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Grizelda said:
Why do some tea drinkers dunk a biscuit in their cup? I don't do it, but crumbs of biscuit must drop into the tea and ruin the taste.
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You can actually buy tea bags that taste like dunked biscuits. I tried one when they put a pack up in my work's canteen, they weren't too bad but I think I'll stick to normal. I have been known to occasionally dunk a biscuit but yes you can get a rather unpleasant mush at the bottom of your cup if you're not careful.
 
Grizelda said:
A double espresso will get you going! A small one is little more than three or four tablespoons. But so strong.
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That's the idea. I don't like weak coffee. May as well have water ;) But not so big an amount that you're flying round the room :p
 
Do any of you have a favourite cup to drink your tea from ? I do or rather I did until Mr V recently broke it. It has to be made of china and not one of the thick heavy pot mugs or cups, it has to hold quite a lot of tea, not a piddly mouthful some tiny cups hold and it has to feel comfortable to hold. I`ve been on the search for a new favourite mug/cup and Mr V is now banned from washing it when I find it !
 
All my tea cups are favourites. They're breakfast cup size. They all have different flower designs on them.
One is chipped but I still use it. I don't have a dishwasher, so have to be careful when I wash up. I don't like small tea cups. I'm too greedy!
 
Vienna said:
Do any of you have a favourite cup to drink your tea from ? I do or rather I did until Mr V recently broke it. It has to be made of china and not one of the thick heavy pot mugs or cups, it has to hold quite a lot of tea, not a piddly mouthful some tiny cups hold and it has to feel comfortable to hold. I`ve been on the search for a new favourite mug/cup and Mr V is now banned from washing it when I find it !
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I can drink out of any cup. Mugs are preferable for both tea and instant coffee. I have 'my' cup though. It's a triangular one with Barcelona sites on it. No, I didn't go there to get it.
 
Funny how our tastes change, in my 20's I liked strong tea and so it couldn't be run of the mill bags and had to have plenty of sugar in (two heaped).

Then I thought it was giving me stomach cramps, so for many years I stopped drinking it altogether.

It is only in the last 6 or 7 years I have started drinking it again. Less sugar (two level), not quite so strong and fairly cheap bags do nicely. Lidl Gold label is fine as are Morrisons savers when they actually have stock.
 
I prefer drinking tea from a mug as opposed to a cup. Of course this is because my favourite brew is a tea bag thrown into a mug with boiling water poured over it, milk added at the end. You cannot do this in a teacup as it would be far too strong. I will only use a cup if I'm out and the tea comes in a pot and then it's usually like gnat's pee. I find it difficult to get the brew right in a teapot. My nan used to make it the old fashioned way with tealeaves, a tea strainer, tea cosy, good old cup and saucer and it was delicious, but I want my tea quick and I want a mugful!
 
A prog on Radio 4 yesterday (Sliced Bread) about kitchen boiling water taps, and the correct temperature to brew tea.

The taps could cost £3000 and more, but NOT recommended for all sorts of reasons.
 
Ant7t said:
Has anyone ever seen a gnat pee? :p And in my last job, they had an agency carer (residential care home), and she put 20 teabags into a standard size pot for somewhere around 15 people. How's that for strong?
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I was always told one per person plus one for the pot. Is that wrong?!

Tbh, haven't used a teapot for ages, just bag in a mug!
 
PhædrusR said:
I was always told one per person plus one for the pot. Is that wrong?!

Tbh, haven't used a teapot for ages, just bag in a mug!
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I'd heard that too, but the pot I was talking about wasn't a huge one. And likewise, mug and bag. But on that premise, do 'you' put two bags into the one mug? :p
 
Ant7t said:
I'd heard that too, but the pot I was talking about wasn't a huge one. And likewise, mug and bag. But on that premise, do 'you' put two bags into the one mug? :p
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One bag in a mug for one.
For two, separate bags and mugs! Cups used on special occasions.
I do put multiple old bags in a mug to reuse and get a strong enough 2nd or 3rd brew! Waste not, want not.

But I still go through teabags like billy-o. Have bought the massive 600 bag pouch from Tetley's when on offer and usually no less than 240 bag boxes at a time!
 
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At home one bag will do two mugs for me.

What I do is to hold the bag flat in the palm of my hand and shake to even out the level, then I fold the bag in half and place over the lip of the mug. Then carefully I pour the water over the half of the bag that's inside the cup. The bag is then placed on the edge of a saucer, damp side towards the centre. Later I use the dry unused half to make the next mug.
 
PhædrusR said:
One bag in a mug for one.
For two, separate bags and mugs! Cups used on special occasions.
I do put multiple old bags in a mug to reuse and get a strong enough 2nd or 3rd brew! Waste not, want not.

But I still go through teabags like billy-o. Have bought the massive 600 bag pouch from Tetley's when on offer and usually no less than 240 boxes at a time!
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Are you a tea drinker by any chance? ;) I usually have two or three a day. Depending on how thirsty I am. Usually a double of an evening: as opposed to one one one, or whatever :p
 

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