Dp has started adding the milk to mugs of tea while the teabags are still in there brewing.

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He puts the bag in, pours boiling water on, adds milk, lets milky horrid soup sit for ages (until it's not even hot enough for my liking, humph), then serves.

I am emphatically against this, but am struggling to convince him that it's misguided because tbh I don't really know why. I wondered if the milk would sort of clog up
the flow of pure water through the bags (Scottish Blend, pyramid-shaped, natch) but that sounds like bollox even to me.

Do please tell me what you think.

I was raised on proper tea leaf tea, measured out from a caddy with a proper tea measuring spoon. The dead leaves would be poured down the drain so as not to stain the sink. I vowed I would always use leaves when I grew into a responsible independent tea making adult.

Now, I have teabags on the worktop in a jar and two beautiful redundant tea pots in the cupboard.

Oh, and I always but the milk in when teabag is brewing. And I wonder why my mum thinks I'm a failure...

Sod it. Things are changing in the menaceandmayhem household.

Tomorrow I bring out the pots! Bugger the staining of the sink - lets start a revolution!

The fat in the milk does clog up the teabags.

But how on earth can you drink tea at this hour? If I did I'd be up all night...

Tea snobbery! Excellent! I do it too (add milk before removing the teabag), but then i am lazy.

Love the tea snobbery. I used to horrify my German friends when they came to tea by bunging a couple of PG Tipps tea bags into a pot and letting them stew for an indeterminate length of time.

They were expecting a fancy authentic British tea ceremony, with silver tea pots and loose tea and were sorely disappointed until they tasted the tea.

Then they wanted to know where to buy it.

I need a tea measuring spoon. I didn;t know I needed one until 2 minutes ago. are they those scallop shaped things?

They are rounded and flat, like a squashed soup spoon, with a small handle.

Everyone needs a tea measuring spoon.

And a tea cosy. Which will double as a hat for the DCs. Every family needs a tea-cosy-on-head photo of their children.