The Tea thread

micropig

A teapot was a feature of the Irish home for as long as I can remember.Friends commented on our tea pot and even though they consume vast amounts of tea they make it in cups with bag. I realised that all of my other friends make tea in this manner, except elderly people who use a teapot

So do you have a teapot?

Guill

Yes.
Of course.

Hank_Jones

Teapots are for peasants.

I use one teabag per cup.

The way it feckin should be.

Manky feckin teapots, any time anyone brings out a teapot...I just know it's not clean.

OwaynOTT

I've at 3 tea pots but only use it on a Sunday with a fry to watch the football with the other half.

Tea pot sales are down!

Guill

Hank_Jones wrote: »

Teapots are for peasants.

I use one teabag per cup.

The way it feckin should be.

Manky feckin teapots, any time anyone brings out a teapot...I just know it's not clean.

Tea from tea bags = piss, proper tea leaf tea is much stronger and nicer.

Hasmunch

micropig wrote: »

even though they consume vast amounts of tea they make it in cups with bag

Finally the REAL cause behind the recession is revealed.

micropig

Hank_Jones wrote: »

Teapots are for peasants.

I use one teabag per cup.

The way it feckin should be.

Manky feckin teapots, any time anyone brings out a teapot...I just know it's not clean.

:eek: Are you made of money?

:rolleyes: Leave it in longer

micropig

A new import issue has reared it's ugly head


How many cups of tea do you get out of a teabag?

RichieC

1, 3 at a stretch.

Hasmunch

micropig wrote: »

A new import issue has reared it's ugly head


How many cups of tea do you get out of a teabag?

How many pots of tea do you get out of a teapot?

micropig

Hasmunch wrote: »

How many pots of tea do you get out of a teapot?

1pot for each pot:p

OwaynOTT

micropig wrote: »

1pot for each pot:p

How many cups can you put in a pot?

Also is it wrong to use a mug with a pot?

Local-womanizer

If you are Irish and don't have a Teapot you are weird.

If you don't drink tea you still should have one for visitors.

micropig

OwaynOTT wrote: »

How many cups can you put in a pot?

Also is it wrong to use a mug with a pot?

Not wrong to use a mug, perfectly acceptable;)

My person situation:

Tea pot - 2 teabags =4 mugs

If I'm putting a hot sup in (adding hot water to a empty teapot & 2 teabags already in the pot are still warm, add hot water & 1 teabag, another 4 mugs)

If the tea bags/pot are gone cold I don't re-use them

Sometimes if the teapot is empty and I'm only making another half pot I'll just chuck in hot water and not the extra teabag

dfx-

No teapot afaik.

I can't stand tea so I don't miss it or demand to know its whereabouts. Horrible drink either way:cool:

Doc Ruby

I've the standard issue ceramic taepot for the gold blend, and a difficult and irritating cast iron job for the japanese good stuff.

FearDark

I have a teapot.

Honestly don't think I ever used it though.

Jesus Wept

Just had a grand cup of tae.

later12

I'm at an airport right now surrounded by fordners with no appreciation for a cup of tea with all the accoutrements - i.e. pot, leaves, strainer, copious amounts of sugar, milk ad-lib, brown bread, jam and spotted dick.

Why does tea make Irish men and women so nostalgic?

micropig

And if I have no access to a teapot and have to use bags & cups I'd use

1 teabag=3cups
2teabags to be used if there is 4

Jordan 199

The-Rigger wrote: »

Just had a grand cup of tae.

Barrys or Lyons?

Doc Ruby

later10 wrote: »

spot-of-dick.

<_<

>_>

Spotted dick?

later12

Doc Ruby wrote: »

<_<

>_>

Spotted dick?

Ooh matron

Freudian slip!? Yes, was just editing that when you posted:pac:

Though you can't have it with custard. For that would make you British.

Doc Ruby

later10 wrote: »

Though you can't have it with custard. For that would make you British.

Less so than a spot-of-dick.

Carry on, carry on.

micropig

Doc Ruby wrote: »

I've the standard issue ceramic taepot for the gold blend, and a difficult and irritating cast iron job for the japanese good stuff.

Very hard to get a tea pot with a good spot that doesn't drip every where. The one I have I went to replace before Christmas (€40+ :eek:) to impress the relations, but was too dear so polished up the old one a bit

Original one I have I got as a present off a friend because he put my electric kettle on the hob to boil it & nearly burnt the house down but that's a whole other thread

Jordan 191 wrote: »

Barrys or Lyons?

Just checked I use McGraths from Aldi

later10 wrote: »

I'm at an airport right now surrounded by fordners with no appreciation for a cup of tea with all the accoutrements - i.e. pot, leaves, strainer, copious amounts of sugar, milk ad-lib, brown bread, jam and spotted dick.

Why does tea make Irish men and women so nostalgic?

I wouldn't go to this much trouble myself but I wouldn't refuse a cuppa either, although I dislike at the end of the cup if you get a mouthful of tea leaves / grit:mad:

Jesus Wept

Jordan 191 wrote: »

Barrys or Lyons?

Tesco, 80 bags for 80c. :pac:

It's all tae at the end of the day.

Doc Ruby

micropig wrote: »

Very hard to get a tea pot with a good spot that doesn't drip every where.

The trick is to pour very very slowly. Or just accept the splatter as part of the experience, either works just as well.

micropig

Doc Ruby wrote: »

The trick is to pour very very slowly. Or just accept the splatter as part of the experience, either works just as well.

& Tilt slowly or lift the lid slightly & pour to stop the teabags from blocking the spout

OwaynOTT

The-Rigger wrote: »

Tesco, 80 bags for 80c. :pac:

It's all tae at the end of the day.

God no. It's tea leaves all the way.

micropig

Just consulted with the other half- They informed me they use 1 teabag per cup if they don't have a teapot & 2 in the pot:mad:

(They weren't exactly forthcoming and didn't see it as a pressing issue at this moment in time:rolleyes:)

I'll have to monitor the situation closer in future, austerity cuts might have to be introduced

K-9

Tea bags?

Tea leaves and a tea sieve?

Dairygold and petit filous were like ipods and ipads in my day!

the_syco

Hank_Jones wrote: »

Teapots are for peasants.

I use one teabag per cup.

The way it feckin should be.

Wait... do you know people who only put one teabag into their teapot :eek:

Minimum 3 teabags into a pot. No real max.

micropig

the_syco wrote: »

Wait... do you know people who only put one teabag into their teapot :eek:

Minimum 3 teabags into a pot. No real max.

Only if I'm on my own 1 bag / pot, although not saying I'll fill the teapot up to the top with water (maybe 3/4's full)

Sure by the time your drinking the last cup its well brewed-don't want it going cold though*

*Cold tea is great as an eyewash & cold teabags reduce the puffiness

Nothingbetter2d

teapots were superceded by the electric kettle.... before the electric kettle was invented people had no other way to make tea except by using a teapot on a stove

44leto

I read somewhere that tea enabled the expansion of cities, apparently the tannin in tea act as a disinfectant knocking out a host of stomach bugs before this time of proper sanitation and sewage networks.

I have no idea if that is true but I love tea and I never caught typhoid or dysentery. But I once thought I had cholera after a dodgey kebab.

Dravokivich

Have a teapot in a press somewhere, never used it though.

Agricola

Used to use the teapot, then got lazy and used a teabag. Then I got lazier again, and put a sprinkling of lose tea in the mug.

Can't bare strong, stewed tea.

Trevor Kent

Cant stand Tay..or coffee for that matter

Get offered it every time I go to peoples houses, and get a bewildered look when I say I dont drink it.

On the plus side, I dont need 18 cups of the stuff a day to function.

So do I have a teapot? like funk I do.

micropig

Nothingbetter2d wrote: »

teapots were superceded by the electric kettle.... before the electric kettle was invented people had no other way to make tea except by using a teapot on a stove

:eek::eek::eek:false you do NOT make the tea in the kettle:(


It's not right:p

Seomra Mushie

Have one, never use it. I MUCH prefer tea made in the cup. It's much more scaldy, which I like, and has a pleasant tang to it that is missing from teapot-brewed tea.

Seomra Mushie

Guill wrote: »

Tea from tea bags = piss, proper tea leaf tea is much stronger and nicer.

Tea isn't supposed to be strong. Chinese people barely touch the tea bag off the water.