To be slightly horrified about in laws reheating pots of tea the next day?

[QuietlyAghast]

We've joined my in laws for a few days at their holiday cottage. We normally meet up with them for meals or days out instead of going to stay, so this is a first. We had a lovely cup of tea on arrival last night, and all was well. This morning we all came down for breakfast around the same time. FIL asks who'd like a cup of tea, and I gratefully accept. He then proceeds to go to the pantry cupboard and retrieve LAST NIGHT'S pot of tea, which apparently hadn't been finished and had therefore been stored in the cupboard. He pours some into a mug, puts it in the microwave and hands me a mug of reheated day-old tea! AIBU to be ?
DP thinks this is perfectly normal, and cannot understand why I would want a fresh cup of tea when there is a perfectly good used one going to waste...

No No No!!! LTB and he's mad tea habits

Surely it wasn’t drinkable though? Was it not terribly stewed?

Also a teapot isn’t a stored container, things could have crawled in there over night...

To those who are asking how it tasted, I honestly can't tell you. I didn't want to be rude to perfectly pleasant PIL over a cup of tea, but couldn't actually bring myself to drink the stuff. So I sat there with it for about 20 mins, chatted in what I hoped was a sufficiently distracting manner, then helpfully cleared everyone's cups and took the opportunity to pour mine down the sink

Night time spider willies in the tea, Benlui?!!

Are they from Yorkshire?

What in the name of St Typhoo? What next, redunked biscuits?

Nowt as queer as folk.

My fab dear departed grandma reused teabags about 3 times more not because she was tight but because of a hangover from rationing during the war I suspect... I never did quite get it tbh. Having said that, she did have a very very very sad odd way of making tea aka warm milk aka weak tea which was boiling water with the tea bag placed in it for about 30 seconds... 😂😖😁

Oops, it wasn’t ‘sad’ - just odd! 😂

If the bags were rescued then it was probably fine tbh. Pretty odd not just to make a fresh one though.

the poster saying it must be stewed - they didn't leave the bags in there?!

I do know people who reuse tea bags though - if you want weak tea, that makes sense. Leaf tea probably cheaper but more faff?

my best friend's gran's tea is so weak we say "just show the bag to the water" when describing how to make hers.

I read the entire thing thinking you meant tea as in what you had to eat the night before ha ha. I had visions of a mug of beef stew going in the microwave - so confused until I worked it out

Yes, you are being very unreasonable to be slightly horrified. This is no time for slightly. This is full on aghast, horrified, traumatised and completely freaked out time.

I literally would not have been able to drink that. Wtf are they thinking??? Are they the aliens off Third Rock From The Sun? The mum from Strictly Ballroom?

Sedate them and send them to the army for testing.

I'm from the North, so by "pots of tea" I thought you meant leftover pans of casserole or something and I thought "God, there's some precious types on here, sneering at reheated leftovers". In my wildest dreams I did not think you meant a teapot of tea that had been left overnight! Yanbu.

Crossed posts with orange owls

You're all making me feel immensely vindicated! Think I might show this thread to DP

This genuinely sounds like something from a comedy sketch!

My parents do this with coffee, they make a decent pot of coffee, fresh grounds etc but then happily reheat it during the day and then the next day.

They are incredibly wealthy - and generous - but just hate waste.

If my mother wants to throw any crusts out she brings them to my house to throw out in case DDad accuses her of being wasteful .

I confess to also doing it with coffee, but for some reason wouldn't dream of it with tea. Yuck.

Also, I'm aware that even the coffee thing is a bit weird and there is no way I would serve it to guests- even family! It's more of a just-woke-up-and-need-some-coffee-before-I-can-make-breakfast-fuck-it-I'll-heat-some-up kind of a thing.

PastysPrincess- my dad does that with tea bags. Tight git. Oh my god, this is where I get the coffee thing from isn't it? I'm turning into my father?!

What
The Actual
Fuck

So far wrong it's on the wrong side of wrongity wrong.

are they from Yorkshire oldlaundsbooth

I can assure you that's no Yorkshire thing!! Bleurgh

Urgh that is rank.

Yes to showing your DH the thread. Not one person has agreed with him.

Can't even put into words how horrifying this is

My MIL is evil incarnate. But even she doesn't reheat yesterday's tea.
Thankyou for reminding me what normal IL grievances should be

Having lived in Yorkshire in the past I very much doubt folk from Yorkshire would barstardise tea in such a fashion. They take tea making and drinking very seriously