If you are a tea drinker, how do you take your tea?
Depends on tea and mood:
Black tea+milk
Earl Grey usually + milk
Lady Grey usually just warer
Mint tea just water
Chai depends on mood - may be water only or with milk
Jasmine + water only
At Chinese restaurants: Hot, unsweetened, in one of those handle-less cups.
At home, winter: Hot, always in bags, never bulk tea, usually sweetened with Splenda or similar.
At home, winter: Iced, prepared in gallon batches: 16 bags in 1 pint boiling water. Steeped 6 minutes.
Poured into gallon pitcher with 14 cups water and 2 cups Splenda.
My father was a tea gourmet. He'd go to a local spice shop and buy tea in bulk, and he had a special tea ball he used to infuse it. Myself, when I get really lazy I buy instant tea and make that.
Below: My favorite tea. It's not for the taste (it's a plain old oolong), but for the name.
got to be Yorkshire tea
yes, pg but never heard of barries.
Until you have had Nerada you haven't had a black tea.
The best tea that I ever tasted was Darjeeling Vintage. It seemed to only be available for a year or so and then disappeared. The leaf was a greeny color and dry rolled into a cylinder. Infused it opened up to the size of your little finger nail. Exquisite!
I use stevia alone if it's one of the concentrates or a brand that has a fairly intense sweetness. Most brands do not, and so I add some aspartame, which having a different flavor profile, intensifies the sweetness more than using either alone.
If using a tea bag, boil the kettle but wait until it boils and there's no more sound coming from the kettle. Pour the water over the tea bag and leave it for up to 3 minutes, squeezing the bag once or twice. Once the tea bag is removed, I pour in a little milk.
I have just read your post ... I,m ashamed ! Tea Bag ? Milk after ? Have you had some sort of aberration man ? You need help .
@Crimson67 they are supposedly good when cold for putting on your eyes - and without milk having been added.
@MarcIveson You obviously misread the first word of my comment. It is not I who needs help.
As someone with anosmia, coffee is far more preferable to me anyway.
I just made a post about tea .
But whatever made you interested in how we drink our tea.
Anyway, I mostly drink tea with about 5 breakfasts a year, I drink it with sugar than, and sometimes when someone offers it to me, I drink it without sugar or other additives. I'm not a real tea-drinker.
I like it C-O-L-D!! Even in the dead of winter.