to put the milk...

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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

No, MIF is for the common people with glazed pottery cups, because they can crack fom the heat of plain tea.

Us poshies with our bone china and porcelain can add boiling tea because the material is thin and tough and doesn't crack. We can also see daylight through the bottom when we hold them up.

Everybody drinks tea differently though I only have a tiny bit of milk in tea so it looks like tomato soup I hate it when people make me a cup of tea with loads of milk so yabu.

YABU

YABU - go onto YouTube and search for doc brown - my proper tea!!!

Don't mess with the tea

i quite often do this becuase i drink so much tea it saves me time. I dont mind cold or hot tea and im only making it for me to drink.

i wouldnt do it in front of anyone else though!

Filth.

Yabu.

why/how is the cat getting to the milk??

You allow the cat in the kitchen!!!??

No animal should be in the kitchen. As others have said, if you put milk into a jug and that's where the cat gets in from, put a lid of some sort onto it.

And proper tea is made in a tea pot. I always use a tea pot even if I'm the only one drinking it.

Happy, my dog eats in the kitchen because that's where the lino is and I can wipe any mess. It's not like he licks all the plates sand cups unless I'm eating from them at the time

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Come back OP and tell us about this talented cat that won't let fridges and bottle caps get in the way of his milk habit.

Milk would cook in the teapot because protein (present in milk) "cooks" (is denatured) at about 75C (can't remember the exact temp - a long time since A level chemistry) & boiling water is hotter than that.

Think we've scared the OP...

My boy cat sits on the kitchen window sill and waits for me to come home , I have no issue with him entering the kitchen or the poor bugger and his sister wouldn't get in or out of the house.

Milk in the teapot isn't my cup of tea

I'm here all week, boom boom!

Groan

That is an AWFUL joke

I had a bone china cup explode on me once - or rather it broke clean in half and each half shot across the worktop in opposite directions, leaving a puddle for me to clean up.

So I definitely do milk in first with bone china. Better still, I avoid poncey bone china and drink out of a nice sturdy stoneware mug.

Is your only available milk storage solution a saucer on the floor by the back door? Or could you keep the lid on the milk bottle and the cat out of the fridge?

well, I would object as I don't have milk in my tea. Sounds a bit grim, tbh.

ouryve Had you boiled the bone china cup before you started using it? A family acquaintance who was slightly obsessed with bone china, and from whom I received a bone china cup every year, insisted that all bone china had to be boiled in water before use. But then he was a very, very strange man so that could be bollocks.

On the subject of the AIBU, what ShatnersBassoon said.

Is that because of the nasty bones in it? That had been cooked into sterile oblivion in the kiln when making the pottery?

Display china, that is not often used but may be put on a shelf or hung on the wall, often cracks because it has dried out excessively and shrunk by a tiny amount, varying with thickness. You sometimes see it on display plates, which get a crack in the form of a partial or complete circle where there is a thicker ring on the underside of the plate, which is sometimes unglazed. I am told that display china should be washed at least once a year to re-moisten it.

I am not an expert on antique ceramics though.

No, he insisted that it was to reinforce the cup in some way so that it didn't crack. Like I say, though, he was a strange fish.

if everyone has it the same at home then sounds like a good plan frankly however I wouldn't suggest doing it for guests!

I would be very if I went somewhere that did this as I am allergic to milk

No milk ever.

as someone who almost vomits at the smell/taste of cow's milk, especially warmed up in tea/coffee, YABU (in a lighthearted way haha)

I only have soymilk, or hazelnut milk in coffee as a treat sometimes. I hate cow's milk, just typing this is making me want to auto-gag