Making tea

Nanny Kay, I'm coming round to yours! That's my perfect cup of tea exactly as I like it ?

Teabag in a mug for me but with company its teabags In a warmed teapot

English breakfast, sorry about typos

I like builders tea ( Typhoo, Yorkshire, Dnglidh breakfast or supermarket own brand) but it must be loose leaves made in a heated teapot. Teabags are a very poor alternative.

You have described my preferred tea and method grannysue . I agree it is delicious and very refreshing. Don't like coffee but love my cup of tea.

Love my tea and drink it throughout the day.
Used to buy Twinings English Breakfast, but that has become a bit pricey now.
I now use Yorkshire tea . Tea bag in a china mug (large), then hot water. Then leave to brew. I hate weak tea.
Then a splash of semi skimmed milk.
Delicious.

Would like to use a pot really, but I have decaff (too much caffeine upsets my bladder), DH likes his PG tips so it's mugs for us, MIL

Oh yes! I forgot about the order of lactivation. I'm a pre-lactivator (milk in first) because then you don't have to stir it in as it gets stirred by the pouring tea.

Post-lactivation is adding milk after pouring the tea into the cup.

You can thank my dad for the expressions, unless he stole them from someone else ?

Same as you Nannykay but it has to be a china cup and saucer to bring the flavour of the tea out and if possible Darjeeling tea without milk.

A colleague had a long harangue abpout putting in milk before water with teabag - maintained the milk blocks the holes in the teabag. Persuaded me at the time but no longer convinced! Tried teapot recently but got fed up with cleaning out the tea leaves

I make tea in a pot using tea bags, take it black with no sugar.
Really prefer a china mug. A tea cup doesn't hold enough and I don't like the weight and bulk of anything other than china. Also I like the rim of the mug to flare outwards.

Pg Tips in a pot, milk in China mug first.

Tea Pig bag in a China mug, milk after removal of bag.

Pouring boiling water onto a tea bag which is sitting in cols milk is just wrong!

I prefer to make tea in a pot. However, DH has now decided he wants to drink decaf tea, and I drink ordinary so it's tea bags in mugs and milk in last.

I don't like Darjeeling or Earl Grey, and if there's no "ornery" tea (e.g. in a hotel at the breakfast buffet) I will drink Assam at a pinch.

I make mine in a very proletarian way - put milk (quite a lot) and a tea bag in a mug. It's best if the teabag has started to colour the milk before you top up with boiling water.

I have to do it myself, though. I prepared my mug with said ingredients this morning and put the kettle on, but I went off somewhere and DH filled the cup up. It tasted so awful, I couldn't drink the whole cup!

I have to use filtered water because straight tap water leaves a scum on the top of the tea. Other that that - I like black tea weak with no milk or sugar. I love mint tea - made with fresh mint - as a particular pub round here makes it. My other favourite is one that describes itself as a lemony spring of organic aniseed, fennel and cardomom. (Pukka) There are occasions where only a particular tea will hit the spot.

Same as you, nannykay: good old Yorkshire Tea, loose leaves and made in a pot. Nowt like it ?

I get teabags for MrBaggs cos he makes it in a mug.

Ceylon loose leaf tea - no milk. I use a pot with a removable filter. I also use Redbush teabags in a mug.

Green tea, with lemon or mint. Very calming and refreshing. Clipper seem to be the best.

Weak, black, Earl Grey for us. One bag in a tea pot, that gives us 2/3 cups each, depending on size. I have been known to buy a small tea pot from a charity shop when on holiday, as a tea bag in a cup, is just too strong.
To be contrary, there are times that I do like a cup of builders tea, milk in last.

I love my cup of tea..
Milk in first but only a teeny splash of it and skimmed milk at that. (sorry I can't bring myself to type initials it makes me think of some young sprig wanting to do naughty things) if only!!
MUST be made using a teapot. I take my teapot on holiday.
In a nice cup and saucer is best but will use a mug ,preferably china.
Drank whilst piping hot.
Can't stand tea made in a cup with teabag it upsets my tummy especially if they squeeze teabag at side of cup. All that tannin is no good for your gut.
Can't stand it once gone cool.

Teapot. 1 Assam teabag per person. Boiling water. Stir. Leave to stand for 3 minutes.
Stir again and pour into mugs, MIF.

I don't like tea (heresy!) but DH has reverted to loose leaf Assam tea in a small pot, MIF. I usually just have a herbal teabag to join him, though I bought a lemon verbena plant to use for tea, but usually forget all about it and use a bag.

Quite easy Trisher, put in milk, put in tea bag , pour on water, take out tea bag put in honey.

How do you put MIF if you make tea in a mug? I can see you can do it with a teapot and cups, but surely the boiling water needs to go straight onto the tea bag and MIF stops this.
I'm MIF with a teapot but MIL with a tea bag and mug.
I have just developed a taste for chai. I like Earl Grey as well. But I do like weak tea and when I'm out somewhere and they serve a pot of tea I have to remove the teabag before it gets too strong.

Annie I saw that awful programme too! I wonder how many silly sods thinking people actually changed their habits to do it like the royals do?!

We used to live in residence at a theological college that had a 4 o'clock Tea tradition EVERY day of the year except Christmas day. It really was a lovely part of the day as students, spouses and children would gather in the common room for a cup and a natter. In our first year there was always cake too, but budget and waistline cuts meant that it changed to biscuits after that. However, the tradition of pausing at 4 became a bit ingrained and to this day, if I am at home , the kettle goes on at 3:45!