To just want a good cup of tea?

[Theveryhungrycaterpillar123]

I love a good cuppa. Good strong tea (think builders tea), brewed and not much milk. Bliss.

I get so disappointed when other people make me tea and I get given some watered down milk. I like strong tea and I think friends interpret this as not much milk, when actually I like the tea bag to sit for a bit first. Obviously I drink it anyway, I'm not that rude!

Worse is in any coffee shop and the rare occasions I get a tea to take out and it's like cat's piss (probably).

So aibu to just want a nice cup of tea?

Before anyone tells me I'm way over thinking this, I'm bf DS2 and so I'm not drinking much caffeine. A nice, mug of tea is a lovely treat. And helps me get through the day with a 2 year and a 5 month old.

Any tea sympathisers out there?

That is not tea Sauvignon, that's watery tea flavoured milk. I feel disappointed for you.

A fellow tea addict here, it has to be super hot as well. When ever I am in hospital I take my own giant mug and supplies of tea bags and sugar. The best tea served is always in our oncology treatment centre, lush stuff.
I am sufficiently obsessed with tea that it was on my intro info on my online dating profile, DP who I met online is a fellow tea fan. Our kettle is almost always boiling, just boiled or still hot

Assam is my tea of choice. With just a dash of skimmed milk.

I like cat's piss tea, myself. Not over brewed, tiny dash of milk (put in first so it mixes properly).

I know both elements of that make me public enemy number one on here - but the main thing is it has to be HOT (and in my belly seconds from the kettle). If you leave it to stand for five minutes isn't it tepid (as well as brick-dusty )?

I'm not a tea drinker, but have known many of the species in my time, and I have always done my best to remember how each one wants their tea made. I have very find memories of making a brew for myself and four friends at university - four cups of tea - each one made subtly differently - some where the bag is just left to brew, others where you mash the tea bag to get the flavour out quickly, some with milk and/or sugar, some without. And then there was my best friend in my student nurse days, where you had to whip the tea bag out as soon as the water went in - almost no evidence of tea in the hit water at all (but you could reuse a tea bag two or there times )!

My MIL makes THE best tea. She still makes it with tea leaves (no tea bags) and leaves it to "mast" on the range. She doesn't use mugs, only china cups and saucers. Her tea is amazing. I go up every second day to have her tea and home made scones the scones do fuck all for my diet

I like tea that has been left to brew (or mash in the words of my late grandad) with half a sugar and generous milk. Dishwater tea is horrible.

The perfect time for a teabag to sit is the time it takes to go to the shop and get milk.
This is the reason I drink so much coffee if I'm out and about as it's more likely to be right.
DH actually sometimes leaves it in too long and it goes bitter.

YABU. Tea makes me puke. Drink coffee.

I love this thread, love tea! I like it strong, occasionally like an earl grey treat. No sugar ever. Bit of milk, full fat preferably.

Have a hankering occasionally for tea made with a spoonful of condensed milk, or evap. milk, instead of real milk- one of my gran and nan's favourite treats. Always like the idea more than the thing itself.

I always drink tea black. Frustrates me beyond anything when people say "Black? I'll not make it too strong then." Why? why not just give me hot water then if I'm not going to be able to taste anything?

I am off to start a Ye Olde Mumsnet Tea Shoppe.

It will be full of Good Tea

I am with you on this!!!! I cannot bear it when I forget to specify and I get weak and milky

I have to wait until it cools a little and down it!

I ordered an Earl Grey yesterday . It arrived with an egg timer-the shop owner proudly told me to wait the three minutes before pouring!

Interesting about the condensed milk.

When my dad was 14 and started training to be a bricklayer, in 1941, he used to go to work with his 'brew'. This was a teaspoon of condensed milk, rolled in tea leaves and wrapped in a piece of newspaper. The rolled tea and milk would be put in a mug with boiling water and hey presto!

It will be full of Good Tea

There will be no tea bags then

YANBU. I'm not even as big a tea fan as I used to be, as it find it a bit gut churning, but when I accept the offer of a cuppa, it's always automatically with the words "with just a dash of milk" because, even if it's made strong, too much milk makes it really sickly.

sauvignon how on earth can you recuperate when you're served that?

One of the reasons I'm not so keen on tea, anymore, after being a lifelong devotee, is our horrid hard water. DS1's school always serves a lovely cuppa. I think it might be on the timetable, though DS1 is yet to be persuaded.

OMG Toys Lipton's is indeed a swear word to me too - I lived in Spain for a while and would plead with any visitors to bring me proper tea bags!!

I posted up thread about my tea drinking failures here in the U.S. Thought you'd all be amused to know that in 2 1/2 years, I've gone through five kettles. Yes, five! They're either crap quality or just can't keep up with the amount of tea I drink. I actually suspect the latter as some have been pretty expensive!

We need more proper tea-shops. All of this poncing around with espresso and americano etc but if you ask for a cup of tea in a cafe, invariably you get a (cardboard) cup of hot water with a tea-bag in it. Even once you have located those crappy little wooden stirry things, they are useless at squeezing the bags and even worse a fishing them out of the cup. And then where do you put the tea-bag? And they have the nerve to charge you two and a half notes for all of this uselessness and hassle.

There is a lovely cafe near me where they sell great coffee but also more importantly lovely tea, in a pot, made with leaves, with a proper strainer and a holder to put the strainer on, plus a separate jug of milk, on a little saucer. If they can do it, why can't fucking Starbucks? The fuckers.

Makes me laugh that I live in China, where tea came from, and I only drink imported Yorkshire tea

I am so with you OP, I can't stand weak milky tea. The best tea "out" I find is in London greasy spoons, or the Brick Lane bagel shop where they serve it from an urn.

One thing I really hate is when you get a cup of hot water and the teabag on the side-the water has to be poured ON to the teabag, that is basic bloody tea making.

Interested one poster talked about her MIL leaving the tea to "mast", others say "mash"-I always thought it was "mask" but I might have heard my Mum wrong.

I wish people wouldn't call it "brew"

It makes me think of people who say "Brewing a fart" which makes me heave.

It's a cup of tea.

OP, tell them to use two teabags. It's the only way.

Think you're on your own there MrsTawdry? "brew" is pretty universal for tea in the North of England, but I have never heard anyone say "brewing a fart". You should keep better company .

I live in the North and I still hate it! And I hear people say brewing a fart quite often! It's disgusting but there you go...that's how I relate the word.

And the company I keep is varied unfortunately due to the work I do.