How to make the perfect tea

thedoc46 said:
I used to drink 10 cups a day.. Scaled back now to 3 cups.
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Sounds like me :D at work I usually get two in the morning and two in the afternoon. So around 2 hours apart from each other. I'll get home and after getting showered and al that I'll have another drink. Couple more while gaming for the night and sometimes one for bed. My girlfriend says I drink tea like a fish :p
 
Tetleys or PG Tips, black, weak with no sugar or strong with milk and no sugar.

Or Earl Grey, black, strong, no sugar.

The order in which the milk is added makes no difference.
 
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dbmzk1 said:
What's the best standard teabag? Been using PG Tips for years, but I now have to use 2 per cup cos it's so weak... Don't like any of this fancy crappy tea, just the normal stuff.
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As randal mentioned, Sainsburys Red Label always seems to go down well, family that drink tea lots recommend it. I don't have tea often but enjoy either a cup of that (bag, kettle, milk last) or some Tea Pigs loose chai, the latter I usually have a little milkier.
 
There isn't really a best bag tea, it's all down to preference. try a whole bunch of supermarket signature labels and go from there. I really like One Acre Kenyan at present, really mellow, malty and rich in flavour. Good value bags too and available in Tesco.

The order in which the milk is added makes no difference.
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It does with good tea where the best is gotten out of it when left to infuse for 3-5 minutes in boiled water. Adding milk first means infusion doesn't happen properly as the water is cooled too soon.
 
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Spacedeck said:
Sounds like me :D at work I usually get two in the morning and two in the afternoon. So around 2 hours apart from each other. I'll get home and after getting showered and al that I'll have another drink. Couple more while gaming for the night and sometimes one for bed. My girlfriend says I drink tea like a fish :p
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It's not a lot really... We should really be drinking 2L of fluids a day and if tea is all you drink then well yeah. A mug usually is around 350ml, that's 5 nearly 6 cups a day that you should be drinking.
 
arknor said:
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Genius haggisman pure genius :p
Best tea is surely beans on toast with bacon and scrambled egg?
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If you'd had a nice cup of coffee to get your brain working, you'd have realised that was a joke :p

Anyway, if I wanted to drink leaf infused water, I'd just pop down to the park, there's plenty of puddles around.

(Actually, I will confess to being partial to a nice cup of vanilla rooibos of an afternoon - no milk though! :eek:)

ebilcake said:
The order in which the milk is added makes no difference.
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Actually it does.

"Milk should be added before the tea, because denaturation (degradation) of milk proteins is liable to occur if milk encounters temperatures above 75°C. If milk is poured into hot tea, individual drops separate from the bulk of the milk and come into contact with the high temperatures of the tea for enough time for significant denaturation to occur. This is much less likely to happen if hot water is added to the milk."

- http://www.academiaobscura.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/RSC-tea-guidelines.pdf

This is also why you should never boil the milk when making hot chocolate etc.
 
MoDe said:
Ringtons Tea Bag - Boiling Water - Brew/Squeeze - Smidge of milk - Dip choice of biscuit(s).
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An elderly relative used to buy me a tin of Ringtons every christmas, and the mrs would scowl at it as not being an appropriate present, but in truth they were the best ones I got, really looked forward to them.

I really must start buying my own inbetween.
 
If I have black tea it's generally NATO standard, I'm not really bothered how it's made apart from that.

Milk first was because hot tea into a bone china cup would crack it right?

Green tea, which I have far more often is no milk and two sugars.
 
Never heard of Ringtons, Googled it...

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Special Kenyan Gold edition :eek:
 
£3.92 for a pack of 100 Kenyan Gold with free delivery. If the tin above of 40 is good then I may have found my new favourite regular tea, thanks :D
 
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