General / Off-Topic A random question: Just why is it that you find a cup of tea so satisfying?

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verminstar

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Arry said:
Something is very wrong here.

Tea; should be made in a pre-heated teapot. Therefore; the milk goes into the cup first.
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Absolutely not...milk is the last thing to go in and its always been this way, even when using a pre heated teapot. Thats why milk is served in its own jug to be added last. Any other way is blasphemy and guilty parties need to be hung, drawn and quartered with their heads on a pike atop london bridge.
 

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Arry said:
Something is very wrong here.

Tea; should be made in a pre-heated teapot. Therefore; the milk goes into the cup first.
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Only if you are using Bone China.

I mean what are we savages?

Or worse... Americans!!! :eek::eek::eek::eek::eek: :eek:

Hi Jenner... :D
 
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Flash_Baggins

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goemon said:
very much depends on the blend of tea.

a cup of yunnan tea has some kind of age-old satisfaction, while a cup of gyokuro has a subtile satisfaction with it, a mokalbarie has that kind of sudden rush - satisfaction, while a gen mai cha feels like basic nutrition.
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I rather like Oolong, especially before bed
 

Minonian

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Patrick_68000

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As the sage says, there is no second chance about tea

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Iskariot

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goemon said:
very much depends on the blend of tea.

a cup of yunnan tea has some kind of age-old satisfaction, while a cup of gyokuro has a subtile satisfaction with it, a mokalbarie has that kind of sudden rush - satisfaction, while a gen mai cha feels like basic nutrition.
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I don't know what all those fancy words mean, but I love Earl Grey myself :).
 

Hell Razor5543

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When I make myself a cup of tea I make it the way I want to drink it (and not how experts say it should be made). My taste buds react they way THEY react, and not by listening to others opinions on how they think they should react. For example, when I make MYSELF an Earl Grey tea I will use filtered water (not sure if it tastes different, but I don't have to clean the limescale out of the kettle often), I will boil the kettle, let the tea brew for a couple of minutes, and then add some milk and sugar. My tastebuds, my preference.

I have tried peppermint tea. OK, it is not a proper tea, but I have found that it helps if I have a sore throat (cold, 'flu, etc.), so I keep some in the cupboard.
 

Minonian

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Patrick_68000 said:
You are oblivious to say it on a British forum
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And what about the french soul? Wines.

Lemme help you.

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It's just on the other side of the lake to me, where this came from, and my family also have a small winery for personal use. Not there! But this too a wine growing region.
 

Porina

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On the milk order question, it was my understanding that if brewing in a pot, then milk goes in cup, then tea. The rationale was that adding milk to hot tea would degrade it in some way. By slowly adding it to milk in a cup it would be more gradually warmed up. Also I recall it was traditional to pre-warm the pot with hot water, so when brewing it doesn't drop the temperature as much compared to a cold pot. I've not been anywhere posh enough to do the full procedure, so can't say if it makes a difference.

In the modern world of convenience where you throw a bag in a mug, I'd let the tea brew first (with mashing if time is of the essence), remove the bag, and then add milk. Degraded milk or not, I can't tell. Why not add milk while bag is still brewing? It'll lower temperature and you don't get as good a brew.

In one of Dave Gorman's Modern Life is Good-ish episodes, he had a good rant about how coffee ruined tea. The concept being that ideal brewing temperature for coffee is much lower than tea. So with coffee being more common now, it was also more common to have water of inadequate temperature for a proper brew if you order tea while out.
 

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Here's something. What biscuits do you have with said tea?

Digestives for me.
 

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Milk Chocolate Digestive, Rich Tea or a naughty Hobnob....
 
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