General Chat

Why is it that Itinerant Vendors of Hot Comestibles find it so hard to understand that in order to make tea the BOILING water needs to be in contact with the tea bag long enough to soak up colour, flavour and other ingredients? And as for the idiot who puts the teabag in the cup, adds cold milk and then the hot water.. words fail me...

I'm with you on that Grandpa Jim, I always add the milk after I've left the tea to 'brew' for a bit.xx

LOL Jim I hate it if the milk goes in first - just doesn't come out the same does it ??? And try explaining to all the coffee drinkers I work with - that a cup of tea needs to be made from a boiled kettle for best results - not with hot water from a water machine that only 'heats' it to a nominal temperature !!!!!!!!!!!

I always put the milk in first with the tea bag then the water..I used to make it the other way teabag-hot water- milk and got told it was horrid! BB xx

I moan at my hubby for putting the milk in first, he's another one of those idiots. Shirley Ann.

I put the milk and tea bag in if I'm having to wait for kettle to boil. But, I do leave the tea bag in for ages anyway as I do like strong tea.

Jim it's a question of breeding! No breedin: cold milk, tea bag then hot water and quickly fish out said beg = dirty dish water!!! Good Breeding: Warm tea pot, add tea leaf, add boiling water and allow to steep. Pour tea in to tea cup with or without tea strainer - add sugar then milk to taste. Drink with little finger in the air!

The trouble is that putting milk in first, or even leaving a cold spoon in the cup takes away the temperature you need to get the best from your tea bag. It was different when we used teapots.

My BIL makes it with the milk in cup first, my hubby goes bananas. BIL says it does'nt stain the cup. Does he wash up? No!. Hilary.

IT'S JUST TEA

If it's just TEA why did our ancestors keep it under lock and key? Sell the used leaves to the rag and bone to be reuse by the poor? Throw it over board in Boston?? And sit down to drink it in war and desert??

Ok according to you lot I am an Idiot with No Breedin THANKS

thats ok..so am I...lol BB xx

For me it's... milk first...then teabag...then hot water. Just personal choice really. Sue xx

opps!!

Not you Dawnie. I refer to the tea vendors who can't make a decent cuppa, they are the idiots. You are just untaught. xxx

Jim is quite correct (as is usually the case). The milk must go in last.

My Nan always said the tea should be scalded or you won't get the best flavour. So, I always put hot water in first, then the milk once I have squeezed the life out of the bag. After all, when we used teapots, we didn't put milk in them did we?

One warmed cup. One teabag in said cup. Boiling water direct from kettle before being turned off. Walk away for 2 - 3 minutes. Return to stir with spoon, that was NOT in cup prior to this. Add several large spoonfuls of sugar and stir again. Walk away for another minute or so. Return to play with teabag, stir, mulch and stir again. Lift said teabag out of cup and squeeze for maximum colour and taste. Add small amount of milk ... to change colour of liquid, not the flavour of the drink. Stir again and taste. If not enough sugar, add more as required. Hot, strong tea taste and sweet.:-) Oh, and don't forget the Bacon Buttie ........... ! Elaine ;-)

sounds like a perfect cuppa, except for the sugar I'm sweet enough already. The bacon buttie would be nice though :)