Good:I got a free small jar of “Spiced Tea Mix” that smelled just like the kind my Grandma made (she used Tang, Cloves, and instant tea powder).

Bad: It was full of “Red Hot” style candies, which have no place in tea.

Science: Considering stones rise to the ground surface in fields (it’s true, they do), I could stimulate the same kind of motion and get all the red hots rise to the surface of my tea mix.  All it would take is a lot of shaking. When a mixture of different sized-particles get shaken, any spaces underneath larger objects get filled with smaller particles.  A framework of powdered tea mixture is slowly made under the red hot candy, which helps it rise to the surface each time it’s shaken.

Initial Harvest

2nd good shake

And they're at the top!

Spoils of science

Total Count: 58
Shake cycles: 7

After this many “shakes, shift, and pluck” cycles I decided to call it quits and be happy with the results.  Sadly the tea ended up tasting horrible, but eating the red-hots was lots of fun!