be back to work within 10 days. And hopefully breathing through two open nostrils within the month!
Good luck!! Really hope it works. :)
Thanks, Lindssay!
I made this into iced tea. O M G! It is good that way! My mom and brothers were over for supper tonight. My mom always says she likes iced tea, but what she really means is she likes those presweetened powdered ice tea mixes from Lipton and Nestea. I served this with supper and she was polite, but I could tell she didn’t really care for it. Sometimes I wonder how I came from that woman. Not intending any offense to those who enjoy Lipton powdered tea, but to me those are just so fake that I can’t bear it.
Anyway, I still have several servings of this to drink, so yay!
Preparation
The iced tea of choice around these parts is pre-mixed Red Diamond tea that comes in a gallon jug and tastes like the plastic. Blecccccch!
Bleccccch is right! I just cannot understand why people drink that stuff! I suppose it’s convenient, and probably a lot cheaper. But I’d rather spend a little more and take the time to set something to steep before bed.
I will—when nothing else is available—drink Gold Peak bottled or soda-machine tea; it’s not tainted with so much citric acid you can’t taste it. Do you have McAlister’s Delis in your part of the world? They’re known for their tea and it also tastes like real tea.
Never heard of McAlisters Delis! I have sometimes gotten a 16 oz bottle of Lipton’s Real Leaf Raspberry tea from the case at work. It’s pre sweetened, and cold, and tasty, but I consider it more of a non carbonated soft drink than tea! I guess I have no business looking down on anyone else’s drink of choice.
What a beautiful day out there! (except for the wind, but it’s North Dakota, so what can you do?) Last night I put a few tablespoons of this tea into the strainer thingie of my DAVIDs’ ice tea carafe and let it sit over night. I like it! t’s mild, and slightly sweet on its own, very refreshing after unpacking dusty books. I may have uder leafed it though. Hard for me to know for sure, but it tastes even milder than I expected. On the other hand, its cold and refreshing even if I should have used more tea. think I’ll get a lot of use out of that iced tea caraf this summer!
Preparation
For the large size (just about 8 cups) I usually use 3 generous tablespoons. But I mostly steep fruit teas to make “juice” so it’s probably different with teas that actually contain tea. :)
I’ll keep that in mind, OMGsrsly I finished about half of it, then added a tablespoon of a What-Cha black to it. It’s steeping now, so I’ll try some tonight when my mom, two of my brothers, and my sister and her daughter come to supper.
The past few days were rotten at work. But I got through them. Shew! And I fought through my income tax forms (I owe lots of money. Yay. Not.) so I brewed a 2-cup pot of this tea to comfort myself. I actually over-steeped it slightly. It’s still good though. I am putting myself on a very strict tea diet. NO MORE tea purchases until late summer/early fall. Between the $800 vet bill and moving expenses, I can barely pay my taxes. I’m trimming every bit I can off the budget for the nest few months. I have plenty of tea though, so I really doubt I’ll feel any pinch.
Tomorrow is supposed to be quite warm, like 74F (is that about 24C?) I am going to get my DAVID’s iced tea carafe out and cold brew some tea for the late afternoon. Now, I just have to decide which tea to ice.
Oh no, I hope everything will work out financially. I can’t imagine how stressful that must be.
Thanks! Really, it’s okay. I had put money aside for taxes and the move, and if it wasn’t for the poor kitty and the upcoming surgery I would have been fine. I’m still fine, really, but the “spontaneous fun” portion of the budget will be empty for a few months. I rarely drink hot tea in the summer, so I’ll get a chance to use up lots of tea making it iced. Then in the fall I’ll be ready to order more!
I’m glad you are finally getting better!