Sore Throat Means Cook Water

Well, dear reader, you didn’t buy any toilet paper. So let me tell you something else.

My throat hurts.

I know, that would matter much more to you if you had just said that. That doesn’t hurt my feelings. I understand.

But I’m not writing to tell you my throat hurts, but to tell you about something I did for it.

I cooked water.

Yep, cooked water. I deployed my newest weapon in the War on Sore Thorats — a fancy I-didn’t-even-know-they-existed tetera eléctrica by GE that I got for my birthday last month. It looks like the this one here, so I suppose they came out of the same Chinese factory…with some minor branding and packaging changes.

Anyway, this electric kettle heats water quickly and efficiently and handily.

I poured the boiling water into my “Genuine Antique Person” mug I got for some other birthday. Ahead of the water, though, I plopped a bag of Stash Peppermint Herbal Tea (Caffeine Free).

Then I put on (the mug, not me) a wide-mouth canning lid to seal in the heat while the tea steeped for three minutes.

After the kitchen timer (I’ll spare you yet another Amazon link) beeped the conclusion of the steepage, I removed the lid and the tea bag, added honey and fresh-squoze lemon juice (I skipped the apple cider vinegar this time), and proceeded with the slurp and sip stage.

And that is how I treat a sore throat. Well, one of the ways. I also use cough drops (profusely), orange juice, and ignorance.

In fact, most of today I used ignorance. That is, I just ignored the throat. Then this evening I had a 7-ounce cup of leftover orange juice, invigorated with ten drops of grapeseed extract (or it is grapefruit seed extract? I often forget), at least that many drops of fresh-squoze lemon juice, salt, and cayenne pepper. That was before the tea treatment.

Maybe I should have another tea treatment…after I feed the dog.