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Icin' the Tea (Posted on 2004-03-09) Difficulty: 1 of 5
This actually happened to me...

  My wife and I were cookin' a Cajun feast for the anniversaire de ma mere. While I handled the vittles, the lovely and talented Mrs. Boy made the drinks.
  She had made the tea strong and wanted to dilute it with 4 cups of water but the guests were at the door and the tea was still hot so she decided to dilute it with ice instead.
  She turned to me and said, "Fat, sweetie, how many ice cubes make a cup of water?"
  I confessed that I did not know as I had not measured the water when I made the cubes. To make matters worse I had not paid attention to how full I had made the trays so we couldn't just refill them and see how much they held.
  Things seemed desperate, as I'd die before I'd serve my Gumbo without sweet tea, but Mrs. Boy is no fool and she found a way. The tea was just right (though the cheese grits were a little burnt).

How did Mrs. B manage to ascertain the proper number of ice cubes to produce the 4 cups of water needed to dilute the tea? All she had to use was the ice cubes themselves, an ungraduated glass pitcher of unknown volume and the 4 cup graduated Pyrex measuring cup full of (too strong) tea.

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re(2): solution | Comment 8 of 38 |
(In reply to re: solution by Tristan)

This has to be worth another go:

Half the tea is emptied from the measuring jug into the empty pitcher and icecubes are added to the measuring jug one by one slowly so they melt and the jug is again full (this is how the grits got burned - the ice had to melt). All the contents are then tipped into the pitcher and the same number of icecubes again are added and stirred. I don't see the Eureka factor here (sorry Penny) - as if it were a quick solution (and Mrs Boy is no fool) the grits would have been fine.


  Posted by Jils on 2004-03-10 16:22:20
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