Folk who put put milk in a brew before taking the tea bag out

TheFamilyCat · Post by **TheFamilyCat** » Tue Sep 05, 2017 10:47 am

Why? Just why?

UpTheBeehole · Post by **UpTheBeehole** » Tue Sep 05, 2017 10:49 am

People who the milk in the cup before putting the water in are worse.

Edit: Clarification; (when making in a cup, rather than a teapot)

Lancasterclaret · Post by **Lancasterclaret** » Tue Sep 05, 2017 10:49 am

Does it really matter?

Tea is shite

Walton · Post by **Walton** » Tue Sep 05, 2017 10:50 am

Lancasterclaret wrote:Does it really matter?

Tea is shite

Boooooooooooo

Marney&Mee · Post by **Marney&Mee** » Tue Sep 05, 2017 10:53 am

I'd wager these are the very same people who drive with their seat so far forward, their nose is flush with the windscreen...

making indicating nigh on impossible...

COYC73 · Post by **COYC73** » Tue Sep 05, 2017 10:55 am

TheFamilyCat wrote:Why? Just why?

It makes absolutely no difference......

Pstotto · Post by **Pstotto** » Tue Sep 05, 2017 10:56 am

Are they 'milk before the CornFlakes' types?

Herts Clarets · Post by **Herts Clarets** » Tue Sep 05, 2017 11:01 am

The only time milk goes in before the tea is fully brewed is if it is done in a teapot. Tea needs to be in boiling water to extract the full flavor. I usually leave the tea bag in the mug for 5 minutes before adding milk. I like it strong.

Sausage · Post by **Sausage** » Tue Sep 05, 2017 11:01 am

I do this in London because the hard water develops a scummy film as the tea is brewing. For some reason, adding the milk before removing the tea-bag seems to draw the film onto the bag as it's subsequently being removed.

Duffer_ · Post by **Duffer_** » Tue Sep 05, 2017 11:01 am

The correct strategy is to allow the teabag to brew for a period without milk and then add milk with the bag still in to check it is at the desired strength. It is only after the milk has been added that you can compare the outcome to your colour chart (my own preference is American tan).

UTC!

ClaretTony · Post by **ClaretTony** » Tue Sep 05, 2017 11:06 am

Tea bag out before milk added for me

bobinho · Post by **bobinho** » Tue Sep 05, 2017 11:15 am

Lancasterclaret wrote:Does it really matter?

Tea is shite

No. That's just wrong. Tea isn't shite. It's good. It's for winners and clever handsome people.

The strength and character of our great nation has been built on the foundations laid by a good cup of tea. We once dominated the planet because of tea. Drinking tea gives you an edge. Blokes sup tea.

Tea is brilliant. So ner.

ClaretTony · Post by **ClaretTony** » Tue Sep 05, 2017 11:17 am

bobinho wrote:No. That's just wrong. Tea isn't shite. It's good. It's for winners and clever handsome people.

The strength and character of our great nation has been built on the foundations laid by a good cup of tea. We once dominated the planet because of tea. Drinking tea gives you an edge. Blokes sup tea.

Tea is brilliant. So ner.

Totally agree.

Lancasterclaret · Post by **Lancasterclaret** » Tue Sep 05, 2017 11:17 am

Tea is an anachronism of the empire.

Now coffee on the other hand. Its the future.

Juan Tanamera · Post by **Juan Tanamera** » Tue Sep 05, 2017 11:20 am

I remove the teabag before adding milk and water and replace it with coffee.

Imploding Turtle · Post by **Imploding Turtle** » Tue Sep 05, 2017 11:23 am

I don't drink tea because drinking tea is cultural appropriation and the BBC's Digital Blackface thing taught me that appropriating other cultures like that is bad. You're all basically committing Beveraged Indianface.

Dyched · Post by **Dyched** » Tue Sep 05, 2017 11:29 am

The particles (or what ever the scientific word is) that make up milk are larger than the "holes" in the teabag. So when pouring milk in first then adding water the teabag can't be fully utilized.

Get cup, inset teabag and sugar if you like. Pour in water. Let brew for your required taste, remove bag add splash of milk. stir.

boiledclaret · Post by **boiledclaret** » Tue Sep 05, 2017 11:33 am

Lancaster, you are to tea what I am towards International football. Let it out!

ClaretEngineer · Post by **ClaretEngineer** » Tue Sep 05, 2017 11:33 am

bobinho wrote:No. That's just wrong. Tea isn't shite. It's good. It's for winners and clever handsome people.

The strength and character of our great nation has been built on the foundations laid by a good cup of tea. We once dominated the planet because of tea. Drinking tea gives you an edge. Blokes sup tea.

Tea is brilliant. So ner.

I can confirm these facts.

I'm devilishly handsome, a winner and an Engineer.

Lancasterclaret · Post by **Lancasterclaret** » Tue Sep 05, 2017 11:34 am

Wife likes tea. Just sticks a tea bag in a cup and drinks it.

It just looks horrible and when you compare it it a freshly brewed cup of coffee..........

claretabroad · Post by **claretabroad** » Tue Sep 05, 2017 11:35 am

This is just a gateway argument to the great sugar debate

Imploding Turtle · Post by **Imploding Turtle** » Tue Sep 05, 2017 11:36 am

Lancasterclaret wrote:Wife likes tea. Just sticks a tea bag in a cup and drinks it.

It just looks horrible and when you compare it it a freshly brewed cup of coffee..........

By "freshly brewed" i assume you mean some incstant coffee on which you've poured milk and water (milk first, of course).

Steve1956 · Post by **Steve1956** » Tue Sep 05, 2017 11:38 am

The Wife just leaves the bag in for the duration of the brew, more often than not its plops and it's all down her front,she likes it that way I'm ok with the messy bitch.

TheFamilyCat · Post by **TheFamilyCat** » Tue Sep 05, 2017 11:39 am

COYC73 wrote:It makes absolutely no difference......

Yes it does; #8 & #10 explain why.

Lancasterclaret · Post by **Lancasterclaret** » Tue Sep 05, 2017 11:41 am

Instant coffee is for people who drink tea.

ClaretEngineer · Post by **ClaretEngineer** » Tue Sep 05, 2017 11:44 am

The smell of freshly ground and brewed coffee far exceeds the taste.

I much prefer iced coffee over hot coffee.

I prefer tea to both of them.

Lancasterclaret · Post by **Lancasterclaret** » Tue Sep 05, 2017 11:46 am

Well, you are clearly wrong.

Not as wrong as say, someone like Hitler, but still wrong.

TheFamilyCat · Post by **TheFamilyCat** » Tue Sep 05, 2017 11:49 am

Lancasterclaret wrote:Well, you are clearly wrong.

Not as wrong as say, someone like Hitler, but still wrong.

I reckon Hitler drank Coffee Mate.

ClaretEngineer · Post by **ClaretEngineer** » Tue Sep 05, 2017 11:51 am

Lancasterclaret wrote:Well, you are clearly wrong.

Not as wrong as say, someone like Hitler, but still wrong.

Look you. Do one. This a thread about Tea. Not some poncy beverage brewed by some hipster named Zoella using artisan, hand reared beans, carried in a silk bag, transported on a carbon neutral hand crafted vessel from South America.

Lancasterclaret · Post by **Lancasterclaret** » Tue Sep 05, 2017 11:53 am

Don't you dare diss my hipster fuelled artisan hand reared bean silk bag llama transported drink of choice.

Coffeeist!

If Hitler drank coffee, imagine who much worse he'd have been if he'd drunk tea.

ClaretEngineer · Post by **ClaretEngineer** » Tue Sep 05, 2017 11:56 am

Lancasterclaret wrote:Don't you dare diss my hipster fuelled artisan hand reared bean silk bag llama transported drink of choice.

Coffeeist!

If Hitler drank coffee, imagine who much worse he'd have been if he'd drunk tea.

I imagine he'd have been slightly less wired, would have got a better nights kip and maybe would have been slightly less mad.

Marney&Mee · Post by **Marney&Mee** » Tue Sep 05, 2017 11:56 am

what are people's views on teabagging ?

ClaretEngineer · Post by **ClaretEngineer** » Tue Sep 05, 2017 11:58 am

Marney&Mee wrote:what are people's views on teabagging ?

Can't comment.

Wife's a biter, last thing I'd want is a punctured bag.

Guich · Post by **Guich** » Tue Sep 05, 2017 12:07 pm

No problem putting the milk in while the teabag's still in the cup.

Unless you forget to take it out. My desk has a little pile of old teabags; it looks like a flood defence for a hamster.

BarstewardsEnquiry · Post by **BarstewardsEnquiry** » Tue Sep 05, 2017 12:19 pm

The reason for putting milk in a cup first goes back to a time when tea was served in China cups, these being very expensive and delicate. Milk was added first to cool the boiling hot tea as it entered the cup thus preventing tiny hairline cracks from occurring.
1 Twinings Assam tea bag
Half teaspoon of sugar
Small drop of milk
Served in approx 350ml vessel of fine clay
Stirred thoroughly
Tea bag left in whilst consumed
Repeat 10 x per day

TractorFace · Post by **TractorFace** » Tue Sep 05, 2017 12:20 pm

If Hitler drank coffee, imagine who much worse he'd have been if he'd drunk tea.

Old Hitler didn't need coffee or indeed tea - he had amphetamines. This is why all his mates used to salute him with an enthusiastic 'High Hitler'.

COYC73 · Post by **COYC73** » Tue Sep 05, 2017 12:34 pm

TheFamilyCat wrote:Yes it does; #8 & #10 explain why.

You're contradicting yourself.....#10 is one of the people the OP is complaining about.....

Belial · Post by **Belial** » Tue Sep 05, 2017 12:42 pm

Lancasterclaret wrote:Tea is an anachronism of the empire.

Now coffee on the other hand. Its the future.

Nah, that's garlic bread

Leightonslaces · Post by **Leightonslaces** » Tue Sep 05, 2017 12:50 pm

Folk that drink tea

spadesclaret · Post by **spadesclaret** » Tue Sep 05, 2017 12:54 pm

Leightonslaces wrote:Folk that drink tea

Folk who

TheFamilyCat has it right in the title.

I'm with Lancaster all the way on this one. I can't remember the last time I had a cup of tea.

Leightonslaces · Post by **Leightonslaces** » Tue Sep 05, 2017 12:55 pm

spadesclaret wrote:Folk who

TheFamilyCat has it right in the title.

I'm with Lancaster all the way on this one. I can't remember the last time I had a cup of tea.

Lock me up and throw away the key

Imploding Turtle · Post by **Imploding Turtle** » Tue Sep 05, 2017 1:04 pm

spadesclaret wrote:Folk who

TheFamilyCat has it right in the title.

I'm with Lancaster all the way on this one. I can't remember the last time I had a cup of tea.

No. "that" is correct. "Who" is only used when you're talking about people.

RalphCoatesComb · Post by **RalphCoatesComb** » Tue Sep 05, 2017 1:08 pm

Neo-Nazi ALERT !!!

Talk of Adolf on a Burnley forum. The Thought Police will be having a field day

nil_desperandum · Post by **nil_desperandum** » Tue Sep 05, 2017 1:12 pm

TheFamilyCat wrote:Why? Just why?

Adding milk to tea?
Why? Just why?
Totally ruins the flavour of a good Earl Grey or Darjeeling

Rileybobs · Post by **Rileybobs** » Tue Sep 05, 2017 1:14 pm

OMG, spades has just been spaded.

No Ney Never · Post by **No Ney Never** » Tue Sep 05, 2017 1:17 pm

I'm not a tea drinker so I asked my dad the question, he just laughed. Tea in a bag he said, who puts tea in a bag. With that he proudly waved the little strainer he's placed over the rim of the cup for the past 60 years.....tea in a bag he muttered.

spadesclaret · Post by **spadesclaret** » Tue Sep 05, 2017 1:18 pm

Rileybobs wrote:OMG, spades has just been spaded.

Yes, but only by Turtle who loves his little jokes

or should that be 'only by Turtle that loves his little jokes' ?

ExistentialWanderer · Post by **ExistentialWanderer** » Tue Sep 05, 2017 1:18 pm

Personally can't stand tea and the Missus drinks her tea without milk. We both drink coffee black also.
However. One of my exes considered herself somewhat of a connoisseur. Milk in mug first if poured from a pot. Milk after bag is out otherwise.

Imploding Turtle · Post by **Imploding Turtle** » Tue Sep 05, 2017 1:20 pm

Rileybobs wrote:OMG, spades has just been spaded.

Rileybobs · Post by **Rileybobs** » Tue Sep 05, 2017 1:21 pm

I've only just started doing this when I make a round of brews for the heathens at work. I've got to say that adding the milk after the tea has brewed but before the bag has been removed results in a marked improvement. It gives one the leeway to adjust the strength of the tea in both directions, this opportunity is lost once the bag has been removed.

Obviously tea is generally for idiots though so I don't expect tea drinkers to understand this concept.