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Post by Patrick on Jan 17, 2011 16:55:10 GMT
Another crucial question of life here - actually just been asked by someone on Twitter. So what's it to be? China, Glass or Steel?
I've got a stainless steel pot myself - I like it because the taste tends to be cleaner (I think.) Heat loss is lousy of course, but we have some large cups so tend to drain it in one go. The old "Brown Betty" type is probably the best for keeping the heat in - and we had a really thick earthenware one once that barely needed a cosy. Once had one of those ones with a solid plastic cloth lined sheath which was quite long lasting - but looked pretty disgusting after a while with tea dribbles that you couldn't really clean off the furry stuff easily.
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Post by Weyland on Jan 17, 2011 17:08:38 GMT
Another crucial question of life here - actually just been asked by someone on Twitter. So what's it to be? China, Glass or Steel? Brown Betty in my opinion. Can't stand metal ones. Glass is . . . OK. My daughter has one. And glass cups. She doesn't drink tea. But my Brown Betty is in Holland, in my caravan. Silly me. The one I have here is china, but I don't really like it. My mother and my mother-in-law would use only leaf tea, and the mil had a posh china pot with a leaf cage in it. Sounds good, but I'd call it too much work getting the cage ready for a fresh brew. A tea cosy is, of course, one of the essential essentials of civilised life on this planet. They should be available on the NHS.
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Post by everso on Jan 23, 2011 15:48:01 GMT
Mug, teabag, boiling water, sugar, stir, remove teabag, milk, stir. VoilĂ !
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Post by Weyland on Jan 23, 2011 16:07:30 GMT
Mug, teabag, boiling water, sugar, stir, remove teabag, milk, stir. VoilĂ !
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Post by aubrey on Jan 23, 2011 18:02:33 GMT
Sugar???
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Post by everso on Jan 23, 2011 18:07:40 GMT
Just a level teaspoon, Aubs. Allow me that. Although, really I shouldn't, I know. I have been munching sweets and nuts since Christmas and, bygod, my scales have gone wrong as well.
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Post by aubrey on Jan 23, 2011 19:42:12 GMT
If you try not having it for a couple of weeks, you'll not be able to drink it with again. Tastes foul.
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Post by Weyland on Jan 23, 2011 19:55:19 GMT
If you try not having it for a couple of weeks, you'll not be able to drink it with again. Tastes foul. Listen to Aub, Ev. I used to take two. Couldn't even stand a sip of such a brew now. Leaving out the sugar brings out the real taste of the tea. You might find you want dearer teabags. Oh, and make it in a teapot and put the milk in the cup first. Even better.
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Post by everso on Jan 24, 2011 0:05:22 GMT
If you try not having it for a couple of weeks, you'll not be able to drink it with again. Tastes foul. Listen to Aub, Ev. I used to take two. Couldn't even stand a sip of such a brew now. Leaving out the sugar brings out the real taste of the tea. You might find you want dearer teabags. Oh, and make it in a teapot and put the milk in the cup first. Even better. Actually, over the past couple of years Mr. E. and I have gradually been cutting down our tea and coffee sugar, grain by grain. By the time we're 70 we'll probably be done with it.
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Post by housesparrow on Jan 27, 2011 20:51:42 GMT
As chance would have it, I need a teapot, owing to a broken lid (pot now set aside for future use as flower vase -must build extension to house).
I'm a bag in cup person but a pot is necessary if one is to take tea in a flask.
So brown betty it is.
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Post by Weyland on Jan 27, 2011 21:12:12 GMT
As chance would have it, I need a teapot, owing to a broken lid (pot now set aside for future use as flower vase -must build extension to house). Araldite.
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Post by Weyland on Feb 15, 2011 8:53:24 GMT
I've discovered a very nice brand of tea called Good Earth Organic Fairtrade Tea. It's the closest I've come to Ringtons around these parts. Can't remember where I got it, but it was probably Asda. Good stuff.
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Post by Patrick on Feb 15, 2011 15:47:51 GMT
We've tried that - hidden along the top shelf at Sainsbury's. Not bad. Can be a bit strong. A tragic tea story is that of "Lancashire Tea" that came out a year or so back with a lovely smooth if slightly sweet flavour. Then Sainsbury's dumped them 'cos they didn't meet the expected 40,000 boxes a week or summat and the company struggled and faced doom. So they started a cost cutting exercise and nobbled the flavour by blending it differently, also to give the "Poundshop" supermarket something to sell they launched a version with (unbelievable) half the amount of tea in each bag that sold for half the price! We would dearly have wanted to support them, but even when the banks (surprise) decided at the last minute to support them once again they neglected to return the tea to it's original flavour. A great shame as it could have been a great tea.
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