How do you make a cuppa tea?

[Deleted]

cwoffeee.. same as riot said.. water must stop bubbling.. in fact its usually a good 2-5 minutes after kettle has boiled that i pour it into the mug. not nescafe thou, dont like any nescafe cwoffee at all, i use carte noir. no milk, about a qwuarter of a teaspoon of sugar.

[philippa]

vanilla icecream with a shot of hot espresso poured over it. now that does sound interesting. might just try that.

also say cwoffee, just like a nu yoik cop. also, mirrr orr as in the bathroom (good song btw) and horrrrrr a la marlon brando - they're odd them yanks with their pronounciations.

actually my method of making a cuppa is also the same as everso, 1 sugar in with the bag, and sometimes i'll warm the mug first.

i wonder if anyone else finds tea bags pretty tasteless these days. i think i'm going back to tea leaves. keep tying different brands of tea bags but always seem to end up disappointed. maybe its my taste buds that have dulled. though recently i bought a box of jacksons of picadilly tea bags that were on the reduced counter in somerfields and i now i wish i'd had the good sense to buy the lot because now they're nowhere to be found around here and they made a really good cuppa.

i'm hankering for the loose tea in the pot ritual that i grew with and only ditched in favour of tea bags recently (ten years). i never used a strainer and leaves not swallowed stayed behind in the mug/cup in a clump. should have learnt to read them.

i remember drinking extremely good brews in Sudan way back when. all the ingredients were put into a large kettle and brought to the boil. black tea, the water, condensed milk, sugar and cardamoms. very sweet and delicious.

[everso]

Jan 21, 2010 8:58:32 GMT Weyland said:

Jan 20, 2010 23:10:20 GMT everso said:

I've never been able to tell the difference anyway.

And therein lies the key. It's what makes it quite impossible for epicures like me to communicate with the likes of you. I don't know why I bother, I really don't. (*)

Milk in last, indeed! Next you'll be telling me you make it in the microwave.

* Having said that, I cannot in conscience leave the afflicted without any hope of salvation. I'm on the case, but I need to sort out some details of an international nature. PM later.

I thought epicure was a brand of pickle. Or am I going back too many years?

[everso]

Jan 21, 2010 11:28:15 GMT @riotgrrl said:

I don't drink tea, and I feel excluded from this thread. I may have to protest.

But to make a perfect cup of coffee . . .

1 - Put Gold Blend at bottom of mug.
2 - Boil kettle AND THIS IS THE IMPORTANT BIT wait until it stops bubbling and the water is calm.
3 - Pour the water in the mug.

End of.

But some idiots at work haven't got it yet, and keep pouring my coffee when the water is still boiling. You can tell by the taste that they've done it.

Ah yes, Gold Blend every time. Forget all these new fangled coffees made from coffee beans. I like real coffee from the jar, me.

You are correct about not pouring boiling water on to it. I seem to remember you having a bit of a rant once before about that.

Now, I must explain why I am totally against putting the milk in the cup with the tea bag before the boiling water is applied. Unlike coffee, the water should be boiling (or as near as dammit) when it hits the tea. As Alpha says, the cup should be warmed. The point is that if there's cold milk in the cup, the water, even if it's boiling, will immediately cool as it hits the milk, and you won't get the correct brew.

If someone makes me a cup and puts the milk in with the teabag, and I'm standing watching the procedure, I get very twitchy.

[Alpha Hooligan]

Point 1: Big sharrht arwwwt to the anti-nescafe posse! Disgusting, bitter stuff that is, give me some red mountain or mellow birds any day of the week.

Point 2: Mrs E, the milk only enters the cup once I decide that the tea is brewed enough, I leave the teabag in in case it needs an extra stir...I NEVER put milk in the cup before the boiling water is applied, that is the way of the barbarian and the foriegn type.

Point 3: Trubb, I always knew you were a sensible and classy young lady, your use of the proper method simply confirms this. Well done!


AH

[everso]

Jan 21, 2010 23:33:25 GMT Alpha Hooligan said:

Point 1: Big sharrht arwwwt to the anti-nescafe posse! Disgusting, bitter stuff that is, give me some red mountain or mellow birds any day of the week.

Point 2: Mrs E, the milk only enters the cup once I decide that the tea is brewed enough, I leave the teabag in in case it needs an extra stir...I NEVER put milk in the cup before the boiling water is applied, that is the way of the barbarian and the foriegn type.

Point 3: Trubb, I always knew you were a sensible and classy young lady, your use of the proper method simply confirms this. Well done!


AH

Ah. Sorry I misunderstood you. O.K. you may make me a cup of tea. Thank you.

[Alpha Hooligan]

Well, seeing as it's you, I will make an exception.

Don't any of you other wimmin go thinking I will happilly make you a cuppa though...it's not gonna happen.


AH

[trubble]

I see you haven't changed since the days I lived in your attic. This is precisely the sort of behaviour that made me move out in the first place, Alph. You'd come home late from the bingo, all exhausted and grumpy that you hadn't won and there I'd be with your dinner on the table getting cold. ''I suppose you think that Pot Noodles make themselves,'' I'd say. ''Shut up, wimmin,'' you'd roar, ''I was having a pint of Fanta with my invisible friend, or is that a crime now in your feminazi world!'' and then you'd throw your special bingo pen at me. Of course you were always so sorry afterwards, when I was sticking a stormtrooper design band-aid on my nib-shaped wound, ''I'll make it up to you'' you'd say ''let's watch the Jungle Book''. It worked every time. But then...then you had to spoil everything. ''Stick the kettle on.'' Just once I would have liked you to make the tea. Just once. But oh no. Oh no, Alph. It was always my turn. You are so selfish!

Anyone else having trouble sleeping?

[Deleted]

i havent tried it yet- sleeping i mean. ive tried pot noodles.

[Deleted]

tonite i mean.. obviously ive tried sleeping before in my lifetime.

[Deleted]

I DONT LIKE IT MUCH THOU.

[Deleted]

Pot noodles i mean. i dont like pot noodles. obviously i like sleeping.

[Weyland]

Jan 22, 2010 3:15:11 GMT @costal said:

Pot noodles i mean. i dont like pot noodles. obviously i like sleeping.

We just haven't got the time for this kind of detail, Costy, Please write a management summary and submit it to Patrick for approval.

[aubrey]

I've had pot noodles that are really good, and some that taste of vomit - the same type, as well (I think it was a beef one). So I suppose it's me.

(By the way: the tea-making method that I introduced - teabag, milk, hot water from the tap - was not intended to be tried, just to show how far some people have sunk - Danny Baker's wife, I think it was who did this.)

[Weyland]

Jan 22, 2010 10:24:27 GMT aubrey said:

I've had pot noodles that are really good, and some that taste of vomit - the same type, as well (I think it was a beef one). So I suppose it's me.

The only pot noodles I've ever had were far too salty. I never indulge now. Cracked down on lashings of salt when I had high blood-pressure, and don't miss it any more. Thought I would. Never cook with it, just shake a little on as needed.

[trubble]

I tried a forkful of a Pot Noodle once and nearly got sick. I wouldn't ever sprinkle one on anything.

[Deleted]

pot noodle can be alroight if and i do mean IF you follow the instructions EXACTLY to the letter and do not deviate slightly one bit from what it instructs you to do.. it is not rocket science far from it and yet i have noticed in the past any slight deviation from the rules will result in it not turning out right. so make sure the correct amount of water is added, correct waiting times are adhered to, and make sure stirring is administered as and when instructed and the little sachet of sauce is added and it will all be ok. you have to do what they say.

[Weyland]

Jan 22, 2010 14:51:37 GMT @costal said:

pot noodle can be alroight if and i do mean IF you follow the instructions EXACTLY to the letter and do not deviate slightly one bit from what it instructs you to do.. it is not rocket science far from it and yet i have noticed in the past any slight deviation from the rules will result in it not turning out right. so make sure the correct amount of water is added, correct waiting times are adhered to, and make sure stirring is administered as and when instructed and the little sachet of sauce is added and it will all be ok. you have to do what they say.

I have followed your advice to the letter, Costy, employing a computer model wot I wrote representing a typical Tikka Masala Sweet & Sour Sauerkraut Vegetarian Haggis pot-noodle product I found on the Vatican Index.

Here's a mouth-watering excerpt from the expert Marketing Blurb: "This Pot Noodle snack is sweet like kittens, but sour like an ex. Sweet like a cupcake, and sour like a lemon. Sweet like a daisy chain, sour like a grapefruit hat necklace. Sweet like my gran, yet sour like my Auntie Phyllis."

Such is the complexity of this task that I was forced to hack into the PRofC Space Agency mainframes in order to untangle it, but the fact remains that it's still too bleedin' salty.

See Noodles -- The Truth at Last for further details.

[Deleted]

i bought white pepper yesterday for the first time in my life. how mad is that? it took me approximately 35 years before i ever reached the stage where i had to actually go out and buy white pepper. its true when they say nothing lasts forever.. even white pepper does not last forever. but it does seem to last a bladdy long time.. and i use it a LOT!

[Alpha Hooligan]

Jan 22, 2010 2:53:51 GMT trubble said:

I see you haven't changed since the days I lived in your attic. This is precisely the sort of behaviour that made me move out in the first place, Alph. You'd come home late from the bingo, all exhausted and grumpy that you hadn't won and there I'd be with your dinner on the table getting cold. ''I suppose you think that Pot Noodles make themselves,'' I'd say. ''Shut up, wimmin,'' you'd roar, ''I was having a pint of Fanta with my invisible friend, or is that a crime now in your feminazi world!'' and then you'd throw your special bingo pen at me. Of course you were always so sorry afterwards, when I was sticking a stormtrooper design band-aid on my nib-shaped wound, ''I'll make it up to you'' you'd say ''let's watch the Jungle Book''. It worked every time. But then...then you had to spoil everything. ''Stick the kettle on.'' Just once I would have liked you to make the tea. Just once. But oh no. Oh no, Alph. It was always my turn. You are so selfish!

So. When are you moving back in then?


AH