Moving to another country always makes you miss the foods that you grew up on
Growing up in America, there are so many different foods and drinks that I just loved so much and I tasted every day that they just don't exist
In the UK, and in fact, I forget that they exist until something randomly triggers my memory and I'm like, oh my god
Kool-aid! Recently, London has been having a lot of sunny days, which is lovely.
In fact, it's been so sunny and London recently some have begun to call it 'Sundon'. I am NOT one of those people.
I am.
Now on these long summer days, you know what I thirst for more than anything else? The taste of Sun tea.
But the other day, when I tweeted out when I remembered the Sun tea existed, I tweeted "Man,
I could really go for a cup of Sun tea". None of y'all Brits knew
what I was talking about.
Most the tweets were like, "What is Sun Tea? I'm very confused".
Most of you were kind of like this:
Dan: I don't even want to know what you're implying by sun tea
Evan: Which is fair enough,
I mean the British really pride themselves on their tea, which is for good reason because it's just better here
You're gonna have to accept that no matter where you're from.
It kind of just is a stated fact the British know their tea.
However,
When it comes to the best summertime drink for a hot summer's day,
America and particularly the south, really takes the cake.
with Sun tea
And before you all start freaking out because I'm mentioning things that I'm doing to your tea that you're not used to, let's calm down,
Okay, respect the culture. Okay respect my culture
How does one make the eponymous Sun tea of which the video title claims?
It's time to get into the recipe!
Well first things first you do need a hot sunny day
So if it's not sunny right now where you are? Well, you can't really make Sun tea. I mean it's in the name, okay
It's not like you're just gonna get your son to make tea for you. It's not quite the same
Well, the second most important ingredient in Sun tea is the tea!
The tea bags and ya boi accidentally bought decaffeinated tea
Which is garbage so i'm gonna run to the store real quick and go get some real tea.
Okay, so I'm back I got myself some real tea. It's important.
Okay, you get your favorite black tea that can be English breakfast
I prefer Earl Grey make sure it has the caffeine
It doesn't need it I guess but who are you if you're not gonna do that?
You can say maybe you can have another type of tea but really it's it's gotta be either earl grey or
Even if you're American, there's still no excuse to use Lipton.
Okay, throw your Lipton in the trash.
You are also going to need two jugs or pitchers,
if you prefer baseball.
These need to have some lids on them or if you prefer you can saran wrap if you do not have
A lid on them just make sure they are glass as the plastic will not taste nice out in the sun
And of course after that as long as you've got a faucet like this one right here
You should be fine or if you're British a tap. I'm gon' tap that WOOOAH
Well that sink pun was pretty good, but I should have tried to faucet
You know it was
The first step is to take your four to eight tea bags depending on how strong you like your iced tea and place them in
Your jugs we're going to go with four for this size
And we're gonna go with six for this one right here
Next up you're going to be filling your pitchers with standard tap water. Believe me. It works. It's fine. Don't forget your lid
So as you can see, we've already started to get a little bit of some color change
So we're gonna be putting them up here way way way up here because the Sun is hitting here all day
So we want to make sure that this
Stays in the direct sunlight for at least three hours like if you want to make sure it's properly brewed the difference
By the way between the taste of this and normal tea is that with normal tea the boiling water hits it
Immediately it starts to steep. It's a different taste where as this is a slow slow brew with the power of the Sun
Okay, you can't be against it. We're gonna have a time lapse. Let's see how it looks in three hours
Well my camera originally overheated during the time lapse
So enjoy this one of the new
And after your tea has been out in the Sun for good three to four hours
It should get a nice dark red consistency like this
it is time to chill it in the fridge take your jug and
put it in the fridge to chill for a good hour, and after a good hour of chilling you end the tea or time to give
It to your friends, let's go. So now that our tea is fully chilled. It's time to prepare the beverages first
for ice tea you do need a nice amount of ice
It's not called nice tea
Its Sun tea also two slices of lemon optional. I prefer lemon it also makes the drink look nice and pretty
Now the traditional Sun tea does have sugar it is sweetened. So I would recommend adding a nice amount of sugar
I don't measure it. Actually I just kind of
just pour it in there
you can't have unsweetened but it is specified by Sun tea to have tea or
Unsweetened not tea and sweetened. It's automatically sweetened and I have unsweetened
Can I have can i can i can i
were gonna be making one sun tea and one unsweetened
here we go
oh Yeah. and you got two delicious sun teas
dun nu nu na
lets go outside
so tell me what you guys think, take a sip. Yeah. I'm out of shot
can i just. im sorry, i just really looked
That's really good I try the sweetened one make sure that sugar is mixed well, otherwise your your patrons will not enjoy
L: Patreon?
L: Do we have to subscibe to you on partreon
E: Yes, you're sucking lemon
L: This one's better I prefer this one.
E: Okay, so Luke prefers the unsweetened
B: I think the the taste of the tea is really just
E: it's so strong
L: Oh, I completely completely disagree. You are entirely wrong. No. I will fight you to the death-
E: As with most things, no British people can get along. But thank you for watching
E: Hope you've made some Sun tea of your own. If you do tweet me pictures, that'd be nice
E: I want more people to enjoy Sun tea. I find it very delicious.
E: It's when my favorite thing is from where I'm from and yeah, that'd be nice. Thanks for watching the video
E: Hope you have a lovely sunny rest of your summer. I'll see you later.
L: I look bald E: You are!