TEA TIME
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- Nairn0
Me. Though I pretty much exclusively only drink Yorkshire Tea these days, despite the amount of money I spunk on fancy Jap and Chink teas in that place down Soho-way.
- cannonball0
Lady Gray is good. I'm a fan of Prince of Wales tea too. Twinings is defenately my brand. I need to get a better kettle and some stuff for loose tea.
- hellogoodbye0
Authentic Chai is delicious!
- robco0
Where is Melanie?
- 5timuli0
Tea isn't tea unless it's black ;)
Tetley Teabags (Tetley British Blend over here). NOT One Cup teabags, they're shite.
Ingredients:
16oz Starbucks coffee mug
1 Tetley teabag (round)
2 teaspoons sugar OR
2 Hermesetas saccharin sweetener tablets
Milk (for amount see below)1. Milk goes in first. Not last, FIRST. Tilt the mug at 45° and the milk should come to just below the top part of the base of the mug.
2. Add the teabag to the milk.
3. Pour in boiling or just boiled water.
4. Let steep for 60-90 seconds.
5. Fish out teabag with teaspoon, dunk at least eight times, squeeze then discard.
6. Add sugar or sweeteners.
7. Stir anti-clockwise (counter-clockwise for the Americans) at least eight times.Been doing it this way for 34 years and I've never had as good a cup of tea as I do at home.
- TETLEY?!
Get the fuck out - that shit's the single-worst brand ever.Nairn - God, I just noticed the Milk-first comment. You're a fraud, aren't you? You CAN'T be British! French, maybe?Nairn
- Belgian? Swiss?Nairn
- Nairn, you've obviously been drinking shit tea all your life ;)5timuli
- *splutters*Nairn
- It was all downhill after the first sentence. Tetley the Pabst Blue Ribbon of teas. Don't add milk or sweeteners.CyBrainX
- TETLEY?!
- skt0
milk and teabag should never touch.
- i'm with you on that one.paraselene
- Watch it, yankeedoodle.Nairn
- Nairn0
- Allow one and a half cups for each cup of water in kettle.
- Boil Kettle.
- Just before it's finished boiling, pour a quarter cup of hot water in each cup, finish boiling kettle.
- Pour out water of each cup, then very quickly put in tea bag, then pour in water, 'til cup is around 90% 'full' (not to brim, to amount to be drunk)
- Steep for a minute
- Gently stir bag around each cup of tea.
- Steep for another minute (or, preferably, two), then scoop'n'squish tea bag out of cup, ensuring that as much of the dark nectar drips from the bag into the cup.
- Add milk (not too much - milky tea is for children and necrophiliacs)
- Add sugar.I'd recommend Yorkshire Gold, Twinings Breakfast or Ringtons brands for a good drinking cup - nothing too fancy, but certainly not flouncy (Tetley, I'm looking at you, you lame excuse for a good cuppa).
Personally, I like strong tea, so I brew for around 4 minutes (hence why the cup-warming is so crucial at the beginning) and add the milk in over the bag after 3 minutes, to allow the milk to soak up some of the goodness.
DO NOT add milk in first, unless you're pouring from an already-made tea pot. DO NOT add too much milk (see necrophiliac comment above). DO NOT add in sugar first (You want to load the water with tea molecules, not sugar molecules).
© 2008 NAIRN TEA-CONSUMPTION ENTERPRISES
- chossy0
I drink preferably lady grey and earl grey. If someone offers me any other tea I'll get it drunk though.
- skt0
for a boy racer, that isnae a very manly choice of refreshment chossy. mind you, you're in embra with all the other nancy boys.
- chossy0
Go and dinae tell anyone though please skt :)
- robco0
Where is Melanie?
- robco0
bump to tie the vodka thread.
- moldero0
i once had dinner with a prince of burma and his family, i was sick, he gave me some tea and I was cured within 20 minutes, i swear it was pot. and @ $350 oz I really think it was pot.
- seed0
I have to bring back the tea thread. I've been trying some new teas - Barrys, Yorkshire Gold. I still like Twinings Irish Breakfast best so far. Barrys and Yorkshire Gold seem to be more bitter. I have PG Tips, regular Yorkshire and Typhoo coming in the mail.
- seed0
For those of you who make loose tea in the pot - how do you keep the leaves from sitting in the pot too long? Do you transfer it to a different pot? If you don't drink all the cups right away it gets really bitter.
- hans_glib0
if anyone in east london wants the full on up-itself tea experience you should get down to TeaSmith in Spitalfields market. The amount of faffing around to make a cup of tea has to be seen to be believed. OK so it's a pretty good cup when it's done, but really....