What is the correct way to make tea, and how do you take your tea?

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Hi all,
Bored so thought I would start a riot.
The correct order:
Tea bag, sugar, water, press bag to get the tea out, remove bag, milk.

How I take my tea:
Not very strong, four sugars, not very much milk.
What about you?

I do use a tea pot, I posted a picture of my tea set before I drank from it...

I love our teapot. It's a 1950s one from my husband's late grandmother and is so practical. I had broken a couple of ceramic tea pots, had found the handle of metal ones to be so hot I had to hold it with a tea towel and had a metal lid fall in the teapot. Our gorgeous practical stainless steel teapot has a hinged lid and a wooden handle. Perfect.

I despise tea. I have tried so very hard to like it. I've tried every imaginable blend and in every possible combination of brew time/milk/sugar and I just hate it. That tannic quality. Blurgh. It's like an unruly banana-so astringent. I wish I knew why people like it. I think I must have weird tastebuds.

Unripe not unruly

Probably outing is it's quite specific but here goes.

New water in the kettle each time
Bulb shaped mug
Yorkshire teabag
Pour on boiling water about 4/5 of the way to the top
Stir for 30 seconds - with the teaspoon. Coffee & hot chocolate spoons are a different shape!
Brew for 4 minutes
Add almond milk right to the top
Take out teabag

Perfect.

Shame. I’ve been pontificating about an unruly banana.

And yes to fresh water. Let the cold tap run until it’s properly cold.

My username is how I like my tea :-)

Failing that, Covenant Cream or Temptation Tan if I want it a bit stronger. Pentecost Fire on a day when everybody knows to leave me alone

For me

Boil kettle and use hot water to warm the pot. One teaspoon of tea per person and one for the pot.

No milk or sugar, maybe a slice of lemon. Occasionally a cardamon pod.

Alternative for some people.

Get a mug, add teabag and milk, top with water. Split a cardamon pod, add to the mug and then microwave for 2mins.

I don't see that there's any 'correct' way, unless you happen to be Hyacinth Bucket. It depends on how you like it.

My ILs liked leaf tea in a pot, very strong and IMO stewed, but each to their own.

I like mine on the weak side, teabag in a mug, fished out fairly quickly, no milk.

Used to have to take my own teabags (an ordinary brand) to work because colleagues were happy with another brand which tasted rank to me. But then they all had it with milk, which must make a difference. To me, tea tastes seriously vile with milk, which just goes to show that things do taste different to diffent people.

Strong and reasonably milky, usually made by putting the bag in a mug, adding boiling water and setting a timer for three minutes. In the office I just go to the loo or something instead of setting a timer 😂

I can’t really bring myself to get uptight over how other people make it unless it is really weak and milky.