What is your "tea failure rate"?

[throwaway4372]

I keep forgetting cups of tea I'm making, so much so I think the failure rate might be so high that it's not even worth buying tea anymore.

There are all sorts of reasons for failure. My main ones, with their failure rate are:

1. Leave it to brew, walk off, forgot it. ~25%
2. Made it out of habit and didn't even want it. ~10%
3. Set it down to cool, forgot it. ~5%
4. Biscuit collapse. ~1%

So my total tea failure rate is about 41%.

What's yours?

 

[andy_mk3]

That's just wasteful

I think the worst I do is leave the occasional half a cup if I forget about it at work. Probably less than 5% of total.

 

[Minstadave]

1,2 and 3 can all be fixed by bunging it in the microwave when the opportunity arises.

Come at me bros!

 

[firstborn]

Ahhh, not just me then. Mine is about 50%, mostly due to the reason as per your point 1.

 

[Pawnless Endgame]

Biscuit collapse (as per OP) - 5%

The milk goes off before its use-by date - 2%

If I put salt in my tea by mistake instead of sugar - <1%

 

[Maccapacca]

Even a cold tea needs to be drunk, can’t waste the precious nectar.

Tea is great for muscle growth, becoming taller and sexual prowess of a randy lion. All hail the tea

 

[MagicBoy]

I'm half decent about not wasting a good brew.

1. Leave it to brew, walk off, forgot it or got distracted. ~10%
2. Made it out of habit and didn't even want it. ~5%

 

[Von Luck]

Close to zero. The only fails I get are with borderline milk, which is unrecoverable, but that's one in a thousand.

 

[dave28]

Too much milk is my main error and you cant seem to be able to correct it by just adding more water or putting the teabag back.
Once its ruined it is never the same it seems.

 

[Nasher]

If you get to walk around a military base you will sometimes come across a mug which someone has put down and forgotten about. It's funny coming across one sitting on a wall or stump in the middle of a wooded area which has clearly been there for months. Seems to be the most common mistake

 

[bainbridge]

My failure must be below 1%. As an ex builder, I am to consume as many cups of tea as possible and view a wasted cuppa as a terrible thing.

 

[Bickaxe]

Trying to limit how much I drink whilst working from home. Managed to get it down to 2 cups in the morning only.

I have one of them one cup kettle things so it boils one cup of water and dispenses it when ready. I generally find a cold cup of stewed tea with the bag still in it.

 

[IceBear]

If I've made tea, that's the least of my problems.
Why have I made tea? I don't drink tea!

 

[d_brennen]

0%

Will drink cold, bag in 5 hours later

 

[montymint]

1,2 and 3 can all be fixed by bunging it in the microwave when the opportunity arises.

Come at me bros!

I should ban you for that!

 

[Flibster]

Significantly less than 1%

And that'll just be the broken dunky biscuit, and that hasn't happened in the last year.

 

[LuckyBenski]

This thread is really sorting the men from the boys and I'm adding a few names to my pint list

Close to zero failure rate - I like my tea as stewed as possible but ideally still hot.

Over milked? Dropped a biscuit? Let it go tepid? Stop making excuses, down it and go to the kettle to make a better try.

Girlfriend doesn't like it very strong, so I do have to play some games getting hers right without having mine anaemic.

 

[McBain]

Very low, maybe 1%. I forget I have a brew cooling down 1 in 100.

 

[Gray2233]

0%

I only drink green tea and I have it cold.

 

[Blackjack Davy]

Small, probably less than 10% its always because I made a pot and got distracted and wandered off and forgot about it. It doesn't happen very often (far too wasteful of good tea)

1,2 and 3 can all be fixed by bunging it in the microwave when the opportunity arises.

Come at me bros!

Its ok if its tepid or still slightly warm once its stone cold its too far gone! Also the milk goes funny caramalizes or something if its left on too long. Biscuit collapse never! Just carry on drinking it!