Tea? (Part 1)

[LordoftheTeapot]

* Hands out todays tea and biskits *

 

[mondobongo]

Earl Grey dash of milk and 2 sugars please.

 

[longers]

Got any Fennel?

 

[greenmark]

ahh, October soon - that means they'll go back to making tea using HOT water round here.

Sometimes I hate summer.

 

[stevenb]

Oh boy this cuppa is really going down well.
I was cold getting back from this mornings ride.....I should have gone out better wrapped up than I was...
Hope I don't get a cold....

 

[LordoftheTeapot]

Please note:
No tea bags are used in the brewing of the tea supplied on this site (Or any other site).

 

[Speicher]

Lord Of the Teapot - what is your protocol regarding the order of tea/milk into cups (?). What extensive research have you undertaken on this subject?

 

[LordoftheTeapot]

Milk before the tea.
Many years of extensive research making and drinking tea's of many types in many places.

 

[Elmer Fudd]

Could I possibly have a beer instead ? I mean the pubs been open 4hrs. Oh, and a custard cream to dunk in it.

 

[bonj2]

Milk before the tea.

NO! this is the worst travesty you can possibly commit when making a cup of tea.
If you put the milk in first, then when the boiling water hits the teabag, it instantly cools down due to the cold milk - you need the teabag to be in contact with BOILING water in order to extract the flavour!
Don't you know anything?!

 

[mondobongo]

Bonj if you were making a mug of tea for one you would be right, however!

This is Lord of the Teapot who by name must make tea in a teapot and does not use teabags therefore milk first is the way to go

 

[bonj2]

How the hell are you supposed to make tea WITHOUT using teabags? Even if you're using a teapot you still have to use teabags, to make it tea-flavoured... duh
Is that not like making a cup of coffee without coffee?

 

[Dayvo]

How the hell are you supposed to make tea WITHOUT using teabags? Even if you're using a teapot you still have to use teabags, to make it tea-flavoured... duh
Is that not like making a cup of coffee without coffee?

Heard of tea leaves, bonj?

 

[papercorn2000]

Em,well you could use loose-leaf tea. What did they use before bags was invented?

 

[Speicher]

Thank you, your Lordship of the Teapot. I have found a chocolate tea pot on E-bay. It is 1.25 inches tall. So now I would like to invite anyone who is only 12inches tall to tea at my house. I just need to be able to find some tea cups that are half inch tall......

(returns a few minutes later) Now found some, one of my teddy bears has four tea cups in his picnic basket, and a sugar bowl but no milk jug, and no saucers. Hang on what's this - a c*ff** pot. Oh No!