How can you claim to like coffee but then drink the instant stuff? If you'd have posted that you like tea but used instant tea granules you'd have been lynched by the old farts on here!
Lynched? Why do you think he'd get off so lightly? Anyone admitting to using and liking tea granules should be hunted down and drowned in a vat of the foul stuff.
A scientific study by boffins at Sheffield university, found after extensive tests, that the milk should go in first. FACTUS FACTUS
We make tea using Yorkshire Gold leaf tea, rather than bags, in a warmed teapot and with boiling water. The tea brews for four minutes prior to serving. Out of habit, we usually put milk in the cup and then add the tea but on occasion, the milk goes in after the tea and to be honest, I can't tell the difference. As a kid, I used to rough it at Scarborough and in the morning we'd go to a cafe (I think it was near the bus station). They served the best tea and bacon buns ... just perfect after a night on the piss at the Odeon and sleeping on the life boat house roof.
If tea is made properly in a pot, I believe it makes little difference if the milk goes in first or not, unless there is sugar involved. Sugar must always be stirred in before the milk.
I guess I have been doing it wrong as I do use sugar and usually add it with the milk before the tea. Why should the sugar be added before the milk? We're about to have a pot so I'll try teas, sugar milk and see if there is a difference. Cheers!
Well I find the milk cools the water just that bit enough to not make the sugar fully dissolve and even itself throughout the liquid, though I make my tea in a mug because I can't be arsed to wash up a pot, and have the sugar in with the tea bag ready for the boiling water to hit it. It might not make much difference when brewed in a pot as the brewing time might have cooled it that bit anyway. Unless you all take the same amount of sugar in which case I'd just chuck it in the pot.
I find that if ya put the teabag in the mug then put milk in it blocks the bloody tea bag and takes ages to brew and get it strong enough. don't know the science behind it. Any way i always bring Yorkshire tea bags back with me to Jordan coz there aint any sold here and they like to put fresh mint in the tea too. and the Arabic coffee that is another story. Turkish coffee is good though.
I'm sure I heard somewhere that you shouldn't squash your teabag with the back of your spoon as it damages the tea leaves and can effect the flavour. Probably something to do with releasing tanins or something. Can anyone confirm this ? For the record I bash **** out of my teabag with my spoon
