Enjoying your cuppa

[said]

Ha!Ha! Looks very much like back to basics, doesn't it? Oh Well.

UPDATE:

Bit of a hard job this at first. I used a tea strainer and loose tea. The tea was a better, stronger flavour but there were some tea leaves left in the cup. Well, if natural tea takes off, there might be a renewed interest in telling fortunes fom reading tea leaves. So I took my cup turned it round three times clockwise, emptied out the excess tea and then read the tea leaves. Best scrub the renewed interest bit as I can only see a squiggly line of leaves. At least I cannot be burned at the stake as a witch.

Next step, buy a tea pot with a strainer built in. Easier said than done. Apparently, the new tea pots have an infuser in them? What good is that - loose tea needs to move around in the boiling water to get the flavour out of the leaves - it is not like damned coffee, for heaven's sake! Found a pot, with a built in strainer and yes, the tea tastes much better.

Drawbacks: Emptying out the tea pot is a bit messy!

[jamyramy]

UPDATE:

Bit of a hard job this at first. I used a tea strainer and loose tea. The tea was a better, stronger flavour but there were some tea leaves left in the cup. Well, if natural tea takes off, there might be a renewed interest in telling fortunes fom reading tea leaves. So I took my cup turned it round three times clockwise, emptied out the excess tea and then read the tea leaves. Best scrub the renewed interest bit as I can only see a squiggly line of leaves. At least I cannot be burned at the stake as a witch.

Next step, buy a tea pot with a strainer built in. Easier said than done. Apparently, the new tea pots have an infuser in them? What good is that - loose tea needs to move around in the boiling water to get the flavour out of the leaves - it is not like damned coffee, for heaven's sake! Found a pot, with a built in strainer and yes, the tea tastes much better.

Drawbacks: Emptying out the tea pot is a bit messy!

geta tea egg their on the net,is stainless steel egg,you fill it up pop it in on its chain ,give it a jiggle .and brew to strengh ,and you can reuse couple of times if your canny! they come in a twin pack costs about tenner.

[Little Londoner]

Used to work with a bloke who used his teabag a couple of times so someone decided to boil his teabag after its first use. After boiling it was tested and not a bit of colour it was put back where he left it.

Tea + Full Fat Milk + Sugar = Nectar

Tea - Milk - Sugar = Paint Brush Cleaner

[gsgsgs]

Used to work with a bloke who used his teabag a couple of times so someone decided to boil his teabag after its first use. After boiling it was tested and not a bit of colour it was put back where he left it.

Tea + Full Fat Milk + Sugar = Nectar

Tea - Milk - Sugar = Paint Brush Cleaner

Only one way to make tea properly

tea bag (Yorkshire) in mug for 5 minutes, take tea bag out but don't squeeze, let the last few drips drip into mug, milk to taste

[Toodles McGinty]

First thing - Yorkshire tea, double bagged. Evening - loose Yorkshire tea in a pot. Lovely.

I'm with you on this, gaza. Won't let any other tea in the house. Strong but milky.

I also have an 'egg'. Got it off Ebay last year. Little metal ball with a clip to keep the 2 halves together. I always feel like I'm making a proper cup of tea when I use it.

It's shiny. That all it takes for me.

[MICK/GILLY]

Now and again I used to go into town for breakfast and the guy serving said do you want a drink with that?, I told him no your cheap coffee is awful and he said why don’t you have tea it’s Yorkshire tea from Yorkshire.
When I told him it’s not grown in Yorkshire but it’s a blend of teas mixed in Yorkshire he wouldn’t have it, so I said I know Yorkshire pretty well where do they grow it?, he didn’t know but all my attempts to tell him it’s probably a China and another eastern tea blended and branded in some factory somewhere in Yorkshire he wasn’t having it.
The power of advertising eh .

[said]

Only one way to make tea properly

tea bag (Yorkshire) in mug for 5 minutes, take tea bag out but don't squeeze, let the last few drips drip into mug, milk to taste

From #3:"In March 2020, Yorkshire Tea which, at the end of last year, overtook PG Tips as the most popular brand in the UK announced that they are well on the way to switching away from plastic completely. Instead, their tea bags are going to be made of a plant-based “plastic” called PLA. The update on their website posted on 9th March states:… by the end of April, we reckon we’ll have made about 360 million tea bags with the new material. If all goes well, about 20% of the UK Yorkshire Tea bags we make from that point will be PLA. That should be up to 50% by the end of June, and by January 2021 all UK Yorkshire Tea, Yorkshire Gold, Yorkshire Tea Decaf and Yorkshire Tea for Hard Water will have switched."

[said]

Now and again I used to go into town for breakfast and the guy serving said do you want a drink with that?, I told him no your cheap coffee is awful and he said why don’t you have tea it’s Yorkshire tea from Yorkshire.
When I told him it’s not grown in Yorkshire but it’s a blend of teas mixed in Yorkshire he wouldn’t have it, so I said I know Yorkshire pretty well where do they grow it?, he didn’t know but all my attempts to tell him it’s probably a China and another eastern tea blended and branded in some factory somewhere in Yorkshire he wasn’t having it.
The power of advertising eh .

Ha!Ha! So typical. Anyway, Yorkshire tea should now be safe. It is grown in Yorkshire, by the way - on a plantation in someone's loft - or was that cannabis?? I can't remember, I get confused.

[MICK/GILLY]

Have another cup of tea that should sort you out one way or another .

[Blackrock]

[QUOTE=said;6757424]I have several allergies to some of the chemicals added to foods. It takes many months to check and test just which foods are causing the problem. I have regularly enjoyed a cup of tea for many years - but I have just discovered I am allergic to everyday tea.

Tea? But it is naturally grown - there are no additives shown on the packet?


Are you sure you are actually allergic to the tea Said? My wife has had problems with pain/irritation in her waterworks for some time and was advised by a specialist to try a week or two going without any caffeine in drinks. She mentioned that she already used decaf tea and coffee but was told that even these contain small amounts of caffeine. She ended up using fruit teas for a fortnight and the irritation faded noticeably.
She still has one decaf coffee per day but drinks fruit teas mainly the rest of the time.
Just thought it worth a mention (but it's probably not your cup of tea)

[MICK/GILLY]

Get a water filter ( little tap easy to fit ) and cut out most the crap in the water and change from milk to coffee mate . Milk doesn’t agree with me any more since they started playing with it ( or cos of my age ) and although I drink mostly coffee nowadays, when ( once a year ) if I make a cup of tea it tastes clean and creamy . Like it used to .

Red milk ... chalk dust and water
Green milk ... just a big lie
Blue milk .. awfull thin pretend milk
Jersey gold top .. just like old fashioned milk used to be, milk the birds would bother to peck the foil off the top, milk you can actually taste, they just got you all buying coloured water now.

[said]

Get a water filter ( little tap easy to fit ) and cut out most the crap in the water and change from milk to coffee mate . Milk doesn’t agree with me any more since they started playing with it ( or cos of my age ) and although I drink mostly coffee nowadays, when ( once a year ) if I make a cup of tea it tastes clean and creamy . Like it used to .

Red milk ... chalk dust and water
Green milk ... just a big lie
Blue milk .. awfull thin pretend milk
Jersey gold top .. just like old fashioned milk used to be, milk the birds would bother to peck the foil off the top, milk you can actually taste, they just got you all buying coloured water now.

Yeah - know what you mean. I go to the farm out at Burscough, near the canal. They supply Bates Dairies, but you can buy fresh, whole cow's milk before it is messed around with. It is not the water which bothers me because ours does not have fluoride in it - it is the additives in most products which do not agree with me.

[gsgsgs]

Get a water filter ( little tap easy to fit ) and cut out most the crap in the water and change from milk to coffee mate . Milk doesn’t agree with me any more since they started playing with it ( or cos of my age ) and although I drink mostly coffee nowadays, when ( once a year ) if I make a cup of tea it tastes clean and creamy . Like it used to .

Red milk ... chalk dust and water
Green milk ... just a big lie
Blue milk .. awfull thin pretend milk
Jersey gold top .. just like old fashioned milk used to be, milk the birds would bother to peck the foil off the top, milk you can actually taste, they just got you all buying coloured water now.

Isn't blue milk full fat/whole milk?

[MICK/GILLY]

Isn't blue milk full fat/whole milk?

It’s not what it was tho is it.. maybe it’s my rose tinted glasses for looking into the past but you can leave it standing and there’s no cream that rises to the top like there used to be .