Tea and mugs

[Belshels]

Tea....am I being ridiculous but why does tea taste awful in some mugs / cups, and lovely in others? And as for tea in a plastic takeaway cup, yuck!

Tea in paper cups is horrendous. I don't know why. I can drink coffee from a bucket and not care. Presumably for me coffee is doing a job and tea is one of life's little pleasures.

I have a few cups i prefer to drink from, if my son buys weird mugs and makes my tea in them its not nice!! He recently bought these mugs with easter bunnies on the handle and theyre just wrong! Give me a nice white curved elegant mug every time (and dont get me started on the cups my kids received with their easter eggs a few years ago which are fluted in a really awful way!)

I don't like tea from coloured cups, they've got to be white (at least on the inside).

I think certain mugs end up with the tea strength being better depending on how much water the mug holds…so the ratio ends up being more to your preference if that makes any sense?!

I'm afraid I agree with the tradition of only drinking tea out of bone china cups or mugs.

I have a large bone china breakfast cup and saucer - with cats on- that I always use.

The feel of the cup in your hand and against your lip affects the whole sensory experience.
cutlery can matter too - I really hate the feel of the wooden items which have replaced plastic for ‘food on the go’, even though they’re for a good reason. I really need to start carrying my own if we’re likely to be picking up an m&s salad bowl or suchlike.

Do t drink tea, but coffee out of a glass mug is so much nicer than a mug. Tastes cleaner somehow. Not so milky.

Not ridiculous at all. I'm sure the way you eat or drink things impacts on the taste. Chinese food eaten with a knife and fork rather than chopsticks is just not the same.

My grandmother would only drink tea from a white cup. I only drink it from mugs.

Paper cups are joint worst with the cup from a thermos for actual taste but if you’re drinking from one of those you probably really appreciate having a cup of tea at all!

I hate tea and coffee in dark coloured mugs (on the inside iyswim), it makes it look and taste horrible

Ha! I always ask for mine to be in a proper mug, not a glass one.

I don’t want coffee in my tea mug or tea in my coffee mug. They are just all wrong.

I thought I was the only one who thought this.
I can only drink tea out of one of those glass cups that were popular in the 80s (the smoked glass ones) - I'm not sure if it's my imagination because they're the cups my beloved Nanna used to use, but I think tea tastes totally different in mugs.

Can't drink tea from a takeaway cup ....gives me bad stomach 🤢 i do have a favourite mug at home which my son got me for mother's day two years ago. Surprisingly its survived lol

On a similar note, I can’t enjoy hot drinks in certain mugs as we bought them early on in my pregnancy and they just remind me of feeling horribly sick all the time!

I have some old M&S Ditsy Floral mugs which are china and more cup like that I always use for tea, I prefer my Emma Bridgewater mugs for coffee. I don't like any sort of takeaway cup for either. DH is not fussy as long as the mug is big. Large La Rochere glass for iced coffee and coke, I dont like fine glassware for these either

Tea can only be drunk from a mug which flares out very slightly at the top and it mustn’t be China. It also has to be a specific size. At a push a glass mug is acceptable. Coffee can be drunk from most mugs or cups

I soooo agree. For me tea needs to be either in proper china, or if in a mug it has to be white inside, white as a base colour outside, not heavy, edges slim enough. For the past 7 years my favourites are the london collection from Royal Doulton. It s perfection.

i hate black - tea tastes disgusting
and black teapot in some coffee shops - why do they choose that?

any coffee shops owners to explain? It s not even designer teapots

Hey! So glad it's not just me, seems I'm not ridiculous or weird or a fuss pot!😂
I agree plastic, cardboard / paper cups are a no no, tastes so different. Even certain cups are not the same. Good point about the dilution, amount of milk etc, but even if I tip tea from favourite mug into plastic cup it changes taste!
My favourite mum is a Christmas mug and every other mug is not quite right!

I agree wonder why darker colours inside make a difference. I have a cup with red inside and it's awful!

Thanks for all the replies, very interesting and some funny. Perhaps we are all just eccentric British folk!! xx

Yes Emma Bridgewater are good, I had a favourite tea mug, cream with spots on, but it broke!

For me, tea has to be in a large, chunky ceramic mug with a white or cream interior and straight sides. Cannot stand bone china. Cannot stand mugs that are coloured inside. Cannot stand mugs that are shaped like flower pots with sloping sides or have any shape other than straight and cylindrical. Small mugs are rubbish. Tea cups are rubbish.

Tea from a paper cup, plastic cup or worst of all, one of those thermal metal travel mugs, is absolutely repulsive.

Like others, I get no pleasure in drinking tea from a very heavy clumpy, huge handled mug. Ugh. Has to be bone china or similar. I lift up every mug I buy to test for thinness, width of the handle and weight. It's a tough life for mugs in my house!

We stayed at an air bnb which had only really old silver cutlery (not in a good way, it looked really really old and all the knives were butter knives) we had yo huy our own cutlery from tesco

Yes, tea has to come in bone China mugs which are white inside. Coffee can come in anything although I'm not a fan of thick mugs.