To want to kill people who put the milk in first?

[Cortina]

Thinking about a work colleague who makes a pot of tea and then pours milk into the cups about 2 inches deep first

Told me off today for doing it 'the wrong way'!

Milk should always go in first.

oh, YANBU, btw

Debretts says milk first.

Debretts wrong.

You are all weird.

Tea is a far superior drink if taken without any milk at all.

What really is annoying is when people don't even bother to ask how you take it before slopping some milk in the cup. When you then hastily intervene to say "Actually I don't take milk" they then tip the milk out but pour the tea in to the same cup without even rinsing it!. Thus creating a scummy cup of tea that no-one could enjoy!

You are quite right 5foot, if you think about it it's odd to drink milk from another mammal at all.

But then if I go too far down that route I shall end up vegan and...oh...I just can't be arsed.

I agree with Kitty - milk first for a pot and last if you use bags because the fat in the milk blocks the holes.

I don't take milk in tea and neither do my family so whenever I made it for others I would always put milk in first as part of the 'time efficiency' thing...as the kettle boils you get everything else ready etc. Since meeting DH he has 'educated' me that this is in fact wrong. Apparently it is more forgiveable if tea is being made in the pot as against the mug (the teabag in the mug needs to full heat of the hot water in order to steep instead of milk cooling the whole thing down).

Still better without milk though.

milk last here
I like it strong

Tea made in a pot should have the milk poured in first, after ascertaining your guest takes milk and not lemon surely?

Builder's tea teabags in mugs gets made first and then the milk sloshed in.

I always believed people who put milk in HERBAL teas were a work of fiction!!!

Pot of tea = milk first

Tea bag in cup = milk last

I like milky weak tea anyway so a quick dunk of a teabag is fine!

I thought that it depended on whether it was India or China tea; milk in first with India tea, last with China tea -- but only if using a pot.

Obviously, if you're using a teabag milk has to go in last because you need the temperature of the water to be high to infuse the leaves properly.

(and my DH wants to know -- at what point should you add the yak's butter? )

I don't care (although I prefer to put it in last) as long as they don't put it in hot water THEN add a tea bay.

Hmmm I think that a killing might be a tad extreme - though a good flogging for putting 2 inches of milk in wouldn't be out of order.

I might be run off the boards for saying this but I make my tea in any order;

From a pot

Tea then milk
or
Milk then tea

In a mug

tea bag then hot water then milk
or
milk then tea bag then hot water

Just as long as there isn't too much milk

Looks like I am the only one who actually likes UHT milk in tea... always skimmed and always added last. But if you ask me it's the people who add any kind of milk to Earl Grey who have the strange preferences.

Actually, we've discovered that Waitrose skimmed UHT is indistinguishable from the real thing; very weird because I've always HATED UHT!

I think I remember reading in a book about the history of MIF or TIF (perhaps in The English - by Kate can't remember her surname?) that one put milk in first if lower/middle class because it would prevent the cups cracking, but that the aristocracy/upper middle classes would have had more expensive bone china, which wouldn't crack if boiling water was poured into them.

I don't know whether that's true but it sounds as though it could be.

I think we're with the majority - milk in first if using a pot, in last if in a mug.

My parents and grandparents are staunchly tea leaf tea users, silver teapots, cups and saucers and milk in last.....

Mug, pot, schmot, doesn't make any difference. Milk in first, always.

Milk !!!!!
it should be a twist of lemon

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