Have you ever had sun tea? You get a clear glass container, preferably the kind with a nozzle for dispensing drinks from, then you fill it with water and load it up with a bunch of tea bags, maybe 10 per gallon(?), then you close the lid and set it somewhere in direct sunlight in the morning on a hot summer day. By mid afternoon you can take the tea bags out and put the tea container in your refrigerator.
It’s just as dark as regular tea, but it has a smoother flavor. Typically you drink it iced, since it’s a summer drink for hot days.
Not saying it does, ive drank stuff thats been sitting out for a very long time sithout getting sick. This is basically just a tangentially related fun fact but: in the absence of a limiting factor, bacteria grows following the law of exponential growth. A single bacteria that is not restricted from replicating ever would be able to convert the entire surface of the planet into that bacteria in two days. If the medium is right, it can fill that cup in minutes.
Have you ever had sun tea? You get a clear glass container, preferably the kind with a nozzle for dispensing drinks from, then you fill it with water and load it up with a bunch of tea bags, maybe 10 per gallon(?), then you close the lid and set it somewhere in direct sunlight in the morning on a hot summer day. By mid afternoon you can take the tea bags out and put the tea container in your refrigerator.
It’s just as dark as regular tea, but it has a smoother flavor. Typically you drink it iced, since it’s a summer drink for hot days.
How to make bacterial soup 101
You drink it within a day or 2, before it can grow a significant amount of bacteria.
Not saying it does, ive drank stuff thats been sitting out for a very long time sithout getting sick. This is basically just a tangentially related fun fact but: in the absence of a limiting factor, bacteria grows following the law of exponential growth. A single bacteria that is not restricted from replicating ever would be able to convert the entire surface of the planet into that bacteria in two days. If the medium is right, it can fill that cup in minutes.