Correct me if I got anything wrong, TA!
Excellent work you horrible person
I’m ngl I have tea semi regularly, and I put the teabag in with the water to the microwave. The method works, I don’t see the problem.
Firstly, does the water not go all weird and frothy? Secondly, burn the heretic!
I don’t think I’ve ever had this issue. Here’s the full method.
Put teabag and spoonful of sugar into mug, pour maybe 2cm of water into mug. Nuke for about a minute. Let sit for a bit. Agitate the teabag a bit to get more of the delicious leaf juice out. Chuck out the tea bag. Pour in milk. Nuke for 20 secs. Done.
I think I’m going to be sick.
Seriously though, that sounds like a very different method to just pouring boiling water on the bag and then adding milk and sugar. Have you done both and compared?
I have not, I’ll give this method a try when I get a chance.
Did you enjoy your new cup of tea?
It’s been 3 weeks, haha, but yeah I got around to giving it a try. The verdict is… It’s basically the same. I will be continuing to do it the way that I did before since it’s easier, but I have enjoyed this experience of having my horizons broadened :D
This is exactly why we didn’t want you to have independence. You clearly weren’t ready. I mean the whole Trump issue was one thing, but this… This is just monstrous.
Tbf you did have King George.
Can’t believe you didn’t want to be governed by a guy called “Mad King George”
Let’s not be pointing fingers now.
They’ve had three new prime ministers since you made this comment.
You people drink instant coffee. We are not the monsters here.
I’m genuinely unsure if drip coffee is better than instant.
Narrator: “It wasn’t”
I’m Canadian and we have a long heritage with English things … especially tea. But our brothers and sisters are American so we have a lot of overlap in our culture.
I grew up in northern Ontario in an indigenous community. Mom and dad were traditional people who were born and raised in the bush. They lived on your old English black tea. We treated it like a survival food and basically cooked it like it was coffee. All my life tea was made by boiling water in a large metal 4 litre tea pot and once there was a rolling boil, you dropped in eight tea bags and let it bubble for a minute until it all turned into a deep reddish liquid. The best tea was always in the first half an hour, after that it was like drinking a really strong coffee.
I drank that from the time I was a baby … really! I remember seeing mom fill a baby bottle with warm tea, canned milk and a bit of sugar and feed it to my baby brothers. I assume she did the same to me.
Once I started living away from home, I drank less tea and more coffee. But I always love my black tea.
Never order it in a restaurant in Canada. Half the time a cheap little restaurant will just use hot tap water and drop the shittiest tea bag thats been sitting on the shelf for years to make your brew.
The only public place to get good tea is at Tim Hortons, the Canadian coffee chain. They actually make the kind of tea I grew up with, really strong brewed tea that is kept fresh regularly. Their coffee is shit but their tea is excellent … at least to me.
Thanks for sharing your story. I bet that tea your parents made was also useful for a lot of things. Did they ever make you run on a treadmill afterwards to power a generator?
As a kid, me and every kid around me in the same situation probably drove our teachers insane … I feel terribly for them when I think about it now. But in the summer time when we were off school, I’d wake up drink a cup of tea, eat some toast and then spend the entire day outside, rain or shine. Starting when I was about seven or eight I’d spend the day on my own. We were surrounded by family so there was never a problem. I’d come home for more tea and supper was always at six, eat for ten minutes and head out again until the sun went down. We have freezing Arctic winters here between the great lakes and Hudson Bay but as a little kid, my parents thought it was normal to just give me a light parka and let me play outside with my friends for hours. I remember being about 11 or 12 and wandering away into the bush in minus 20 degree weather an hour from home with my friends just to say we could do it.
Always made our way back to the house for another cup of tea. That energy drink is basically what powered most of my life. I didn’t have a treadmill but I probably traveled thousands of kilometers because of this drink.
Tea … I’m probably 50% tea at this point in my life … I’ve been drinking it since the day I was born.
We’ve got a passport waiting for you at the border if you’re interested
Similar fond memories of growing up straddling English and American traditions on the wet Westcoast with English and Swedish grandparents.
My grandfather always had coffee brewing on the wood cookstove in his cabin. It was a metal 2 piece drip system. Always adding more hot water to the top as the day progressed. Like your example the first cups are the strongest. They had those white rogers sugar cubes and canned condensed milk from Pacific as creamer. Us grandkids would be bouncing off the walls from the caffeine and massive amounts of sugar most of the day.
Then at night with dinner it was Orange Pekoe tea with milk to finish the day. I’m surprised we got any sleep to be honest looking back on it.
Now living close to the US border I sometimes forget when I’m south tea is not such a normal thing in a restaurant and I get odd looks from those when ordering it. Usually they are the kind of place that serves Coke with breakfast though so I’m already in the wrong place for tea as it is.
For me Tea is the only thing I get from Tim’s too in the way of a London Fog. When it comes to Coffee Canadian McDonalds is my way to go. US McDonald’s coffee is something else terribly not enjoyable.
Im not a black tea drinker, Liptons was black tea growing up in the US and I did not like it. It is fine for sun/ice tea but still not my thing. But I visited Ireland and was exposed to Berry’s and I have to say that stuff is fantastic! But 2 minutes seeping is all it needs or else it gets bitter.
I visited a Tim Horton’s for the first time recently. It was in downtown Victoria and I have to say that it was an experience… Not a good one but at least I can say I have done it.
I have to say Tim Hortons has slipped. I’ve been in better versions of Tim’s in New York state where they are a little more like a mini cafeteria than the high traffic flow models the Canadian ones have become. At some point McDonald’s Canada took over coffee supply from Tim’s. Not sure who they are but Tim’s new coffee is not my cup of tea
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Well, the US once made the biggest cup of tea in history.
A whole harbor.
Americans make the worst tea. Cold and salty.
Cold and salty.
Sounds suitably British.
Now THAT was a wild party!
I doubt it, but now I wonder what the biggest amount of tea that ended up in the ocean is and how to search for it. I know whole ships were lost, but digging through manifests (assuming they exist) wouldn’t be fun. I also wonder how many in Asia there would have been, possibly before tea even gained popularity in the west.
I prefer to use one of my well-used coffee mugs. The one that’s heavily stained and makes everything taste like coffee no matter how many times you wash it.
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Why did you forget to open the tea bag?
It’s a bit wet without a biscuit served. I suggest a rich tea or custard cream. If you can’t get those in the US, any of your weird ass deviant cookies will do.
Animal crackers with spray cheese it is
We put our biscuits in gravy, hee-yuk!
ass deviant cookies are best cookies
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we get our tea from beans, we get our cookies from beans, and GODDAMIT some of us get our milk and sugar from beans too.
It’s the American way.
do you dunk it in after or place it in the mug and pour the water in?
Seeing as you know we call it dunking, not dipping, I suspect you’re actually British.
To be fair it’s better than my process for making tea for myself.
Tea bag, sugar, cold water all go into a mug and into the microwave for three minutes. I forget about it for roughly an hour, then drink it as is.
That’s not tea. That’s an insult to those who came before us.
You could give it another short spin after the hour has passed.
What I usually do (for ~4 cups) is boiling 1,1 liters of water in a kettle, filling a teabag with 3-4 teaspoons of tea, rinsing the thermo bottle with the 0,1 liter of water, brewing the tea, then forgetting about it for 15-30 min, suddenly exclaiming “Oh, the tea!” (but in my own language) which, to me at least, is funny because (short story long) I once ordered a bunch of free Christian bumper stickers online, which I, long ago, before I even had this habit of forgetting the brewing bottle, had cut out into different words and letters of said christian bumper stickers and stuck onto the thermo bottle, reading (exactly) “Oh, the tea!”.
On a sidenote, no matter how long I usually forget it while it’s brewing, it’s always still too hot - and even never too strong. Pure Earl Grey - no milk, no sugar!
This all sounds about right, except maybe wiping your unwashed genitals around the rim of the cup before you start. Other than that, spot on.
What better way to start off the day than getting your eight essential vitamins on.
Step 1: Brew coffee. Step 2: Drink coffee.
Girl coffee is even more extra with the drip, espresso, French press, cold brew etc not to mention the different names for just how much milk or water is there.
I just serve them yerba matte and watch them get dialed to eleven.
Fucking hell, mate. Always put the water in the mug before the tea bag.
What difference does that make?
I find it makes the tea slightly weaker. It sometimes gets too strong too quickly when very hot water is poured directly on the tea bag.
most teas shouldn’t be brewed in freshly boiled 100C water, but in roughly 90C
That’s roughly 194 degrees if your water is American.
You are fucking killing me in this thread
Well, you’ve just got to boil your water at 3000m then, it’ll be perfect.
Next you’ll tell me I’m supposed to but the milk in the bowl before the crumpets. Why I never!
Just make sure your clotted cream is on your spotted dick first then the baked beans, not the other way around! Unless you’re in Rickmansworth in which case your clotted cream goes on your black pudding after your mushy peas.
You know, I just realized I don’t have much of an appetite actually.
You are what you eat
That’s why you love jerk chicken.
and meatballs!
Wait, I’ve always put the teabag in first.
Teabag in, set cups aura, teabag out, water in, teabag in
aura ? ??
No
Is that because it cools enough to not scorch the tea? I always add tea last, even for a gallon of iced tea, it does seem to taste better; and I never press out the bags into anything other than the sink or my lantana.
That is only a bit worse than what British people do with their tea. OK, theirs is reasonably fresh, but they let the teabag sit in the pot for ages and they commit the serious, undefendable crime of adding milk.
Watch it. Builder’s tea is the literal backbone of the British economy.
Oh, wait.
Milk in Earl grey with honey is just amazing
You drown the flavour of the bergamote oil with the honey, and kill off most of the beneficient ingredients of the tea with the milk. What’s the point in using a tea bag in the first place?
Hungary?
Milk only belongs in chai tea
Chai literally means tea. So chai tea is tea tea. It’s like pizza pie or ATM machine.
pizza pie
Those two things are not remotely the same
The Americans seem to have a very wide definition of the word Pie and none of them seem to be pies.
It’s the same with brits and the word pudding…
Yes and but that’s just how the distinction is made. Prime example: Shiba/Akita “Inu”. Inu is literally dog. Yet it refers to the purebred dog of Japan, not the american shitmix (no shade, theres just not much consistency with what they’re mixed with). Language evolves over time, even the dumb evolutions.
I don’t think they’re engaging in etymological reductionism.
Their argument is that instead of saying “milk only belongs in chai tea”, one could’ve just said “milk only belongs in chai”.
Chia … tea. Chia … tea.
What about boba? Although I guess that’s arguably tea in milk, rather than milk in tea.
That’s some nice hot leaf juice you’ve got there.
How could a member of my own family say something so horrible?
I prefer to get my morning zoomies from hot bean juice
