Twinings Tea

[Lamp]

I drink Twinings Everyday tea. Quite like it. Better than PG Tips imo

 

[old.Tohtori]

no, I'm rampantly generalizing. you britons are all the same

Quite right, they all attend some weird kiddiefiddler magicschool too.

 

[Tom]

What a bunch of smooth-arsed fairies.

1. Buy tea. Any tea, PG Tips, Tetleys, Yorkshire tea, they're all about the same. Fresh tea, not stuff that's been in the cupboard for six months.
2. Boil kettle.
3. Pour boiling water in cup with teabag in.
4. Leave it there for a couple of minutes dickheads, none of this southern "don't want to get the teabag wet" fairy nonsense.
5. Use a proper metal spoon to squash the teabag flat, while still in the cup. Several times. See that brown stuff coming out? That's tea you bloody softies.
6. Pour milk in. By milk I mean milk, not that skimmed "flour-in-water" crap, MILK.
7. Drink tea. Feel awesome that you're a northerner and drinking proper tea, not southern "garlic with elderflower wisps" bagged Waitrose wank.

 

[caLLous]

I'm no fancy tea-drinker but are you not supposed to put the milk in first?

 

[cHodAX]

Rubbish. Twinings Everyday or Yorkshire Gold are the only valid choices for a regular cuppa. Twinings English Breakfast for when you need a wakeup brick to the face.

Spot on with the breakfast tea.

 

[cHodAX]

I'm no fancy tea-drinker but are you not supposed to put the milk in first?

NEVER!!! Milk goes in last, after the teabag is removed.

 

[Wazzerphuk]

I'm no fancy tea-drinker but are you not supposed to put the milk in first?

No, I don't even drink tea and know this is balls. Tea needs time to diffuse, the milk blocks up the teabag and reduces diffusion, meaning less tea flavour.

 

[caLLous]

Well, duh, I mean tea from a teapot. Putting a teabag in cold milk will do it no favours at all.

 

[old.Tohtori]

What a bunch of smooth-arsed fairies.

1. Buy tea. Any tea, PG Tips, Tetleys, Yorkshire tea, they're all about the same. Fresh tea, not stuff that's been in the cupboard for six months.
2. Boil kettle.
3. Pour boiling water in cup with teabag in.
4. Leave it there for a couple of minutes dickheads, none of this southern "don't want to get the teabag wet" fairy nonsense.
5. Use a proper metal spoon to squash the teabag flat, while still in the cup. Several times. See that brown stuff coming out? That's tea you bloody softies.
6. Pour milk in. By milk I mean milk, not that skimmed "flour-in-water" crap, MILK.
7. Drink tea. Feel awesome that you're a northerner and drinking proper tea, not southern "garlic with elderflower wisps" bagged Waitrose wank.

What a load of girly bollocks.

1: Buy bag of tea, if you're out of tea, brand and such mean f*ck all. It's tea.
2: Boil water, or just run it from a tap if you're busy.
3: dunk teabag a couple of times until water stops being clear.
4: Squeeze some tea out with your fingers before tossing the bag out.
5: drink tea knowing you're no UK teasipping poofter.

 

[Tom]

You're a foreigner, only English know how to make tea. Stick to eating rotted fish.

 

[caLLous]

I don't even drink tea and I know Toht is full of wrong.

 

[old.Tohtori]

You're a foreigner, only English know how to make tea. Stick to eating rotted fish.

Oh yeah, this from someone who plays football when you actually carry the ball.

Or is that america? I can never tell you foreigners apart

I don't even drink tea and I know Toht is full of wrong.

Oh look, derpy callous in another "i took it seriously" shocker.

 

[adams901]

Twinings 1706 all the way, although I will try the clipper tea next.

 

[TdC]

I'm no fancy tea-drinker but are you not supposed to put the milk in first?

We clearly need TREM to answer this important question!

 

[Ch3tan]

I'm no fancy tea-drinker but are you not supposed to put the milk in first?

You are right, when using a teapot. Again the reason for this traditionally was so that the fine bone china did not shatter when the boiling tea was poured into it.

 

[Ch3tan]

We clearly need TREM to answer this important question!

No we don't, I've done it.

 

[Edmond]

Its fucking tea for fuck sake, its a drink. Just because you dont like what someone else drinks. or how they prepare it doesnt make them wrong

I put milk in first, then a tea bag (it doesn't matter what make!!!) hot water, give it a squidge, take it out and sugar to taste

Then drink the stuff

*done*

 

[Chilly]

Anyone arguing with the english over how to drink tea (except arabs) is simply wrong.

 

[Scouse]

I agree with you wholeheartedly Tom, apart from one thing:

1. Buy tea. Any tea, PG Tips, Tetleys, Yorkshire tea, they're all about the same.

All of those teas are about the same - they're all a bit shit.

Quality of tea makes a massive difference to flavour (hence my preference of bags of clipper organic for an everyday tea) yet they can all be brewed in the same manly Northern fashion.

Either way, none of the teas discussed can shine a light to my stash of Finest Tippy Golden Flowery Orange Pekoe (Ceylon) - which abbreviates nicely to FTGFOP - far too good for ordinary people

It's also far too expensive for everyday use

Its fucking tea for fuck sake, its a drink. Just because you dont like what someone else drinks. or how they prepare it doesnt make them wrong

I put milk in first, then a tea bag (it doesn't matter what make!!!) hot water, give it a squidge, take it out and sugar to taste

Full of FAIL there Ed.

The point of boiling the kettle is that BOILING water is needed to make tea correctly. It affects what you get out of the tea and therefore the flavour.

If you wang boiling water in milk then you're cooling the water down so much you may as well make your tea from water out of the hot tap.

 

[DaGaffer]

Anyone arguing with the english over how to drink tea (except arabs) is simply wrong.

The Russians might beg to differ. And the Chinese. And the Japanese. But not the Indians.

 

[Chilly]

I thought of all those while I was writing that but couldnt arsed

 

[old.user4556]

What's tea? Is that like irn bru?

 

[MYstIC G]

What a bunch of smooth-arsed fairies.

1. Buy tea. Any tea, PG Tips, Tetleys, Yorkshire tea, they're all about the same. Fresh tea, not stuff that's been in the cupboard for six months.
2. Boil kettle.
3. Pour boiling water in cup with teabag in.
4. Leave it there for a couple of minutes dickheads, none of this southern "don't want to get the teabag wet" fairy nonsense.
5. Use a proper metal spoon to squash the teabag flat, while still in the cup. Several times. See that brown stuff coming out? That's tea you bloody softies.
6. Pour milk in. By milk I mean milk, not that skimmed "flour-in-water" crap, MILK.
7. Drink tea. Feel awesome that you're a northerner and drinking proper tea, not southern "garlic with elderflower wisps" bagged Waitrose wank.

How despicable, making tea in a cup that could have been used for coffee or some other foul liquid, buy a fucking teapot and use two bags!

 

[Scouse]

3 in a teapot


Edit: And pre-heat the teapot first. You want to preserve the boiling temp as long as possible...

 

[russell]

Milk in cup first only IF you are using a tea pot.

Otherwise any good brand of tea bag with water that has just boiled, leave in for a few mins to brew (apparently 3 mins is the optimum time to allow the tea bag to release all the antioxidents/ good stuff into your cup) THEN add milk to your required taste (or leave the tea bag in -if like me, you like really strong, builders tea)

btw Ed does make a good cuppa. He hates mine as I use decaff tea bags and skimmed milk!

 

[Edmond]

The reason i put the milk in first is so that when you give the bag a squidge you can determine the colour and strength of the tea. And it doesnt cool the tea down to the point where i can gulp in down in one, its still fucking hot and thats good enough for me

How is the milk going to cool the water down any different if you put it in b4 or after..?

Russ uses, as Tom correctly calls it 'flour in water' crap, red top milk

 

[Wazzerphuk]

Who the fuck uses a teapot? Really?

 

[Tom]

Who the fuck uses a teapot? Really?

Southerners.

 

[Scouse]

How is the milk going to cool the water down any different if you put it in b4 or after..?

Doh!

Tea doesn't *brew* correctly in water that isn't boiling. You are familiar with the verb "to brew", aren't you?

If you've already brewed your tea, using boiling water, in a teapot then fine - add the (correctly brewed) tea to the milk - milk in cup first.

However, you can't brew tea properly in milky water because tea needs BOILING water to brew properly - and adding boiling water to cold milk stops the water being anywhere near boiling. To brew in a mug requires you to add the milk after the brewing has been achieved.

Kapiche?

btw Ed does make a good cuppa. He hates mine as I use decaff tea bags and skimmed milk!

Ed makes a terrible cuppa - and your decaf and skimmed milk madness makes you a terrible judge of what a good cup is

 

[cHodAX]

I put milk in first, then a tea bag (it doesn't matter what make!!!) hot water, give it a squidge, take it out and sugar to taste

Fucking sicko.