Tea

[Rose]

Earl Gray tons of milk and honey.

[Sea Demon]

Chai Tea......Iced. :cool:

[Drebbel]

;) .

[joea]

Yes, green, earl grey or english breakfast. All good. :|\\

[Konovalov]

Chinese tea, Green tea, English Breakfast, and Earl Grey are right up there for me as my favourites. But what comes out on top is a cup of real Chai tea made by my mother-in-law which is milk tea brewed in a saucepan for about 10mins till the milk boils. In it are cardimom pods, cinamon, and other spices. I find it great to drink in the evening. Yummy. :up:

[jumpy]

Yorkshire Tea for the win!
http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/9649/tea32gc.jpg

Great stuff, makes a good strong cuppa:up:
As you can probably tell I dont go for all of this 'poncey stuff' when it comes to tea drinking hehe. Brewed for about 10 hours, then add two heaped teaspoons of sugar and a goodly dollop of milk so it goes a rich orangy-yellow-brown colour. Perfect.

[Skybird]

Rooibos, milk, sugar. Green tea. Pai Mu Tan. Darjeeling, sugar. I'm very choosy about Darjeeling and Green tea, and buy "bio"; only, due to the horrific high contamination with pesticides - the levels usually top every scale one could imagine. Some traders have the complete analysis from the lab available. By these I choose.

[STEED]

I say chaps this is all very civilised, scones with jam and cream anyone? Hark this take me back to the days of the old empire and Britain ruled the waves, and we won all the wars against those local chaps who threaten us with pointed fruit and some of them even had spears. How rude of them, any way lets all sit outside in the garden enjoying the fresh air and warm weather, as we contemplate the mystery of brewing a nice cup of hot tea and talk about the best tea in the world.

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How to make a perfect cuppa
Many people ask no more than that their tea be "wet and warm", but in the hunt for perfection in a tea cup, a scientist has created a formula for optimal temperature, infusion and imbibation. Oh, and when to put the milk in.

There are 11 rules for perfect tea making, rules from which nobody should dare depart, said George Orwell.

The great critic of Hitler and Stalin, was not above a bit of teatime Totalitarianism himself, it seems. Orwell said that tea - one of the "mainstays of civilization" - is ruined by sweetening and that anyone flouting his diktat on shunning the sugar bowl could not be called "a true tealover".


GEORGE ORWELL'S TEA RULES
1. Use tea from India or Ceylon (Sri Lanka), not China
2. Use a teapot, preferably ceramic
3. Warm the pot over direct heat
4. Tea should be strong - six spoons of leaves per 1 litre
5. Let the leaves move around the pot - no bags or strainers
6. Take the pot to the boiling kettle
7. Stir or shake the pot
8. Drink out of a tall, mug-shaped tea cup
9. Don't add creamy milk
10. Add milk to the tea, not vice versa
11. No sugar!

Aside from sweet-toothed tea drinkers, the author also displayed a distaste for scientists. So to mark the 100th anniversary of Orwell's birth, the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) has decided to look at his 11-point formula - and rubbish a good many of his supposedly "golden" rules.

Dr Andrew Stapley, a chemical engineer at Loughborough University, has brought the weight of his scientific knowledge (and shameless personal preferences) to bear on the question of the perfect cuppa, and found that Orwell was wrong on a number of points.

Orwell's six-spoons of tea per pot - mightily extravagant when the author set down this rule during post-war rationing - is still far too strong today. The RSC endorses no more than a single spoon of leaves.

As for adding milk to the tea after it is poured, the RSC issues a stern scientific warning against the practice. It seems that dribbling a stream of milk into hot water makes "denaturation of milk proteins" more likely. And who would want that?


"At high temperatures, milk proteins - which are normally all curled up foetus-like - begin to unfold and link together in clumps. This is what happens in UHT [ultra heat-treated] milk, and is why it doesn't taste as good a fresh milk," says Dr Stapley.
It is better to have the chilled milk massed at the bottom of the cup, awaiting the stream of hot tea. This allows the milk to cool the tea, rather than the tea ruinously raise the temperature of the milk.

Also, unlike in Orwell's rules, science seems to bear no grudge against those who would take sugar with their tea - provided it's white sugar.


Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea
Henry Fielding

Indeed, the addition of sugar is praised since it "acts to moderate the natural astringency of tea" - which translated into unscientific terms means that it makes tea, wait for it, less bitter.

This is heresy to Orwell. "Tea is meant to be bitter, just as beer is meant to be bitter," he said. What would he have made of the alcopop suggested by the RSC?


He would recognise and appreciate some elements of Dr Stapley's perfect cuppa. The RSC brew uses Indian Assam tea leaves, which falls within Orwell's tight stipulations. He said no other nation's tea made him feel "wiser, braver or more optimistic".
There is no real scientific reason for Assam winning out over other leaf varieties, it just happens to be a strong tea to Dr Stapley's own taste.

"While some things are backed by science, others - like the choice of Assam - are based on my own preferences. I'm sure there are going to be plenty of people coming up with better methods to make tea and it's good that we have that debate," says Dr Stapley.


I'd rather have a cup of tea than go to bed with someone - any day
Boy George

Finally, the RSC recommends that the perfect cup of tea made by following its formula should be drunk while reading George Orwell's account of 1930s drudgery and vagrancy Down and Out in Paris and London.

Well, no disrespect to the late Mr Orwell, but BBC News Online begs to differ. Having brewed the perfect cup of tea, we recommend that you sip it while stewing over our tea break.


Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/uk/3016342.stm

Published: 2003/06/25 10:19:26 GMT

© BBC MMVI




As for me I like my tea without milk and sugar, tea must be strong as well. :D

[Linton]

lemon and ginger or jasmine are great for relaxing though a good cup of pgtips and a slice of fruit cake whilst watching cricket are particular favourites.

[Sailor Steve]

Plain ordinary Black/Orange Pekoe for me, hot or iced (iced only for the nonce, as Utah summers tend to be fairly warm). Lots of sweetening, no milk or cream.

[Onkel Neal]

It's hot in Texas: Iced tea with sugar and lemon. :ping:

[Terrax]

been drinking green tea (straight up, no additives, much to horror of my Son) for 6 years. Since then I've heard it cures almost everything, now I hear it's really just tea. I just like the taste of the stuff.

[SUBMAN1]

Tazo Zen tea - nothing like it, nothing ever will be like it. Just damn good.

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Need to add some more pics here! Actually, just playing around with formatting on the new board.

-S

[Rose]

I've started a hot thread here!

[STEED]

I've started a hot thread here!

:up: :up: :up:

Tea anyone?

[Yahoshua]

Yerba Mate (sustitute for coffee and has around 5 times the caffeine of industrial coffee)

Green Tea.

Peppermint/Spearmint tea with raw goats milk (we have our own dairy goats) and a little sugar.

[lesrae]

For me it's a nicely stewed cup of "proper" tea, tetley's/yorkshire etc., with 1 sugar and just enough milk to make it opaque.

[SUBMAN1]

I've started a hot thread here!

Of course! Hot Tea! :up:

[The Noob]

Tea...:-?

Have a Break, have a:
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[SUBMAN1]

This thread is really degenerating now! :)

-S

[Polak]

2/3 Whiskey and 1/3 Tea, doesn't matter to much what brand and from where it is:yep:

[Hellcat]

Earl Gray, black and maybe some of those arrowroot cookies

[Rose]

2/3 Whiskey and 1/3 Tea, doesn't matter to much what brand and from where it is:yep:

No no no, 2/3 RUM and 1/3 Tea m8.

Or am I thinking of Irish Coffee? Whatever, rum and tea sounds tasty anyway...

[Polak]

How about 3/3 of whiskey or Rum and 0/3 of tea?

[STEED]

I hear green tea is good for you what's it like taste wises? :hmm:

[August]

Yorkshire Tea for the win!
http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/9649/tea32gc.jpg

Great stuff, makes a good strong cuppa:up:
As you can probably tell I dont go for all of this 'poncey stuff' when it comes to tea drinking hehe. Brewed for about 10 hours, then add two heaped teaspoons of sugar and a goodly dollop of milk so it goes a rich orangy-yellow-brown colour. Perfect.

This brand was far better tasting (imo) than Twinnings or Bigelow, but it's not on the international shelf at the supermarket anymore :down:

A new brand of English tea i just picked up is PG Tips. I claims to be the "English Nr 1 tea". I'd be interested in hearing the British opinion on that.

[Khayman]

English breakfast, Chamomile, Green Tea, Jasmine tea, lapson souchong, Earl Grey and a Scottish tea (three parts whiskey and no parts anything else)

[STEED]

A new brand of English tea i just picked up is PG Tips. I claims to be the "English Nr 1 tea". I'd be interested in hearing the British opinion on that.

It is the number one seller here in the UK. I must admit not bad worth trying out, shame those great PG Tips Monkey adverts came to an end they were funny.

[DeepSix]

Earl Grey; milk and sugar.

[August]

It is the number one seller here in the UK. I must admit not bad worth trying out, shame those great PG Tips Monkey adverts came to an end they were funny.

Thanks Steed. I will give it a try.

[Seeadler]

Jagertea :rock:

Side effects:
1. sometimes strong dizziness
2. it entices to neck-breaking rescue actions of your girlfriend/wife
3. nobody takes you any longer seriously

[Rose]

I hear green tea is good for you what's it like taste wises? :hmm:

It tastes nice and soothing, and relaxing, and is great when your sick, but I stick to Earl Grey for my afternoon cup.

Also, speaking of British food products in America (PG Tips), my friend's English "mum" gave me some chocolate bars called Penguins the other day. They are the best things ever! Anyone from Britain like these things too?

[STEED]

Thanks Steed. I will give it a try.

Like all things worth trying out once hope you like the PG Tips, August. :up:


It tastes nice and soothing, and relaxing.

Thanks for the info I shall give the old green tea ago. :)

Also, speaking of British food products in America (PG Tips), my friend's English "mum" gave me some chocolate bars called Penguins the other day. They are the best things ever! Anyone from Britain like these things too?

Yes they are nice more so cold from the fridge. :D

[Egan]

Yorkshire Tea for the win!
http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/9649/tea32gc.jpg

Great stuff, makes a good strong cuppa:up:
As you can probably tell I dont go for all of this 'poncey stuff' when it comes to tea drinking hehe. Brewed for about 10 hours, then add two heaped teaspoons of sugar and a goodly dollop of milk so it goes a rich orangy-yellow-brown colour. Perfect.
Jumpy wins. Yorkshire tea rocks. I'm drinking a cup of it right now.

Aside from that, ceylon is pretty good. My favourite brew, though, is one bag of Yorkshire and one of Earl grey. I'll leave the tea strainers and 'real' tea for when the queen comes round.

Anyone had 'Sherpa' tea before?

[Captain Norman]

Green tea. End of Discussion

[August]

Yorkshire tea rocks

Which flavor of Yorkshire tea? The Yorkshire that used to be available over was a bergamot Earl Grey flavor.

[Egan]

Which flavor of Yorkshire tea? The Yorkshire that used to be available over was a bergamot Earl Grey flavor.

The 'Yorkshire Tea' in Jumpys pic. it's a brand all to itself, just like tetlys tea and PG tips. It's a fuller taste. Just normal tea. it's the only one I know.

[STEED]

The History of Tea

http://www.ioe.ac.uk/schools/clc/pachler/culture/otherness/files/tea.htm

[Rose]

by D-Day, for example, the Royal Navy alone was drinking nearly 4000 tonnes a year.

WHOA!

[STEED]

I just had my first cup of green tea my verdict very smooth and nice. :D :D

[Rose]

Yea... Soothing and relaxing, right? I have to try out that PG Tips, but I dunno if we get that here in America. Anyone know the BEST loose-tea Earl Grey sold here in the States?