Still sounds strange but I’ll try it out ; )

Baking soda?! I found alkaline water gave terrible results, do you add it after brewing?

To minimize bitterness with a fast brew as others have mentioned, try out CTC black tea, it’s machined (“crush-tear-curl”) tea that comes in a coarse powder/pellet form and extracts completely and quickly due to enormous surface area. You’ll be sure to find it some an Indian grocery store. Brooke Bond Red Label, Lipton Yellow Label, and Wagh Bakri are the names I remember seeing, IIRC I’ve tried all of those and they’re all about the same. Terrible sounding process name but give it a chance!

If no more sugar will dissolve I’d take that as a sign that it’s time to stop adding sugar. I mean, the water is saying so.

The cherry be scary.

And one time we even dumped it all in the harbor!

Where do you live that has friendly engineers?

how do I upvote and downvote at the same time

And don’t let’s get started on boiling chips.

That was just the tech weenies with their ‘architecturally sound strategy’ or whatever, before the business side beat talked some sense into them.

Haven’t you heard? web3 is going great so far!

You don’t need gadgets! My on-the-go setup is a couple of disposable coffee cups and a strainer and with a source of hot water I’m all sorted. Brew in one cup, strain into the other, drink, repeat until the tea’s all brewed out.