On Thu, 3 Oct 2013 20:48:34 -0400, "Steve Freides" >
wrote:

>Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>> On 10/2/2013 4:50 PM, Steve Freides wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> We have an electric kettle, a relatively recent purchase for us,
>>> that we love. We loved iced tea - our procedure is to make a
>>> pitcher of hot tea (boil the water in the electric kettle) and let
>>> it sit, tea bags in, until it's cooled, then we just make iced tea
>>> from it (we do remove the tea bags at some point) until the pitcher
>>> is empty, and then we rinse out the pitcher and repeat the process.
>>>
>>> Room temperature tea by the pitcher full keeps well for a day or two
>>> on the counter. We use TJ's Irish Breakfast tea, 3 bags to a medium
>>> sized pitcher.
>>>
>>> The electric kettle is a nice multi-tasker - we boil water for French
>>> Press coffee in it as well.
>>>
>>> -S-
>>
>> Good method, but I'd get the tea bags out by five minutes so it will
>> not get bitter. If you want stronger, better to add more tea, not
>> more time.
>
>My wife's mother was Welsh,

How TF could she be WAS Welch???

>and her father English, and all quite the
>tea drinkers. The tea bags went into the pot and stayed there all
>night, adding hot water as the evening went along. The fact that we
>usually take them out within a few hours represents quite a bit of
>progress for her.

In how many other ways was your MIL a miserly bitch?