A cup of tea,how do you make yours?
Poll: A cup of tea,how do you make yours?
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Myself and Mrs Saleen have differing views on how to make a cup of tea, I always put the milk in first where as swmbo insists the milk should be added after, her reason being adding the milk first blocks up the tea bag preventing the taste/flavour coming out properly.
So how do you make yours?
So how do you make yours?
saleen836 said:
Myself and Mrs Saleen have differing views on how to make a cup of tea, I always put the milk in first where as swmbo insists the milk should be added after, her reason being adding the milk first blocks up the tea bag preventing the taste/flavour coming out properly.
So how do you make yours?
Also, my reasoning is that you want to see the strength of the tea - and don't know exactly how that will end up pre-bag.So how do you make yours?
The best cup of tea is made from boiling water. If cold milk is already in the cup, the water will cool down rapidly and prevent the tea brewing correctly.
Remember how in the old days, when tea pots were used, it was correct to warm the pot first with hot water...?
All down to physics
Remember how in the old days, when tea pots were used, it was correct to warm the pot first with hot water...?
All down to physics
I assume you are talking about a tea-bag in a mug, as you mention the milk "blocking" up the tea-bag?
NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO!
Tea must INFUSE, and it can only do that with FRESHLY boiled water. That means straight out of the kettle as soon as it has boiled. Any delay and you get something that looks like tea, but is really only tea-flavoured hot water. If the milk is put in first, the water will be cooled and will not be hot enough for the tea to infuse.
This is why tea always tastes crap on the Continent and in the US, as they always serve a tea-bag and a jug of hot water. TOO LATE! The water is off the boil.
NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO!
Tea must INFUSE, and it can only do that with FRESHLY boiled water. That means straight out of the kettle as soon as it has boiled. Any delay and you get something that looks like tea, but is really only tea-flavoured hot water. If the milk is put in first, the water will be cooled and will not be hot enough for the tea to infuse.
This is why tea always tastes crap on the Continent and in the US, as they always serve a tea-bag and a jug of hot water. TOO LATE! The water is off the boil.
Tea needs hot water- the hotter the better- so 100degrees is the perfect temperature.
On the top of everest where water will boil at somethign silly like 70c you just can't make tea.
so its not that the milk blocks the teabg, its that invariably the milk is from the fridge at 3c, you fill the cup 20% then add boiling water. The mean temperature is bought down by the milk to roughly 80degrees, which isn't hot enough to make proper tea.
On the top of everest where water will boil at somethign silly like 70c you just can't make tea.
so its not that the milk blocks the teabg, its that invariably the milk is from the fridge at 3c, you fill the cup 20% then add boiling water. The mean temperature is bought down by the milk to roughly 80degrees, which isn't hot enough to make proper tea.
Please add a voting button saying "It makes no difference".
I drink lots of tea.
It doesn't.
Edited to add:
I've just realised this is a "spelling corrector" honey trap. All the same people that get a bit uptight about the odd extra apostrophe or can't take a brake from spellchecking peoples posts will flock to this one as it's a similar pedantry. Then you can nuke the thread and get them all at once :-)
I drink lots of tea.
It doesn't.
Edited to add:
I've just realised this is a "spelling corrector" honey trap. All the same people that get a bit uptight about the odd extra apostrophe or can't take a brake from spellchecking peoples posts will flock to this one as it's a similar pedantry. Then you can nuke the thread and get them all at once :-)
Edited by DeadMeat_UK on Friday 8th July 12:30
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