To think DH is wrong about how you make a brew

[Phos]

... or maybe I'm weird!

I always maintain you put the bag in, then the water, then the milk and then you get the tea to your desired strength before removing the tea bag. DH just made a fuss about this saying I do it the wrong way. But surely leaving the bag in is sensible insurance against an unfortunate slip and putting too much milk in! Have I been badly taught?

Well he can make his own tea then can't he.

I make mine the same way as you, unless using a teapot. How does he do it?

I do it the same as you. My DH sometimes puts the milk in first and I hate that. The flavour of the tea doesn’t really come out with the milk.

I take the teabag out before adding the milk

No, putting the milk in stops the tea brewing any further. So I'd look squoggle eyed at you if I saw you doing that. Wait until it's brewed nicely, take teabag out then add milk as required.

A friend of mine doesn't like any agitation of the tea bag, thinking it releases tannins and so forth. To my mind, this is A Good Thing, but he clearly doesn't agree!

Teabag. Water. Aggitate the bag to desired strength. Remove bag. Add milk but to be fair unless they make tea like my dad I'm not pulling anyone up over a brew 😂

I'd always remove the bag before adding milk.

Like some other posters, takes the tea bag out then puts the milk.

Tbf I get you do that if you're using a teapot, which I often do but I dunno, making it in a mug feels different!

To add though, I'd never put the milk in before the water. I'd freak myself out doing that.

Somehow if you put milk in and then try to make it any stronger it always looks gross.

To my mind the correct way (for a single mug) is tea bag in, just boiled water on, leave for appropriate amount of time for strength (quite long in my case), take out teabag, put milk in. Colour is adjusted by amount of milk (again in my opinion it shouldn’t be much milk!)

Exactly. And never EVER press or squeeze the bag against the side of the cup

I would always remove the bag before adding milk.
But I don't drink tea, I just make it for other people. There's not much I won't eat or drink but tea makes me gag.

That’s because to brew the tea, water needs to be boiling when it goes in and stay hot to work. Adding milk with the teabag in reduces the temperature to below the level that it works. This impacts the taste.

so always brew, remove, then add the milk.

Here you go OP.

Maggie explains it much better than I can.

Make a pot

Failing that take the bag out before adding milk you absolute barbarian

Me too

YABU for calling it a brew.

As long as you're not serving it with the bag still in then it's OK. One of my former colleagues would leave the bag in and drink it.

I couldn't care less how people make it if they're making for themselves and tbh, unless they're dangling their body parts in it or blowing their nose into the mug, my only response if they're making it for me, is thank you.

It's like the whole jam/cream/scone nonsense. It really doesn't matter.

Eurgh you heathens the milk goes in first

Wtf
not with a teabag. That would wreck it!

Honestly!!!! Milk (blue obvs) then tea bag (clipper or Earl grey - I have standards) then boiling water, sit for 3 minutes and lift out

ta da!!!! Beaut

Colour is adjusted by amount of milk (again in my opinion it shouldn’t be much milk!) of course it isn’t! If it’s not strong enough to begin with, no amount of withholding milk will make that nice rich colour.

YABU for calling it a brew. It’s the correct term in N Yorkshire. Are you denying the validity of the N Yorkshire dialect?

You don't drink Earl Grey with milk, anyone knows that.

Tea bag, hot water, stir and squeeze the bag, remove. Milk next to the colour of he-man. Margin of error in a pale cup is slim. That’s why I can’t have dark coloured mugs in my house. Signed, A Yorkshirewoman 😁

Thank god someone said it!! You can't brew tea properly with cooled water.
YABU @Phos but if your DH puts in milk first he's even more U
😁

Sugar first (yes I know!), teabag, water. Wait two minutes, jiggle teabag, remove teabag, stir, add milk, stir again. Perfection.