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Making Tea (Yes I'm bored - possibly ungrateful cow as well)

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twelveyeargap · 19/03/2007 15:25

When making tea in a cup, with a tea bag, does anyone on here put the milk in first?

ARRGGHH. I'm such an ingrate, but when people offer me tea at work (very kind of them), I sit here looking at it half the time, wondering how to get rid of the vile, milk first, then teabag, then water muck that they bring back.

The tea just doesn't infuse properly. It's vile. Like hot milky water coloured slightly like tea.

Is it just me? I happen to put the milk in second, even when I make a pot, but milk in first when making tea from the bag? Surely this is madness???

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Cappuccino · 19/03/2007 15:27

tell them not to make you any tea

tell them you are a picky ungrateful cow with nothing better to think about

problem solved

inanidealworld · 19/03/2007 15:29

Quite agree with you there. It's gross!

fryalot · 19/03/2007 15:29

Boiling water on to tea bag. It doesn't work if it's not boiling. Wait for it to brew for a while. Stir it if you like (some people like to stab, that's ok too) Remove tea bag. Add milk to taste. (and sugar if you really must)

You NEVER put the milk in first.

It used to be that you put the milk in first because A) tea was always brewed in a pot and B) china cups were too delicate to handle red hot tea.

Nowadays, builders mug, tea bag, then milk.

You are SO right

(not that this bothers me in any way, you understand....)

ShowOfHands · 19/03/2007 15:29

Oh TYG I'm with you. Eejits the lot of them. If they're going to do it they can at least do it properly.

Shall I make one for you?

DeviousDaffodil · 19/03/2007 15:29

Why would they do that???
Yuck!

Cappuccino · 19/03/2007 15:30

if you make it in a pot you should put the milk in first anyway

there's something chemical that happens that makes it taste different

skirmish · 19/03/2007 15:30

if you put milk in first, the boiled water 'scalds' the milk apparently (thinking back to days when working in cafe')

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twelveyeargap · 19/03/2007 15:38

It's true, I should have something better to think about. In fact, I DO - I'm just ignoring it!

I know there was a thread a while back about milk in first/ second etiquette thingy, but was pretty sure this only applied to tea from a pot.

You'd need to leave the bag in for about 5 days to get any strength to the tea if you put milk into a mug first.

Ah well, my KitKat was great consolation for the tea.

SOH - Norfolk tea shop! We're still on for that sometime I hope.

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Tinker · 19/03/2007 15:40

I switched to black coffe no sugar for precisely these reasons. No-one can make tea to my exacting standards

whoopsfallenoveragain · 19/03/2007 15:42

are you in my office?
Actually probably not as we rarely get tea made for us!!

Cappuccino · 19/03/2007 15:43

people always make tea too damn strong anyway

nailpolish · 19/03/2007 15:44

tea should be made in a pot

The End

warm the pot
put the tea bags in
add the water
put on the cosy
stir if you like
pour into cup
add milk

altho its best black

yum

glassslipper · 19/03/2007 15:45

how to make tea

Cappuccino · 19/03/2007 15:45

'put on the cosy'

aww. she's so sweet

anybody's office have a cosy?

nailpolish · 19/03/2007 15:47

Capp every office should have a cosy

with a treasury tag with "Capps cosy" so no one pinches it

Cappuccino · 19/03/2007 15:49

I vote every office gets a milk frother

and a sprinkly-chocolate thingy

ShowOfHands · 19/03/2007 15:49

Oh yes TYG, there is a pot of tea with our names on it in a lovely little Norfolk café with homemade cakes. The staff wear pinnies, everybody doffs their caps and little cherubic children smile sweetly and sit saint-like by their glamorous mothers.

This pregnancy has made me delusional...

Tis nice tea though. And the homemade cakes and pinnies bit is true too.

HappyDaddy · 19/03/2007 15:53

I used to work with a guy who, no matter what he did, always used to make manky tea. There was this little skin on the top of the water!

Never had the problem with coffee, he was amazed that he was the only tea drinker in our team, whenever he offered!

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twelveyeargap · 19/03/2007 15:55

Yippee SOH. When are you free in April?

Would LOVE to see the reaction in my office if I brought in a tea pot. Might do it on my last day for a laugh.

Tea here comes from a hot water urn in the coffee shop just off the floor, so it's not even boiling. The tea will never be great, but milk in first only makes it worse.

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nailpolish · 19/03/2007 16:02

coffee is disgusting

HappyDaddy · 19/03/2007 16:04

I wont make you any, np.

ShowOfHands · 19/03/2007 16:17

I'm actually in London 8th-13th April. Fancy a meet-up? Otherwise I start ML on the 23rd.

I have to say I have only been to London very briefly and I might have a melt-down/get lost/cry. I may need a guide. And there won't be teashops. It's all be frappamochachinos and beautiful people.

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twelveyeargap · 19/03/2007 16:22

YES! Any time over those dates. Happy to protect you from the big bad City people and will find us somewhere lovely to have tea.

Drop me a line about it. twelveyeargap at googlemail dot com

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HappyDaddy · 19/03/2007 16:25

Beautiful people? It's all fat, middle aged middle managers in grey suits and grey faces.

Lullabyloo · 19/03/2007 16:26

dh makes it like that....bleughhhhhhh....too lazy to wait for it to brew i guess...sigh...