Trying VIRAL TEA TREND - How to Brew Tea in a Tangerine!

There are plenty of weird and wonderful ways to brew loose leaf tea and we thoihht that we would try out (and perfect) the tangerine tea trend that is doing the rounds on social media.
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[@Apollo440]

Kudos for doing an in-depth review of the method. I truly thought you'd just say "meh" and move on to pure tea drinking. :) But you actually worked on making the method from the viral video better. Nice!

[@the-final-em]

Absolutely losing it over "...Not happy with that" 😂

[@314Tazo]

I had some Tangerines and tried it. I used a sharp paring knife to get the zest. Very good idea.

[@MrErtonn]

I have seen these videos a while ago. Tried it my way, i pretty much just steep the orange peel ( whole ) while the balck tea is brewing. ( not using it as a strainer ) Tasted really good, like really wholesome. I bought the best quality orange possible. I like it way way more than dried orange /tangerine mixed with tea. ( I did not try the best ones yet I believe )

[@jacobtrapp3772]

I feel like this might be good for when you're sick. I have a sore throat and headache today and I made some chenpi shoumei and it made my throat feel great.

[@SaultoPaul]

This is SO funny, because I was JUST sitting down to try the Pu'er Tea Orange from Jesse's Teahouse ! 😂This is simpatico/coincidence or something. 😂😂😂😂😂 This is a dehydrated little stuffed orange with one little 4 to 5 mm hole in the bottom.

[@almendroverde]

I just came home from buying dried tangerine peel to use with my tea, it's the destiny.

[@eating_a_cookie]

mei leaf jesse colab when

[@wildebeestwright]

Haha awesome. How did you like it? Dried tea oranges have been around for a long time. They’re used in Chinese medicine too. (And what they’re testing in this video is different.)

[@SaultoPaul]

@@wildebeestwright Man, I'm actually in love. It's very good. I will be buying more. It's a great cup'a tea. But, it's a dried, aged or smoked, Puer stuffed little* mandarin.(about width of a US quarter) It tastes possibly a little smoked.

[@SaultoPaul]

@@wildebeestwright what is its medicinal use ??

[@TomTheAustrian]

So in german, Mandarine, it’s more correct. We still knew that they’re from China and not from Tangir when naming them 😂

[@aymehanna98]

don you and your wife look so sweet together I really enjoyed your video, Inspired me to make a channel dedicated for tea but audience is toward my country and in Arabic

[@TimHoekstra]

Will give this a go with just the peel and some ripe. Less hassle and probably almost as good.

[@omegand.]

So just get some zest, char it on a burner and brew it along with the tea. Need to try it out... 😪😪

[@andrewshippy6623]

Don, when I extract limonene using distillation, i scrape all the pith off. You'd get a lot more of the oils without the pith in the way. My favorite is Seville orange. *Never use American navel oranges.

[@korinnapilafidis-williams6308]

Well done! So much effort. Double winner vit c and tea. 🎉

[@jaxondeboef6361]

I used to brew sencha with some mandarin peel in it. Its been a while, but I remember it being pretty good

[@donnakawana]

What about putting the orange inside out once you clean it. Then roasting the outside over a flame. As the flame will seal it quicker than roasting will. Try that

[@vladimiryakimenko2010]

Oh, I love this experimental format! It was extremely interesting, haha)) 😇🤩

[@Juice4Y0U]

I immediately tried it with the peel baked seperately from the tea and it's great! Works really well to improve the lower quality puer I still have left😅

[@benmoore7946]

love the new setup

[@heretoday7x]

Nice been looking forward to today's upload

[@wildebeestwright]

I wonder how the tangerine might have fared without putting the top inside like that. I know you did it to counteract pithiness, but tangerines aren’t really pithy inside the same way an orange is. Thanks for the fun video!

[@angelaprior6645]

I have broken my Gaiwan lid 😢. I’m lazy and greedy so I peeled the tangerine and baked its skin. Put some (quite a lot) Lao Cha Tou with the peel on top in a 330ml tetsubin and will now spend all afternoon with this! Nicely tangerine flavoured tea!

[@Hliguori1]

Have you ever made banana tea? Cut the ends off and slice into one inch pieces and boil. Remove the banana slices and enjjoy.

[@darkmann12]

I recall you guys saying a couple months ago that you had a Discord server, and I can't find it anywhere. Would you be able to provide the invite link or the relevant character string part of said link?

[@Pylean]

reminds me of Sunshine Pureh cake

[@hendrikm9569]

About the drainage: I'd suspect that the problem with the flow might be tea leaves getting suck in the wholes. It might be possible to solve this by using an Aeropress Filter (Tiny flat coffee filter) to keep the tea leaves from getting stuck and use very few holes.

[@SaultoPaul]

I wonder if a dehydrator would help. Mine appears dried and aged.

[@ricardocalderon9823]

I'm not surprised 😂

[@Apollo440]

Good job picking up on viral tea trends. I bet this is a way to put your channel into some search category, which will allow more people to find your wonderful tea related videos! If you know any other things you could connect to (like food) you can tap into this crowd too, by creating videos on the topic.

[@nicolaszytkowiak3195]

Netherton Foundry pan? I have the exact same one lolll

[@YushangChen]

That is a TikTok killer video, thanks.

[@sunstar2599]

👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@papawheelie4773]

I was trying to order and my card was declined. Am I able to order from the United States?

[@charlesaloha9232]

I've placed 2 orders from the US and my payment by credit card went fine

[@jacobtrapp3772]

Looking like Iron Don with that microphone on the center of your chest. I Am Iron Don.

[@mrlionmaw7617]

Interesting video but i missed a little tiktok dance

[@royalhehe]

You should try grating the zest, then bake it individually, then add it to the tea leaves then brew it gong fu style. If that works then you might be able to sell it as a blend.👍

[@donnakawana]

Could sugar the zest... Of course I wud want sugar🤣😂

[@42ZaphodB42]

@@donnakawana Blegh

[@buffalOMsoldier]

i bet you could even carefully flip the larger half of tangerine and not bother with second piece in there, which would help with drainage. Overall cool video though!

[@predatorofthehaters4987]

Drainage Problem solved … just put the tangarine in the tea connoisseur. Your problem with the holes is that you just poke them. You have to punch a hole. If you would bake the tangarine before putting tea in … and you are really carefull you could take out the piff in crumbles

[@jonellel795]

There it is ask b4 commented on instagram way cool u hav a Show. Should have peeled your orange

[@jakoniejako]

Ehmm... me? Nothing! I'm just ignoring the ladder 😊

[@CaryCotterman]

I have this stubborn streak that says there should be nothing in tea but tea, and nothing in beer but beer. Fruit, honey, sugar, cream, milk, and other substances have their places in the universe, but not in tea or beer.

[@kikiriki8887]

... and you have to be sure that the orange peel has no pesticides

[@thomaskuettler2206]

Hey, Mr. Tangerine man, play a song for me ...

[@steverenezhang]

Isn't this similar to xiao qing gan?

[@bajiron]

Great problem solving!

[@relentl3ss482]

I’m just saying you have a video where your in china and talk about how in that region they put tea in oranges

[@wildebeestwright]

That’s different, and a very common practice. The tea is put into a tangerine and then it is dried like that. Tea oranges (or tangerines or mandarins, or whatever) have been used in Chinese medicine for a long time. The difference with this current trend is that it uses a fresh orange.

[@charlesaloha9232]

make 4 cuts from top almost to the bottom, this will allow you to remove the fruit pulp and still invert the peel so it is on the inside, then you can steep the tea with the rind and it will drain easily

[@LorenzThor]

Learned a new word today: pithy!