Making tea

Teabag in mug, fished out fairly quickly - I can't bear very strong tea.
And no milk. I know I'm weird, but tea with milks tastes seriously vile to me, which just goes to show that things evidently do taste different to different people..

Tea bags. Milk in first. Semi skimmed.
Yorkshire tea.
And I do drink a lot of it.
The problem I have with tea bag tea is that the tea bags do not biodegrade . The bags have a quantity of plastic in the bags which does not biograde . If you put them in your compost the used bags will blow about in your garden after a year or two.

If you want to know the exact recipe of making ginger tea in India with milk then you can follow the process below of 2 cup tea

1 - Take the 1 - 1.5 cup of water and boil it for a minute.
2 - After boiling it you can add 1 spoon sugar + grind ginger + tea also.
3 - And let the mixture boil for 1 minute again also.
4 - Now the time to add 1 - 1.5 cup of milk in the mixture and let again boiling for 1-2 minute.
5 - Now tea is ready and when it boiled up then close the stove.

Cannot abide teabag in a mug, never tastes right to me. I always put my teabag in a pot, half fill it with boiling water and let it brew for a couple of minutes. And never milk in first! A splash of skimmed milk after the tea is poured - I know what colour I like my tea. I used to use Assam, but now have discovered Sainsbury's extra strong.
I never have tea at my sister's - she puts teabag and milk in a mug first, then the water YUK!

If you want to know the exact recipe of making ginger tea in India with milk then you can follow the process below of 2 cup tea

1 - Take the 1 - 1.5 cup of water and boil it for a minute.
2 - After boiling it you can add 1 spoon sugar + grind ginger + tea also.
3 - And let the mixture boil for 1 minute again also.
4 - Now the time to add 1 - 1.5 cup of milk in the mixture and let again boiling for 1-2 minute.
5 - Now tea is ready and when it boiled up then close the stove.

I prefer Yorkshire tea or (2nd best) a breakfast blend.
I like the look of the glass pots but I use a stainless steel pot for one and a hot water jug to top it up.
A slice of lemon in tea (Russian) can be refreshing and I like it cold too with a couple of ice cubes.

totally agree))

Always a tea bag in a china mug. Quite strong, very little skimmed milk , in last.
Recently stayed with a friend who uses a teapot and leaf tea.
Too weak and got cold too quickly.

Always in a pot! I love teapots!

Make a green tea chai by brewing green tea in hot vanilla soy milk and topping with a dash each of cinnamon, black pepper, ginger, and allspice.

I prefer brewed tea. I learned how in this blog post

freshtea.com/how-to-brew-tea/

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I always prefer to make tea in a pot. I also prepared my mug with said ingredients this morning and put the kettle on, but I went off somewhere and filled of cup.

PG Tips or Yorkshire looseleaf. I have a lovely Japanese cast iron teapot with a fliter so I can put the leaves into the filter and pour boiling water over until the leaves are covered. I don't need to heat the pot first this way. I always put my padded teacosy which my mother brought me from Sandringham years back. She did tell me that the Queen hadn't actually MADE the cosy. Now my mother is gone, it always reminds me of her and I smile when I cover my pot with the cover .

I generally use a full teaspoon MontanaGal per person but really it depends on the type of tea and how you like it.

When using loose leaf tea, how much tea do you use for each cup?

At home I always make tea in a warmed pot, leave it to brew for 5 minutes and put the milk in the cup first. At work we only have a kettle and have to make it in the cup. I never enjoy it because the milk always tastes scalded to me when added last.

I use tea bags and like it really milky and weak. It's a bit like, "Would you like some tea with your milk?"
Last week I bought a lovely blue and white cup and saucer at the supermarket - I didn't really need it but it was so pretty I couldn't resist. Every single cup of tea I've drank out of it has been delicious.
I think we often make tea as we like it don't we? My sister makes it stronger than I'd like as that is her preference. My late FIL made it terribly strong and I didn't have the heart to tell him it was almost undrinkable - I just waited for it to cool down and tried to hide the grimaces politely.

I only discovered recently that most teabags include plastic in the manufacture and are sealed with a polypropylene layer. This explains why teabags don't rot down in the compost. I don't like the idea of drinking tea laced with plastic so I have reverted to loose tea which I think makes a better cup of tea anyway. I like Yorkshire Tea or Twinings Assam or Breakfast and I empty the dregs of the teapot on my compost heap.

Here's a link for those who want to know more about the plastic! www.pfree.co.uk/tag/plastic-and-tea-bags/

Tea bags.Twinings English Breakfast or Yorkshire.At other times have Earl Grey, and in the evening, Twinings mint tea.
Pure lazyness, using tea bags, had a pot of Earl Grey when out for the day in Summer, they used loose leaf tea and it was fantastic!

Yesterday I used a teapot for the first time in over five years! I never drink tea as I love my coffee and used to just make tea in the mug for DH but he had a stroke a couple of weeks ago and have been having extra visitors. When you are dipping teabags in and out of three or four mugs it gets stupid so I decided on getting a teapot. I'm sure I have one still packed away in a box in the garage from when we down-sized but thought I would treat myself and nipped into B&M only to find one type of china teapot on sale but just took it. DH absolutely delighted with it and so much handier so will definitely be using it a lot. Does anyone want to start a thread on coffee machines? I could write a book on the hassle I have had over mind!!!!

Teabag [cheap and cheerful] then water just off the boil then the milk and a good stir. I love peppermint tea but prefer that as loose tea in a small teapot & strainer. I find it difficult to find peppermint loose tea but it tastes better to me than a peppermint teabag.

>>Pouring boiling water onto a tea bag which is sitting in cold milk is just wrong!<<

I thought so too, till I tried it.

My husband and I drink at least 2 pots of tea dry as we talk ( sometimes disagree) over breakfast. I use English teabags but it is the talking that is the therapy. He tells me many of his friends say they don't talk very much with there wivies, maybe a tea or coffee pot would help.

Any reasonable quality Indian, teabag in mug, not strong but not too weak either, no milk! I always have to tell people, because otherwise they assume that everyone takes milk, when in fact quite a few don't.
I know I'm odd but tea with milk tastes foul to me.

I had to buy a teapot for a visiting friend who liked a really well-cstewed potful first thing. He eventually bought me a tea cosy to go with it! That works well on the cafetière, too.