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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Don't do it. It's dangerous. If you insist, follow these safety measures:

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/steep-risk/[/quote]That article makes no sense. First it says the water can’t get hot enough to kill the bacteria in the water. So then no one should be drinking tap water? Or even filtered if not boiled first. If the bacteria is then only in the tea leaves, then making it in the fridge (recommended by this article) also doesn’t work because that wouldn’t kill the bacteria. [/quote]

NP. When it’s warm in the sun without boiling it it’s in the “danger zone” where bacteria thrive for however long it takes to make the tea. That doesn’t happen when it stays at fridge temps. It’s like leaving potato salad or milk out in the sun for hours and then eating it. [/quote]Then you wouldn’t drink water without boiling it first, which the article recommends in order to make tea.

The “dos” in the article also are already followed by OP who says she brews the tea for 1 hour and it’s a daily method.[/quote]

No, I wouldn’t drink water from the tap that had been sitting in the sun for an hour, allowing bacteria to proliferate.[/quote]The bacteria is already in the water to start with. You don’t drink any tap water?[/quote]

I don’t know how to explain this to you so you understand. There’s bacteria in and on most everything. What matters is how much. Different temperatures are more hospitable for bacteria. Between fridge temp and boiling is a zone where small amounts of existing bacteria can multiply and become amounts that make you sick. This is why you would eat Mayo straight from the fridge right? But would you eat Mayo that’s been sitting in the sun for an hour? No, because there is risk that dangerous bacteria has had a chance to multiply. It’s not definitely going to make you sick but it could. I wouldn’t risk tap water that’s been sitting in the sun. [/quote]

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