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...

It's incredibly tight but to all saying it's rank it is boiled water that has had a teabag in. If it's reheated to piping hot it's not going to kill anyone. Presumably the in laws have been drinking their tea like that for a long time and are still alive to tell the tale.

I do this with coffee, not a tea drinker but can see it might not work with tea. I don't think its being 'cheap', it's just trying not to be wasteful.

I've done this before! Mainly out of laziness. Don't think I've gone as far as to leave the tea overnight though, and would NEVER do this for the first cup of the day.

NO. NO NO. Tea is lovely, when made fresh. Even the second cup from the pot is disgusting. End of rant.

Bleurgh!

Just why?

Just mean what a miser. How joyless to live like this and not even have a fresh cup of tea.

My ex used to put a teabag in water in a mug then microwave it . He had many bad habits, much more serious than this though.

They're not from Yorkshire, they're from Scotland. I've never known any other Scottish people to be strange about tea, though.

Leftover tea to soak dried fruit for a cake is fine. Reheated to drink? Nooooo......

A very close family member would hang teabags on a line to dry and reuse. Strung across the tennis courts, just by the pool. The sight of the obvious signs of wealth, and this extreme frugality was quite something.

Loaded beyond belief, but couldn't chuck away a teabag. In her defence, she used loose tea mainly and thought tea bags were basically reusable, which obv made no sense whatsoever.

Good God, I'll drink 2 or 3 cups out of the pot over 3 hours but overnight is all kinds of heathen wrongness.

Absolutely rank. LTB.

Why would you do such a thing? A cup of tea is a ritual to be enjoyed, savoured. Reheating it is ... Beyond.

Oh dear. Oh, that is bad.

RIP morning cuppa

That’s grim. It’s even worse to not make a guest a fresh cup and give them day old tea. Doing something disgusting on your own is one thing subjecting others to it is something else entirely.

No, just no! 🤢

Eeewwwwwwww

Its one thing sharing a teabag between 2 cups when you make tea, ive have done this in past the tea has been okay. Its a totally different ball game using tea that got made the day before 😷 it will be rank by the next day

My mum's mum used to make the first morning's pot of tea by using water from their now-cold hot water bottles. That just makes me feel sad.

But a pot of tea left overnight? Meh. I would sip at it then tip it down the sink/in the garden/in the aspidistra.

No no no! This is not right.

It used to make me sad when DD was tiny - I'd have endless cups of tea go cold on me and in desperation I'd stick one in the microwave for a minute then wish I'd had time to make a fresh one. And those were half an hour old! I finally saw the light and ordered a Thermos mug from Amazon, hoorah! Hot fresh tea

Day old tea? That is rank!!

Is it worse than the ex's gran who used to make the pot of tea in the morning and it stayed on the range all day just getting water added to top it up. Morning tea was ok but by night it was enough to melt your teeth