Yes, this is a blog post about
how to correctly make a cup of tea!
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| How to make tea?!? |
Over the course of the Lords
of Time weekend a large amount of tea was consumed, especially by me, now the
age old question is, how should it be made? Milk first (the correct way!) or
milk in second?
This debate raged most of the
weekend, the girls from the DT Forum, DavidTennant.com and I locked in
stalemate as to who was correct, only one man could sort this, I am of course referring
to Mr David Tennant.
During the DT guest talk, the
question was asked, so how should tea be made? We all expected a quick reply,
what we got was probably the most detailed description of how to make tea I’ve
ever heard!
The reply went a little
something like this...
“Well, erm. Start off with
putting a tea bag into a cup, half of you will already have written off my
answer because I’m not using a pot! Anyway put a bag in a cup doesn’t really
matter what type.
Then add boiling water and let masting take place, yes that’s a technical term! The tea should be left until it’s got a
good colour, something like a dark beige.
At which point the milk should
be added, commonly known as a splotch”
DT had sided with the milk
second contingent (which thoroughly depressed me) however, he did redeem
himself by not classing fruit teas or similar as tea (Rosehip, for example, if
it’s not got caffeine in then it isn’t tea...)
As an avid tea drinker it was
a shame to see that even my favourite Time Lord makes tea the wrong way... Oh
well!
That's How I make tea, milk in first, well unless its being made in a pot then its a whole other process.
ReplyDelete[Full disclosure: I'm a milk first girl. That said...]
ReplyDeleteIf you use a teabag, you unfortunately need to put the milk in second, because with black tea, you want the water to be as close to boiling as possible when it hits those leaves. If you put cold milk and a teabag in a cup together before adding the boiling water, then the water will be cooled by the milk before it can really work its magic with the leaves. Hence, milk first with a pot; milk second with a teabag. In other words, you're both right! :)
i was watching a programme (i think it was 'Lets Do Lunch With Gino And Mel' - yes i watch daytime TV!) and they had an etiquette expert on. He said that the traditional britsh way to make tea was milk second (sorry Matt!). This goes back to the olden days where if you could only afford cheap china (eg. the servants) you had to put the milk in first so when you poured in the boiling water, the heat wouldnt break the cup. So if you wanted to show you're British through and through and are rich enough to buy decent china, then you'd pour the hot water on top of the teabag first, followed by the milk :)
ReplyDeleteI'm personaly an adept of the "splotch" technique. And first of all because I don't want my tea to diffuse into milk. And, most important, when you add milk in second place, you can appreciate the lovely volutes.
ReplyDeletei am on the Milk first side, with or without a pot, always milk first lol
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