Making the perfect cup of tea

Ahhhh for forks sake!

What’s yours?

Mine is three Barry’s or Punjana teabags in a mug, pour on the boiling water, squeeze the bejesus out of the bags and add a dash of milk. Leave the tea bags in.

Allinall

Ahhhh for forks sake! wrote: »

What’s yours?

Mine is three Barry’s or Punjana teabags in a mug, pour on the boiling water, squeeze the bejesus out of the bags and add a dash of milk. Leave the tea bags in.

Just don’t make it while you’re weaving on a motorbike.

It’ll spill.

verycool

Milk first. Only kidding, that's a protestant tea.

Bag in (Barry's obviously)
Water in.
Wait five minutes.
Squish the ar$e out of it (dirty fecker enjoys it).
Take out the bag and wait until it stops dripping.
Tiniest bit of milk. Like a two second slow pour of milk. Just for a dark brown colour. Any more isn't tay.

Vinculus

I'm more of a pot of tea person myself.

verycool

Vinculus wrote: »

I'm more of a pot of tea person myself.

Tempted to buy that teapot infuser (sorry "tea press") in Aldi.

kylith

Yorkshire tea for preference, well brewed, splop of milk. The colour of a werther’s Original is ideal.

SEPT 23 1989

Leave the.bag in the cup

MightyMandarin

Water first

Ahhhh for forks sake! wrote: »

What’s yours?

Mine is three Barry’s or Punjana teabags in a mug, pour on the boiling water, squeeze the bejesus out of the bags and add a dash of milk. Leave the tea bags in.

3 tea bags? What are you, made of money?

Squeezing the bag/s?

Milk in with the bag/s too?

Jesus I would not like a cup of tea at your house.

Vinculus

verycool wrote: »

Vinculus wrote: »

I'm more of a pot of tea person myself.

Tempted to buy that teapot infuser (sorry "tea press") in Aldi.

Actually, I really could do with one of those and make life easier on my sink.

The correct procedure is..

1. Heat the cup..
2. Water
3. Teabag
4. DONT squeeze the bejaysus out of it

This is like scientific.
I have it on good authority..

verycool

Vinculus wrote: »

Actually, I really could do with one of those and make life easier on my sink.

You brew your tea in your sink

ancapailldorcha

1. Bag in. Lyons Gold Blend of course but Twinings Everyday is an acceptable substitute.
2. Add boiling water.
3. Stir gently and allow a couple of minutes to brew.
4. Splash of milk with optional biscuit/chocolate or both.
5. Discard bag.

jester77

Pour hot water over lemon and mint leaves, wait 10 minutes, stir in honey and enjoy

ancapailldorcha

ancapailldorcha wrote: »

1. Bag in. Lyons Gold Blend of course but Twinings Everyday is an acceptable substitute.
2. Add boiling water.
3. Stir gently and allow a couple of minutes to brew.
4. Splash of milk with optional biscuit/chocolate or both.
5. Discard bag.

Heat the cup..
Seriously..it'll change your life..

Tell me how

Water first

Ahhhh for forks sake! wrote:

Mine is three Barry’s or Punjana teabags in a mug, pour on the boiling water, squeeze the bejesus out of the bags and add a dash of milk. Leave the tea bags in.

That's not tea. That's treacle.

1 - Let water sit for 30 seconds after kettle turns off.
2 - Into non heated mug on to Lyon's original teabag.
3 - Let sit for 2-3 minutes.
4 - Lightly squeeze them remove tea bag.
5 - Add milk.
6 - Aaahhhhh.

Repeat steps 1 to 6 until the world is less terrible.

Ciaran_B

Water first

No fans of Bewleys tea on here? It's good tea lads.

Graces7

Ciaran_B wrote: »

No fans of Bewleys tea on here? It's good tea lads.

Someone in Canada I send teabags to insists on Lyons.. As a total none tea drinker

Ultimate Seduction

Must be stirred anti clockwise

sbsquarepants

kylith wrote: »

Yorkshire tea for preference, well brewed, splop of milk. The colour of a werther’s Original is ideal.

You sick bastard. If you must use milk, a galaxy minstrel is the lightest shade of brown acceptable.

I got a tea maker in Lidl, like a coffee percolator- best thing I ever bought. Alas it died.... quite quickly after getting it home. But the 7 or 8 weeks we spent together were nothing short of magical.

verycool

Ultimate Seduction wrote: »

Must be stirred anti clockwise

Only in the southern hemisphere.

Ultimate Seduction

Ultimate Seduction wrote: »

Must be stirred anti clockwise

Forgot that bit..

Ultimate Seduction

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Forgot that bit..

I've thrown many cup down the sink when she stirs it the wrong way, she thinks I wouldn't notice. Yock!

ancapailldorcha

Deleted User wrote: »

Heat the cup..
Seriously..it'll change your life..

Eh?

Hector Savage

Water first

Ever try McGraths tea ???

It's bloody good stuff!!

Anyway, spot of boiling water in the tea pot first ( I used to laugh when people suggested it, but it seems to make a difference)
Dump this water
add a tea bag or 2
Add water - but as it's boiling !!!

Close lid and leave to brew

Pour whenever (depending on your like of strong/weak tea)
I like it like my women .... good and strong.



The above bold points are essential.


You're welcome

Hector Savage

Water first

Deleted User wrote: »

Heat the cup..
Seriously..it'll change your life..

I believe this is a similar technique of my own version, I salute you sir.

RoboRat

Water first

2 mugs - have to be good quality china mugs, that's the difference
2 x Lyons gold blend bags.
Teabag in both mugs, followed by boiling water (3/4 full)
Leave 30 seconds, stir both bags
Squeeze tea bag #1 and transplant into mug #2
stir then squeeze both bags and transplant into cup #1
repeat proceedure and dump tea bags in the BIN not the sink you lazy *******
about a tablespoon of milk.
Stir thoroughly
Enjoy.

stimpson

Rinse the pot with boiling water.
2 heaped tablespoons of tea leaves
Return pot to the boil
Pour water over leaves
Stir
Leave to draw for 2-3 minutes
Stir again
Leave for another minute
Pour
Drink black, no sugar.

There is an ISO standard for making tea, which has not been approved by the Irish government over the heresy that you should put the milk in first.: https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#iso:std:iso:3103:ed-1:v1:en

4068ac1elhodqr

Water first

Never drink coffee.
But when not dunking custard creams in an afternoon pint sized mug of murky brew along with the commoners, do prefer the alternatives.

This one is best 1st thing in the morning: 'Autophagy tea'.
Ideally made with filtered, alkaline, ionised, restructured h2o, in a Tibetan singing bowl attuned to 528 Hz:

i) Organic Green/White tea (containing epigallocatechin gallate).
ii) Non-synthetic (polyphenol-rich) whole citrus bergamot, aka Earl Grey.
iii) Cinnamon (ceylon, not cassia), to negate any oxidative damage.
iv) Coconut oil (full of medium-chain fatty acids and keytones)

Teabag first. Water. Leave it for a while before removing, for a nice strong cup. Half a teaspoon of honey. job done
No milk!

I like lyons gold blend or some of the twinings varieties, and earl grey is great stuff

Boom_Bap

Tea bag in Mug, I've recently converted to Barrys.
Pour in water from boiled kettle.
Let sit for a minute.
Squeeze the tea bag a bit.
Drop of cow juice.


But the perfect cup normally happens like this:

"Maaaa, make us a cup of tea will ya?"

I've no idea how she makes it so good.

Tell me how

Water first

Boom_Bap wrote:

Tea bag in Mug, I've recently converted to Barrys. ...

Stop right there.

NEXT!!!

cantdecide

[Very] weak, no sugar, small drop of milk. No biccies as I'm off them.

A mean cup of tea (literally ).

Heat cup
Fill with boiling water
Dip tea bag in and out (I don't let it go) for maybe 10 seconds
Throw tea bag away
Good dash of milk and enjoy

Sofiztikated

Roberto Stale Galaxy wrote: »

Heat cup
Fill with boiling water
Dip tea bag in and out (I don't let it go) for maybe 10 seconds
Throw tea bag away
Good dash of milk and enjoy

That's a recipe for milky water.

corner of hells

stimpson wrote: »

Rinse the pot with boiling water.
2 heaped tablespoons of tea leaves
Return pot to the boil
Pour water over leaves
Stir
Leave to draw for 2-3 minutes
Stir again
Leave for another minute
Pour
Drink black, no sugar.

There is an ISO standard for making tea, which has not been approved by the Irish government over the heresy that you should put the milk in first.: https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#iso:std:iso:3103:ed-1:v1:en

Sir, I tip my hat to you.

The rest of you heathens , take note.

He used fcukin' tea leaves and a tea pot

dxhound2005

corner of hells wrote: »

Sir, I tip my hat to you.

The rest of you heathens , take note.

He used fcukin' tea leaves and a tea pot

But he never mentioned the tea cosy. Still a bit uncivilised.

Sofiztikated

corner of hells wrote: »

Sir, I tip my hat to you.

The rest of you heathens , take note.

He used fcukin' tea leaves and a tea pot

Only use a pot for Earl Grey leaves.

I don't drink enough normal tea to warrant making a pot.

Franz Von Peppercorn

Water first

Heat the cup? Nonsense. It’ll get hot with the water.

corner of hells

dxhound2005 wrote: »

But he never mentioned the tea cosy. Still a bit uncivilised.

Do you know that film " Deliverance" , well I can hear the " banjo" music.

kylith

sbsquarepants wrote: »

You sick bastard. If you must use milk, a galaxy minstrel is the lightest shade of brown acceptable.

I got a tea maker in Lidl, like a coffee percolator- best thing I ever bought. Alas it died.... quite quickly after getting it home. But the 7 or 8 weeks we spent together were nothing short of magical.

I Don’t think I could use one of them, I just don’t think that they’d get the water hot enough

BBDBB

Water first

anyone for a chamomile and jasmine fruit infusion?





I'll see myself out

dxhound2005

Franz Von Peppercorn wrote: »

Heat the cup? Nonsense. It’ll get hot with the water.

I have a 900 ml. (1.6 pint) mug. It needs to be warmed up properly. Normal cups are too small.

One tea bag makes the perfect pint of tea. And one refinement I use is to pour some boiling water on the spoon before using it to take out the tea bag.

corner of hells

BBDBB wrote: »

anyone for a chamomile and jasmine fruit infusion?





I'll see myself out

I was wondering how you got in.

garbo speaks

I once made my friend a cup of tea and left the "teabag" in it, which was in actuality, one of my girlfriend's discarded makeup sponges. Seeing him remove the sponge from his tea with his spoon, and the confusion and subsequent disgust on his face, was utterly hilarious.

Sofiztikated

Sofiztikated wrote: »

That's a recipe for milky water.

Not at all, plenty strong enough for me. It's actually not even what I'd call light tea but I find squeezing the tea bag makes the tea bitter. Leaving the tea bag in while drinking it makes rotten tea don't know how people do it.

Franz Von Peppercorn wrote: »

Heat the cup? Nonsense. It’ll get hot with the water.

It means your tea will stay hot longer as heat isn't being wasted heating a cold cup. Same should be done for a flask or a hot whiskey etc.

stimpson

Roberto Stale Galaxy wrote: »

It means your tea will stay hot longer as heat isn't being wasted heating a cold cup. Same should be done for a flask or a hot whiskey etc.

The reason to heat the pot (or cup for savages) is that the water needs to be boiling to dissolve the flavour compounds in the leaves. If you put boiling water into a cold cup it will quickly drop in temperature and you will end up with weak tea.

Vita nova

Water first

Prefer the Long Island iced variety; gin, tequila, vodka, rum, triple sec and a dash of cola on the rocks.

Permabear

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RobertKK

Water first

Tea bag always comes before the water.
If making it in a teapot you first put a drop of boiling water into the teapot, swirl and drain, then with the teapot heated from the boiling water used to heat the teapot, you add the teabag and put the boiling water in.

feargale

Ultimate Seduction wrote: »

Must be stirred anti clockwise

Clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere.

Foggy Jew

Water first

jester77 wrote: »

Pour hot water over lemon and mint leaves, wait 10 minutes, stir in honey and enjoy

Notions!