How do you make a cup of tea?

Teabag in cup, add milk (lots mmmm) and sweetner, then boiling water. Stir a couple of times, squeeze tea bag, throw in bin and we're away :D
 
Jenjey said:
Teabag in cup, add milk (lots mmmm) and sweetner, then boiling water. Stir a couple of times, squeeze tea bag, throw in bin and we're away :D
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If you want mad womans widdle! Weak tea, work of the Devil. :D
 
i tend to use the same method as most people

Teabag + Hot Water then milk stir and squeze teabag
 
Yeh, unless you know the exact amount of milk you want.

With years of tea practice i have streamlined the algorithm to.

Fill kettle with water. Turn on to boil.
Take out cups, spoon and milk, put sugar and teabags in cups.
Once water is boiled pour into cups.
Stir it up. Take out bags.
Add milk to required taste.

I always find if you put the milk in first you often get knats ****.
 
<montypython>
FIRST YORKSHIREMAN:
In them days we was glad to have the price of a cup o' tea.
SECOND YORKSHIREMAN:
A cup o' cold tea.
FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN:
Without milk or sugar.
THIRD YORKSHIREMAN:
Or tea.
FIRST YORKSHIREMAN:
In a cracked cup, an' all.
FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN:
Oh, we never had a cup. We used to have to drink out of a rolled up newspaper.
SECOND YORKSHIREMAN:
The best we could manage was to suck on a piece of damp cloth.

</montypython>
 
1) Teabag in cup.
2) Pour in boilING water, not boilED water. The water must still be boiling as it hits the tea.
3) Stir well, briskly, so the teabag is spinning in a vortex. After 10 seconds or so, stop the spinning, and create the same spinning motion in the opposite direction. Repeat.
4) Leave for 3-5 minutes. Remove teabag, squeezing it just a little to stop dripping but not completely.
5) Add semi-skimmed milk, stir twice and drink.

It's one of those little routines I've set myself in over the last 10 years :) and I've never had any complaints about my tea.
 
So all these years of making tea in the cup, I've been missing out? Might have to get myself a tea pot by the sound of things...
 
thelankymatt said:
You know's it! :D

...possibly while I'm 'grazing' for mushrooms. Oooh mushroom tea, that sounds like a plan for the weekend ;)
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Mooing for mushrooms I think the expression is :D
 
Sequoia said:
Warm teapot by swishing round some boiling water.

Add tea. Tea, not teabags. One spoonful per person, plus one for the pot.

Add boiling water. Leave to brew.

Add a little milk to cup, pour tea into cup.

Provide sugar for whoever is drinking it to add to their own taste, because personally, I don't drink tea.

Afterwards, rinse but don't wash the teapot.
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You missed out step 3:

Warm the cup.
 
Sp00n said:
Thats why there is generally an option to have it without :D

The only tea i drink without milk is earl grey, no sugar either just drink it straight, mmmm.....
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yea earl grey is my favourite, but prefer with sugar to be honest :D
 
milk and sugar last, end of. Its a simple case of etiquette, dont you know.
Thought to be honest, tea should be consumed without milk or sugar >:(
 
boiling water from kettle into a cup with a teabag, from there its squeeze the living daylight out of the teabag, then throw into bin, add some milk, then add 2 spoons of sugar.
what i'd like to know is there anyone that has 3+ spoons of sugar :eek:
 
Fill kettle with just over twice the amount of water that you actually need, and boil.

Pour hot water into cup, with nothing inside. Fetch milk, teabag/s and sugar while you wait for cup to heat through.

Reboil kettle, and through hot water from cup down sink. Plonk teabag and sugar into cup, pour in boiling water, stir gently, leave for a minute

Stir again, add milk, remove teabag and voila!
 
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