Room 101 - Milk In Tea First? Perlease!

[ToraToraTora]

it has to go in first! it's not tea otherwise! Heston Bloomingtart, not a clue!

[Jackdaw33]

More to the point, which end do you open it, big or little?

[DaisyNonna]

Little, I use small glass as an egg cup
Looks more elegant

[Hopkirk]

Life is so hard

[stuey]

"tis much more complicated and logistically challenging that the making of a mere cuppa.

[DaisyNonna]

eggsactly

[stuey]

The cooking of eggs that is; not life.

[Mamyalynne]

I am a little end cutter and use a family heirloom.


http://tinyurl.com/zrj4gr6

[DaisyNonna]

Tee Hee

[jno]

stuey, surely the only question of significance is - which end?

http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/lesson_images/lesson936/endian.pdf

[stuey]

An interesting looking gadget, Mamy.

[stuey]

Jno, I should make a point of reading Gulliver's Travels...Interesting.

[DaisyNonna]

I have one of those mamya!

[DaisyNonna]

Quail eggs need far less time

[Xeronema]

Egg: Boiling water mixed with salt (egg won't crack).
Tea (Teabag Method): Teabag in the mug/cup, add the sugar, add boiling water and leave to mash for a good few minutes. Once mashed, remove the teabag and add milk. You don't get a proper cup of tea if you add milk first if mashing the teabag in said cup - I've seen people do that. Also if you end up making 20 cups of tea for 20 different people it's far easier to add the milk and sugar last; that way you have less chance of getting the 'order' wrong or if someone decides they don't want milk or would prefer their own cup/mug or specific receptacle.

[mikey4444]

Put teabag in cup....pour on boiling water ( definitely NOT water that boiled 2 mins ago ! ).....when tea has brewed, add milk and sugar to taste !

Simples.

Anybody that puts a teabag into a cup and then pours cold milk over it deserves shooting.

A few years ago in America, a friend of my friends asked me if I wanted cream or lemon with my tea.

" Cream ?...in tea ? " I spluttered, hardly believing what I had just heard !

Ruddy colonials.

[mikey4444]

One of my best friends in New Hampshire only drinks tea on a Sunday morning, and he puts Coffee Mate into his !

[mrblear]

If you put the milk in first you can judge the correct amount then add teabag and then boiling water - jiggle tea bag with spoon until preferred colour achieved.

[wiltsman]

// Put teabag in cup....pour on boiling water ( definitely NOT water that boiled 2 mins ago ! ).....when tea has brewed, add milk and sugar to taste ! //

Yes Mikey, thank you, we had to wait until the 35th entry before your post spelt out the correct and simple way to make tea!

[Cloverjo]

No, mrblear. You can't do that. You don't get any colour if the milk is already in.

[mikey4444]

A teabag, or tea leaves needs boiling water first, By dunking a teabag into cold milk, the brewing process is fatally flawed.