Tea

[headtheball]

Barry's Green Label. Good Irish Tae(sic).

[_tom_]

I usually put milk in with the bag and sugar because I have nothing better to do when waiting for the kettle to boil. I find it tastes the same either way, just need to get the amount of milk right though otherwise you can have too much in without realising which isnt very nice.

[Roho]

I add milk afterwards, but I don't stir it. It looks like a 'nuage' of milk.

[badgermark]

I'm a fan of green teas, got me some very nice Gunpowder green, a light green. Milk is for babies  

[99_not_out]

I can't have milk in Earl Grey I must confess, much better without. But English Breakfast requires the cow juice or it is very dry.

If I could be arsed I'd probably drink loose leaf tea - its much better, but its too much of a fiddle to make a pot at work. Plus I'd probably get mercilessly ridiculed if I returned from the kitchen clutching a tea pot and associated loose leaf paraphernalia :)

[Crazy_Joe]

I'm another who puts milk in first :P

[blue]

usually Nambarrie loose leaf.  put the milk in first because it stops the leaves from floating!!! :lol:

at work, whatever dirt cheap dirt-in-a-bag they've bought most recenty.  really, you'd think for the difference of a few pence they'd get something half decent!

oh, and i don't take sugar. (but very occasionally a drop of whiskey )

[FELINEGUITARS]

Milk last too - milk was only put in first to save the china: in the 19th century china was too delicate to take boiling water hence the milk first.

One way to prevent that is to put a teaspoon in the cup - acts as a heatsink and stops the bone china expanding too quickly and cracking

But anyway - proper tea should be made in a teapot (heated first of course)

[gwEm]

earl grey or gunpowder:

earl grey
boiling water, then a dash of milk, followed by a good long soak and a little squeeze of the bag as i take it out

gunpowder
cover with almost boiling water first, then throw away the water after 30 secs, keeping the leaves in the mug. then make it with hot water, no milk obviously.

ideally i'd be using loose leaf and a teapot, but these are modern times ;) some sort of buttery biscuit is always nice with tea

[Elliot]

Whittards of Chelsea Earl Grey or  Fortnum and Mason's FOP Darjeeling or Gallery Restaurant Blend - milk is for those blends of left over and once used teas drunk by the rustic classes and thus not for a gentleman such as myself.


Needless to say that tea bags are an unspeakable heresy of the peasantry.

[808]

I'm trying to kick coffee.

Sacrilege!!



 :)

[hunter]

I just wanna know how Jimmy Page has his tea. Once I find out, I will have the same  :lol:

[38thBeatle]

Yorkshire gold when I want a quick decent cup- add a bit of milk after and no sugar. Otherwise I buy good Assam or Darjeeling though I am fond of Keemun.

[WezV]

tea is one of those things i rarely drink but when i do its without milk and with a few biscuits.

mainly i am a coffee nerd and i am very glad to have my kitchen sorted so i can make a proper cup again - been stuck with instant for too long.

have a nice batch of australian peaberry i recently roasted but my favorite has to be guatamalan elephant bean from whittards - -   not for everyone, its a bit earthy to say the least

[sambo]

I must confess I don't actually like tea at all...

Coffee I can happily drink... but Tea? Why would I do that?! :lol: