perfect cuppa?

[Missed Sticks 0]

I like Glengettie tea (bags, not leaf). Brew it nice and strong and then top up with a good helping of milk. Serve in a mug.

Brought back some nice Orange Pecoe from the Azores (only tea factory in Europe apparently), that's loose so we have to make it in a pot. Always add the milk last though, madness otherwise....

[Guest alex]

Twinings English Breakfast tbh

Milk in first for nonces and Twinings for ponces

[Noelie 103]

Fer gawd's sake! if you put the milk in first you cannot accurately gauge the strength of the cuppa, the milk clouds the viewing. Anyone wiv arf a brain could see that

[Guest alex]

I only put a spot of milk in and make it dead strong. Nails tbh

Edited October 13, 2006 by alex

[Renton 18499]

Just to clarify I misread the poll and answered wrongly.

 

It is WRONG to add the milk before the tea bag for scientific reasons, not just opinion. To infuse properly, the water must be as close to 100C as possible. Adding milk prior to the water will lower the temperature of the water and will result in a disgusting cup of tea. FFS it's a disgrace that there are English people who can't even make a decent cuppa, what's the world coming to?

[Guest alex]

Gemmill already said that a page ago iirc.

[Gemmill 36631]

[Renton 18499]

Gemmill already said that a page ago iirc.

He doesn't have the qualifications to make that kind of pronouncement.

[Renton 18499]

Incidentally, you can't make a decent cuppa on top of Everest because the water boils at about 70C - FACT. The same principal applies to idiots who put the milk in first.

[Gemmill 36631]

My qualifications relieve themselves all over yours tbh.

[JawD 48]

Heez do you lot know nowt about making a brew? call yourselves loafers?

 

For tea:

 

Tea bag first, then boiling water (to help release flavour), squeeze bag on way out, then add milk to taste. It is better in a china pot, but thats too much arsing around.

 

For more detailed info read:

 

1. Use tea from India or Ceylon (Sri Lanka), not China

2. Use a teapot, preferably ceramic

3. Warm the pot over direct heat

4. Tea should be strong - six spoons of leaves per 1 litre

5. Let the leaves move around the pot - no bags or strainers

6. Take the pot to the boiling kettle

7. Stir or shake the pot

8. Drink out of a tall, mug-shaped tea cup

9. Don't add creamy milk

10. Add milk to the tea, not vice versa

11. No sugar!

 

 

 

For Coffee:

 

Coffee then milk, then water. If you add milk last to coffee there is a chance you could burn the coffee with the hot water.

[Renton 18499]

Heez do you lot know nowt about making a brew? call yourselves loafers?

 

For tea:

 

Tea bag first, then boiling water (to help release flavour), squeeze bag on way out, then add milk to taste. It is better in a china pot, but thats too much arsing around.

 

For more detailed info read:

 

1. Use tea from India or Ceylon (Sri Lanka), not China

2. Use a teapot, preferably ceramic

3. Warm the pot over direct heat

4. Tea should be strong - six spoons of leaves per 1 litre

5. Let the leaves move around the pot - no bags or strainers

6. Take the pot to the boiling kettle

7. Stir or shake the pot

8. Drink out of a tall, mug-shaped tea cup

9. Don't add creamy milk

10. Add milk to the tea, not vice versa

11. No sugar!

 

 

 

For Coffee:

 

Coffee then milk, then water. If you add milk last to coffee there is a chance you could burn the coffee with the hot water.

 

Agree with the tea bit, but not with the coffee. First, if at all possible, you should use proper filter coffee over instant. If there is no option but instant, don't put the milk in first, as this often creates lumps of undissolved coffee. To avoid burning the coffee, simply pour the hot water onto a tea spoon on the way into the cup.

 

Hope this helps, ithangu.

[Tooj 17]

Am I the only person on here who doesn't drink tea?

[Renton 18499]

Am I the only person on here who doesn't drink tea?

 

Fuck off to France you traitor!

[Jill 0]

Am I the only person on here who doesn't drink tea?

 

It's vile - though coffee is worse.

[Gemmill 36631]

FREAK.

[geordieshandy 0]

Also when drinking it, don't fucking slurp it, you sound like a fucking calf drinking out of a bucket. CAN YOU HEAR ME YOU IGNORANT BASTARD, STOP SLURPING YOUR TEA OR I'LL POUR THE BASTARD LOT OF IT ALL OVER YOUR FUCKING FACE.

[Gemmill 36631]

Also when drinking it, don't fucking slurp it, you sound like a fucking calf drinking out of a bucket. CAN YOU HEAR ME YOU IGNORANT BASTARD, STOP SLURPING YOUR TEA OR I'LL POUR THE BASTARD LOT OF IT ALL OVER YOUR FUCKING FACE.

 

[Guest alex]

I still reckon you should put the milk in first if you make it in a pot.

[Renton 18499]

I still reckon you should put the milk in first if you make it in a pot.

 

That's acceptable because the teabag has already been in contact with the water, Ideally you should warm the teapot as well though.

[Gemmill 36631]

Put the milk in the cup? That's fine because the actually brewing is taking place in the pot anyway. Unless you're talking about putting milk in the pot again, you detty owld man!

[Gemmill 36631]

I still reckon you should put the milk in first if you make it in a pot.

 

That's acceptable because the teabag has already been in contact with the water, Ideally you should warm the teapot as well though.

 

Renton, you remind me of a lad I used to work with called Richard Marr aka "The Tea Drinker". This lad would go on trips to London to bring back specialist tea leaves and would scoff at the rest of us with our PG and Tetley.

[Guest alex]

I still reckon you should put the milk in first if you make it in a pot.

 

That's acceptable because the teabag has already been in contact with the water, Ideally you should warm the teapot as well though.

You should indeed do that. I also like a ratio of about three bags to two cups of tea. Half a sugar too or one if it's a large mug.

I rarely drink the stuff now though tbh

[Renton 18499]

I still reckon you should put the milk in first if you make it in a pot.

 

That's acceptable because the teabag has already been in contact with the water, Ideally you should warm the teapot as well though.

You should indeed do that. I also like a ratio of about three bags to two cups of tea. Half a sugar too or one if it's a large mug.

I rarely drink the stuff now though tbh

 

Neither do I!

 

Btw, Typhoo is best of the usual brands if you like strong tea.

[Guest alex]

Yorkshire Tea is canny too. You only get an ooh with Typhoo though