[petre]

I'm a tea drinker (green Chinese types like Zhen Mei are mainly my thing) and occasionaly also consume Yerba Mate. Rather than saturating a high amount of the dried plant with hot water and drinking it with a traditional silver straw like people do in South America, I just prepare a normal infusion like one does with tea, with a metal straining net infuser leaving it for four minutes. It's easier on the stomach this way. It's also good in combination with lemongrass.

[gen220]

I've done the same for years. I think most of the ill effects of mate come to people because they're "overdosing" inadvertently.

If you steep a "tea" quantity of mate, I've found it to produce a remarkably long-lived, smooth, non-jittery sense alertness.

The only times I've ever felt like how coffee or black tea make me feel, is when I put in a 1/4 cup of mate and drink it the traditional way.

[ibatindev]

We also do that when you have to serve mate for a large crowd and it receives the name of ´Mate Cocido´ => https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mate_cocido

[Projectiboga]

I do a double brew where I steep the mate first, let it sit in partial quart bottles, then I brew a soup pot of Oolong tea and strain after 3 minutes I then add the tea to the mate as a kind of double brew. I may now strain the tea-mate combo after a shorter period. I still need to read the article.