How do you take your Tea?

Rubberlegs

If making in the teapot, has to be loose tea, one good spoon for every mug. Let it sit about 3 minutes, good stir of the pot, and pour. No sugar, dash of milk.
If I'm lazy, teabag in cup, pour on boiling water, leave for a few minutes, then squeeze the bejasus out of it, till it's good and strong.
The thought of putting milk on top of a teabag makes me feel physically ill:(

HalloweenJack

Teabag first. I gag when I see those who go milk first.

WinnyThePoo

I keep the teabag in and just put a tiny bit of milk in. yum.harsh.

cloud493

I don't think I've ever had tea with the milk in first. I must try it.

SkyBlueClouds

cloud493 wrote: »

I don't think I've ever had tea with the milk in first. I must try it.

Has to be seen to be believed.

Ghost Buster

I voted before reading the first post and realising its flawed. The post is referring to tea from a pot not tea bags. If using a pot I put in the milk first but not if using a single bag in a cup. The tea bag wont brew properly if cooled down by the milk.

Ghost Buster

dmc17 wrote: »

So I should be putting milk in a cup and a teabag in of top of it?

No. The example given is crap as it refers to pre tea bag days!

GinnyR

Tea should be made in a pot, nice and strong. Splash of milk after the tea.

0byme75341jo28

My tea routine never changes :

Teabag in first, then two sugars. Pour in water from kettle then put on toast straight away, stir tea for 30 seconds, take out teabag and add milk. Toast pops up a few seconds later, butter it as quick as possible, and voila! Yummy hot toast and yummy hot tea Now to go get some

Oh, and Barry's Gold Blend is the tea of choice!

SkyBlueClouds

Korbin Faithful Signpost wrote: »

My tea routine never changes :

Teabag in first, then two sugars. Pour in water from kettle then put on toast straight away, stir tea for 30 seconds, take out teabag and add milk. Toast pops up a few seconds later, butter it as quick as possible, and voila! Yummy hot toast and yummy hot tea Now to go get some

Oh, and Barry's Gold Blend is the tea of choice!

That sounds amazing

0byme75341jo28

SkyBlueClouds wrote: »

That sounds amazing

Indeed it does it'd fatten you up fairly quickly though :pac:

cloud493

Man, it actually does taste better with milk in first.

SkyBlueClouds

Korbin Faithful Signpost wrote: »

Indeed it does it'd fatten you up fairly quickly though :pac:

foggy_lad

Usually drink coffee but when having tea I like to take the teabag out before putting the milk in.

Cupcake_Crisis

Let the tea bag sit for about 30-40 second, remove (without squeezing!), loadssss of milk. It's basically just a cup of warm, slightly being milk but I love it!

Fat Christy

I was at the county final there when I was home the weekend. I was eavesdropping on the conversation the lads were having behind me.

'Near a bitta tea left, not a drop lad. Only this coffee sh*te'
'Well da curse a jaysus on it, I was looking forward to a nice hot cup of tea'

zcorpian88

Tea and a purple Snack bar, bliss!

stimpson

I like my tea like I like my women - hot, black and as wet as possible.

rainbow kirby

Black, strong, 2 sugars.

hairycakes

How is there even a debate on this?
Teabag in cup, put in just boiled water (has to have just literally clicked off!), after about 5 seconds squeeze about 3/5 times depending on the mood, get rid of teabag, add 1 level spoon of sugar and stir making at least 3 rotations then add a nice splash of milk and something nice on the side.
On another note, I was in a local cafe recently (first time there) and asked for a pot of tea. It was made with tea leaves. Delicious! So much nicer than tea bags.

kylith

Strong enough to stand a spoon up in, with a good splop of milk.

Precious flower

Out the teabag and boiling water in the cup first then add milk no sugar (kicked that habit a while ago), the thought of putting milk in with the teabag just seems so wrong. I squeeze the hell out of the teabag too! I like mine a certain colour, not too dark not too white, kind of a tan/beige colour. My dad puts two teabags in to his makes it as strong as possible, as his dad used to have the teabags in the pot until it was like tar!

cometogether

The merest suggestion of milk, with the teabag left in.