To think the milk goes in AFTER the tea has been poured....

[ApocalypseCheese]

Followed by the sugar obviously.....

You do NOT repeat DO NOT dump the teabag, sugar and milk in the (bone china) cup/ mug/ whatever then pour hot water on top and hope for the best ??

The Royal Society of Chemistry says

"Milk should be added before the tea, because denaturation (degradation) of milk proteins
is liable to occur if milk encounters temperatures above 75°C. If milk is poured into hot tea,
individual drops separate from the bulk of the milk and come into contact with the high
temperatures of the tea for enough time for significant denaturation to occur. This is much
less likely to happen if hot water is added to the milk."

So there.

I think somebody need to report rowingboat.

that post is bang out of order

Tea from pot milk in first..Tea in bag milk in after..personally I have black tea with lemon..

olderandwider yes, mug >milk > teabag > boiling water >bounce and remove bag.

I have never, ever seen anyone put milk in first, you bunch o weirdos

Teabag>>>hot water>>>Teabag removed>>>Milk>>>NoSugar (obviously :o)

my mother owns a Victorian tea rooms, and she said to me the other day;
"There was a 90 yo woman in here earlier and she did something I haven't seen since my grandmother was alive, she poured the milk into the teapot". Something to do with cooling it, which to me defies the point of a tea pot.
As a coffee drinker the milk goes in first, then the water...!

you make the tea in the teapot using tea leaves

(and what is it with those people whom keeps telling me "oh just make it with a tea bag it will be quicker " errr no because I dont have any tea bags"))

then milk then tea..

I have to say when I make the tea at the childrens centre I make the tea in a pot with bags (as thaats all they have) and then i pour milk into the cups THEN the tea..

its just how it should be done

The tea must brew first!!! it must be 100C boiling water straight onto the teabag, milk will just cool it down and ruin everything!! and anyway you need to judge the colour! so milk last

Tea, blurgh
Coffee, blurgh

you are all wrong

milk in tea is the work of the devil

Can we at least agree that powdered tea is only for the bag deprived and desperate, and that a decent cuppa can never come out of the office "urn" of re-boiled water

id agree with that timeforabiscuit

Lonnie is the expert

YANBU.

Twinings everyday teabag.
half a teaspoon of sugar.
water.
milk.

I am totally amazed at the ignorance of basic tea-making skills displayed on this thread. You poor young things, never having had a decent cup of tea. I blame the introduction of the tea-bag myself.

Now, as all those brought up properly (in my own case by a mother who worked as a maid in a very upper-class country house) will know, the sequence of events is as follows:

1. Boil water in kettle (note - water must be freshly drawn, let cold water tap run for several minutes unless filling from an outside pump).

1. Warm teapot by putting a small amount of boiled water in teapot. Swirl around for several seconds. NB - there is a divergence of opinion regarding metal v china teapots. This is to do with physics and conduction of heat. Metal teapots (pref silver obv) best but good quality china will suffice. On no account must you use earthenware.

1. Tip water out from teapot.

1. Two spoonfuls of good-quality loose tea (Twinings Afternoon Tea very acceptable if no Darjeeling to hand)

into warmed teapot.

1. Reboil water and pour boiling water on to tea leaves.

1. WAIT 5 MINUTES. (Sorry to shout, but you must mash the tea properly, as my Northern sil explains).

1. Pour brewed tea through silver tea-strainer into china cups.

1. Lemon slices, milk and/or sugar may be taken according to preference and always added after the tea is in the cup.

Love 'wag my bag' :o

Milk first means there's no scum on the top and I scan't bear scum!

Ooh actually, I do remember being told that you should ditch the first cup because it's all dye and that the second cup is the flavoursome one. However, I am both too tight fisted and too desperate for my cuppa to test this theory :o

milk first if made in teapot
after if tea bag used

(in cup)

in our house we put the tesco tea bag and the sugar in the tesco mugs then pour on the hot water, when it comes to coffee we dont add milk to the end otherwise we have black floaters

yanbu -- milk afterwards

what's this about if a teapot mif? no no no

teapot cools the tea so enabling milk to go in after and not crack the cup

a teabag never went in a cup before whenever, 1980

it's teapot, cup, milk

or, teapot, cup