Day old tea and coffee

[Anonymous]

I have always reheated herbal and green tea later in the day or the next day, but dh thinks it's gross. Day old coffee, I will add ice and milk. Coffee doesn't taste great reheated. 24 hours is usually when I dump it and start fresh. I googled and got all different answers so I'm curious what do others do, dump it or use the next day?

[Anonymous]

Put it in the fridge and it’s fine the next day

[Anonymous]

I don’t like the taste of reheated coffee but reheated tea is ok (don’t love it, but it will do in a pinch). Neither tea nor coffee would spoil overnight so there’s definitely nothing gross about it.

[Anonymous]

Yuck. Why don’t you just make what you need and drink it fresh?

[Anonymous]

op here, I should have mentioned I would never serve anyone else day old drinks, just for me. I don't find a difference in the taste so I'll continue. Thank you for answering.

[Anonymous]

Tea is fine if refrigerated, otherwise it grows mold quickly.

[Anonymous]

I have an irrational aversion to “old” drinks and won’t drink them. This means no old coffee, tea, milk, or even water. I won’t drink last nights water in the morning. I know. I’m a freak.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t like the taste of reheated coffee but reheated tea is ok (don’t love it, but it will do in a pinch). Neither tea nor coffee would spoil overnight so there’s definitely nothing gross about it.

Tea states to grow mold and bacteria after 8 hours.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t like the taste of reheated coffee but reheated tea is ok (don’t love it, but it will do in a pinch). Neither tea nor coffee would spoil overnight so there’s definitely nothing gross about it.

Tea states to grow mold and bacteria after 8 hours.

can’t be too bad. I’ve drunk day old tea from the pot my whole life and have never had a problem.

[Anonymous]

I nuke leftover coffee all the time. I don’t serve it to other people, but it’s fine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I nuke leftover coffee all the time. I don’t serve it to other people, but it’s fine.

Same. I fridge whatever I haven’t had by 11, and reheat the next morning.

Part of it is that some days I’ll have three cups and some days just one. Would you really just make one cup at a time?

I don’t know why you would do this with tea, though - don’t you just make one cup at a time? I haven’t made a teapot full of tea since I was a kid and I would make a pot for my whole family.

[Anonymous]

Are you doing it because you don’t want to waste? Or because you don’t want to bother making another cup? If the former, maybe make less? I don’t consider it to be super wasteful to throw away half a cup of coffee or tea but it rarely happens that I need to as I just drink it! However, I am a coffee and tea snob so would find the taste reheated to be gross, but if you like it then carry on, I guess!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I nuke leftover coffee all the time. I don’t serve it to other people, but it’s fine.

Same. I fridge whatever I haven’t had by 11, and reheat the next morning.

Part of it is that some days I’ll have three cups and some days just one. Would you really just make one cup at a time?

I don’t know why you would do this with tea, though - don’t you just make one cup at a time? I haven’t made a teapot full of tea since I was a kid and I would make a pot for my whole family.

DP. But I have an automatic tea maker, and the smallest amount of tea it makes at a time is 500 mL. You use looseleaf tea in it. Sometimes I have more than I can drink and other times I run it a second time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I nuke leftover coffee all the time. I don’t serve it to other people, but it’s fine.

Same here. If there’s any left in the carafe in the morning, I nuke it and enjoy while the next carafe brews. Not the best coffee, but fine for first sip of the day.

[Anonymous]

That is how my grandma made iced coffee in the 70s and 80s. She would just take the cold left over coffee from the percolator pot and pour over ice and add milk.