I've said it before, but people making tea "the wrong way around"
It really irks me when I see someone making tea by pouring milk into the cup first, dropping in the tea bag, then adding the water - even more so when they have boiled the water, let it stand for a minute, then poured it in.

For me, the tea bag goes in the (preferably warmed up) cup, add boiling water, allow to brew, then add the milk...

It shouldn't bug me, but it does.
( theoriginalsteve <this space intentionally left blank>, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 17:20, 17 replies)

No, it should bug you, they're wrong and you're right.

And don't even mention squeezing the tea-bag.
(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 17:27, closed)

But...
as long as they're not making tea for you, why should it be something you get worked up about?
(Kyzia was here on, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 17:30, closed)

Tea cannot be made correctly without a teapot!
The procedure is:

Warm teapot
Add tea/teabag(s) to teapot
Add truly boiling water to teapot
Add milk to cup(s)
Allow tea to brew in teapot
Stir teapot once
Pour tea into cup(s)
Profit Enjoy


I will concede that if you don't have a teapot then your method is the next best attempt but you can taste the difference. I believe that it is the scolding effect of milk added to very hot water that does it.
( Ugi , it's a game of give and cake, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 17:57, closed)

Teabags?
Loose tea...
(badgerlikespeed, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 18:02, closed)

I heartily agree...
... but it is the one concession that I am usually forced to make in the name of convenience. You will notice that I put "tea" as the first option.
( Ugi , it's a game of give and cake, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 18:14, closed)

I missed that...
... in my urge to scorn. I do apologise!
(badgerlikespeed, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 18:35, closed)

Can you actually tell the difference in a blind tasting?

( Maffers I flow kinda strange like Spina Bifida footprints, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 19:32, closed)

As this is a perfectly rational and reasonable question, I predict it will get completely ignored.

( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 21:19, closed)

I believe ...
...I can fly I can tell the difference.

I even believe that I can tell whether a cuppa has been made in a mug by the above preferred method or in a teapot using what I consider to be the actual correct way to make tea.

There are entirely rational reasons why they need not taste the same - tea is complex stuff after all. However I haven't ever actually tried a blind tasting so who knows?
( Ugi , it's a game of give and cake, Fri 5 Oct 2012, 9:56, closed)

when I mentioned this before in a previous QOTW
someone replied that a tea "expert" said that milk in the cup first was the correct way of doing it...

I guess it's down to personal preference, but milk first just seems so wrong
( theoriginalsteve <this space intentionally left blank>, Fri 5 Oct 2012, 16:47, closed)

Milky
Milk first was either to stop fine bone china cracking from the heat, or to stop the unpasteurised cow juice curdling. Maybe.

Tea is the solution to everything.
(SwampyBob, Sat 6 Oct 2012, 0:12, closed)

I think I can - it's usually a lot milkier and never seems hot enough for a fresh cuppa
( theoriginalsteve <this space intentionally left blank>, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 22:11, closed)

Your correctness....
There was me, that is Alex (ok wrong thread).

Tea with tea bags, yes its uneconomic with 1 guy 1 cup when 2 girls can share 1 cup.

Click switch to boil kettle and hit the bog (we are multitasking here),
Have Piss, and then return to await the click from the kettle.
Pour hot water into cup and add the tea bag ensuring the alignment, it must be completely equidistant from either side of the cup and in a vertical alignment.

Smoke 1 cigarette and return to remove the *bag* and add milk.

It's as god intended.
(Master_Slob UK minister for cultural appropriation., Thu 4 Oct 2012, 19:39, closed)

God yes.
Hang the bastards.
( PMGT -Bacon., Thu 4 Oct 2012, 21:21, closed)

It should bug you, tea made this way is disgusting

(IHateSprouts is baking a huge pie shaped like an enormous pie, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 22:31, closed)

I honestly can't tell the difference
I drink tea in pint mugs and leave the bag in...by the time it's cool enough to gulp down it's plenty strong enough. Most of the time I'll put the bag in first, add the water, leave it a bit and then add milk but if my housemate or my sister are around I'll put the milk in with the teabag if only because it winds them up so much :)
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Fri 5 Oct 2012, 9:32, closed)

This is...
... the only rational reason that I can fathom for putting the tea bag in with the milk!
( Ugi , it's a game of give and cake, Fri 5 Oct 2012, 9:53, closed)