Making tea correctly

OP should have mentioned what kind of tea. Black? Oolong? Herbal? White? It depends on the tea ...and if you're making a cuppa for yourself or for a group of friends. Or your boss :p:sneaky:.
 
sandwitch said:
OP should have mentioned what kind of tea. Black? Oolong? Herbal? White? It depends on the tea ...and if you're making a cuppa for yourself or for a group of friends. Or your boss :p:sneaky:.
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cup, teabag in, boiled water in, wait to cool while tea also brews, put in microwave to heat up again cause you left it too long, burn tongue cause now you in hurry to drink it.

Have Green tea, Rooibos with no sugar or milk. Dolce Gusto gathers dust. Free tea and coffee at Work.
 
Sumen said:
Sugar > Teabag > Boiled Water > leave for 5 minutes > add milk ( if you want to) > stir > then squeeze teabag with fingers before discarding
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NO. Don't squeeze, never squeeze, thats just bitter ****
 
Add three teabags to my tea pot. Add bowling water. Let steep for 5 minutes and then pour into cups which already contain milk. My son is the only one in the family that takes sugar in his tea.

We have generally two cups of tea a day. One in the morning waking up and one in the evening getting home. Otherwise it's coffee

I drink tea because I enjoy it and it is a break from coffee
 
ISP cash cow said:
Add three teabags to my tea pot. Add bowling water. Let steep for 5 minutes and then pour into cups which already contain milk. My son is the only one in the family that takes sugar in his tea.

We have generally two cups of tea a day. One in the morning waking up and one in the evening getting home. Otherwise it's coffee

I drink tea because I enjoy it and it is a break from coffee
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What other reason would you drink it for? :sneaky:
 
I ensure that the water bubbles with the tea bag in it. Ideally, in a pot, but if in a mug, I'll add boiling water to the mug with tea bag, then microwave till I see it boil... Usually 40 seconds. Stir some and remove bag before adding milk. So refreshing
 
If you drink propper tea, like rooibos you can squeeze the bag and you don't need to add suger or milk. If squeezing the bag makes it tastes bad, get better tea

1.Teabag in cup
2 add boiling water
3 stir, squeeze, whatever to get the tea flavour out
4.drink
 
Not sure what the lot of you are on about, the correct procedure for tea is this:

Obtain some decent tea. Pu-er if you like red tea, Longjing if you like green or similar. Heck, even Rooibos if thats your thing.

Boil water, pour into teapot (preferably ceramic)
Put leaves into teapot
Wait a minute.
Empty the water.
Boil water again, pour water back into the teapot.

Pour the first cup.
Sip.
Enjoy.
 
rietrot said:
If you drink propper tea, like rooibos you can squeeze the bag and you don't need to add suger or milk. If squeezing the bag makes it tastes bad, get better tea
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That's because Rooibos doesn't contain any tannins.

You normally don't squeeze because that releases the tannins which is what makes it bitter.

The best tea in the world that contains tannins will be bitter if you squeeze it, it's not a quality thing but a type of tea thing.

If you need to squeeze it then you didn't let it steep long enough.

Also if you do squeeze it then it tends to yellow your teeth more due to the release of the "flavour" you referred to.

This is, of course, all irrelevant to anyone who is adding milk to their tea and basically overpowering the perfect flavour they just destroyed. Those people would probably need to squeeze it to remind them that there is actaully tea in the cup.
 
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The only way, ask an English person..

 
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SauRoNZA said:
That's because Rooibos doesn't contain any tannins.

You normally don't squeeze because that releases the tannins which is what makes it bitter.

The best tea in the world that contains tannins will be bitter if you squeeze it, it's not a quality thing but a type of tea thing.

If you need to squeeze it then you didn't let it steep long enough.

Also if you do squeeze it then it tends to yellow your teeth more due to the release of the "flavour" you referred to.

This is, of course, all irrelevant to anyone who is adding milk to their tea and basically overpowering the perfect flavour they just destroyed. Those people would probably need to squeeze it to remind them that there is actaully tea in the cup.
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Then that is a bad type if you can't squeeze it. Who needs tennisses anyway.
 
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