To think that there's something wrong with dh's attitude to tea?

[PrettyCandles]

Dh won't let me make his tea because he says my tea is utterly dire. I think it's OK.

He won't let me leave the teaspoon in the cup, says he can taste it.

Yet he'll reheat his tea in the microwave!

Surely that's a disgusting thing to do to tea?

indeed, bran!

lol, oh yes, i have just spotted that error. I am odd, on occasion, but not that odd. I of course meant a spoon.

Honest

Oh good. Only moderately weird then.

Which reminds me, I have some elderflower ice cream in the freezer. I should probably eat it in case the power goes off overnight (it could happen). I will be using a utensil that is both metal and a spoon.

oh you know it just makes my spine chill just thinking of eating ice cream with a metal spoon it hurts my teeth, makes them go all, well, metall .

Enjoy it. I ate a ton of profiteroles. With my fingers

Tea in the microwave is an abomination.

Coffee in the microwave can be done under certain circumstances.

i love tea.

but it only has to be milked and brown to be acceptable.

fussing over tea is annoying - i just want it hot, and here.

I love tea too. Not too strong; not too weak; with milk; no sugar. I drink gallons of it BUT I love it when someone else makes me a cup of tea. Just love it.

A microwaved good cup of tea is better than a non-microwaved bad cup of tea

All tea is disgusting. As is coffee.

But I think I'd be quite pleased if someone found my tea disgusting. Then I wouldn't be asked to make it for them. In fact I've been known to make really bad tea on purpose (soak teabag in milk before adding water, let teabag burst, lukewarm water, salt, that sort of thing)!!

Sounds like you are saved from tea duties then...
Used to work with a woman who made my tea with the same spoon she used to stir her coffee. Every cuppa had a nasty undercurrent of nescafe.

Says CuppaTeaJanice, LOL

Oooh, my DP makes the best tea, far better than when I try to make it, I am far too impatient! However, when he gets up before me and leaves the tea by the bed, I very rarely arise when it is still hot so I take it, stick it in a saucepan, boil it and pour it back into the mug... I swear it tastes better!!

... I'd like to point out we don't have a microwave!

We once had a lovely American girl doing an internship with us. On the 2nd day she offered to make tea so I showed her where the kitchen was. She put a tea bag and cold water in a mug and THEN heated it up together in the microwave! I quickly put her right!! I'm all for supporting the 'Special relationship' but really there are limits.

Junkcollector I'm more of a coffee drinker, but I still find that deeply unsettling.

My DH can't make tea for shit. He doesn't even boil the kettle. He simply fills mugs up with water and microwaves the water for 2 mins then puts in the teabags. Isn't that just rank?!

I am more of a coffee drinker but am VERY fussy! I can honestly taste if the kettle has been boiled more than once and it taste's disgusting. DH does make a lovely coffee though, so long as he uses fresh water!

On the whole, I think my feelings regarding utilising the microwave to commit tea-abuse are NBU.

It's fine not to have to make tea for him, but it's such a homey, welcoming, thing to do that I do sometimes want to do it!

OTOH it then rankles when his parents are over, his obsessively tea-drinking parents, yet he expects me to make tea for them! In fact, whenever we have visitors I'm expected to make the tea. Humph!

AIBU to find that annoying?

i like coffee