How do you make your tea?

Former_MSE_Megan

So the Guardian reckons that scientific evidence points toward putting your milk in BEFORE the hot water. This obviously goes against everything I've been taught about tea making

How do you make yours? Milk before or after the water?

KxMx

I don't drink tea myself but I do make it for other people.
I put the milk in after the bag. Have to say i've been told many times (to my bemusement) that I make a lovely cuppa!

fairy_lights

I fill up the kettle and put a teabag in the mug.
Eat a biscuit while waiting for the kettle to boil.
Pour boiling water on the teabag.
Have another biscuit.
Squish the tea bag against the side of the mug and then chuck it in the sink to be dealt with later.
Pour milk in to mug until it reaches the desired shade of beige.


Enjoy tea with rest of biscuits.
Hours later - clear the pile of cold dead teabags out of sink and wonder why I didn't just put them in the bin n the first place.

onomatopoeia99

Warm cup with boiling water.
Empty water
Put teabag in
Pour boiling water on
Remove teabag when correct amount of "brewing" has completed.
Add milk.

Adding milk at any point before the final step results in a pretty awful cup of tea.

onlyroz

If you make it by putting the bag into a cup then add the milk afterwards, otherwise the milk will cool down the water too much and it won't brew properly.

If you make it in a pot then add the milk to the cup first, so that it mixes properly when you pour from the teapot.

However, recently I've been making a lot of Moroccan mint tea (no milk please) - and the crucial factor with that is to pour from a great height so as to aerate the tea properly.

j.e.j.

On the rare occasion that I use milk in tea, I put it in afterwards, so you can gauge how strong the tea is (if that makes sense?)

System

Milk after but I like my tea so weak it really wouldn't matter if I put it in first.

GoldenShadow

Teabag. Hot water. Brew. Milk. Tea bag out. Done. No one has ever complained about my tea making skills (though OH demands sugar goes in before water else there is no point in putting it in at all. Needless to say he gets coffee or nothing ).

Former_MSE_Megan

There's something about putting boiling water onto milk that just seems wrong to me - glad most of you share the same idea!

And biscuits are of course, a must.

lazer

2 teaspoons of tea leaves in a teapot.


Add boiling water from the kettle (Not re-boiled!!)


Bring teapot back to boil.


Serve into a cup, then add milk.


Teabag in a cup is no where near as nice as proper tea, I have teabag tea at work, and put the teabag in cup, then add water, stir, remove tea bag, then add milk.

Nooob

tea bag in cup
not quite boiling water in
steep for 3-5 minutes
splash of milk
let it go cold
drink