The Tea Lovers Thread

[Essjay]

We call that a range.

This is what we call a range cooker



As you say, separated by a common language


Having said that, the house my grandmother lived in - literally a 2 up, 2 down with a toilet at the bottom of the garden - had a proper range cooker. A large black thing built into the wall with a coal fire in the middle and ovens on each side. Pans were heated over the coal fire.

 

[vanalisa]

Lapsang Souchong

Earl Grey. (Also surprisingly good iced)

Green tea with Jasmine

 

[WhistlingBadger]

Lapsang Souchong

Earl Grey. (Also surprisingly good iced)

Green tea with Jasmine

Oh, I haven't had Lapsang souchong for a long time.

 

[CaptainBarnicles]

Oh, I haven't had Lapsang souchong for a long time.

You guys are just making this up now, what the heck is lapsang souchong??

 

[Essjay]

A smoked tea. I've tried it. Just once. I've also tried those perfumed China teas just once. And I don't enjoy any herbal tea. I bought a pack of camomile tea and threw most of the pack away.
Give me good old builders tea any time

 

[CaptainBarnicles]

I can just about stomach a chamomile tea and lemon and ginger is tolerable when I'm ill. I'm more of a coffee drinker but when I do fancy tea it's a cup of Yorkshire. I don't mind paying because we don't have it often

 

[Essjay]

In our household (just me and my husband) we make 2 mugs at breakfast, 3 mugs at lunch and 2 mugs at dinner; my husband will also make a mug between meals if he's feeling the need for a hot drink. We go through a pack of tea quite quickly

It used to be Yorkshire tea but now it's own label tea. For a good while, Sainsbury sold Yorkshire a lot cheaper than everywhere else. Then they put the price up to the same

 

[CaptainBarnicles]

If we were regular tea drinkers we'd be on own label too! Far too pricey for 6 cups a day!

 

[Essjay]

There is a reason for this question

We all know that British workmen, from builders to plumbers to decorators, cannot function without copious amounts of tea or coffee provided at regular intervals throughout the day. If a pair of workmen were doing a job at your house and they asked for tea, one black and one white, how would you make their drinks?
Since I use loose tea, I make a pot, put milk in one mug, then pour two mugs of tea from the pot. What would tea bag users do?

 

[Naughts]

There is a reason for this question

We all know that British workmen, from builders to plumbers to decorators, cannot function without copious amounts of tea or coffee provided at regular intervals throughout the day. If a pair of workmen were doing a job at your house and they asked for tea, one black and one white, how would you make their drinks?
Since I use loose tea, I make a pot, put milk in one mug, then pour two mugs of tea from the pot. What would tea bag users do?

I would use 2 tea bags and 2 mugs. Milk added last.
My parents would use 1 teabag in a teapot. No one is allowed to make tea without using a teapot at their house.

I think that if the Queen knew about the crimes against tea that go on she would throw the perpetrators in the tower.
Use a microwave to make tea?! Said no British person ever.

 

[Deleted member 149562]

I used to like Orange Darjeeling but can't get it anymore...at least I have not found any since the 1980's when it was fairly popular

 

[Essjay]

The reason I asked about the workmen tea is that we had two workmen do a job for us, call them Dave and Brian. Dave asked for tea, Brian asked for coffee. Brian preferred tea but black not white. On previous jobs he had asked for black tea but couldn't drink what he was given. The householders used 1 tea bag for both of them. They put milk into one mug and the tea bag into the same mug, then filled both mugs with boiling water. After brewing the first mug - the one with milk in - they then transferred the milk impregnated tea bag to the second mug and brewed that one. So Dave got his white tea while Brian got tea with a tiny amount of milk instead of black.

Is it common practice to put the milk in the mug with the tea bag before adding the boiling water? When I've used teabags, I've always put the milk in after taking the the bag out. And if I was making 1 black and 1 white with the same tea bag, even if I put the milk in first I'd make the back tea then the white tea. Am I in a minority?




Dave and Brian were quite chatty when they saw my fish tanks. Dave kept marine fish, and had sold his freshwater set up to Brian

 

[CaptainBarnicles]

I always steep the teabag with boiling water first, then add milk with teabag still in the mug. That way I can get the right colour.

And I'd give them a teabag each, why so stingy!

Edited to make sense!

 

[Deleted member 149562]

When I make black tea in a mug, its teabag in mug and add boiling water and leave it to steep. If anyone else wants white tea (as in with milk) its put teabag into other mug, add boiling water, let it steep, take bag out and add the milk

 

[Essjay]

That's what I'd do. I can't understand making it the other way round, transferring milk to a tea where it's not wanted.

A bit like my mother who didn't take sugar. If we stirred a mug with sugar then used the same spoon to stir her tea she could taste the tiny amount of sugar transferred on the spoon. We always had to stir her cup first.