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one english breakfast bag, one earl grey bag in a pot. try it its pukka
How Do You Make Your Tea?....
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milk first ? you f***ing trying to start a row.
water over the teabag, 10 stirs then 3 squeezes against the side of the cup before 5 more quick stirs and then removal with one last semi squeeze against side of cup to take up drips.. THEN MILK. I have OCD light though so it has to be done exactly that way when I make it.
water over the teabag, 10 stirs then 3 squeezes against the side of the cup before 5 more quick stirs and then removal with one last semi squeeze against side of cup to take up drips.. THEN MILK. I have OCD light though so it has to be done exactly that way when I make it.
Lyndhurst 14
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- Jan 16, 2008
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You can get Tetleys or even PG tips in some places - what you don't seem to be able to find anywhere in the States is a bleedin' electric kettle. Tea just doesn't taste the same when you heat the water in a micro-wave or use one of those poxy immersion heater thingys.
Tea Pot, Lady Grey leaf tea in the pot, steep for 3-4 minutes, pour through strainer into tea cup (with saucer), splash of milk if I feel like it or sometimes splash of lemon on hot summer days, and sometimes just plain black...
Superb... (oddly enough the best cup of tea I ever had was in NY at Tea and Sympathy - maybe it was because I had pined for 6 months before I found the little shop)
Superb... (oddly enough the best cup of tea I ever had was in NY at Tea and Sympathy - maybe it was because I had pined for 6 months before I found the little shop)
Add one teaspoon of sugar, one Sainsburys Red Label tea bag and some milk to my one pint Match of the Day mug, add BOILING water, let sit for a little while, then stir the tea bag and remove WITHOUT squeezing, and ENJOY
WRONG! The only way to get a decent cup of tea:
Assam or Yorkshire tea, boiling water, leave to stand for five mins, wee drop of milk and then, most importantly of all SQUEEEEEEEEEEEZZZZZZE the bag. Stir and drink.
Juan Albion
Chicken Sniffer 3rd Class
Heat freshly-drawn water in the kettle until truly boiling. Warm the pot so as not to shock the tea, tea in pot, water in pot while it is still at a rolling boil. Milk in mug, sugar in mug. Pour tea after a few minutes. Stir. Drink.
Milk first is the tried and tested British way, milk after is the American version.
Milk first is the tried and tested British way, milk after is the American version.
yes pg tips is pretty easy to find nowadays. also twinnings is pretty popular. in some of the international sections of supermarkets you can find yorkshire tea and typhoo at a price of course. some variety biscuits, can of beans, brown sauce, fruit pastels, the basics really. i miss mr kipling's cakes the most.
most people i know with kettles use them as decorations for the stove top, i think im the only person with an electic kettle i know and bloody love it. few places i know sell them like bed bath and beyond and some supermarkets.
Juan Albion
Chicken Sniffer 3rd Class
yes pg tips is pretty easy to find nowadays. also twinnings is pretty popular. in some of the international sections of supermarkets you can find yorkshire tea and typhoo at a price of course. some variety biscuits, can of beans, brown sauce, fruit pastels, the basics really. i miss mr kipling's cakes the most.
This afternoon I was able to purchase Marks and Spencer custard creams, Sainsbury's variety packs of bourbons, custard creams, nice and malted milk, some Buttons Easter eggs, some Roses Easter eggs and a Treacle Sponge in a can. Happy days.
Oh, and some lemon puffs. I did buy some Mr Kiplings stuff down near Atlanta last year. It was some mini apple pies and some mini blackcurrant pies. Sadly they were so old you couldn't even get your teeth into them. I may take them back this summer.
MILK IN FIRST?! Are you mad?
Milk first is fine if you use a pot. If a bit risky. It is just wrong if the milk and bag and water are all in the cup at the same time.
Mackenzie
Old Brightonian
Cup>Teabag>Hot Water>Stir>Remove Teabag>Milk>Stir.
Job done.
Job done.
West Hoathly Seagull
Honorary Ruffian
When I'm at home in WH, it's for three of us, so it's boiling water in cups, 2 bags shared between them, then bit of milk, though it's a careful operation as we all like it different - Dad fairly weak, Mum medium, me so you can stand the spoon up in it. In London, bag in cup, few squeezes, bit of milk in at the end, not especially good, as I'm usually in a hurry. Mind you, at the moment, it's brought to us in a nice white pot (English Breakfast - I don't like Earl Grey with milk), as we're on holiday at a farmhouse in Norfolk.
By the way, does anyone like that South African Rooibos tea?
By the way, does anyone like that South African Rooibos tea?
Juan Albion
Chicken Sniffer 3rd Class
As per the Royal Society of Chemistry's guide to the perfect cuppa:
As for adding milk to the tea after it is poured, the RSC issues a stern scientific warning against the practice. It seems that dribbling a stream of milk into hot water makes "denaturation of milk proteins" more likely. And who would want that?
Don't spoil the milk
"At high temperatures, milk proteins - which are normally all curled up foetus-like - begin to unfold and link together in clumps. This is what happens in UHT [ultra heat-treated] milk, and is why it doesn't taste as good a fresh milk," says Dr Stapley.
It is better to have the chilled milk massed at the bottom of the cup, awaiting the stream of hot tea. This allows the milk to cool the tea, rather than the tea ruinously raise the temperature of the milk.
Lord Bracknell
On fire
Did you pop next door for a deep fried Mars Bar?
smudge
Up the Albion!
I thought the Yankies had chucked all the Liptons into Boston Harbour. Thomson ships have PG Tips.
Are you still working on one, if so what job mate?
(p.s. I might wander over the Thompson ship we sometimes see in Barbados for some tea bags!)
Super Gus!
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- Mar 3, 2010
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leave the tea bag in til the end, a real mans cup of tea!!