How do you make the perfect cuppa?

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all opinions welcome. We've been speaking about this a lot recently and everyone has different thoughts.

For me the main rule is that the teabag and the milk should never meet.

Cup
Teabag
Boiling water
Remove teabag
Milk
Sugar

What do you guys reckon?
 
Similar to matty, although I normally take the teabag out before I drink it :D.
 
Mug,2 teabags,boiling water and let stew
teabags out add milk
YUK..... no sugar am sweet enough
:D
 
Dudes,

That is wrong. As a confirmed sugar in my tea man (1 and 1/2 if your making) it is absolute sacrilege to put it all in and mash it about. It tastes plain wrong.

The teabag and the milk coming together I can tolerate if the person making is inept but if I see the sugar sitting on that teabag soaking into the milk I am not a happy camper.

Also, have you noticed that some people are just crap at making tea? How can it go so wrong?
 
OK
#1 warm the cup
#2 put in tea bag
#3 put in sugar
#4 pore on BOILING water
#5 stir and stew
#6 add milk
#7 mash tea bag again and look at colour
#8 if right colour (black) take out tea bag.

#10 drink with digestive bikky (most important.)

#11 burp to show appreciation.

#12 duck cushion thrown by wife (very important)
 
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I just heard this joke on BBC 3 (matt sayle must be moonlighting ;))

"Why do Anarchists drink Herbal Tea ?"








wait for it..........










sorry about this.....






"All propertea is theft"




:coat:
 
This is how i do mine.....






Get my nan or aunt to make me one.....:) Best Tea's i have tasted :thumbs:
 
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Boil water,
while water is boiling, warm the cup.
take 1 tea bag
throw it in the bin and put 1 teaspoon of instant coffee in the cup
add milk sugar or sweeteners to taste and stir.
 
Glo............................................

This thread is incomplete without a how to on your brown water


:D
 
1. Throw Tea Bag out of window
2. Find Hot Chocolate
3. Add powder to mug
4. Add boiling water
5. Wait a week
6. Drink
 
Buy good tea e.g. Assam
Buy teas strainer
Put spoon of tea in strainer
Place strainer on cup
Put a little milk in bottom and sugar if desired
Pour boiling water thro tea until water covers tea.
Leave to stand for 2 mins, swill around, then remove strainer

or:

1 Earl Grey tea bag, no milk, pour boiling water over, stew for 3 mins, stir, remove bag and drink.
 
I prefer a pot of tea rather than teabag in cup.

I always put milk in cup first then pour the tea from the pot stopping halfway to top the pot up with hot water from the kettle.

Sounds like we should have TP tea tasting event!
 
add coffee to mug fill 1/3 of mug with milk add boiling water ;)


oh er tea the same but tea bag instead of coffee, yeah i like it weak and milky but would rather have coffee :P
 
My way appears to be unique, so far then.......

Boil kettle,
then milk,
then boiled water,
And THEN add the teabag,
leave it for a while. 2-3 minutes approx.
Give the bag a good ol' squeeze,
add sugar (if required) and stir.

Then have a slurp and say "b****r me, ol' Fozzy was right"!!!!!!

I've had and get many a compliment on my tea.

And milky coffee, but that's another thread....... :D
 
Leave tea in the shop, cant stand the stuff, normally makes me feel ill.
 
Tea is the drink of granny's an no one else !!

Coffee's where its at !!
 
digitalfailure said:
Glo............................................

This thread is incomplete without a how to on your brown water


:D
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DF & I have VERY different opinions on how a cuppa should look/taste. :suspect:
I think his is of the stewed kind, he thinks mine is just ....brown water ... the cheek of it!!!


Imho, a refreshing cuppa should be ....


Pour boiling water over teabag in cup .... thats cup... not mug!

Gently scoop the spoon under the tea bag and let it rise and fall twice.

Remove teabag (no squeezing/squishing against cup sides).

Dip tip of spoon in sugar until a little clings on, add to cup.

Take milk and let a few droplets drip onto teaspoon, add to teacup and stir.


Voila! one mighty fine cup of refreshing brown water .... errr tea! :D
 
As long as it's hot and wet, I don't mind which one of you makes me a cup of tea :)
 
InaGlo said:
DF & I have VERY different opinions on how a cuppa should look/taste. :suspect:
I think his is of the stewed kind, he thinks mine is just ....brown water ... the cheek of it!!!


Imho, a refreshing cuppa should be ....


Pour boiling water over teabag in cup .... thats cup... not mug!

Gently scoop the spoon under the tea bag and let it rise and fall twice.

Remove teabag (no squeezing/squishing against cup sides).

Dip tip of spoon in sugar until a little clings on, add to cup.

Take milk and let a few droplets drip onto teaspoon, add to teacup and stir.


Voila! one mighty fine cup of refreshing brown water .... errr tea! :D
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Seeeeeeeeeeee I said it was Brown water


I'm pretty easy to cater for, Wet, White With (W)one :D
 
Oh I love a good cup of Rosie Lee!

Every time I do make one, this is how I do it: Pour FRESH water into the kettle (never use the water that's aready in the kettle). Turn kettle on and while that's in the process of boiling, I pour milk into a mug (not a cup as I believe it radiates heat too quickly), then a single tea bag into it (always buy top quality makes such as tetleys or PG tips), and two spoonfuls of water. By the time I've done all that, I then hear the familar sound of the kettle going "click", pour hot water into cup (making sure your fingers aren't in the way) and stir for a minute until it is the right colour (not too strong and not too weak). Take teabag out, but squeeze a bit more tea out of it before chucking into bin. Drink. Enjoy. Have another one. Then spend the next half hour weeing like a horse.
But, I've noticed that sometimes it takes ages to blend the tea into the water, and other times it happens very quickly.
 
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1.5 Large spoons of Gold Bend in a cup. Add sugar. Add water. Drink.:D

Repeat up to 10 times a day :eek:
 
I am sure I heard that you shouldn't add milk to the cup first, as it makes everythng taste a bit bitter.

The correct way is in a teapot (either bags or leaf), with the pot warmed first.

Add freshly boiling water to pot.

Milk in mug/cup/vase

Sugar in said recepticle,

Remove tea bags/put strainer on drinking vessel,

Pour in tea.

Drink.

If you have to do it with tea bag in a mug, sugar should always be added first, as the extra heat helps it to fully dissolve, but I beleive milk at the end, so the preferred colour can be judged. And you don't just pour in the water, Oh No, you must delicatly trickle it over the teabag to get as much flavour out at the start.

And I hate tea. Think it smells orrible. And tea breath, URRRRRGGGHHH!!!!
 
Teabag? decent tea?

I fail to see the connection
 
I make mine by putting in boiling water first, then sugar then just dip the teabag in and out straight away so hardly any colour. Perfect cuppa.

Macros
 
have seen a cup that is marked on the inside that lets you know what level to pour water, milk etc to supposedly give you the proper cupper


think its bit of a gimick though.
 
Many moons ago before teabags the best cuppa was a old treacle/syrup tin with wire on top for hanging over fire, bung in a teaspoon of tealeaves when boiled then spin the tin around the for a few seconds to force the tealeaves to the bottom, add milk/sugar to taste. Remember to leave some tea on the bottom as a mouthfull of wet tealeaves aint nice :)
 
I got one of those Tefal instant hot water kettles - hot water in 3 secs it says. But not hot enough for tea. It's ok but not quite right. I'll go back to a normal kettle when this thing eventually breaks, as all things do with me.
 
frank said:
Many moons ago before teabags the best cuppa was a old treacle/syrup tin with wire on top for hanging over fire, bung in a teaspoon of tealeaves when boiled then spin the tin around the for a few seconds to force the tealeaves to the bottom, add milk/sugar to taste. Remember to leave some tea on the bottom as a mouthfull of wet tealeaves aint nice :)
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I spoke to a WWI veteran who used much the same method, but sprinkled cold water to send the leaves to the bottom.

My Dad and his fellow Desert Rats always drank tea, cos the water was just about boiled by the sun in any case, with plenty of unwanted additives from the jerrycans. They were allowed only a pint of water a day for their ablutions.
 
My perfect cuppa?

COFFEE - and a lot of it., like 2 spoons full
sugar
1/2" - 1" (depending on mug size) cold water
top up with hot, not boiling water
NO MILK!

My rule I suppose is that you allways put a little cold water over the coffee before adding the hot.

can't be doing with this tea malarkey, or this cow-juice in coffee :D
 
King of Groove said:
I prefer a pot of tea rather than teabag in cup.

I always put milk in cup first then pour the tea from the pot stopping halfway to top the pot up with hot water from the kettle.

Sounds like we should have TP tea tasting event!
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:agree: right up to the point where you stop pouring and top the pot up. Why? You could just boil enough water straight off. This is just being piccy, though. King of Groove and King of Tea???? :clap:

Just checking before I invite myself round - do you warm the pot?:)
 
DONT PUT THE MILK IN FIRST!

And don't put too much milk in in the first place, I dont want 'Little Chef' tea.

Are we discussing single cups of tea, or pots of tea? I've got different methods.... :)
 
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