So a coworker noticed I was mixing 2 liters of commercial ready to drink tea you can find in any convenience store AND some 1 liter milk from a carton then split into 6-8 cups. They saw the act with a face of disbelief that I would do such a thing which made me wonder if I'm in the wrong here?
It honestly just tastes like the commercial packaged milk tea drink and the more parts of milk I added into the mix, the more it tastes milky expensive without the fancy pearls and add-ons. I don't think it was weird when I picked up the habit of doing this recipe after contemplating on why the fuck people would spend so much money ordering this stuff on food deliveries when they could have save some costs doing it at home for ALMOST THE SAME taste.
It was then I realized that I made a life hack. If a cup consists of around 240 ml, and you're mixing 1L tea and 1L milk, you get around a volume of 8 cups 1:1 ratio. Now it's an acquired taste preference so I do a 2:1 ratio, with 2L tea and 1L milk. I could save up 1/4 to half of the cost for the same volume with this recipe than ordering the same product over food delivery or falling in line in a food kiosk.
And I think to myself, maybe I'm the cray cray one here? since people are willing to pay extra for the authentic commercial adulterated recipe for ALMOST the same taste, maybe the magic is in the tapioca or the packaging? I don't know, I just know that in terms of taste, it just tastes the same, cheaper, no pearls or the added fancy things.
I could probably expand the formula by using red tea, green tea, oolong tea just for show. But the encounter made me realize how much my small cost effective life hacks weird people out.
I order a cup of hot coffee, then place it on the refrigerator to cool. I don't want to pay an extra 5 peso difference for the ice and it just dilutes the taste.
I probably commit more cheap life hacks that are odd but I would only realize these being odd if someone points them out.
Thanks for your time.
