How do you have your tea? Teach me to like tea!

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I've never liked tea, but I think I want to get into it. How do you have yours? How should I try it? Which brand of teabag? Strong? Weak? Milky? Sugary?
I only got into coffee about 5 years ago, progressed from mochas to latte and now cappuccino. I now love my daily coffee but I still don't like instant. I like milk and I have a sweet tooth so I've been trying milky tea with 2 sugars but it's not doing much for me, I just don't find it tastes of much.

Typhoo tea bag (Amazon do catering packs for about £13) in boiling water. Squeeze it to fuckery and back and add a splash or two of skimmed, no sugar. Drink of the gods.

Disclaimer : Am not even a minor god but actually peasant so you might want to give this recipe a swerve

Green tea, quite weak, so it’s clean and crisp-tasting

Loose leaf is good but I'm not snobbish about bags.

It's less loose vs bags and more quality. Plenty of crap loose tea around too.

I buy from a local guy who imports and mixes blends himself. The quality is great but he puts the same tea in the bags as he sells loose, rather than the dregs going in bags.

Not too much milk. I hardly ever drink tea as I like skimmed or semi skimmed milk in it and we only use full fat at home. I also make terrible tea! But too strong, too weak, nothing is as bad as too milky.

If you want to try teas other than breakfast tea with milk, white tea is a nice one to start with. It doesn't have that 'taste' that green tea can, it's very mild and fresh

Clipper organic tea here, brewed for 30 seconds in a big mug with a splash of unsweetened soya milk added when I've taken the bag out.

My Dad insists on loose tea in a teapot - he loves Yorkshire Tea loose leaf or Twinings. He thinks tea bags are the work of the devil

It doesn't have that 'taste' that green tea can, it's very mild and fresh

The 'taste' is usually because the water is too hot.

Earl grey, bag left to stew for a few minutes, bag taken out but not squeeeeeezed, teeniest splash of semi-skimmed milk.

Lovely.

I'm on Tesco tea atm though - it's no shopping week so I'm on my 'reserve' box of bags. Same method as above though.

I have a friend who shows the tea bag to the cup (as in pours water over the bag then removes it - not waggles the bag at the cup ), and then adds 1/4 cup of milk. That'd be too sweet for me.