Or is it fucking coffee or nowt? Cos I ain't booking if there ain't no tea, you bastards.

andrew made me a very nice cup of tea when i was there

we have been working very hard on perfecting our cup of tea here at electrical. It has not hurt much that we have been surrounded by english girls for the past month +. Personally, I believe that my cup of tea has come a long way. Although now that our english friends are gone i'll probably get beaten for drinking tea. they hurt us with a huge braided piece of 1/2 inch tape when we start acting weird. not to mention the bishops folley. anyway, if anyone needs to learn how to make tea i would read orwell's essay entitled..."the perfect cup of tea". thats the format that my tea guru has passed on to me.

"The English do not know how to make a decent cup of coffee. You do not know how to make a decent cup of tea. It's a fair swap."

From booklet given to G.I.s going to Britain, 1942.

Orwell was wrong. You can have sugar. The perfect way to diffuse the tea in the bag is to pour the water from a height. Leave for 1 minute, add milk/sugar. Bob's your uncle.

This isn't to say that Starbucks is the best purveyor of tea, but during my time at Starbucks, I was trained to allow tea to steep for 3-4 minutes. Usually comes out to my liking that way, but I agree with the pouring method.

Gibby wrote:The perfect way to diffuse the tea in the bag is to pour the water from a height. Leave for 1 minute, add milk/sugar. Bob's your uncle.

If intending to take just a minute, pouring alone is insufficient; such a method may be more suitable for a longer steep, although some spoon-dunking should always play a part in my book. But for a minute-method, dunking is necessary. This is not stirring, it is dunking. Before this, allow the bag to steep for half of the said minute. Full diffusion will be better acheived by allowing the spoon to hold the tea bag to the bottom of the mug during this time (I don't do cups. If it's an actual, literal cup of tea you want, make a pot of tea). Help the bag do little turns, upside down, up and over. Allow the tea to swim around inside the bag. That's it. With this method, only a minimal squeeze of the bag against the rim is necessary, as it has already done its job. A hard squeeze is the poor man's dunk.

I am not one to advertise, but it must be said that the PG Tips pyramid teabag is a fine, fine design of a teabag. Why the more refined teas come with an easily destroyed, wrapped up at the top with a piece of string for non-spoon dunking bag I shall never know. What a waste of good tea, this non-spooning bag tea. Leave that shit for the camomile hippies.

Make the tea strong, then add enough milk to make it look like it is neither strong nor weak (unless it's 'builder's tea' you're after). This way, you and your associates may drink a fine, delicious tasting cup of tea, with a kick that not only perfectly equates with good coffee but which will sink in at a steadier pace and provide you with a smoother, longer-lasting ride on the caffeine highway.

Sugar is perfectly acceptable, though I do not walk that path myself.

thanks chap2
i love me some tea.

Did I mention the water temperature? No? Okay, this is important. The water MUST BE BOILING. Not boiled, not just boiled, not boiled twenty seconds ago. BOILING. If you don't get this part right, eveything else is pointless, you may as well go get a polystyrene cup from the burger van with the teabag soaked in the milk first. Scald the tea. The water poured upon the teabag must be BOILING.

Gibby wrote: Bob's your uncle.

No he isnt. he is my cousin.


Never and i say never put the milk in with the teabag please.

horrible.

chapter has it pretty spot on.