- How to achieve 85C water without a thermometer:
- 9.236 liter boiling water at 373K (100C) + X liter room temp water at 293K (20C) = (9.236+X) liter at 358K (85C)
- X= 2.131 liter of RT water
- 11.37 liter = 48 cups = 3 gallon (whee!)
- 1 tbsp (~6 gram) per cup -> 288 gram Mate for 48 cups
- 35 g ginger (all we had left)
Chef: Naomi.
Recipe (all approximate amounts)
- 500ml of mate, yerba buena
- 2 quarts of water, approx
- 20grams of chopped ginger with the skin on
- ~5g of lemon zest
Proceess:
- Water brought to 175 degrees fahrenheiut
- added mate, ginger and lemon
- started timer.
- Totally sitting at around 7 minutes at (fairly) stable temperature.
- Added 2 tbl spoons of lemon juice
- poured through tea-strainer sitting in a single-drop plastic coffee funnel, into a glass pitcher.
- added 1 1/3s of a cup of inverted sugar
- Chef getting bored and tired at this point.
- added ~1/4 teaspoon of salt