r/interestingasfuck • u/fat_old_boy • Mar 23 '23
Tangerine peel tea.
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u/ZomgNuWai Mar 23 '23
I've had tea from these before, it had a unique smoothness to it that I've never had from any other tea. If you're into loose leaf tea and thinking about it I would recommend it.
They are rather big, I broke mine into 3rds most of the time.a Google search for "Tangerine Tuxedo tea" should land you in the right spot.
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u/Awesam Mar 23 '23
Are they speaking….mandarin? 🍊
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u/ZeneXCrow Mar 23 '23
I think they speak....Catonese 🐱
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u/valcatrina Mar 23 '23
Wrong, mando
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u/cereal_guy Mar 23 '23
Wait til you learn where that word comes from
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u/maybelle180 Mar 23 '23
It looks so good I want to try it, but I don’t like the sharpness of most orange teas, like Mandarin Orange from celestial seasonings. Do you think I’d like this?
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u/Ganooki Mar 23 '23
Absolutely nothing like celestial seasonings. The tea used inside is Puerh and has a real smooth, earthy, forest floor flavor, and the orange is not tart, just subtle and velvety.
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u/ZomgNuWai Mar 23 '23
I didn't exactly taste a sharpness, I think most of what I took in from it was the citrus oils which explains why it may have tasted so smooth.
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u/Pennarello_BonBon Mar 24 '23
Wouldn't the tea be bitter from the peel? I boiled lemon peel before for a pasta dish and it was super bitter
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u/SubstantialPressure3 Mar 24 '23
Mandarins have much thinner peel than lemons do.
The white part is the pith, that's the part that gets bitter. The skin of those mandarins is so thin, with no pith in them, look at them when they are pulling the segments of the fruit out, and when they pop those circular holes on top.
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u/ZomgNuWai Mar 24 '23
Depends, I guess, on how you steep it, or maybe the rind? it calls for a 212F and steeps for 5 minutes. I can't recall seeing any rind in the tea I tried last year.
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u/elleadler Mar 23 '23
I love the cut to the meowing cat to show the passing of time.
10/10 Excellent video
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u/Ainothefinn Mar 23 '23
It also made me happy that we could hear the cat meow rather than some awful music score!
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u/Revenge_of_the_Khaki Mar 23 '23
Minus the insane volume at the start of the video. My laptop was at like 30% volume and I almost jumped out of my seat.
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u/Many_Consequence7723 Mar 24 '23
Is it just me, or did you also say to yourself, "that cat sounds just like cats here!"?
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u/quackitten Mar 23 '23 edited Mar 23 '23
watching this video makes me feel happy for some reason
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u/JeromeMixTape Mar 23 '23
Simpler life. They make and drink tea. They have casual conversations and a cat.
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u/DeadAssociate Mar 23 '23
its chinese state propoganda to convince people life on the countryside is good. it is not.
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u/immpro Mar 24 '23
I wish there was an entire subreddit just for slow, traditionally made things like this. Like there was one of Japanese mountain craft people making soy sauce and I loved it.
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u/quinnsheperd Mar 23 '23
Aaaaaaaah I though she was gonna make tea out of tangerine peel. My mom add orange or tangerine peel to lots of stuff. Rice, dessert, tea.
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u/mynameisnotthom Mar 23 '23
That was a great video.
Made better by random cockerel and cat.
Can anyone translate what they're talking about please
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u/excessive_brutality Mar 23 '23
i'm not an expert but i think they're talking about tangerine peel tea
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u/mynameisnotthom Mar 23 '23
In a good way or a bad way?
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u/Ludwigofthepotatoppl Mar 23 '23
“So tired of making this frickin tea every goddamn day. Was the oranges, cut the oranges, empty the oranges, stuff the oranges, dry the oranges, wrap the oranges! It drives me crazy, why can’t we do some lemons for a change?”
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u/Maximum-Shrimping Mar 23 '23
The old lady asked the younger lady to get her friends over to drink tea. Younger lady replied that her friends love the tea she makes. "Then go get them over".
And followed by some inspirational speech about life, wind, rain, and tea.
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u/ForCivEntity6 Mar 23 '23
can’t hear clearly what the non captioned parts are, since it’s an accent i’m not familiar with; but something along the lines of -
“why don’t you call a couple friends over after a while to try some tea” “mm, yeah. they love your tea” “sounds good, go grab them”
“the beauties in life are all simple things. like the feeling of the wind on the riverbank, or the muddied paths from the rain, or the silent falling of the leaves in autumn (or fall), or a cup of tangerine tea at your side - on a calm and peaceful day”
i will apologise in advance if my chinese is not the best, but this should still be fairly accurate to what was said. it does get hard to translate word for word with some languages
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u/burningfire119 Mar 23 '23
In truth, most wonders in life are simple, the wind blowing by the river, the muddy road(trail?) after a rain and silently falling leaves. On a windless day, keep yourself company with a nice cup of tangerine tea.
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u/ashavoca Mar 23 '23
Is there a name/specific genre for these types of videos? I’ve come across a few on here and they are always so relaxing to watch
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u/Dergins Mar 23 '23
I got you, I love this stuff. Fujian Grandma, Dianexi Xiaoge, Lizhangliu to get you started.
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u/destroymarxism Mar 23 '23
The tangerine peels in the u.s. have been full of pesticides for as long as I know. The inner fruit is said to be free of detectable pesticides but the peels have "significant" levels of pesticides. Its fucked up that as soon as I saw this video my natural thought "you'll get cancer drinking that shit!"
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u/Re0ns Mar 23 '23
Especially the 黑心食品(Black hearted food) known in China. Gutter oil (oil skimmed from the top layer of sewage, something straight out of 40k), cardboard meatballs, vegetables dipped in all sorts of chemicals and paint (for longer shelf life and good appearances), fake eggs, etc. China is worse than the US in the food safety aspect.
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u/Ganooki Mar 23 '23
Tea going out of China adheres to very strict regulation - more strict than FDA. There are scammers, but good importers know what they’re doing and what they’re buying.
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u/DrWolf2000 Mar 23 '23
In the city surely but this seems to be the countyside. I think it' a little different there
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u/garma87 Mar 23 '23
I highly question that they would use cancer inducing pesticides on anything close to food. Unless they have a very thorough cleaning process.
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u/Dutch-CatLady Mar 23 '23
Yeah most countries have a govermemt agency think fda, who, nvwa, that makes sure this doesn't happen. Anything imported through retailers gets tested on various points, before it gets to our stores the results will be in so something can be stopped from reaching consumers. Sure some things sometimes slip through the cracks but that happens in every production sort. Not saying it's good, just saying that is the reason products even get checkes once they are in the store so if something slipped through the cracks, we'll fucking find it.
Source, I used to do the tests once produce got ro the stores. Big retailers tend to hire mystery shoppers to get products from multiple stores. I did biology back then. That place also had a chemical lab. I'm happy I don't work there anymore because I started looking at food differently. When you drop something on the floor in a store, just yell out for help to come over. Don't walk away. Some people put that shit back. It's disgusting. Maybe don't buy fresh items
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u/destroymarxism Mar 23 '23
I knew the fact of pesticides in orange peels but I know nothing of it being cancerous. I assume
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u/Paperbackpixie Mar 23 '23
I bet during this painstaking process the air smells so fresh and fragrant.
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u/pacifistpotatoes Mar 23 '23
I bet their hands smell delicious all the time. I love how mine smell after I peel one!
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u/MysteriousAd945 Mar 23 '23
I'd legit chug that whole tub of water soaking the tangerine peel, like I'd bet that tastes amazing
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u/kintleko Mar 23 '23
I loved this video, the sounds, the ambiance, the kitty, the whole process. Satisfying to watch!
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u/slowcaptain Mar 23 '23
Can't believe how soothing this video is. This one and the chop-sticks from bamboo video from the other day, made my day. Could just watch again and again.
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u/idkusrname Mar 23 '23
My favorite part was when they scooped all the fruit out and threw it away.
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u/Sle08 Mar 23 '23
It doesn’t show them throwing it away, just scooping it out onto a big pan. For all you know this tradition came out of using the tangerine flesh and not wanting to dispose of the peels entirely. I’m sure the tangerine is canned or used for meals.
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u/PicardTangoAlpha Mar 23 '23
I’m sure the tangerine is canned
No doubt. Canned tangerines are thing after all.
BTW very cool video, very calming and positive.
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u/sparklykublaikhan Mar 23 '23
The short part where hundreds of oranges stuffed with black tea leaves without its cap on gave me the trypophobia...lol
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u/AnEnglishUsername Mar 23 '23
Thank god for the subtitles or I'd not have understand what they said...
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u/bunskerskey Mar 23 '23
I LOVE these videos! So satisfying. The way they've kept traditional ways going through making small batch products. Soy sauce, vodka, paint brushes, chop sticks... All these videos are so calming and interesting.
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u/westernguy339 Mar 23 '23
Am I crazy or would you have to brew that for like 10 hours to get any good tea out of it.
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u/debtopramenschultz Mar 23 '23
People in rural areas often don't have shit to do.
Source: I'm in a rural area.
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u/WorkingOnAFreshName Mar 23 '23
Tangerine flavor in non-tangerine formats (ex. juiced for cocktails) is underrated.
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u/tayloriser Mar 23 '23
I thought it was going to be tea out of tangerine peel, but it's tea out of tangerine peel.
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u/neo9027581673 Mar 23 '23
I love Cuties (a brand name for tangerines). I can sit there & eat them all day.
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u/taylorhildebrand Mar 23 '23
Anyone wondering what they do with all those delicious orange insides???
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u/MisterLupov Mar 23 '23
But.. what about all the tangerine pulp? Don't they make some juice or something?
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u/geof2001 Mar 23 '23
This looks so good may have to try this. The rooster scared the heck out of me though. So glad they added the cat to soothe my nerves after that.
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u/BUNewski Mar 23 '23
How do they keep track of what tangerine top goes with what tangerine? Impressive!
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u/Ganooki Mar 23 '23
Mandarin Puerh! This stuff is so good. The orange is more valuable than the tea inside it due to the laborious practice shown in the video. Great video!
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u/valcatrina Mar 23 '23
So this is how they make them. I don’t like this tea because it is too citrusy, but good too know.
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u/Fantastic-Habit-8956 Mar 23 '23
Is there a subreddit for stuff like this? Watching people do simple wholesome stuff like this?
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u/eBanta Mar 24 '23
I love that they use the traditional basket looking things for all of the shots but when they put it on the drying rack you can see all of the other trays are stainless steel lmao it's still a cool video but now I can't help but feeling like it was all exaggerated for social media
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u/Winkiwu Mar 24 '23
The water that they use for the first rinse of the tangerines? Yeah that's the water La Croix uses for their tangerine drink. /s
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u/ThyCoffee Mar 24 '23
At first glance I assumed that was just a big bowl of cheeto cheese puffs haha.
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u/Aircraftman2022 Mar 24 '23
Make my own Constant Comment black tea with a teaspoon of Tang ! Ran out of sugar when i worked in Alaska and tried Tang crystals instead ,delicious !
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u/F35LTNG Mar 24 '23
There was probably at least one time they had a matching cap with the rest of the orange
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