How do you make a good mug of tae?

Eleven Benevolent Elephants · 29-10-2020 10:52pm #1

In order of preference, Punjana, Barry's then Lyons.

Two tea bags in cup first, then boiling water, squeeze them, full fat milk. Leave tea bags in.

If I have time, I'll use loose leaf tea.

Eleven Benevolent Elephants · 29-10-2020 10:56pm

Mug of scald

I accidentally voted for the wrong option in my own poll :pac:

Rodney Bathgate · 29-10-2020 10:57pm

Piss in a cup, add milk and stir.

Rodney Bathgate · 29-10-2020 10:58pm

With a cut of bread?

corner of hells · 29-10-2020 10:58pm

Eleven Benevolent Elephants wrote: »

In order of preference, Punjana, Barry's then Lyons.

Two tea bags in cup first, then boiling water, squeeze them, full fat milk. Leave tea bags in.

If I have time, I'll use loose leaf tea.

You need to scald the mug with a drop of boiling water first before you attempt to make your tea .
Feckin' Philistine.

Rothko · 29-10-2020 11:01pm

Cup of tae

Never heard of cup/mug of scald before.

bnt · 29-10-2020 11:06pm

Can’t stand teabags, they contain too much poor quality tea. With a good loose leaf tea I can use exactly the right amount: straight in the cup, then water just off the boil. No need for a strainer, the leaves sink to the bottom. Some sugar or honey to taste. No milk.

jenneyk19 · 29-10-2020 11:10pm

real men don't make their own tea

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0anR6t56PX8

Harry Palmr · 29-10-2020 11:11pm

Heat your mug, and it has to be a mug in the microwave. A warm mug is a happy mug. Drop in bag and add hot water, but only three-quarters capacity. Let it stew for 30 seconds add just enough milk so the colour is still quite dark brown. Builders tae.

Signore Fancy Pants · 29-10-2020 11:14pm

2 sugars, add boiling water until it dissolves, Lyons Gold Blend tea bag, 57 stirs counter clockwise, 28 stirs clockwise. Leave the bag in.

Drink.

KaneToad · 29-10-2020 11:16pm

Wouldn't know. Never drank one in my life.

Hyperbollix · 29-10-2020 11:20pm

Mug of tea

Splash of milk in the cup first, drop in the teabag. Let that sit for a minute then follow up with water slightly off the boil. Stir that hot mess until you get a palid milky yellow liquid. Remove the bag. 8 sugars to taste.

Greyfox · 29-10-2020 11:28pm

Cup of tae

bnt wrote: »

Can’t stand teabags, they contain too much poor quality tea. With a good loose leaf tea I can use exactly the right amount: straight in the cup, then water just off the boil. No need for a strainer, the leaves sink to the bottom. Some sugar or honey to taste. No milk.

That sounds manky. Not using teabags is like eating soup with a fork, wrong on so many levels. If you dont use milk then its hot tar your drinking and not tea.

Gregor Samsa · 29-10-2020 11:36pm

Cup of tae

Lyons Gold Blend. In a china mug. Stir and squish it a few times. Then leave it sitting in the mug while you get the milk from the fridge. Another few stirs and a good squish, then pour in the milk (full fat) until it’s a healthy tan. No sugar.

Feisar · 29-10-2020 11:38pm

Mug of tae

Strainer think into a mug, scald the setup, teaspoon of Barry’s Gold Blend loose tea, add water just boiled, let sit of 5 mins, remove strainer with leaves. Add a drop of full fat milk. Quick stir.

mistersifter · 29-10-2020 11:41pm

Anyone making tea directly in a mug is a mug.

Tea should be made in a pot. No exceptions.

Lynn Door · 29-10-2020 11:44pm

My ex said the secret to the great cup of tea was to agitate the bag. He then proceeded to poke me laughing manically.

Note I said ex

Gregor Samsa · 29-10-2020 11:44pm

Cup of tae

If you have a few people having tea, a pot is fine. But if it’s just you, it’s like running a bath just to wash your hands.

Faze11 · 29-10-2020 11:46pm

Cup of tae

Boiling water in cup with teaspoon. (15 seconds). Dump the water. Teabag in. Freshly boiled water in. Stir and squish against side of cup 20 times. Bag out. Tiny drop of milk.

One eyed Jack · 29-10-2020 11:46pm

Eleven Benevolent Elephants wrote: »

Two tea bags in cup first, then boiling water, squeeze them, full fat milk. Leave tea bags in.

Is it tea you’re making, or tae? I won’t go so far as to call it tar, but TWO tea bags in a single mug ðŸ˜³

s1ippy · 29-10-2020 11:46pm

Throw on the ole cupán there lad, sound.

Just pour the water directly onto the teabag so it diffuses straight away, lave it in there and throw in a good 1.5 fingers of milk.

You've got yourself a luxury lunch break there, especially when you've only about two minutes to drink it, so if it's too hot you won't get even a sup of it and if it's wake tae at least it gets stronger in the brief time you're drinking it.

I'm nearly a year out of school now and still haven't dropped the habit. I don't miss teaching.

smellyoldboot · 29-10-2020 11:50pm

Cup of scald

Teabag and sugar in the cup. Pour in the boiling water, give it a good vigorous stir. Go and do something else for a few minutes then come back, another good stir, a squeeze again the side of the cup. Then remove the bag and fling catapult style with the spoon roughly toward the bin. About 3/4" of milk into the cup a last stir and a whole packet of biscuits.

guitarhappy · 29-10-2020 11:51pm

Mug of tea

mistersifter wrote: »

Anyone making tea directly in a mug is a mug.

Tea should be made in a pot. No exceptions.

Absolutely correct. But the most important thing is the quality of the water. It should be fresh water collected from a natural spring or a cold stream or, at the least, a well if that's all that's available. Not chlorinated tap water. Loose leaf in a china pot and served in a china cup or mug, definitely not plastic or metal.

Dr. Bre · 29-10-2020 11:51pm

Who still drinks tea lol ever heard of coffee

Oink · 29-10-2020 11:52pm

How I make my cup of tea:
1. Throw away whatever crap someone else soiled my mug with.

2. Make my own cup of tea.

3. Crisis averted. I’m good.

guitarhappy · 29-10-2020 11:54pm

Mug of tea

Dr. Bre wrote: »

Who still drinks tea lol ever heard of coffee

Yes, I think the Italians drink that.

ibFoxer · 29-10-2020 11:55pm

I am on the outside looking in, but the way I make a good cup of tea is to not, because it is liquid scour, and make coffee instead.

PsychoPete · 29-10-2020 11:57pm

Put in the tea bag, add the water, leave it for 90 seconds, take out the teabag but do not squeeze it, add milk. Perfection!

COVID · 30-10-2020 12:00am

Cuppa

Dr. Bre wrote: »

Who still drinks tea lol ever heard of coffee

guitarhappy wrote: »

Yes, I think the Italians drink that.

Not forgetting the jazz-loving sophisticates of Dublin 6.

Church on Tuesday · 30-10-2020 12:06am

Dr. Bre wrote: »

Who still drinks tea lol ever heard of coffee

It's possible to like both the same way you can like Metallica and Megadeth.

suicide_circus · 30-10-2020 12:09am

COVID wrote: »

Not forgetting the jazz-loving sophisticates of Dublin 6.

mistersifter · 30-10-2020 12:17am

Gregor Samsa wrote: »

If you have a few people having tea, a pot is fine. But if it’s just you, it’s like running a bath just to wash your hands.

What you need are pots of various sizes . A little tea for two job.

If you're making good tea, you're not having just one cup. That extra little top up at the end is essential if we're after the "perfect" cup of tea.

Cluedo Monopoly · 30-10-2020 12:29am

Cup of tae

A decent cup of tea has to be made in a teapot.

1. Boil kettle
2. Pour a small bit of boiling water into the teapot and empty via the spout to heat
3. Put in 2 Lyons teabags
4. Fill the teapot with scaldy boiling water (it should be spitting hot)
5. Pour out a small bit of the tea into the sink (tradition)
6. Close teapot quickly and put on teapot stand
7. Get tea cosy on the teapot in less than 10 seconds
8. Leave to stand for 3 minutes
9. The 2nd cup from that teapot is the best
10. Enjoy tea with brown bread and butter/marmalade or butter/jam.

Arghus · 30-10-2020 12:38am

Cup of tae

Lyon's gold blend is my brand - it just tastes better than the other big ones.

A decent sized mug/cup is crucial. Nothing worse than tea from a pathetic cup.

Bag first, then the water - the water that goes in has to be steaming hot.

Leave it for about 3-4 minutes and take out the bag: I really do not understand people who take the bag out after only a few seconds. You want to be drinking tea, not just tea flavoured water. There are few sights worse in life than someone leaving a bag in the water for about 20 seconds before brusquely flaking it out, but not before crushing it frantically with all their might against the side of the mug with a teaspoon. These people are fcked in the head and aren't doing one the most basic activities in Irish life right; you gotta let it brew a bit.

Add a middling amount of milk. Not too much, not too little. It's a judgment thing and each cup is different and unique. Some need just that bit more, some a little less. Not a fan of milky tea, at all. Alongside their aforementioned sins most of the previously referred to no-time-to-wait teabag brutalisers are also - to add insult to injury - proponents of the "absolutely drown it in milk school". Like I have said, these people are fcked in the head; they don't like tea really. Maybe they are actually like pod people and don't know what they are doing and are just going through the motions of preparing a cup of tea so that their disguises aren't seen through.

No sugar. Tea doesn't need sugar. Biscuits are an essential accompaniment, of course.

Tea does taste better brewed in a pot - there's no dispute there - but I'd never brew it in a pot if I was just having a cup by myself.

tabby aspreme · 30-10-2020 12:38am

First up, you need proper well water, none of that townie water, and loose leaf tea, heat the pot for a few minutes , empty it, add tea and freshly boiled water, leave to Brew for at least 5 minutes, stir and pour. If you have a teapot that doesn't dribble at the spout it's a bonus.

gozunda · 30-10-2020 12:44am

Cup of tae

Ring for service. Ask Jeeves to make you a nice pot of tea. Relax. :pac:

COVID · 30-10-2020 12:49am

Cuppa

gozunda wrote: »

Ring for service. Ask Jeeves to make you a nice pot of tea. Relax. :pac:

I asked 'Alexa' a couple of weeks ago.....still waiting!

John Frank Wilson · 30-10-2020 1:25am

Cup of tae

I used to live with a boy who put the milk in along with the teabag first - then added the hot water. I think he's in jail now, for... Nah, he's not in jail - he was a grand lad. But I never looked at him in the same way ever again. I couldn't trust him. "Never trust a man who puts hot water into cold milk', my old man used to say.

Gregor Samsa · 30-10-2020 1:36am

Cup of tae

mistersifter wrote: »

If you're making good tea, you're not having just one cup.

“Sure you know I never take a second cup.”

S.B. O'Donnell
Philadelphia, Here I Come!

jmlad2020 · 30-10-2020 1:36am

Mug of tea

I used to work in an office in England. The Brits (experts in the field) love a brown tae with a tiny bit of Milk but the Irish love a milky tae.

From close inspection the Brits tend to put the teabag into the cup. Pour boiling water and let it sit for anything upto 4 minutes. No more. A gentle stir of no more than 3 twirls is followed by removing the teabag and dropping the equivalent of 3-4 small teaspoons of semi-skinned or fully skimmed (gay) milk.

The result, a disgustingly warm brown tea that is only ingestible after 20 minutes, after it cools.

Stevieluvsye · 30-10-2020 1:42am

Cup a Rosie

30-10-2020 1:59am

Cup of tae

jmlad2020 wrote: »

I used to work in an office in England. The Brits (experts in the field) love a brown tae with a tiny bit of Milk but the Irish love a milky tae.

From close inspection the Brits tend to put the teabag into the cup. Pour boiling water and let it sit for anything upto 4 minutes. No more. A gentle stir of no more than 3 twirls is followed by removing the teabag and dropping the equivalent of 3-4 small teaspoons of semi-skinned or fully skimmed (gay) milk.

The result, a disgustingly warm brown tea that is only ingestible after 20 minutes, after it cools.

That's nuts; I'm no Britman but that's exactly how I both make and like my tea. Only difference is after the three twirls of the tea-bag I squeeze it to death against the side of the cup to extract every last molecule of caffeine that I can.

ablelocks · 30-10-2020 1:14pm

Cup of scald

1. boil water in kettle
2. wait a minute or 2
3. scald cup/teapot
4. fill cup/teapot with water
5. shake teabag(s) into full shape
6. flip teabag(s) upwards and into the cup/teapot (to agitate the tea leaves)
7. repeat point 6 until teabag(s) lands in hot water - points scoring system optional, bonus points if you get it in in one flip
8. leave it alone for 2-3 minutes in cup, 4-5 in teapot
9a. if in cup, do not stir - catch teabag with spoon to side of cup and squeeze and remove from cup in one movement
9b. if in teapot, leave teabags in teapot and swirl the teapot a few times before pouring.
10. Add a good bit of milk for me, a small bit of milk for wife
11. Sit and sup, digestive or other plain biscuit optional

(for tea with meals, replace cup with mug.)

ablelocks · 30-10-2020 1:16pm

Cup of scald

my mothers version of "tea" is a disgrace - she dips the corner of a teabag in hot water or alternatively takes a spoonful of tea from my dads cup and adds it to her hot water

km991148 · 30-10-2020 1:17pm

corner of hells wrote: »

You need to scald the mug with a drop of boiling water first before you attempt to make your tea .
Feckin' Philistine.

And a good few minutes before you even think about adding milk.

km991148 · 30-10-2020 1:19pm

And how to judge the perfect amount of milk:

As Frank Skinner states: "Brown Envelope" - thats the colour you want.

Gregor Samsa · 30-10-2020 1:20pm

Cup of tae

ablelocks wrote: »

my mothers version of "tea" is a disgrace - she dips the corner of a teabag in hot water or alternatively takes a spoonful of tea from my dads cup and adds it to her hot water

Sounds like homeopathic tea.

km991148 · 30-10-2020 1:20pm

mistersifter wrote: »

Anyone making tea directly in a mug is a mug.

Tea should be made in a pot. No exceptions.

Except all the times you want a cup of tea and don't have a teapot.

Tea can be made fine in a mug - its snobbery to suggest otherwise.

km991148 · 30-10-2020 1:21pm

Gregor Samsa wrote: »

Sounds like homeopathic tea.

I read that as homophobic first time.. I was very confused..!

Mad_maxx · 30-10-2020 1:32pm

Hyperbollix wrote: »

Splash of milk in the cup first, drop in the teabag. Let that sit for a minute then follow up with water slightly off the boil. Stir that hot mess until you get a palid milky yellow liquid. Remove the bag. 8 sugars to taste.

pouring in the milk in first is an abomination

Allinall · 30-10-2020 1:35pm

Mad_maxx wrote: »

pouring in the milk in first is an abomination

Agreed.

But it makes for a lovely cup of tea.

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