Re: Someone tell me how to make tea please
 

The last really good cup of strong tea ever made was stolen for use as the brownian motion source in the Heart of Gold's infinite improbability drive, shortly before the Earth was destroyed to make way for a Hyperspace Bypass, thus precluding the making of further cups.

Re: Someone tell me how to make tea please
 

There are Coffee and Tea drinkers in the household, just not in the house at the time the Tea required making.

Milk after for me, in both coffee and tea.

Re: Someone tell me how to make tea please
 

Now Halcyon's learnt to make tea, the next step is the ceremony :)

http://www.holymtn.com/tea/chinetea.htm

http://www.holymtn.com/tea/Japanesetea.htm

Re: Someone tell me how to make tea please
 

how DID you know? :D

the lack of milk is a personal preference though. my flatmates think i have no tastebuds :). we have a teapot and a tea cosy though for when more than 2 of us are having a cuppa ;)

i think you must have something wrong with your tea then... i have never had "furry teeth" :erm:

Re: Someone tell me how to make tea please
 

I don tlive on my own. I live with my parents and sisters.
Some drink tea and coffee as stated.

I couldnt care less when they drink it so never bother to take note.

I know its time i knew how to, but I know how to do plenty of things and this is one of those things I never knew the true way and now thanks to you nice people, I do know how to make a correct cup of tea.


Oh please no !!!
I'm not having a tea ceremony with the plumber.
And they drink Green tea I think dont they in China !!! I dont like normal tea, so can you see me liking this. :(

Re: Someone tell me how to make tea please
 

just dont let onto the family, you will become their slave next time you go into the kitchen :erm:

Re: Someone tell me how to make tea please
 

lol - the 'furry' sensation is my way of describing the astringency of the tannin, this is more noticable in black tea with no milk, as when milk is added to tea, the milk proteins bind with the tannin, reducing the astringency.

Re: Someone tell me how to make tea please
 

So white tea / coffee stains your teeth less?

Re: Someone tell me how to make tea please
 

Here's a tip, before you pour in the hot water, pour in the milk, or if they like it black, a small amount of cold water, then stur the granuals into a paste, then add the hot water.


And don't do what my aging grandad did, put teabags in the electric kettle :rofl:

Re: Someone tell me how to make tea please
 

Yup, and note how the student method is inevitably doomed to fail at stage 2:

Nuff said. :erm:

Re: Someone tell me how to make tea please
 

I like my coffee stronger than i like my tea. And i prefer both white.
I'm the only coffee drinker in my house, the other 6 people in my house dont like it lol.

I suggest also you dont try putting milk into the electric kettle, you get nasty crap on the metal parts.

Re: Someone tell me how to make tea please
 

Actually yes.

My wife dislikes normal Tea but loves Green Tea.
Its a different flavour, you do not need Sugar or Milk with it.

Re: Someone tell me how to make tea please
 

I've not thought about that - theoretically yes, but it is time related, you've probably noticed that leaving tea with milk to go cold results in a '****' of tannin, so swilling tea with milk around your mouth, rather than swallowing straight away, would probably stain just as much as tea with no milk.

- there are a few interesting links if you google tea tannin milk

:)

Re: Someone tell me how to make tea please
 

no, step 2 is circumvented by making friends with females who can't stand to see people living in squalor and take pity on you by washing up, ironing and so forth ;)

...or just get said females to make the tea in the first place :)

Re: Someone tell me how to make tea please
 

Maybe students freeze old teabags and then use them again.