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Milk in before or after teabag

95 replies

CharliesAngels81 · 13/12/2024 19:33

Please settle a debate in this household

Milk in before teabag taken out or milk in last?

Whose unreasonable here - I believe milk in before teabag

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Blackdovedown · 13/12/2024 23:56

Milk last you heathens!!!

NewName24 · 13/12/2024 23:55

You are wrong.

If putting the teabag in the mug, it needs to come out before the milk goes anywhere near it.

If you are brewing up in a teapot, then you put the milk in the mug before pouring out from the teapot.

But under no circumstances does the milk go near the teabag.

SoupDragon · 13/12/2024 23:54

I do before, DS does after. There is absolutely no difference between the two brews.

the fat molecules in the milk blocks the holes in the teabag and the flavour doesn't come out as readily.

That doesn't matter as the tea has already brewed before the milk is added.

Blueuggboots · 13/12/2024 23:46

Milk last, the fat molecules in the milk blocks the holes in the teabag and the flavour doesn't come out as readily.
Milk first if the tea has been made in a tea pot and already sat and percolated.

UnctuousUnicorns · 13/12/2024 23:08

Onlyvisiting · 13/12/2024 20:55

That is one of the most vile things I've ever heard 🤣.

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Just as well it's me drinking it then, not you. 👍 😁

Createausername1970 · 13/12/2024 23:05

Teapot - either. Originally it was first, to preserve the china cup

Teabags in modern mug - definitely the very last thing. Unless, of course, you like your tea like gnats piss. In that case milk in first will slow down the brew process sufficiently.

ComingInByAnsible · 13/12/2024 22:48

Left · 13/12/2024 21:04

Teabag in mug/pot.
Add boiled water.
Get distracted by work and go back to laptop.
After ten mins feel thirsty and remember tea brewing.
Add milk and enjoy excessively strong lukewarm tea ☕️

This.

Or even:

Tea bag in mug
Add boiling water
Get distracted by work
Remember tea 30 minutes later
Warm tea up in microwave
Add milk
Take mug of tea to desk
Get distracted by work
Remember tea 1 hour later
Warm tea up in microwave
Remember you are late on a work call
Two hours later look for mug of tea everywhere
Find it abandoned in microwave
Warm tea up in microwave
Enjoy triple-microwaved tea, yum

Latticexmas · 13/12/2024 22:11

I heard that the water should be boiling when it hits the tea bag for a really good cup of tea. So you don’t put the milk in the mug first, because it will cool down the water (when it hits the teabag). However, if you are pouring the tea from a pot you should put the milk in the cup before you pour the tea (the water has already hit the teabags in the pot). I’m not sure why you put the milk in the cup before you pour the tea, but I was told this was the right way to do it ie more posh.

WrylyAmused · 13/12/2024 22:04

@Rhaidimiddim is right.

Also, milk last because then you add the right amount for how brewed the tea is, which applies even if you're using loose leaf and a teapot rather than a tea bag.

Caswallonthefox · 13/12/2024 21:47

Milk last.

AmethystRuby · 13/12/2024 21:12

teabag in, squeeze with spoon until teabag almost breaks and then milk. its the only way

KittenPause · 13/12/2024 21:10

Milk last unless you have expensive delicate antique porcelain tea cups

Jk987 · 13/12/2024 21:10

Milk last. The teabag needs freshly boiled water.

Milk first if you're pouring tea from a teapot.

Zanatdy · 13/12/2024 21:09

Always after

BlueEyedLeucy · 13/12/2024 21:08

If I’m making it in the cup, I put milk in last, but if I’m using a pot I put milk in first.

MaryGreenhill · 13/12/2024 21:05

After

Left · 13/12/2024 21:04

Teabag in mug/pot.
Add boiled water.
Get distracted by work and go back to laptop.
After ten mins feel thirsty and remember tea brewing.
Add milk and enjoy excessively strong lukewarm tea ☕️

HoneyB2025 · 13/12/2024 20:58

After teabag

KendraTheVampyrSlayer · 13/12/2024 20:57

GauntJudy · 13/12/2024 19:36

Teabag in
Water in
Stir
Wait
Milk in
Teabag out

This!

QuestionableMouse · 13/12/2024 20:56

HunterHearstHelmsley · 13/12/2024 19:35

Milk first for me. It tastes weird if you add the milk last. Milk after for all the others I live with.

It's because I was fancy in a past life. Milk needed to be first so the boiling water didn't crack the china.

Edited

That's only if you're brewing the tea in a tea pot (and mostly likely in the past using loose leaf tea.) Putting the milk in before the tea in the cup means it doesn't brew properly.

Onlyvisiting · 13/12/2024 20:55

UnctuousUnicorns · 13/12/2024 20:49

Milk, sugar and teabag in the mug, in the microwave to warm for thirty to forty seconds, then boiling water poured on. That's how I make my tea, anyway. 🤷‍♀️

That is one of the most vile things I've ever heard 🤣.

Onlyvisiting · 13/12/2024 20:54

You are very very wrong.
Tea bags or leaves should gave booking water poured on them, if you put the milk in first then they are just sat soaking up cold milk.
Milk in the mug first is fine if you are using a tea pot, if you are making in the mug then milk second. Always.
But don't leave it too long, if the tea stews for too long before the milk is added it looks weird as the temperature is all wrong.

BitOutOfPractice · 13/12/2024 20:54

Irrelevant question because if you make your tea in the cup you are already a tea philistine. .

VivaVivaa · 13/12/2024 20:53

Milk and teabag should never meet! Bag in mug -add boiling water - 5 minute brew (no stirring) - take out bag - splash of milk and a stir.

Or even better, tea from pot into mug then add milk.

cardibach · 13/12/2024 20:51