Someone tell me how to make tea please

Originally Posted by cookie 365

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Because dumping big globules of fat in your tea is disgusting, that's why!

- that was the only bit I disagreed with, 'full fat' milk is less than 5% fat ( usually less than 4%)

- but aside from that, personally, I much prefer 'Indian style' tea with a dash of skimmed milk - it just takes the edge off the tannin, without adding fat - lol

- the rest of the post was spot on

Oh we are not going to start the great milk or no milk in tea debate are we?Because IF we are I shall be moving on.

Drink it how you like-all the rules folk have come up with over the years make me laugh especially as I've tried making it all ways and found that it doesn't actually affect the taste.

Make it how you like-if you are the one making it you are entitled to make it your own way.Anyone doesn't like it can make their own,ungrateful wretches .

The only thing I insist on is drinking tea out of bone china but that's just a foible of mine not a RULE.

Incog.

[iadom]

Originally Posted by cookie_365

How to make tea:


1. Live in the right place. The best locations in the UK for beautiful, soft, tasty water are North Yorkshire, parts of Cornwall, and West Wales. The only problem with these places are the fact that you'll be in Yorkshire, Cornwall, or Wales

just to correct you, some of the softest water in the country can be found in the Lancashire/Cumbria region. My brother lives in Cornwall and the water there is awful.
And even though I have to grit my teeth when I say this, North Yorkshire , Cornwall and Wales are some of the nicest parts of the country that you can see.

Originally Posted by Incognitas

Oh we are not going to start the great milk or no milk in tea debate are we?Because IF we are I shall be moving on. Incog.

"MOOOOOOOOOOOOO"ve on then thats what the last 70 odds post been about. Milk before or After

Originally Posted by Incognitas

Oh we are not going to start the great milk or no milk in tea debate are we?Because IF we are I shall be moving on.

Drink it how you like-all the rules folk have come up with over the years make me laugh especially as I've tried making it all ways and found that it doesn't actually affect the taste.

Make it how you like-if you are the one making it you are entitled to make it your own way.Anyone doesn't like it can make their own,ungrateful wretches .

The only thing I insist on is drinking tea out of bone china but that's just a foible of mine not a RULE.

Incog.

please don't move on - we welcome your opinion

I disagree that, how you make it does not affect the taste, but concur with your second statement about personal choice - I tend to make the tea in our office, for example, - I know what you mean

Bone China is lighter than other ceramics - places less strain on your injury, makes sense

Originally Posted by homealone

Bone China is lighter than other ceramics - places less strain on your injury, makes sense

Bone china is also thinner

[Stuart]

Anyone seen peachey? This sounds like a thread he/she would have created..

I personally make tea by putting the following stuff in the cup: Bag, Water, Milk, Sugar/Sweetener. I don't think it tastes any better, I have just been brought up to do it that way.

As for coffee, I use the same order but put one heaped teaspoon of coffee in the mug instead of the tea. I did use both once (by mistake, when I put the coffee in I didn't notice the tea bag already in there), and the did taste horrible.

[Halcyon]

oh my Cookie_365, You certainly have some big views on this tea controversy.
Were you dropped in a kettle as a child and boiled with a tea bag, thus starting your tea expert skills ? ;-)


What gets me is the fact they call it Yorkshire Tea !!!
Theres more chance of finding people on the moon than finding a field growing tea plants in Yorkshire.
Honestly !!!

[SMHarman]

Originally Posted by scastle

As for coffee, I use the same order but put one heaped teaspoon of coffee in the mug instead of the tea. I did use both once (by mistake, when I put the coffee in I didn't notice the tea bag already in there), and the did taste horrible.

Important point you just made there.

Powder coffee, can actually taste OK. If you use a heaped teaspoon. Most people don't put enough coffee in anything. Scoop (the one you get attached to the side in offers (about a heaped tablespoon) per cup for a filter machine, a good 15-20mm in the bottom of an 8 cup french press or a decent amount of granuels.

Originally Posted by Dave Stones

both points were loosely on topic, in that they involved making tea....

of course i wouldn't know anything abuot mushroom or banana skin tea, being a good boy

yeh, right...

Nor would I. Except to say that the hill behind the campus at University of Wales, Lampeter, is called 'Magic Mountain' for a very good reason.

[Dave Stones]

Originally Posted by Halcyon

What gets me is the fact they call it Yorkshire Tea !!!
Theres more chance of finding people on the moon than finding a field growing tea plants in Yorkshire.
Honestly !!!

really?

yorkshire tea is still the best tea though. tastes about a million times better than PG chimp-tea, tetleys typoo etc etc

Originally Posted by Dave Stones

really?

yorkshire tea is still the best tea though. tastes about a million times better than PG chimp-tea, tetleys typoo etc etc

We use Yorkshire Tea. If it's good enough for the National Trust, it's good enough for us (National Trust Tea Room Blend is Yorkshire Tea).

Sadly as we live in steggy Hemel with its hard water and calcium encrusted kettles, we have to buy Yorkshire Tea Hard Water Blend, which is frankly an abomination.

Further to earlier discussion about the best, softest water in the UK, can I point out that just about anywhere in Scotland you care to name has very soft water indeed. Something I am really looking forward to!

[Dave Stones]

Originally Posted by towny

We use Yorkshire Tea. If it's good enough for the National Trust, it's good enough for us (National Trust Tea Room Blend is Yorkshire Tea).

Sadly as we live in steggy Hemel with its hard water and calcium encrusted kettles, we have to buy Yorkshire Tea Hard Water Blend, which is frankly an abomination.

Further to earlier discussion about the best, softest water in the UK, can I point out that just about anywhere in Scotland you care to name has very soft water indeed. Something I am really looking forward to!

well i have yorkshire water here, one of the best most nicest waters in the country apparently. perfect match for yorkshire tea

and as for the hard water, you could always buy a water softener? no more need for the manky hard water variety then

Originally Posted by Dave Stones

well i have yorkshire water here, one of the best most nicest waters in the country apparently. perfect match for yorkshire tea

and as for the hard water, you could always buy a water softener? no more need for the manky hard water variety then

Plumbed-in water softeners are not cheap! Not sure you're meant to drink the water that comes through them either, I think they are mainly designed to save your pipes from getting scaled up. We have a filter jug in the fridge for filling the kettle which makes a big difference, but it still isn't truly 'soft'.

[Halcyon]

Nothing beats Volvic mineral water. Lovely !!!