Someone tell me how to make tea please

[MetaWraith]

Originally Posted by Graham

Paging Arthur Dent.

Paging Mr Arthur Dent...!

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.

[SMHarman]

Originally Posted by zoombini

Doesn't anyone get the feeling that they have been had?

I mean, why on earth would someone who does not know how to make Tea have loose Tea & a strainer in the house?

How old would this Tea be? it does have a shelf life you know.

Surely a novice Tea maker would have started out with Teabags?

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.

[MetaWraith]

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

[Dave Stones]

Originally Posted by Stuartbe

Ahhh memories - the good old student method of making tea.

how DID you know?

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

Originally Posted by homealone

I like to have a little milk, with black tea (not with green), as I don't like the sensation of my teeth feeling 'furry' which no milk seems to cause.

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

[Halcyon]

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.

Originally Posted by MetaWraith

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

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.

[Dave Stones]

Originally Posted by Halcyon

...and now thanks to you nice people, I do know how to make a correct cup of tea.

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

Originally Posted by Dave Stones

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

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.

[SMHarman]

So white tea / coffee stains your teeth less?

[Xaccers]

Originally Posted by bbwannabe

Coffees a lot easier and cleaner
get a cup/mug
get a spoon
put 2 rounded teaspoons of sugar
and one teaspoon of coffee powder in the mug (level it (the amount) to the spoon...a heap of it is too much).
pour water (hot of course)
add milk (for white coffee or none for black)

never drink hot drinks? what do u drink.

never seen any tea powder before, only tea leaves. You'll know coffee over tea, as its a stronger smell.

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

Originally Posted by Stuartbe

Ahhh memories - the good old student method of making tea.

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

Originally Posted by Dave Stones

2) find a clean cup

Nuff said.

[bbwannabe]

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.

[zoombini]

Originally Posted by Halcyon

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And they drink Green tea I think dont they in China !!! I dont like normal tea, so can you see me liking this.

Actually yes.

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

Originally Posted by SMHarman

So white tea / coffee stains your teeth less?

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

[Dave Stones]

Originally Posted by towny

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


Nuff said.

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

[Halcyon]

Maybe students freeze old teabags and then use them again.