Making tea

The point of boiling the water is to get the tea to dissolve into the water from the tea bags. I'm guessing iced tea is a U.S. custom. Some people drink hot tea - especially in asian restaurants - but mostly it's iced tea here. One interesting thing about it is that sweet tea is popular in the southern states, while you don't hear of it much in the northern states.

I dont mind fruit flavoured ice tea, I find it quite refreshing on hot sweaty summer days but normal tea cold???? Nah that'd be as bad as drinking it hot for me.

Originally posted by julibug
The point of boiling the water is to get the tea to dissolve into the water from the tea bags. I'm guessing iced tea is a U.S. custom. Some people drink hot tea - especially in asian restaurants - but mostly it's iced tea here. One interesting thing about it is that sweet tea is popular in the southern states, while you don't hear of it much in the northern states.

Originally posted by Corran
We have a difference on opinion on the best way to make a cup of tea. Obviously the best way is to boil a kettle, pour some of the boiling water into a tea-pot and swill and empty, then add tea-bags to the tea-pot to taste (usually one bag per cup plus one for the pot), then you pour in the water from the kettle which should have cooled a few degrees, leave to brew to taste, put milk into the cup and pour in the tea, add sugar to taste.

However, if you do not have a tea-pot but need to make a brew in a mug/cup what do you think is the best way, is milk in first then tea bag then water, or tea-bag then water then milk etc?

First time I've read this. And that has got to be the most complicated way of making tea I've ever heard of!

Mug - chuck in the tea bag and sugar - pour in the hot water - add milk. Thats my cuppa!

how can you make tea like that there is an art to the puuuurfect cuppa

LMAO, A thread about how to make tea 👆
It is just as easy as flushing a toilet... 🙄

Originally posted by Corran
We have a difference on opinion on the best way to make a cup of tea. Obviously the best way is to boil a kettle, pour some of the boiling water into a tea-pot and swill and empty, then add tea-bags to the tea-pot to taste (usually one bag per cup plus one for the pot), then you pour in the water from the kettle which should have cooled a few degrees, leave to brew to taste, put milk into the cup and pour in the tea, add sugar to taste.

However, if you do not have a tea-pot but need to make a brew in a mug/cup what do you think is the best way, is milk in first then tea bag then water, or tea-bag then water then milk etc?

this is the proper way of making tea and if your spending money on good tea or tea bags it deserves to be made properly.

however if you in a rush or cant be arsed and you making it in a cup you should put the milk after the tea has brewed or you have trouble getting the tea strong.

I buy Tesco's own brand. 😄

and make it how???

Originally posted by Dogbert
LMAO, A thread about how to make tea 👆
It is just as easy as flushing a toilet... 🙄

lets assume thats a skill you have 🙄

Yes, it is 😖mart:

Originally posted by Asami
I buy Tesco's own brand. 😄

Originally posted by Corran
What do you know heathen?

🙄

Originally posted by Asami
First time I've read this. And that has got to be the most complicated way of making tea I've ever heard of!

Mug - chuck in the tea bag and sugar - pour in the hot water - add milk. Thats my cuppa!

tea is such a wuss drink, kind of limy 😄😄 drunk

Tea!!! 😱 I dont add milk to my preciousss tea. Adding milk is a sacrilege a profanation of my morocco's green or menta flavoured tea 😠

Tea - dash of milk, 2 sugars.
bag > water > brew > milk > sugar

Coffee - black, no additions.

incidently I came across this, perhaps something for your birthday or so corran?:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0910479046/002-0503254-1444049?v=glance

hmm, tea bag>hot water>strain the bag> stir whist adding milk and sugar. Thats how i do it 😄

Originally posted by Corran
Do you chew the tea-bag that you have left in???

That's an idea I might try...

I take my coffee the same way as burlyman