Milk in before or after teabag

[CharliesAngels81]

Please settle a debate in this household

Milk in before teabag taken out or milk in last?

Whose unreasonable here - I believe milk in before teabag

That's only if you're brewing the tea in a tea pot (and mostly likely in the past using loose leaf tea.) Putting the milk in before the tea in the cup means it doesn't brew properly.

This!

After teabag

Teabag in mug/pot.
Add boiled water.
Get distracted by work and go back to laptop.
After ten mins feel thirsty and remember tea brewing.
Add milk and enjoy excessively strong lukewarm tea ☕️

After

If I’m making it in the cup, I put milk in last, but if I’m using a pot I put milk in first.

Always after

Milk last. The teabag needs freshly boiled water.

Milk first if you're pouring tea from a teapot.

Milk last unless you have expensive delicate antique porcelain tea cups

teabag in, squeeze with spoon until teabag almost breaks and then milk. its the only way

Milk last.

@Rhaidimiddim is right.

Also, milk last because then you add the right amount for how brewed the tea is, which applies even if you're using loose leaf and a teapot rather than a tea bag.

I heard that the water should be boiling when it hits the tea bag for a really good cup of tea. So you don’t put the milk in the mug first, because it will cool down the water (when it hits the teabag). However, if you are pouring the tea from a pot you should put the milk in the cup before you pour the tea (the water has already hit the teabags in the pot). I’m not sure why you put the milk in the cup before you pour the tea, but I was told this was the right way to do it ie more posh.

This.

Or even:

Tea bag in mug
Add boiling water
Get distracted by work
Remember tea 30 minutes later
Warm tea up in microwave
Add milk
Take mug of tea to desk
Get distracted by work
Remember tea 1 hour later
Warm tea up in microwave
Remember you are late on a work call
Two hours later look for mug of tea everywhere
Find it abandoned in microwave
Warm tea up in microwave
Enjoy triple-microwaved tea, yum

Teapot - either. Originally it was first, to preserve the china cup

Teabags in modern mug - definitely the very last thing. Unless, of course, you like your tea like gnats piss. In that case milk in first will slow down the brew process sufficiently.

Just as well it's me drinking it then, not you. 👍 😁

Milk last, the fat molecules in the milk blocks the holes in the teabag and the flavour doesn't come out as readily.
Milk first if the tea has been made in a tea pot and already sat and percolated.

I do before, DS does after. There is absolutely no difference between the two brews.

the fat molecules in the milk blocks the holes in the teabag and the flavour doesn't come out as readily.

That doesn't matter as the tea has already brewed before the milk is added.

You are wrong.

If putting the teabag in the mug, it needs to come out before the milk goes anywhere near it.

If you are brewing up in a teapot, then you put the milk in the mug before pouring out from the teapot.

But under no circumstances does the milk go near the teabag.

Milk last you heathens!!!

Wish you'd done a poll.
Too many posts to keep count.

If you put the milk in first before the teabag the tea doesn't brew properly.

Milk will cool it too much to let the tea brew. Milk in after the bag is out, when the tea is at your preferred strength.

Milk last. Good enough for the queen, good enough for me!

Milk first with teabag. Add boiling water.

I simply hate strongly brewed tea (that some people call builders' tea) and adding the boiling water to the teabag without the presence of milk makes it so strong that a spoon could near stand up on its own in there.