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A basic stainless steel mate kit. I wasn't a mate drinker before, now I occasionally do.
I just make it in my aeropress with a metal filter, does a perfect cup with hardly any powder in the bottom
But that would make a mate cocido, which has a very different taste.
I'm pretty unsophisticated with it, I admit. I've had it the traditional way with the calabash and all, but I made up a way I like. Yerba is my go-to when coffee would be too jittery and black tea ain't cutting it.
Haha, yeah, drink it however you want it, I find it absurd that people think there's a right way to enjoy food/drinks. I drink Mate in the exact same circumstances, tea is not enough but I don't feel like coffee. I'm just letting you know that the name of what you're drinking is Mate cocido, which has very different taste from what most people are thinking when they talk about mate, it's still a very popular drink too.
Thanks! Reading up, sounds like people put a lot of stuff in it, milk even. I feel like the tannin in mate doesn't call for milk, but I could see some lemon or a little sugar. Milk seems out of bounds though, personally!
I'm Argentinian, so I do enjoy mate almost daily. However I find that it's a lot of yerba used for just me drinking, so I have a Ceba Solo (not my picture, but that's exactly the same model I have). It's easy to serve, afterwards you only have to drink because it essentially makes the water go through the yerba automatically and uses way less yerba. The only downside is that I have never seen these for sale outside of Argentina, I have moved mine through 3 countries already, but if you ever find one it makes drinking mate by yourself a whole easier and cheaper.