to put the milk...

[Minerves]

in the teapot with the tea?

i do it mainly b/c the cat gets to the milk otherwise and it's a waste of milk, but partner thinks I am BU

My OH's uncle was in the catering corps during the WWII. He left a book of army recipes to OH and the standard one for making tea for 50 men was to boil up tea, milk and sugar together for 5 minutes. Tell DP you are making tea the military way :)

Just leave the milk in the container with lid on?
I would consider it v odd and annoying if you didn't make the tea the way I like it.

YABU. That sounds awful. What if you take more milk than someone else?

I thought adding milk straight away stopped the tea from steeping properly? (Or is that a myth?)

Why not just keep the cat off the table/kitchen top.

It is a bit strange to add the milk into the teapot if you are making tea for others. If it's just for you, go for your life.

sounds disgusting, like when you make tea in a flask for a day out, it tastes all weird.

How is the cat getting the milk? I don't understand. You take lid of milk bottle, pour milk into tea, put lid back on. What are you doing with your milk?

YABU! What if your guests don't take milk in their tea like me? I would be horrified to be forced to drink milky tea because you couldn't keep your cat off the table/work surface.

Get a jug with a lid? Or just leave the milk in the container with the lid on?

And keep the cat out of places where it can get at human food. Yuck.

Yabu ughhhh

I would be most confused as to why milky tea was coming out of the teapot. So YABU.

If exposed milk is an issue and you can't just put the milk bottle on the table, can you fashion a lid for the milk jug with foil or a plate?

You're not one of these people who put milk in the teacup first, are you?

yanbu it sounds delicious (off to put the kettle on)

I don't drink tea so was really confused when a colleague told me off (lightheartedly!) for putting milk in first. I've always drank coffee and back in my instant coffee days I learned that you put milk in first or the water will burn the coffee, making it taste bitter.

I'm no longer asked to make tea

Not so much unreasonable as bloody wierd

HTH

Yuck. The milk will cook and taste all wrong.

Tell the cat to use a straw

That is all!

Do people still use tea pots?? baffled

What else does the cat get its face into?
I'd make sure that the cat never jumps up on the worktop.

I think I'll pass on a cup, thanks, as you apparently will have cat hair in it.

ew.... that's soooo wrong...

MIF (Milk in first) for the posh people as their cups were very thin and liable to break with the hot water

TIF (tea in first) for the workers who had nice fat earthen ware cups that could cope with the shock of the heat

why is the cat able to get to the milk? we keep ours in the fridge

Don't pour the milk in the cups until you are ready to pour the tea

We never put our cat in the fridge but she does get shut in the conservatory.

I don't see anything wrong with this. If you put the teabags into the pot first, let them steep, take them out and then add milk, how is it different than making up the tea in the cup?

Intrigued at how the milk would 'cook' in the teapot, too!

I want to know how the cat opens the milk carton without opposable thumbs.