I recently decided I like tea for breakfast better than coffee (though I still drink coffee in the afternoons).
I boil my water in an electric kettle and put one bag of Twinings English Breakfast or Irish Breakfast in a cup, pour boiling water over it, let it steep for four minutes, and add half and half... sometimes a packet of Splenda. I recently bought a box of PG Tips but haven't tried it yet.
DISCUSS.
I drink this basically every day:
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With nothing. But then I also drink my coffee black.
Interesting. Do you also like Earl Grey, since it's got an orange-y flavor (at least to me)?
At most I might add some honey, or a dash of lemon.
I recently cut back on coffee and started substituting it with tea. That's why I got the electric kettle. I usually drink Wissotzky English Breakfast tea, and add a little milk into the hot water. Not too much milk, so that it wouldn't taste like diluted milk, but enough milk to remove the harshness of straight tea.
Quote from: Valmy on June 17, 2020, 08:33:15 AM
With nothing. But then I also drink my coffee black.
I drink my coffee black, but I can't manage to enjoy drinking tea straight. In fact I became a bigger fan of tea after I realized that it's okay to add a little milk to it.
Oh and Valmy... what's a 'tea sachet'? Is that one of those triangle teabags like PG Tips comes in?
Yes, sometimes not triangle.
I like a cloud of milk in my earl grey :bowler: Others I take without milk or sugar.
Quote from: Caliga on June 17, 2020, 08:30:25 AM
I recently bought a box of PG Tips but haven't tried it yet.
Sad tea that is not worth it. Though I suppose having it here in the UK (I've a box) makes you less snooty when you offer tea to guests and you've many choices. Though I suppose there is also the risk that they'll feel you look down on them if you think they are someone to whom you should only offer PG Tips. :Embarrass:
I'm partial to Yorkshire Gold as well as loose leaf Countess Grey from Fortnum and Masons. Always sugar, always Spenda and always milk.
Oh and this tea. I haven't had it in sometime but tastes just like breakfast:
https://www.t2tea.com/en/uk/tea/black-tea/scots-breakfast-loose-leaf-tea-T12.html
Quote from: Caliga on June 17, 2020, 08:30:25 AM
I boil my water in an electric kettle and put one bag of Twinings English Breakfast or Irish Breakfast in a cup, pour boiling water over it, let it steep for four minutes, and add half and half... sometimes a packet of Splenda.
Very similar to my method, including brand of tea, though I always do Irish Breakfast in the morning and never add anything to it. Afternoons are usually English Breakfast with a splash of milk, like a good tiffy. :bowler:
I prefer green tea.
Genmaicha is a favourite. I can't remember the type but there's a particular Shizuoka cha which is nice too.
Also awesome and absolutely impossible to find outside of Japan is soba cha. I miss it so much.
On green teas I prefer a stronger taste.
Loose leaf obviously.
When I do drink regular tea its with milk. Biscuits are necessary.
I'm quite fond of Lady Grey for some reason. But usually just drink PG Tips as ££££.
Clipper is also great. Plastic free too.
Regular old black tea, made with water boiled with a kettle on the stove, with milk in it (no sugar).
I don't drink much tea, but when I do I boil the water with my stovetop kettle. Also no milk, sugar, or anything (same as my coffee).
Favorite is green tea. An Iranian friend of mine used to supply me with an excellent local brand of theirs, but she moved and now I drink this one: https://www.amazon.com/VAHDAM-Himalayas-POWERFUL-ANTI-OXIDANTS-Kombucha/dp/B00R65SD4C
No milk or sugar. Otherwise tea is all the same to me, coffee is where it's at.
I make it Meri beer-style, a large earthenware pot and hot rocks, add whatever dried leaves that I foraged beforehand.
Quote from: Maladict on June 17, 2020, 09:23:39 AM
No milk or sugar. Otherwise tea is all the same to me, coffee is where it's at.
Coffee and my digestive system are not friends. -_-
Quote from: garbon on June 17, 2020, 09:38:13 AM
Quote from: Maladict on June 17, 2020, 09:23:39 AM
No milk or sugar. Otherwise tea is all the same to me, coffee is where it's at.
Coffee and my digestive system are not friends. -_-
:perv:?
Straight for all flavors, be it black or green.
I haven't had a cup of tea in about 30 years.
Quote from: Admiral Yi on June 17, 2020, 09:53:27 AM
I haven't had a cup of tea in about 30 years.
We are not amused.
Standard tea = Yorkshire Tea with milk. Sugar or not depending on my mood. Although I am milk first :ph34r:
Lockdown tea = I bought a teapot early in my lockdown because I was in crutches and a teapot + flask was better value for the amount I had to shuffle to and from the kitchen. I now have a few loose leaf green and black teas that I have from a pot. But that tends to be more of an afternoon thing because I stop have standard tea or coffee after lunch.
T2 is really, really good - I share an office with someone who has an assortment and it's great.
In hospital I can see because it's a building and you're inside it, but in crutches? That's bonkers. One is on crutches. There they are, under your armpits.
Quote from: Admiral Yi on June 17, 2020, 10:12:00 AM
In hospital I can see because it's a building and you're inside it, but in crutches? That's bonkers. One is on crutches. There they are, under your armpits.
UK crutches, as far as I've seen.
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Quote from: garbon on June 17, 2020, 10:15:20 AM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on June 17, 2020, 10:12:00 AM
In hospital I can see because it's a building and you're inside it, but in crutches? That's bonkers. One is on crutches. There they are, under your armpits.
UK crutches, as far as I've seen.
(https://www.activemobility.co.uk/images/smartcrutch-3124/3259/600x600/3124.webp)
Yeah that was the sort I had (though a little less jazzy) - though I mistyped and should have said on crutches :lol:
Quote from: Sheilbh on June 17, 2020, 10:19:43 AM
Yeah that was the sort I had (though a little less jazzy) - though I mistyped and should have said on crutches :lol:
Breakdown in Special Relationship narrowly averted.
Oh I didn't realize the Preposition Police were on patrol. -_-
Quote from: garbon on June 17, 2020, 10:27:01 AM
Oh I didn't realize the Preposition Police were on patrol. -_-
Neither did I.
I have my tea without milk. If I make the tea then I use Booth's "Builders Tea" tea bags; if my wife makes it then she uses Yorkshire Gold and makes it in a teapot. I don't have sugar in my first tea of the day; but subsequent cups there is a 50-50 chance of adding one spoonful of sugar.
Earl Grey or Orange Pekoe with a bit of skim milk. Green Tea sometimes as well.
Quote from: Caliga on June 17, 2020, 08:30:25 AM
I recently decided I like tea for breakfast better than coffee (though I still drink coffee in the afternoons).
I boil my water in an electric kettle and put one bag of Twinings English Breakfast or Irish Breakfast in a cup, pour boiling water over it, let it steep for four minutes, and add half and half... sometimes a packet of Splenda. I recently bought a box of PG Tips but haven't tried it yet.
DISCUSS.
I'd suggest dropping the Twinings, it's over priced and largely a banding 'scam', there are plenty of far better teas out there for all tastes as have already been mentioned here.
Loose obviously, if you want a better taste, as typically tea bags are filled with the inferior dust from the the production process.
Don't get hung on up tea as a English thing and concentrate only 'English' breakfast and afternoon blends.
If you want something especially British, try out some of the many Red and Gold label blends from UK companies/supermarkets;there all slightly different from each other and have been the workaday blends for a century or more.
For a nice quality, afternoon tea, why not try some Kenyan tea, I find it a good strength and very refreshing.
Quote from: Sheilbh on June 17, 2020, 10:09:21 AM
Standard tea = Yorkshire Tea with milk. Sugar or not depending on my mood. Although I am milk first :ph34r:
I've tried milk first and I couldn't taste a difference. :hmm:
Quote from: garbon on June 17, 2020, 10:11:19 AM
Quote from: Sheilbh on June 17, 2020, 10:09:21 AM
Although I am milk first :ph34r:
:x
Agreed, WTF. Besides, science shows that tea first is actually better-tasting.
Quote from: mongers on June 17, 2020, 11:18:41 AM
I'd suggest dropping the Twinings, it's over priced and largely a banding 'scam', there are plenty of far better teas out there for all tastes as have already been mentioned here.
I'm not hung up on Twinings, man... note how in my OP I mentioned getting a box of PG Tips. :)
Quote from: Caliga on June 17, 2020, 11:26:21 AM
Quote from: Sheilbh on June 17, 2020, 10:09:21 AM
Standard tea = Yorkshire Tea with milk. Sugar or not depending on my mood. Although I am milk first :ph34r:
I've tried milk first and I couldn't taste a difference. :hmm:
I can't. But it's a big divide and peoplea are very committed to their way.
A bit like cream first (Devon) or jam first (Cornwall) on scones.
A la russe of course.
Quote from: Sheilbh on June 17, 2020, 11:30:06 AM
Quote from: Caliga on June 17, 2020, 11:26:21 AM
Quote from: Sheilbh on June 17, 2020, 10:09:21 AM
Standard tea = Yorkshire Tea with milk. Sugar or not depending on my mood. Although I am milk first :ph34r:
I've tried milk first and I couldn't taste a difference. :hmm:
I can't. But it's a big divide and peoplea are very committed to their way.
A bit like cream first (Devon) or jam first (Cornwall) on scones.
I'm shocked that no Brit has yet mentioned Orwell's advice on making tea, considered by some as the definitive statement on the process.
Though given I disagree with him on one fundamental point, when to add milk, it's led me to think some of his apparently worthy political viewpoints might be a bit suspect. <_<
Quote from: celedhring on June 17, 2020, 09:12:58 AM
I don't drink much tea, but when I do I boil the water with my stovetop kettle.
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Quote from: Threviel on June 17, 2020, 11:43:42 AM
A la russe of course.
In fairness I love Eastern European tea.
On a train with a glass in a podstakannik and hot water from the samovar with a shit-ton of sugar :wub:
Today I had an odd 5 minute conversation with the cleaning lady about iced tea. She had no idea such a thing existed.
Quote from: derspiess on June 17, 2020, 02:49:12 PM
Today I had an odd 5 minute conversation with the cleaning lady about iced tea. She had no idea such a thing existed.
southern Iced tea, or northern iced tea? or both?
Quote from: HVC on June 17, 2020, 02:49:58 PM
Quote from: derspiess on June 17, 2020, 02:49:12 PM
Today I had an odd 5 minute conversation with the cleaning lady about iced tea. She had no idea such a thing existed.
southern Iced tea, or northern iced tea? or both?
The whole concept of cold tea, I guess. She saw my iced tea maker and asked if she could have some
café. Tried to explain that it was tea, not coffee. She didn't believe me, but when she tried it she was surprised. Then she was confused as to why it wasn't cold yet. Told her it just brewed and I put the pitcher in the fridge. She still had a confused look on her face as I left the room.
Sweet gal, but not the brightest bulb in the pack.
It depends on the tea. Regardless, I heat the water in my stove top kettle until that whistles. Then put the tea into the mug, either in the bag it comes in, or in a tea ball if it's loose-leaf, and add water.
Green Tea - plain
White Tea - honey
Black Tea - milk/cream, sugar
Herbal Tea - plain or with honey (though rarely on the honey)
I make Thai style iced milk tea if I make tea.
(https://i.imgur.com/nPgjjYm.jpg)
Quote from: Caliga on June 17, 2020, 08:20:26 PM
Quote from: Monoriu on June 17, 2020, 05:55:52 PM
Thai style iced milk tea
:mmm: Love that stuff.
It isn't difficult to make. The most critical part is to get the tea leaves. It has to be that specific brand. Accept no alternative.
https://www.cha-thai.com/
I drink mostly Russian tea. I think technically they're called caravan tea. Since marrying a chinese girl she's been trying to convert me to oolong or puehr but I can't switch that easily. The russian teas are smokey.
Like any good Canadian when I drink tea I drink Red Rose Orange Pekoe. :Canuck:
Quote from: Monoriu on June 17, 2020, 05:55:52 PM
I make Thai style iced milk tea if I make tea.
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That looks like tomato juice.
Quote from: Eddie Teach on June 18, 2020, 02:53:47 AM
Quote from: Monoriu on June 17, 2020, 05:55:52 PM
I make Thai style iced milk tea if I make tea.
(https://i.imgur.com/nPgjjYm.jpg)
That looks like tomato juice.
Yeah it has a distinctive orange-ish colour. It isn't Thai milk tea if the colour isn't like that. The only way to produce the Thai colour and flavour is by using that particular brand of tea leaves.
4 or 5 cups of Yorkshire hard water tea a day. Couple of minutes brewing, splash of milk. No sugar.
I go through phases of drinking loose leaf tea of all varieties. White and green tea with nothing added (silver needle white tea is a favourite). Splash of milk with Assam or Darjeeling.
I tried PG Tips this morning. I like that it seems to brew a bit faster (on account of the triangle bag I guess?) but the taste definitely is inferior to Twinings. :sleep:
In what do you put the tea when not in a sachet?
You mean when not in a teabag? They make these little metal things called tea balls and you can put the loose tea in those and it strains through the ball's mesh. Also, I've seen teapots that have a strainer built into the spout, so you just throw the loose tea in the pot and strain it off when you pour it.
A sachet is a teabag, afaik.
Thanks.
Quote from: Grey Fox on June 18, 2020, 08:16:26 AM
In what do you put the tea when not in a sachet?
I have one of these:
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:)
Edit: And actually really recommend that teapot. It's really good - the tea leaf "basket"(?) is quite big so the leaves have space to sort of circulate/expand.
I have this one :
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Earl Gray or Green tea. "black", as in no milk added, like coffee.
UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE
For whatever reason I have been drinking mostly PG Tips since this thread, and this week I tried to switch back to Irish Breakfast, and now it tastes so strong to me that I can barely stomach it. :Embarrass:
sad tea indeed, garbon. :D
You disgust me, sir.
Quote from: Caliga on July 10, 2020, 02:36:03 PM
UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE
For whatever reason I have been drinking mostly PG Tips since this thread, and this week I tried to switch back to Irish Breakfast, and now it tastes so strong to me that I can barely stomach it. :Embarrass:
sad tea indeed, garbon. :D
I don't think there's anything left for me to say so: :mellow:
:blush:
Quote from: Caliga on June 17, 2020, 08:36:15 AM
Interesting. Do you also like Earl Grey, since it's got an orange-y flavor (at least to me)?
I like Early Grey, drink it sometimes. I like honey in my tea with just a touch of cream which seems to cut the tannin down.
I'll add this, with good quality tea you don't need a tee strainer, it should stay in the bottom of the teapot when poured. :bowler:
I've been drinking 2 cups of English breakfast tea for years every morning. I don't drink coffee. :showoff:
Always with milk no sugar or sweetened almond milk.
...and PG Tips is sold out at Kroger and there's a tag on the shelf saying 'Temporarily Unavailable'. :Embarrass:
I hope I can last till this apparent PG Tips shortage has passed. :hmm:
Quote from: Caliga on July 13, 2020, 09:21:56 AM
...and PG Tips is sold out at Kroger and there's a tag on the shelf saying 'Temporarily Unavailable'. :Embarrass:
I hope I can last till this apparent PG Tips shortage has passed. :hmm:
I'll post you some, should be able to get four or five in a standard letter. :bowler:
Knowingly had my first experience of 'cream in a can', it's just frothy uht milk. :hmm:
I've been drinking straight old Pu Er or any kind of Japanese green tea for years, a few cups a day. Used to bring all my teas from China and Japan before the lockdowns. Running low on my stocks these days.
I especially like good Genmaicha, the one with roasted rice.
Sometimes I like that Chinese tea which comes in large pressed bricks and which you have to break off to brew. Can't recall its name now. But it can be too flavourful sometimes.
:w00t:
It's just tea Syt, calm down
Lately I've been drinking Tetley. I ran out of PG Tips and couldn't find any at the grocery so I had to order a box from Amazon, but I've yet to open it.
In terms of black tea I've found a supermarket own make asaam to be rather good.
Quote from: Gaijin de Moscu on November 02, 2020, 01:43:31 PM
I've been drinking straight old Pu Er or any kind of Japanese green tea for years, a few cups a day. Used to bring all my teas from China and Japan before the lockdowns. Running low on my stocks these days.
I especially like good Genmaicha, the one with roasted rice.
Sometimes I like that Chinese tea which comes in large pressed bricks and which you have to break off to brew. Can't recall its name now. But it can be too flavourful sometimes.
Pu er is good. Genmaicha too is a favourite. Though I've found it's really easy to find Genmaicha in the west so familiarity could be lessening how much I rate it.
One I really love and can never find outside Japan is soba cha.
Also like a decent kuki cha.
I drink the shit out of some PG Tips. I get it in the ethnic foods aisle at Publix. Milky af.
I liked Genmaicha in my favorite sushi restaurant, but the one I bought in tea bags was nothing special. :(
Quote from: Tyr on November 02, 2020, 03:35:32 PM
In terms of black tea I've found a supermarket own make asaam to be rather good.
Quote from: Gaijin de Moscu on November 02, 2020, 01:43:31 PM
I've been drinking straight old Pu Er or any kind of Japanese green tea for years, a few cups a day. Used to bring all my teas from China and Japan before the lockdowns. Running low on my stocks these days.
I especially like good Genmaicha, the one with roasted rice.
Sometimes I like that Chinese tea which comes in large pressed bricks and which you have to break off to brew. Can't recall its name now. But it can be too flavourful sometimes.
Pu er is good. Genmaicha too is a favourite. Though I've found it's really easy to find Genmaicha in the west so familiarity could be lessening how much I rate it.
One I really love and can never find outside Japan is soba cha.
Also like a decent kuki cha.
Kuki-cha is great, very unique taste. Sadly, soba-cha gives me a massive allergy (soba itself, too) so we only make mugi-cha to drink cold. Very nice in summer!
Working with a gaggle of Englishmen and women for six months I got on the tea train. An afternoon cup with dash of milk. Becaus of our remote location on side of mountain in SE Alaska it was mostly PG or Yorkshire as hard to bring in bulk.
How did you get there?
Quote from: The Brain on November 02, 2020, 05:20:43 PM
How did you get there?
plane, boat, automobile, and atv.
:lol:
Quote from: katmai on November 02, 2020, 08:33:39 PM
Quote from: Eddie Teach on November 02, 2020, 08:15:23 PM
Quote from: katmai on November 02, 2020, 05:28:16 PM
Quote from: The Brain on November 02, 2020, 05:20:43 PM
How did you get there?
plane, boat, automobile, and atv.
What happened to the train?
No train in Haine(s)
Wasn't the hidden track?
My tea caddy needs replacing, so why is it so hard to find a new one, my only option seems to be mail/internet order from a specialist tea or coffee company? :hmm:
IIRC in the past one would often see more premium quality teas sold in a tin caddy or if within central London one of those dreadful Big ben/grenadier guard shaped tins sold to tourists.
I make tea usually using English Tea regular, sometimes French vanilla or Earl Grey, with honey added.
Lately been drinking Hot Chocolate at times, finding it a nice change of pace from coffee.
Quote from: KRonn on December 25, 2020, 03:21:53 PM
I make tea usually using English Tea regular, sometimes French vanilla or Earl Grey, with honey added.
Lately been drinking Hot Chocolate at times, finding it a nice change of pace from coffee.
:cool:
Co-incidentally I too have recently taken up drinking cocoa of an evening and you're right about it been a nice change of pace, got me thinking about cutting back on my caffeine intake.
Quote from: mongers on December 25, 2020, 03:35:47 PM
Quote from: KRonn on December 25, 2020, 03:21:53 PM
I make tea usually using English Tea regular, sometimes French vanilla or Earl Grey, with honey added.
Lately been drinking Hot Chocolate at times, finding it a nice change of pace from coffee.
:cool:
Co-incidentally I too have recently taken up drinking cocoa of an evening and you're right about it been a nice change of pace, got me thinking about cutting back on my caffeine intake.
Good idea. The hot chocolate I drink is over 99% caffeine free. I already drink decaf coffee anyway, started that years ago. For one, I was annoyed with getting headaches on weekends if I didn't drink coffee right away. I think I feel better without the caffeine as I don't feel that I get the high from caffeine with the low/fatigue after the caffeine wears off.
The other day I went to a different Kroger than usual, and I remembered this one has a big UK food section (half an aisle), for some odd reason. Anyway, so I got a jar of Marmite and enjoyed it on my toast this morning. :)