Tea tastes better out a certain mug

[GodblessHookyStreet]

I have numerous lovely mugs but for some reason my tea tastes the best out of a particular mug.

No other mug comes close to how good my tea tastes from the one and for the life of me I can not understand why!

Can anyone give a scientific answer or is it just because.

Oh yes I can only drink tea out of a mug that is white inside.

I hear you. It’s probably something scientific and to do with the ceramic, shape or something else. But it’s definitely a thing!

Personally I'd say it's just habit.

I HAVE to have my morning coffees out if a certain mug. I don't think it tastes any better but I don't like drinking out of a different one first thing. No idea why cos the rest of the day I'll drink out of anything.

I agree, food also tastes better with a certain spoon although that might just be me

I always use a cup and saucer for tea, don’t know why but I just enjoy it more. I don’t mind which mug a drink coffee out of.

Bone china seems to keep the tea nice and hot. Thicker mugs don't seem to ... probably just me ?

I heard that it's been proven/demonstrated that people enjoy tea most when drunk from a red mug.

There are scientific reasons why tea tastes better from a bone china cup. Plus the colour of the vessel influences our perception of the taste.

I've never been able to make a nice drink in over-sized mugs. Even if I add extra of everything

I bought a mug in a Laura Ashley sample sale years ago, it was a very thin bone China white mug.

I have never had such great tea. It stayed so hot for so long. Nothing came close. Then exh smashed it.

That's not the reason we're divorced.

it totally is

I broke my tea mug and haven’t been able to find a replacement. My tea doesn’t taste the same. It was a large bone china mug from Waitrose and they don’t do them any longer. 😟

Has to be bone china. Can’t ever enjoy tea from thick mugs.

Im also picky about cutlery. Can’t eat ice cream with a desert spoon, must have a steak knife for most meats, must have a napkin or kitchen roll for sticky fingers.

I’m too precious for words!

Oh no. Science is wrong. Wrong wrong wrong. The colour doesn't matter, but it MUST be from a thick edged ceramic mug. Keeps it hot longer too. It's just better that way!

I have to drink tea and coffee out of my 16oz bone china mug.

I hate thick rimmed mugs for any kind of drink and can just about stomach it for coffee, but for tea? Bone China mug all the way.

And if all my special tea mugs are in the dishwasher and dirty, I will take one out and hand wash it over using a different, lower standard of mug that doesn't meet my tea drinking specifications 😂

I live overseas and my mum used to bring me these mugs for my tea drinking collection!

Oh how we clutched our pearls in grief when she told me Waitrose didn't do them anymore!!! I'm still gutted about that...

White bone china - nothing else

Bone china mug for tea.

Ceramic mug for coffee.

🙂

My DM only likes a hot drink from a bone china mug with a white inside. I like my tea in the largest mug available!

Yes.
tastes shit it dark mugs.
I have a morning tea mug, a mid morning and an afternoon one.

Yes

Nope! urrgghhhhh shudder

Absolutely. Coffee and tea from particular mugs in my home. And I'd rather go thirsty than have a brew in one of those huge sports direct mugs. Shudder.

Yes, bone china mug.

Apart from first thing in the morning, when it's got to be my mug from NASA that I've had for the past thirty years.

It's going to break now isn't it.

This, this, THIS!!!

Goes without saying, surely ?