Poll: Things you're expected to know in life but don't

Teabags

  • Out before milk

    Votes: 332 72.2%

  • Chuck it all in together

    Votes: 128 27.8%
  • Total voters
    460
I put it all in and then take the tea bag out ;)

I sometimes just leave the tea bag in there for a few minutes to let all the goodness out ;)
 
basmic said:
Tea with sugar: Put teabag and sugar in cup, pour in boiling water and leave for 1 minute before applying milk as necessary, then remove teabag.
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The truth is above, except I wouldn't leave it 1 min, only 10-20 seconds :)
 
Tea should be made in a pot, from tea leaves, strained through a silver tea strainer into a bone china cup. For some reason, tea of any description always tastes better out of a china cup. For precisely the same reason, a sandwich always tastes better if someone else makes it for you.

I have recently discovered Spanish hot chocolate which is thicker and tastier that the regular one. We sell a bar of chocolate in our deli which you use by breaking pieces off and melting them in hot milk. It's got a very high cocoa content and is intended for hot chocolate, but still tastes good to eat. Van Houten chocolate powder is better than average too.
 
Hmmm .... I can make acceptable tea and coffee, I can even wire a plug (or even a socket) .... but I am completely incapable of frying an egg!

Intellectually I know how to do it but I always end up with a mess ... fortunately I don't have to try very often.


:)
 
yermum said:
For some reason, tea of any description always tastes better out of a china cup. For precisely the same reason, a sandwich always tastes better if someone else makes it for you.
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Huh :confused: - does this someone else have china hands or is just very bony?!?

ps3ud0 :cool:
 
Following on from the question of whether to take the bag out before putting the milk in, I have another conundrum...

If I have a cup of tea, which I then decant into two smaller cups, is this two cups of tea, or just one?
 
Tea is always a bad one for me. At work when someone asks me to make a cup of tea, I always cringe because I dislike tea therefore am inclined to make a crap cuppa. But I hate doing a bad job of anything.

In terms of hot chocolate, people talking about water? Water + hot chocolate isn't right! I always stir the powder into a small volume of milk to make a very concentrated chocolatey paste. After that I fill it up with the rest of the milk and heat (microwave or whatever) and give it a good stir post-heating. Always works for me regardless of what powder I'm using. You do have to use quite a lot but with some chocolate biscuits or home baked chocolate cake it's pretty much heaven!
 
Mammalian said:
my taste buds have been spoiled with hot chocolate from a hotel in disney florida
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Dude, was this one of the Disney all star resorts? The ones where they gave each of you a plastic thermos with unlimited free hot-chocolate refills? That holiday was 12 years ago (10th birthday present... man I'm getting old, *sigh*) but I still remember how superfantastically awesome it was :D

As for tea, clearly the bag comes out before the milk goes in. Leaving the bag in with the milk to achieve the "desired" shade of brown is completely irrelevant as the stronger the tea, the better. If after taking the bag out and adding the milk, the tea looks too strong, just add some more milk.

Done this since I was about 7, and have a reputation for producing awesome tea :p

Oh, and PG Tips all the way.

P.S. Anyone familiar with the tea + penguin bar trick? If not, try it. You will not regret it.

For those of you who don't know what that is, behold:

Ingredients:
1 Cup of tea (hot, just made)
1 or more Penguin Bars

Method:
Place tea on surface close in front. Open penguin bar.

Bite off a small bit from 2 diagonally opposite corners of the penguin.

Dunk one of the "open" corners of the penguin into the tea, and suck the tea through the penguin from the opposite corner, like a straw. Don't do this for too long or the penguin will melt through your filters and disintegrate into the tea.

As soon as you can taste the tea coming into your mouth, shove the entire penguin into your mouth, start to chew, and let the orgasm commence :cool:
 
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I think someone made this thread because they wanna learn the concepts of tea making. Just better eating it all raw like they did when the world was flat.
 
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