How do you make tea?

LillythePink

Doc_N said:

LillythePink said:

I'm a milk in first person (no loose tea just bags and mugs)

I can taste the difference when it's added afterwards and to me, it's not as nice

I can perhaps see that, but that's a horrendous way to make tea!

Not for me it isn't and quite a lot of others.  I've had compliments on my tea

3secondmemory

I had a kettle related accident last week so ordered a cup boiler. 

Makes a very nice cup of tea in seconds. 

Loose leaf tea, boiling water and milk in after.

mrs_motivated

Ooh loving this.

Depends in my house either organic plastic free teabags straight in the mug with boiling water most of the day, no milk for me and milk first for Mr M.  Once a day and twice at the weekends, loose leaf in stainless double skinned tea pot, boiling water left for 5 mins before pouring and again milk first for Mr. M and no milk for me and definitely no sugar either way.

UnlikelyButTrue

Not like this...

https://www.facebook.com/danwalkertv/videos/268100140939300/

I'm so sorry... this made me want to scratch out my eyes...

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My dad always uses a teapot, warming the pot first and milk goes in the mug before the tea.  My friends mock me for using a teapot and I have a lovely one from London Pottery back in the UK (great pourer, why do so many companies make teapots that spill tea everywhere but in the mug you are aiming at?) but since moving to Oz I'm having to make do with a teabag (managed to find some Yorkshire Gold at least as I wouldn't give Liptons tea to my worst enemy) in a mug until my teapot, along with all my other stuff, is shipped over.   

Tinaden

Simply get your desired tea. if its a loose tea then boil water and add tea and sugar in it. After some time add milk. If you are making a teabag tea, then boil water, pour in a cup and then add dip teabag in it, then add milk 

maman

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth said:

Steel pot, loose tea, cosy. Brew for five, milk last. And if tea was meant to be white, they’d put cows in the plantations. 

I can't comment on plantations but cows are absolutely everywhere else in India. They're revered so allowed to roam freely although buffalo milk is often used.

Indian Masala chai is made from tea, milk, water and spices all boiled up together. Sometimes condensed milk is used to double up as sweetener. I find that far too sweet and milky so, at home,  I'll just have a cup of strong 'builders' and add a sprinkle of masala spices.

In Turkey, the drink small glasses of black tea which is boiled up in percolator type pots. I like that and don't even think about milk when that's on offer.  

I like the taste of loose tea and use it for speciality teas like Earl Grey but it's a bit of a faff removing leaves from the pot. Teabags are an easy option for daily use. 

gentlepurr

I was brought up on builders tea, leaves, in a teapot, and always milk first in the cup. Spent the last few decades being a coffee drinker but recently returned to tea when i found the tea dust that my mom used to complain bitterly about is actually the most wonderful drink. So I'm using a coffee percolator to make the tea, works perfectly for keeping the dust out of the cup when im pouring. Strong and black, perfect on a hot day.................

gp xx

GaleSF63

I live in a very soft water area and it's almost impossible to make a bad cup of tea whatever kind or method you use. 

When I lived in London I could only make a (for me) drinkable cup of tea if I used very good quality tea and only let it mash for a very short time. 

Milk first for me - probably an area thing - the way I grew up and I've never changed but i don't think it makes any difference. If anyone else makes it for me it's always milk last. 

Nargleblast

Currently, teabag (Ringtons) in mug, add boiling water, stir, add milk, stir, remove teabag when colour is right. As a child we used teabags in a teapot, the pot was warmed slightly first, boiling water poured over then lid put on and left to "mash" or brew for a minute or so. Cups  or mugs would have milk in first, tea poured on top. On no account would the pot be stirred. Mum used to say "Stir up the pot, stir up the trouble!" If the tea was weak she would say "That's tea be buggered, water bewitched!"

I have a Sage  tea making kettle so I can indulge my inner aristocrat and make proper loose leaf tea if I want to.