Make your own (not-so-tasty) energy drink
November 10th, 2006 by Tim GrahlI found this recipe at the Yaniverse blog for making your own energy drink via lifehacker and dirtpedaler.
I decided to give it a try even though, as a disclaimer, I’m not a big fan of tea. I’ve tried… but I just can’t acquire the taste for it.
The ingredients include two tea bags, a “pinch” of salt, 6 teaspoons of sugar, some lemon juice and 30 oz boiling water. The tea bags we had in the house were flavored “Orange Passion” tea so I left the lemon juice out of the recipe (even though you see it in the picture).
I brought the water to a boil, dumped everything in and stirred for a minute and a half (what the tea bag box said).
I gotta admit, the concoction smelled good, so I was looking forward to trying it. I put it into what looks like a vase to chill overnight.
Took a drink…
NOT good…
It tasted like tea with to much sugar and some salt (go figure). However, if you have the taste buds for this, it sounds like it’s a good alternative to the pricey stuff. If you do end up using this for an energy drink, make sure you don’t leave out the lemon juice as that’s your source for potassium in the concoction. You can check out the articles the author based this recipe on here and here.
Give it a try and let me know what you think.
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HAHA That ‘ast pic is classic!
My Recipe:
Okay, so I don’t have exact measurements, but here is what I do:
in a water bottle
a teaspoon or two of apple cider vinegar
a tablespoon or two of honey
a pinch of salt
fresh juice from half an orange or half a lemon
1 cup of water ( or more depending on your taste)
apple cider vinegar has potassium and b vitamins, Vitamin c from the citrus, carbs, minerals and other junk from the honey, electrolites from the salt.
This also helps to prevent/cure hangovers from my experience.
powered gatorade is a cheap, easy, and tasty way to go.
sorry, meant powdered.
I love it! This website has the making of a good book! My poor upbringing was the ultimate peitre dish of ridn on the cheap.
Here is the drill. You can’t short cut a product like Cytomax for optimum nutrition shelf life and taste.
However when the going gets tough the blue collar option I like is alot like what you have Tim with a few tweaks.
Green tea, contains polyphenals and other pyto nutrients!
The lemon is a great idea for its vita C and some fructose you could allso do a little of some other fruit juices or puree bananna.
I like adding some less sweet; agave nectar found at the health food store.
This is lower glycimic and will even out your isulen.
+a couple grams of protein for sparing the lean muscle.
Voilla.
You have somthing better for you than gatorade that tastes good and is good for ya.
Keep up the 2 wheel love.
Jeremiah
Why go through all that. Just buy some loose leaf yerba mate at a tea shop or health store that might carry it. Throw a couple tablespoons into 12 oz. of boiling water and sweeten to taste with honey (if you can find some with myrtle and lemon already in the loose yerba it’s especially good). The Pasteur Institute has called yerba the world’s ‘most perfect food’ and it has a caffeine-like kick from matein for a jolt.
However, if you’re going to do what you tried to do…at least use loose leaf tea and drink it within an hour or two of steeping it (the stuff in most bags is the ‘dust’..the pits) and use real lemons squeezed. What you made would give most people that same look. Argh.
P.S. Tea begins to lose nutrient value about an hour after brewing/steeping. (All that bottled tea, even the ‘real’ stuff….might as well drink water.) See Fitness magazine online; should be in their archived articles. I have it somewhere along with alot of info on tea. Black is back and findings show it’s got the same benefits overall as green. The essentials are brewing it right and then consuming it shortly thereafter and using the freshest, loose leaf tea for optimum flavor.
If anyone’s interested, this site is nothing but news on tea, updated constantly, from all over the world.
http://www.topix.net/drink/tea
Best wishes!
Sorry folks..one more thing:
Steep green and white tea approx. 2-2:30 min at around 170-180F, kind of ‘at the boiling’.
Steep black, Rooibos, yerba mate and herbals approx. 3-4 min. around 190-200+ (boiling).
Many Middle East and Indian tea drinkers actually boil the tea. I turn off the heat after adding the tea and then time. (In a closed and insulated container)
Nice website!
In a big bottle, try this
1/2 teaspoon “salt substitute” (50% potassium, 50% sodium)
3 teaspoons white or brown (brown is “better”) sugar
squirt of lemon juice, lime juice, whiskey sour mix… anything to give it some flavor
the kicker is the 50/50 mix of potassium and sodium. yer body needs both, most drinks have only sodium, for some odd reason.
Adjust above simple formula to taste, be happy!
what i do is 2table spoons of sugar,2table spoons lemon juive, pinch of salt,2 cups water, 1tbs orange juice,1 cup of gatorade. mix it all up shake it .drink it and u will be ready for a race
i have no clue to make a engey drink but i just load up on monsters lol
i have no clue to make a engey drink but i just load up on monsters lol and i ride for hour s
powdered gatorade or other brand is good…add cris, spike jolt flavor, 50% salt/potassium,
to get electrolytes…
this is gay… your gay…
i got a gr8 one that is nice and also very good for you
ok follow these steps
(DO THIS IN A DRINK BOTTLE)
1. 1/2 teaspoon salt
2. 3 teaspoons of sugar
3. a squirt of lemon juice
4. teaspoon of honey
5. a bit of water
6. shake it up
I need to learn how to make this stuff
can you add weed on that recipe?? * - * hehehe