Tea

BreadBoard

I love tea. I want instant tea, just like instant coffee :mad: It's not fair, does such a thing as instant tea exist yet?

daiixi

aren't teabags instant tea?

BreadBoard

I ment like granules, ie no need for the teabag.

daiixi

oh, gotcha. Don't know. 'havent seen it if it does.

BreadBoard

Would be handy, just put in the tea granules, sugar and milk, then pour in hot water, stir and your away

feylya

There used to be instant tea iirc. It was vile. Of course, brewing a cup of tea takes so fecking long...

Alun

feylya wrote:

There used to be instant tea iirc. It was vile. Of course, brewing a cup of tea takes so fecking long...

Yes, such a thing did exist waaaay back in the 80's or something like that. It was, as you say, absolutely disgusting.

emeraldstar

BreadBoard wrote:

Would be handy, just put in the tea granules, sugar and milk, then pour in hot water, stir and your away

but how would that make it any quicker? the only difference is to take the teabag out of the cup and into the bin...a whole 2 seconds of time!! tea is pretty instant anyway isn't it...?!!

BreadBoard

I don't know about exact times but when making coffee you can put the milk sugar & coffee all in and the same time, then pour in hot water and stir.

When your making tea, well when I'm making tea I put in the tea bag and sugar, pour in the hot water stir it around a few seconds and I also like to squeeze the tea bag into the side of the cup to make it stronger, then pour in the milk a stir it.

You can put the milk in before the water, but it's not the same the tea bag must be very hot to release the tea properly.

Shiminay

Tea is made in a pot, then you pour from a pot into your cup with milk/sugar in. This is all.

"but, I only want a cup, not a pot!"

THIS IS ALL!

BreadBoard

I'd like granulated tea basically.

The Hill Billy

OP - There are plenty of instant teas available on the net. Just google "instant tea". There's a lot of instant "flavoured" teas & I assume that you're looking for a regular-tasting instant tea.Here's a decent site that may have what you want.

NextSteps

Kharn wrote:

Tea is made in a pot, then you pour from a pot into your cup with milk/sugar in. This is all.

"but, I only want a cup, not a pot!"

THIS IS ALL!

Toff. You add the milk and sugar after.

feylya

Actually, the correct way is to add tea to the milk then add sugar.

BreadBoard

feylya wrote:

Actually, the correct way is to add tea to the milk then add sugar.

It can be done that way from a tea pot, but if you put in the milk with the teabag before the hot water it's not the same.

Zascar

I would LOVE if you could get a powder that you just add hot water and it already had the 2 sugars and milk included... mmmmm

r3nu4l

Wow, some of the laziest people in the world are posting in this thread

When teabags first came to Ireland apparently my Gran used to tear open the bags to put the leaves into the pot! She kept giving out that the Government were trying to restrict the amount of tea people put into the pot by having so few in one bag and that 'rationing' had gone beyond a joke when this kind of thing was happening. It was weeks before my Mam or my Aunts and Uncles told her what she was doing wrong

emeraldstar

feylya wrote:

Actually, the correct way is to add tea to the milk then add sugar.

wasn't the reason for this that the hot tea wouldn't crack the cup?? hence having some milk in first means the good china won't be subjected to such high temperatures and put in danger of cracking!!

brianthebard

feylya wrote:

Actually, the correct way is to add tea to the milk then add sugar.

what are you, george orwell???

Personally I think that tea should be drank black, otherwise it's not tea, it's milk and tea, imo at least. I do like the concept of food tasting of itself though, which might explain it.

daiixi

mmm milk and tea - yum! teabag first, milk second, stir it around to get the teabag nice and soggy then add the hot water and bash the hell out of the teabag to release the flavours. That's the way I like it anyway.

emeraldstar

i have never ever ever heard of anybody putting the milk in on top of the teabag before any water......that is so weird!!! :eek:

NextSteps

daiixi wrote:

mmm milk and tea - yum! teabag first, milk second, stir it around to get the teabag nice and soggy then add the hot water and bash the hell out of the teabag to release the flavours. That's the way I like it anyway.

I feel ill.

Jimoslimos

Whittards in London do instant teas, mostly flavoured but I think they might do some normal ones aswell.