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**Jehan-reznor**

They found Wynona's Big Brown Beaver?

Spoiler:

**marv335**

Scots drink tea too.

I have 18 different types of tea in my cupboard at the moment.

**PredaKhaine**

18 types?
Thats a lot of tea - I have 1 in my house

This is it.

Predakhaine's cup of tea - BWST (British Workmen Standard Tea

)
Step 1)Get mug
Step 2)Put teabag and sugar to taste in cup.
Step 3)Add boiling water, stirring well - this helps the teabag to infuse properly and dissolves all the sugar. There's nothing worse* in tea than it not being sweet enough, and then finding a pile of sugar at the bottom of the mug...
Step 4)Add milk.
Step 5)Drink

If you make tea a different way to this, you're doing it wrong

It says here.

Potential problems
A)Don't add milk before water - your tea will taste weaker.
B)Do not use your thumb to squeeze the teabag out
C)Do not squeeze the teabag anyway - this can leave your tea tasting bitter.
4)Do not add too much milk.
Tea with milk = good
Milk with tea = bad.
5)Keep your thumb out of my drink.
6)Do not give the mug a 'once around' with the used dishcloth on the side - either to clean or dry the mug. I can taste it when you've done that too.
7)Do not stir my tea with the spoon you've just made coffee without washing the spoon - coffee granules stick to spoons and poison cups of tea.

*Within reason - there are worse things, but I wouldn't expect to find them in my tea. Like a fiat uno or a stoat. These would be worse than not mixing the sugar in...

**purplefood**

Always squeeze the teabag.
Helps get the flavour out.

**PredaKhaine**

It can leave the tea bitter - thus needing even more sugar

http://breweddaily.com/2008/12/squeezing-tea-bags-into-tea/

If you’ve ever used a tea bag, chances are that you’ve squeezed the last bit of liquid out of it and into your cup after the tea has finished steeping – and possibly burned your fingertips doing it if you don’t have some ind of tea bag strainer. You might also have heard that squeezing a tea bag, once brewed, into a cup of tea will turn the tea bitter and that you should never, under any circumstances, do this.

If you put this to the test, you’ll probably find that it’s true, to some extent. Tea, especially black tea, contains tannins, a plant polyphenol that is known to have a bitter, astringent taste to it. It is not the same as tannic acid, a chemical present in different types of wood (such as oak) that is, among other things, used to tan leather. This astringency is more noticeable when your tea is stronger, and often squeezing the bag after steeping will release an extra little burst of well-steeped liquid from within the tea bag – and this can add a slight bitterness to the tea. That being said, if you are steeping your tea for a reasonable amount of time, you’re not going to notice a huge change.

**SilverMK2**

Personally i cant stand tea. We have some in the house for when people come round - same with coffee bit otherwise it just sits at the back of the pantry gathering dust.

**purplefood**

You shouldn't notice because, as that states, you should be steeping it for a decent amount of time...
More to the point it's only communists and satanists that put sugar in their tea.

**marv335**

The reason for adding the milk first, is so that when using good china teacups, the shock of adding the boiling water does not crack the cup.

Also tea bags are the work of the devil.

Loose leaf is the way forward.

The 18 Teas I have are

English Breakfast
Assam Rani Garden
Orange Pekote Ceylon
Russian Caravan
Gunpowder Green
Gunpowder Green with mint
Earl Grey
Lady Grey
Wild Cherry Sencha
Chamomile
Ginger with Lemon
Ginger with Honey
Darjeeling,
Hibiscus
Ceylon Lovers leap,
Decaff Darjeeling
Decaff Earl Grey
Decaff Ceylon

I have a few more in my tea caddy at home.

**purplefood**

Yeah but you rarely use china anymore.
Frankly unless I am using china (Which is never) I will always put the milk in after.

**PredaKhaine**

purplefood wrote:
You shouldn't notice because, as that states, you should be steeping it for a decent amount of time...
More to the point it's only communards and santaists that put sugar in their tea.

I'll agree with that - I like strong tea.

Tea with no sugar....

I bet you drink this too

http://www.freshandalive.com/fresh_and_alive_content/products-gods-herbs-heal-all-tea.htm

**purplefood**

PredaKhaine wrote:
purplefood wrote:
You shouldn't notice because, as that states, you should be steeping it for a decent amount of time...
More to the point it's only communists and satanists that put sugar in their tea.

I'll agree with that - I like strong tea.

Tea with no sugar....

I bet you drink this too

http://www.freshandalive.com/fresh_and_alive_content/products-gods-herbs-heal-all-tea.htm

No thanks...
That said, if you try drinking tea without milk (As I was forced to do whilst visiting a certain dutch Dakkanaught because he had no milk)
It's surprisingly good.

**PredaKhaine**

I can cope with tea with no sugar or milk, I just don't like it much

I worked for a guy for a couple of weeks in a workshop with no fridge...

Try adding vodka to hot black tea as a warming drink. I did some tv extras work on a show called playing the field and I drank that for two days. By the end of the second day, you could see where they were trying to edit me and my friends out...

**purplefood**

I have a new breakfast drink.

**marv335**

Whether I add milk or not depends on the tea I'm drinking.

The Russian Caravan (a nice black tea), for example, should be drunk with nothing added, from a glass in a silver holder, with a sugar crystal held in the teeth, which you drink through

I have nice china, with milk jugs, sugar bowl, tea pot etc.
I sometimes use it when entertaining.
One mustn't let standards slip, after all.

**PredaKhaine**

British Workmen Standard Tea should only be consumed from mugs

The bigger the mug the better. If the mug is bigger than your head then so be it.
It needs the equivalent of two sugars - scaled for bigger mugs.
Some mugs need 4 sugars.
and a side order of a bacon sandwich.

These are offered to all workmen who enter my house - you'd be surprised at how much extra effort goes into work when you've fully tea'd and bacon'd someone

**dementedwombat**

Just want to pop in and mention I find this conversation very entertaining. Carry on.

**Palindrome**

purplefood wrote:
I have a new breakfast drink.

When I was in primary school (i.e. 5-12) I used to have a cup of tea every cold morning with a nip of whiskey in it to keep the cold out. It does rather spoil the taste though.

**PredaKhaine**

Too much tea?

**Avatar 720**

Oh God, putting whisky or brandy in tea for any reason absolutely ruins it. I don't care if it'll "help with my nerves", what'll really help my nerves is you not bastardising my tea!

**Alfndrate**

purplefood wrote:
You shouldn't notice because, as that states, you should be steeping it for a decent amount of time...
More to the point it's only communists and satanists that put sugar in their tea.

What do you use to sweeten your tea then, Truvia?!

**PredaKhaine**

I think he doesn't put sugar in his tea.

Some people are different like that.

Some people don't have fully functioning tastebuds either...

**Tibbsy**

I occasionally use honey in my tea, instead of sugar...

It's quite nice

**Avatar 720**

Honey eh? Someone thinks themselves as a bit upper-middle.

**Tibbsy**

Avatar 720 wrote:
Honey eh? Someone thinks themselves as a bit upper-middle.

Only occasionally

Most of the time its still workman-standard!

Still, you should try it, its nice!

**Platuan4th**

PredaKhaine wrote:
18 types?
Thats a lot of tea - I have 1 in my house

We've got 20 something types. Wine and Tea are my wife's favorite things.

**Alfndrate**

Platuan4th wrote:
PredaKhaine wrote:
18 types?
Thats a lot of tea - I have 1 in my house

We've got 20 something types. Wine and Tea are my wife's favorite things.

Tis a shame you're not on that list

**timetowaste85**

purplefood wrote:
You shouldn't notice because, as that states, you should be steeping it for a decent amount of time...
More to the point it's only communists and satanists that put sugar in their tea.

Amen to that. I don't put sugar in my hot or cold tea. I'll take it as is, maybe a bit of honey ONLY when I'm sick. I'd rather drink bigelow teas that have mild fruit flavor: blueberry, pomegranate, etc.

**PredaKhaine**

timetowaste85 wrote:
purplefood wrote:
You shouldn't notice because, as that states, you should be steeping it for a decent amount of time...
More to the point it's only communards and santaists that put sugar in their tea.

Amen to that. I don't put sugar in my hot or cold tea. I'll take it as is, maybe a bit of honey ONLY when I'm sick. I'd rather drink bigelow teas that have mild fruit flavor: blueberry, pomegranate, etc.

As the europeans call it 'English Breakfast Tea' - Tis the one true tea.

All others are merely flavoured beverages

**Skinnereal**

Alfndrate wrote:
Platuan4th wrote:
We've got 20 something types. Wine and Tea are my wife's favorite things.
Tis a shame you're not on that list

"Wine and Tea" must be a regional rhyming thing. Best not to ask....

I don't usually drink tea, but when I was made to go sailing on a lake in December, I managed to dissolve 26 sugars into a mug of tea.
It made smashing ice off the ropes on the ground that bit more bearable.

As for making tea, I get told what I make for others is passable, and I squeeze the teabag out on the side of the cup.
Milk goes in afterwards, as the sugar dissolves better with just water than when cooled down by the milk.

**Hlaine Larkin mk2**

You guys put sugar and milk in your tea?

I've even starting drinking my coffee black for some reason or another