Saving Energy When Brewing Iced Tea - Teacology Offers Tips Applicable to Many Situations

PHILADELPHIA - July 5, 2013 - PRLog -- Preparing your own iced tea, whether brewing at home, or a business like a restaurant, cafe, or coffee shop preparing larger batches of iced tea, uses energy in two ways: heating and cooling.  Teacology, a blog focused on the intersection of tea with ecology, offers tips to minimize energy usage, thus saving money, while brewing iced tea.

Importance of energy conservation

Conserving energy is important for many reasons, including reducing carbon dioxid output and thus minimizing global climate change, and preventing the release of pollutants like mercury generated by electricity consumption.

Although iced tea preparation contributes only a modest amount to total energy usage, the processes of heating and cooling are at the heart of energy usage, and the ideas communicated in the post are of wide general applicability.

Recommend method for iced tea preparation

Teacology's recommended method for brewing iced tea involves brewing only a small, concentrated amount of hot tea, and then allowing this to cool to room temperature before diluting and then chilling it by pouring over ice or placing in a refrigerator.

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