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In this video we react to how to make a proper cup of British tea. It's a well known fact that most Brits love tea. Since we're probably going to be trying some British tea soon, we thought it would be fun to learn how to make tea the British way. We were surprised to see how simple, yet strategic making British tea is. We've never tried milk in tea before and as someone who doesn't really like tea it's going to be really interesting drinking tea like a Brit for the first time.
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Oh for heaven's sake. Three cups of tea a day cannot be right. We all drink more in this house and our dog sulks if we don't give him one when we make tea! Tea is a cure all. Visitor arrives - Would you like a cup of tea. Bad news? I'll make us a cup of tea. Fallen over? I'll put the kettle on. In fact whether it's just sitting down after doing a chore - there's always a reason to have a cup of tea.
My Nan's dog used to enjoy a saucer of tea.
It’s at least five, my blood group is T positive, lol
@clarelawton 😂Good one👍 Me too. Maybe we're related! 😊
@@georgedoubledragon3630 I know it was vague average. Can't step up to the plate and give a number 'cos I just have a cup every time the kettle goes on! Don't really want to know how many teas that might be! LOL Steve's shocked comment that it could be 'four, five OR EVEN SIX CUPS A DAY' might not cover it either. Do you know, I think I'll make a cup of tea and think more about my answer!
Omg I used to make my dog tea as well, tea with milk in her bowl she used to love it 🤣
I drink 8-10 cups of tea per day, which I would say is fairly average for a tea drinker. Milk doesn’t cool the tea very much unless you make a really milky cup.
Thats more than average for sure 😂😊 if not with sugar then that's not to bad😂
I would literally be peeing every 15 minutes
About three pints a day. Sometimes two.
Same here at least 10 cups per day .I love Earl Grey .
Thompsons tea.
lemon tea.
cardamon tea.
My first cup is around 6.30 am my last cup is around midnight
1000 cups of tea is nothing its not even 3 cups per day !!!
Culturally a thing to understand is that tea isnt limited to the 'quaint teacup experience'. Tea is just as much a 'chipped mug on a building site' drink for labourers as a 'cup of joe' might be in the states. Its completely cross cultural and not just for when you want to relax.
Absolutely. I'm drinking tea from a takeaway cup while I type this in a cyber-cafe! Tea is not posh. I think the videos are confusing having a cuppa with "High Tea" which includes everything from biscuits to sandwiches to scones
Yeh not at all for relaxing - gets you going in morning, perks you up again when you’re flagging, keeps you going mid afternoon til you get home for another , I’m all hopped up on tea right now!
Occaisionally working in an office there's called a 'tea run' where someone gets everyone in their vicinity a hot drink, this may be tea or coffee, but will often happen several times a day.
Yep, about 8 cups a day and so tea runs are inevitable@@adrianclarke9132
That's good to know! Appreciate the insight :)
3 cups of tea a day? I can drink that per hour!!!!
Fun fact: in the UK there's a thing called a "TV pickup" where during the ad breaks of popular TV shows everyone used to get up and put the kettle on all at the same time, which required specific engineering in the power grid to cope with the sudden surge in demand which then went away again once the program resumed.
This might be the most quintessentially British thing I've ever heard. Love it!
@@reactingtomyroots You could do reaction to Dinorwig Power Station, aka Electric Mountain. It's a pumped hydro station, so when the add break starts and the grid knows people will be turning their kettles they open a big tap and let hundreds of thousands or millions of gallons of water flow down the mountain to power the kettles. Then they pump it back up to be ready for the next one.
😂you always knew it was 8pm when I was growing up, all the lights in the house would dim when the surge happened
I’ll make tea in the mug if just me or me+1. More than that I’ll make a pot. In the early days, china cups were fragile so people put cold milk in first to reduce the shock of boiling water. Nowadays it’s the other way around so you can offer milk or lemon. Afternoon tea, a light meal, usually sandwich and scones or cake and tea, came about as the aristocracy would eat dinner very late in the evening so needed something between lunch and dinner. Nowadays it’s a treat when visiting friends, when visiting an attraction or shopping. I’ll have a biscuit or 3 late morning for “elevenses”. There is much debate about which biscuit is best for dunking. A cup of hot sweet tea is always offered to someone who has suffered a shock such as bad news. Also after donating blood. You’d be thought rude is you didn’t offer any visitor, including tradesmen a cut of tea. I’m a 4 cup a day girl. Much as I like marmite, I prefer jam on my crumpets!
If you go to hospital after treatment. The NHS always offer you tea. Give blood you get a cup of tea. The NHS must brew insane amounts of tea daily. I love tea. No sugar.
😊 I drink (Hot - not iced or sweet!!)
tea black - _no_ milk & _no_ sugar.
(But mostly I drink Nescafe Unsweetened Cappuccino - and _love_ the 'powdery lumps in the froth', and _eat_ them first, before drinking the coffee!) Whenever I drink tea, it's probably *"my tea day"*
(*...because I'm medically restricted to just 1.5Litres of fluid per day because I'm having to take 80mg Furosemide tablets per day to reduce oedema to protect my failing kidneys...*) and _having*_ to drink fewer cups - mugs actually - of tea is sooo _restricting_ and sad!!😢😊❤🏴🇬🇧🖖
Well I have never been offered a cup of tea after a hospital visit in my life and I am in my 60s.
Absolutely true, plus you get biscuits as well. If you are in hospital the tea trolley comes around about every half an hour.
@@ElizabethDebbie24
I was - _once_, admittedly ! - offered & given a nice cup of tea in my GP's office, because she had had to struggle with a Cusco's spectrum, during a pelvic exam (...the spectrum turned out to be "too short") and she had to go to get a differently-sized one from outside her office, so, apologising profusely for the error - which wasn't her fault, (as her instruments basket was filled by a nurse) - she asked Reception for the tea, (and me - how I preferred it: milk - yes sugar - no thanks - etc) ...and allowed me time to drink it, to "make up for my inconvenience" over the "extended exam & struggle"...😏🙂
The tea was a very welcome _surprise_!!🏴
Specifically we mostly drink Assam tea , also called breakfast tea, all restaurants and cafés would recognise this. Do you know it's also recognised for its health benefits. It's known to lower blood pressure and has antioxidant properties and function to reduce the damage of reactive oxygen and nitrogen species on human cells . Scientists believe this may be responsible for reducing the risk to cancer, laboratory tests are continuing. Makes you think doesn't it ? I sometimes have a cup of peppermint tea (great for the digestion) or a camomile, apple & blackberry is lovely too but none of these come near my love for a proper, British, brew ! I drink either my local Rington's tea (bit more exclusive, still delivered to our door) or, mainly Yorkshire tea, I drink both brands strong ie well brewed with just boiled kettle water, if in a teapot, a little milk goes into the cup first, then pour the tea (once it's had a couple of minutes and a good stir) if a teabag in a mug, again , freshly boiled water from an electric kettle, stir and squeeze the teabag, then add the milk to taste (by the way, always semi skimmed for tea, whole milk spoils the taste of tea, can't stand milky tea!) Of course you need a lovely biscuit like a shortbread or slice of toast and jam (strawberry or bramble, mmmh)
Yes she made tea the way most do in the UK. I personally have around 7-8 mugs of tea a day, including first thing in the morning upon wakening, a morning cuppa, and also a bedtime cuppa. Definitely better with cold milk than black. I personally prefer a tetley decaf 😊
I’m Scottish. It’s 10.15 in the morning and I’m just finishing my third cup of tea. I will be having several more before the end of the day!
I think I average around 6 cups a day. And I have it hot with milk and sugar. Cold or iced tea does not do it for me. Also, I don't have to eat anything with it in order to enjoy my tea. Only time I eat anything with my cuppa is at breakfast time.
@@Kess952 Ditto.
@@sharonmartin4036 rip teeth
@@Yogoniogi ????
@@Yogoniogi are you suggesting she doesn't brush her teeth? Grow up.
I’m from Australia and we have exactly the same relationship with tea that the British have. I drink way more than 3 cups a day and most people I know do as well. Life without tea is not a life worth living😉😂
In Ireland and my daughter easily drinks 4 or 5 mugs (and that is half litre mugs at that) of tea a day.
Exactly, even in Adelaide we understand that
Noone drinks more than the uk
For a Brit tea is TEA. I went on a foreign cruise holiday and the waiter kept bringing me a box of fruit teas and herbal teas and didn’t understand that they just weren’t “tea”.
More specifically, most Brits prefer English Breakfast tea, all day long.
Hot fruit juice 😅
@@LouLou10000 Posh Lemsip.
I've seen plenty of people if offered tea or coffee asking if the person has herbal tea. So I mean tea can extend to herbal teas, but it does need specified. You wouldn't expect someone to offer tea and then give you herbal tea.
Me and my 2 friends on holiday drank the entire hotel's supply of black tea in Italy.
As a baby my mum would often give me milky tea in my bottle. Funnily enough my wife’s parents did the same with her. I recall properly drinking tea in a cup around age 5.
“I’ll put the kettle on” is the equivalent of a big hug. We Brits aren’t good at showing emotions, so this is how we show it 😂
I’m in my seventies and where I come from (Manchester) every child was brought up with the transition of milky tea in the baby bottle and just as you say, at about 5years old we moved on to cups of tea.
I had the same experience in the 70s but being a contrary child I used to throw it away. Didn't drink tea at all until my mid 20s when my lady at the time used to demand tea morning, noon and night... in the end it was simpler just to go along with it. Been on half a dozen mugs a day ever since.
Love this comment! It's really interesting to see the cultural differences. :)
I was given a bottle of milky tea as a wee one . I’ve been drinking tea as long as I can remember and I’m 67 now. X
I am nr Manchester and was raised the same in the 80s although I haven't continued with my kids. I think that's dying out now we know more about caffeine
It's 20 past 10 in the morning here in the UK. I am currently on cup of tea number 3. My son loves tea and has drunk it since he was a very young child. My daughter does not drink tea at all, but she still knows how to make a good cuppa 😋
The milk in the UK tastes different to US milk as our dairy cows are grass fed rather than grain fed. People avoid milk because they are lactose intolerant , but lactose is a natural sugar , so when you add milk to tea, it adds a slightly sweeter taste to it so the tea is slightly less bitter. Delicious. I have on average 3 cups a day, most people I know have a good bone china tea set for special occasions, but generally, as shown in the video, we use a ceramic mug.
British dairy cows are fed in winter hay, silage and mixed ration fèed. In the summer they are then placed in the field to feed on grass.
Most dairy cows in uk eat dairy cow feed while being milked. All year round, and don't really get put out in the fields to have fresh grass
@@carl5652 Of course they're put out to graze. Your local farmers need reporting to your RSPCA.
@@carl5652 Eh? not sure where you heard that cobblers. Dairy farms round here (Somerset) all put their cows in fields to eat grass.
I agree, I lived in the US for 10 yrs and the milk tastes different there, therefore making a cuppa taste differently.
Hi folks, to answer your questions at the end.
People in the UK who class themselves as tea drinkers, will drink MANY cups of tea in a day, so we have many different things with it depending on the circumstances.
It is taken with most meals.
We have tea breaks during the working day which may include biscuits or cake.
We drink it when coming in from the cold.
We drink it when visitors arrive.
A half dozen or more cups each day is normal.
For those who do not drink tea, it is always important to make people feel comfortable, so alternatives are made available if circumstance allows.
When you visit the UK, you may be asked "would you like a cup of tea"
It is our polite way of asking if you would like a drink, so do not be afraid to reply "Do you have coffee?"
I always find people ask if you would like tea or coffee. If they only asked if you wanted tea I would presume they only had tea. Tea may also include herbal tea or not, you would need to ask for specific types of tea if desired.
And it's not a way of asking if you want a drink. It's expected social etiquette, and most people have nothing to offer besides tea or coffee (I don't drink either, it's rare that someone has something to offer me to drink).
@@Satankat666 You seem to have missed the point I was making
A cup of tea is like a hug. There’s a sense of comfort in it. I can’t even say I like the taste of it and still I’ll drink 3-4 (very large) cups a day. If you’re stressed it calms you. The moment you get to settle in for the evening in particular feels empty without a cup of tea.
My daughter has drunk it but like you was never a huge fan of the taste. Then we went into the local M&S (here in Ireland) and she discovered they do shortbread flavoured tea. She's drinking it almost by the gallon now, going through several boxes a week.
@ABC1701A shortbread flavoured tea! I don't know if I think this sounds amazing or horrifying haha 😂
This is it exactly. Its a comfort thing. Can't say I like the taste too much - especially since giving up sugar - but I still drink it!
I had weak tea in my sippy cup as a kid. Making tea was one of the first household skills I learnt as a kid.
we did the same with my children, rather than give them juice, for there teeth and health, my 3 girls we gave tea in sippy cup as you call it, yes they did have juice from time to time
Same here, you beat me to it, weak tea in a sippy cup from quite an early age
Same in my family
I bet the second thing you were taught was laying the table! I know that was always my job as a child, lay and clear the table.
My babies had it in their bottle!
Hi Steve .The best way to have tea is with a fish and chip meal with two slices of bread washed down with at least one cup of strong tea absolutely satisfying lovely.
This is so true. I prefer coffee to tea apart from when I’m eating fish and chips Tea is a must
The bread has to have butter on it of course.
Yes! Nothing better than a chippy with a cuppa
Absolutely!
Here in New Zealand we make tea the same way as in Britain. My parents always used tea leaves in a teapot like they did in the UK. 1000 cups per annum, per capita, is an underestimation in my opinion, for Brits and Kiwis. Many people have over 6 cups per day starting with breakfast. The majority of people have black tea with milk. When people call in to visit the first thing we do is boil the kettle, called a jug in NZ, to have a cuppa whether it be tea or coffee. My favourite is Earl or Lady Grey tea. A cup of tea is assumed to be a black tea unless you specifically ask if they want herbal or the other person asks for it. We usually offer biscuits as well and no we don't tend to have them with every cup of tea right through the day. At the most once or twice a day. Personally I like to dunk a simple digestive biscuit. 😋
Can't have biscuits with every cuppa. I'd get so fat.
Earl Grey and Lady Grey are evil, and like drinking aftershave.
@@G0Lg0Th4N Wait,....hang on a minute. You DON'T have to have biscuits with every cup of tea? I didn't know this.
That's just about the best lesson on how to make a cup of tea I've ever seen on you tube! It usually gets complicated by people who don't know how it is done. I have a half pint mug and make tea 5-6 times a day. I take milk but not sugar. I will have a biscuit a couple of times a day. It is more common to hear of people who don't drink tea and to be asked for water instead. Most people have tried/drank tea from infancy (as in bottle feeding), more common in older people like me (I'm older than your mums).
As kids growing up in the 1970’s and 1980’s our mum would make us all a cup of tea with our breakfast before going to school and around 8pm in the evening. But as adults it seems to be most people have a cup of tea or coffee every 1 hour or so.
you can buy electric kettle here, cheap white one for about $7.00, the only thing, is it takes 5 minutes to boil in US and around 1.30m in uk, because of the diff electric, you guys use 110, we use 240
I bet you wish that they hadn't thrown all that tea away now in Boston lol.
There's a saying, 'Take the tea to the kettle, not the kettle to the tea', because even just walking across the kitchen with the kettle means it's not at peak boil when it hits the tea.
Ideally you'd be there with the mug/teapot beside the kettle, not halfway across the room.
Peak boil, as you called it ,ruins the flavour of tea!
I keep the tea , coffee ,hot chocolate and diluting juice by the kettle so everything is handy .
@Reacting To My Roots[ Lindsey] Tea is not only a daily ritual in Britain , its also totally normal for the citizens of British Commonwealth to drink tea on a daily basis from Canada to Australia . So that means there are tea drinkers on every continent enjoying both loose leaf tea , and teabags whether its black, green, oolong, white, pu-erh or yellow tea .
My cat used to love tea too. If I wasn’t watching or walked away from it for two seconds, he’d be claiming it as his tea. 😂
My youngest son, loved tea barely reaching 18 months! The moment I first held him, I instantly knew he was a little old man!
He's 14 now, and the moment he wakes, he pops the kettle on for a breakfast cuppa, and the moment he arrives home from school, the kettle goes straight on!
My husband, didn't drink Tea or Coffee until approximately 5 years ago, now he too loves a few cuppas a day.
I drink Coffee, occasionally Tea but not very often.
UK 🇬🇧 here!
1. Yes, the video pretty much nailed how we make it here.
2. Exactly as Steve said some people drink tea "black" tea without the milk (as the US would view coffee options) especially Herbal teas, most people would not add milk to herbal tea
3. No, we dont eat biscuits or cake with EVERY cuppa but a lunchtime/afternoon or evening brew watching the tv, reading a book we might.
4. Tea is very popular in the UK right across the class divide, but you wouldn't feel pressured or out of place not drinking tea, especially since the rise of coffee culture in the UK.
5. It's pretty standard to have a tea on your desk at work throughout the day, first drink in the morning, when ill, sad, watching the tv in the evening basically for everything, so it dosent surprise me the figure is 60 billion. It's the British way of being hydrated throughout the day.
Thanks for breaking it down! :)
Remember if you get an electric kettle it wont work very quickly due to your lower voltage. Look up 'hot water dispenser/single cup boilers' for the most effective way of making a single cup of hot water for tea.
I'm 63 and can't remember a time when I didn't drink tea. I have at least 5 cups a day and 1 coffee, however I make my tea in a teapot and always use a bone china mug for it. It seems to make the tea taste better. It takes roughly the same amount of time making a pot of tea as it does making it in a cup. I rarely have tea when I I'm not at home as it's not usually made the way I like it.
For me, its tea bag + sugar > boiling water (melts the sugar and brews well) > brew for a minute or two > milk to colour it. I don't really drink tea unless it's cold or I want to devour biscuits but I have colleagues that drink all day and people are forever making them for each other so you have many.
Workplace and family tea culture is a huge thing. You don't make tea for yourself if you like those around you. You make it to show you care for others ahaha
I had tea in my bottle as a baby. My son has tea from 2years old and yes, unless we have guests we make it the way she did straight in the mug. If guests or going for afternoon tea then it's more special and we use china tea pot and cup and saucer. I have a cup for breakfast, 1 around 10am and lunch then with dinner at home. I have around 4 cups a day!
The way she does in the video is the same in Ireland. I was taught how to make tea from about the age 7. My mother drinks about 3 or 4 cups of tea per day.
Boil the kettle
Teabag in a mug with a spoon
Pour the boiling water into the mug
Stir about 10 times
Take out the teabag
Add milk
My grandmother would only use china mugs, but now a days, most people just use any mug. Teacups and saucers are usually only in fancy hotels or restaurants. In most Irish houses, the kettle is out on the counter top and used multiple times a day. Most people start the day with a cup of tea, either on its own or with breakfast, then a second cup mid morning, then another at lunch, and maybe a final one in the afternoon.
In offices and in work places, there is always an electric kettle in the break area. Its normal for people to make tea and have it beside them like a water bottle as they work. If you are in a shared office or work place, the unsaid etiquette is that you offer to make tea round for others and people just automatically fall into a routine, as in Jane does the 11am tea round and Jack does the 3pm tea round. If you are taking turns with colleagues to go for a break, then usually the first person will fill the kettle and have it boiling for their workmates. Not refilling the staff kettle after you use it is seen as bad manners and will really annoy your workmates. At work places, each staff member usually has their specific mug they use for tea. Some workplaces provide teabags, milk and sugar in their staff break area.
I agree I always have a china mug at home tastes wonderful. If you're hot in the summer a cup of tea some how cools you down.
Plus electric kettle used for more then tea
That's a good point about not refilling a community kettle being bad manners...I'm sure if you didn't grow up in "tea culture" you may not think about it much. :)
We make tea in a pot if there are a number of us in the house. At other times we make it in the cup with a bag. Personally I take tea with just a dash of milk, just enough for a colour change. and no sugar. I've been out of bed for 3 hours and I've just had my third cup. The first two were before and with my breakfast. Tea is high in antioxidants but you should check out its other health benefits too.
The word Tea can refer to both the drink, which brits will drink many cups of each day, but it can also refer to a meal which is taken late afternoon, early evening. If you ask a brit what they are having for Tea that day, the answer could be any food and the accompanying drink doesn't even need to be Tea.
Tea is used in the North to refer to what us in the South call dinner.
@@aTiminCambodiathat's not strictly true actually. It's more a working class thing. My mum is from Somerset and always said the late meal is tea. I work in a hospital in Bath and often working class people call it tea too. My mum would even tell me off if I called it dinner and I've noticed my work colleagues from Somerset calling it tea.
@rustynail1194 ahh ok. I am actually what you'd call middle class I suppose. I've heard of it called Tea in the south but I thought because all those people using the term came from up North I thought it was a hand me down phase. In my hometown, we have a lot of wealthy working class from up north buying up holiday homes or retiring down here. So many from Birmingham. This is one of the reasons why I now live in Asia 😄
Oh don't start this argument. This is dependent on where you're from. South: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner. Northerners: Breakfast, Dinner/Lunch, Tea
As a Brit from Cornwall, I drink exactly like that. Sometimes I have sugar in it but a little bit of honey in it is actually pretty nice. And yes I have a biscuit And crumpet or whatever. In my hand, it goes well hand-in-hand. The cold is exactly right put the temperature down a bit so it’s easier to drink and I want to say this I’ve been watching you lot for now for two years probably over loving it every single day
An additional to that I gave my kids tea, practically well like one years old they love it in a bottle. Obviously we have it to a temperature that is easy for them to drink no sugar it helps them relax
I moved to the UK from Florida, so im more than willing to chat with you guys if you ever want to. I drink tea very rarely as I grew up with sweet tea, but, when I do it is exactly the way she shows it. But i don't feel out of place at work as we also have coffee. I always joke that I like mine cold to shake people up. I will drink loads of tea when having high tea or afternoon tea. Just don't use cream, use cold milk.
Tea Bags are a quite recent thing. The traditional method is with loose tea in a pot. The pot should be warmed first with hot water. Add the tea leaves, one spoonful per required cup plus one for the pot. Pour boiling water over the leaves and let it brew for a short while. Pour into the cup, adding milk and or sugar to taste. ( being lactose intolerant I drink it black with one sugar) I drink on average 5 or 6 cups per day.
( never never never use a microwave for heating the water, that should be a capital offence! 😆)
1908 mate - over a hundred years ago
Tea bags are an American invention.
Tea bags are actually an American invention. There was a tea salesman who was giving out samples in little tins and his wife came up with the idea of giving them out in little fabric bags. When they were given out people got confused and put the bag in the cup. Et voila... Tea bags.
That's how I make nine every day
@@papalaz4444244 Loose tea was still common in the 70's.
I'd say tea bag popularity is down to the partial demise of the family & a cheaper supply of tea.
.... and to counter the influx of instant coffee.
1. Warm the pot. 2. Add one teaspoon of loose tea per person plus one for the pot. 3. Add BOILING water. 4. Allow tea to "brew" for at least two minutes. 5. Using a "tea strainer" pour tea into a cup. 6. Add milk and sugar to taste. 7. Sit back and enjoy with a biscuit or slice of cake 😄
Yes, if I'm brewing a cup 'o tea for myself it's a tea bag in a china mug, brewing for a few it's the tea pot and loose leaf done as you do. Absolutely agree the mug/cup (s) must be warmed as does the tea pot 😊.
Not boiling water but boiled, should be at 90-95 C anything hotter will scald the leaves and affect the taste. By the time the pot or mug has been warmed with the boiling water, poured out and the tea added it will be at the right temperature in the kettle. Use an infuser in the pot or a pot with a built in one so it can be removed from the tea after brewing so the second cups are not stewed.
The perfect way to make tea, well done, I’m not the biggest tea drinker but my parents drink at least 8 cups a day 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
Yes to boiling water, but milk first, pour slowly.
It's most important with very hot tea as it's not going to scald the milk this way.
Correct . Do you have a Tea Cozy , My lovely Nan taught me how in the early 70s for the family , 5 or 6 of us , big Tea tray and big pot ,When water poured in pot quick stir Cozy on . Nan would get Fags and matches from her Pinny . when fag was gone Tea was ready
Three cups a day doesn't seem particularly high - but I suppose there'll be maybe 20% of people who don't drink much - or any tea - so that more likely equates to 4 or 5 cups a day for the other 80%, which is more realistic.
Depending how I feel some days I have 4 mugs and other days I have 6 to 8 mugs.
Whilst tea is extremely popular in the UK according to government stats 25% of us don’t drink it at all, me included. It is also less popular with young people. There are all kinds of tea drunk but traditional tea is black tea with milk. Herbal or fruit tea wouldn’t be considered as proper tea as it doesn’t usually contain any actual tea.
People drink coffee, too. I might have 3 cups of tea and 2 of coffee in a day.
03:22 Yeah, we do! ☕🍪
08:20 Drumroll for the big tea bag. 🥹
09:52 Don't... you... dare... no, no, no, noooooo!! 😱
10:55 Other responses may include: 'is there a water shortage?', 'is there a hole in the cup?', 'it's a bit dry.', etc. 🏜
11:35 Squeeze the teabag to within an inch of it's life. 😵
13:30 YESSSSSSSS! OMG! I was not prepared for that. You can even add cheese on top! 😍
I have my tea how I have my coffee; black with x1 sugar.
Tea, to those who like it, would probably best describe it as comforting, safe, grounding, homely, dependable, constant, warming, 'nothing quit like it', etc.
I agree with the majority of the comments, we do drink more than 3 cups a day. Tea bags were invented in 1939, but really caught on in the 1960s. The black teas are what we would have milk with you just pour your required amount depending on personal taste. As for herbal tea's like green or fruit milk is never added as it spoils the taste totally.
I would suggest that you watch a TV program called QI which can give you more information.
Nothing like having a lovely cup of tea, although its definitely more than 3 a day. If I gave my Dad a cup of tea that wasn't full up he'd asked me if the tide was out. Weak tea was called "gnats P" and if it was strong it was "builders tea".
Oh my goodness!! My mum has the exact same sayings!! Is dad from London? I literally laughed out loud! 😅
@@SuzieLady Hi, no Dads not from London he's from Dover. I say the same to my kids & friends now. 😁
My dad would ask if there was a water shortage 😊
My mum is one for short measures in a cup, and she’s Irish, so I’m not sure what’s gone wrong …
My Mam would say weak tea is like Maidens water!
Hi Steve and Lindsey
It’s 10 AM and I’ve had 2 cups of tea, one with my cereal, and one with some toast later.
Loose leaf teas is gaining popularity. We have Black Tea and Green Tea. The difference is the way the leaves are processed.
I like a strong cup, my girl a weak tea.
My parents told me (and i've seen it done since), that when i was a baby i had tea in my bottle instead of juices or plain water
I changed to drinking coffee after visiting houses where the residents couldn't make a decent cup of tea, it was easier to opt for coffee as it could only get stronger or weaker, but still tate like coffee.
In the US you would be restricted to a 1.5KW kettle, our kettle can go up to 3KW, so yours would take about twice the time to boil.
If you want tea, you want it now, not wait for it to cool, those that don't use milk will often just add a dash of cold water.
It's traditional to have some biscuits with tea or coffee, but you need to learn the art of 'dunking' them, depending on the biscuit, you dunk them just long enough to get slightly soft without falling apart in the cup.
I would drink about 7 - 8 cups a day, maybe more in the summer.that's about 1 every 2 hours
Yep, dash of cold water in black tea is the way to go. As dunking, yes, makes a complete meal of it but not with every cuppa obviously. My preference is a ginger nut though digestives are pretty good too.
A perfect cup of tea cannot be forced, it will be perfect or it won't. There is however things you can do to make it more likely perfect tea will occur and some things you can do that will almost guarantee it will not. Boil the kettle and prepare the cup while it boils. Tea bag in and for me, one sugar. You have your hand on the handle of the kettle and the moment the button pops up you start to pour so you can feel the rolling boil in the kettle as you are pouring, if you miss the button popping you must re-boil the kettle or your tea is at risk. You pour from high enough to agitate the teabag and force some air into it causing the bag to puff up a bit. Then you start to stir, squeeze and generally agitate the teabag until the water turns the desired colour, keeping in mind that squeezing must be the final action. To squeeze properly you do your stirring and then pull the bag up with the spoon, grip the empty end of the bag in your fingers and use the spoon to fold the full side upwards, apply 2 or 3 squeezes to taste and then immediately take the bag out. Never ever let the water cease motion while the bag is still in the cup, even a few seconds of stillness will allow the scum (i believe this may be what you mean by tannin?) to start forming and if there is a single trace of tea scum on the surface you have ruined it. Once you have successfully achieved this dark translucence with zero scum you gently add milk to taste and thoroughly stir. Some like it dark, some like it light but everyone agrees that if the slight tan colour disappears completely leaving the tea milk colour then you have made what we in the UK call "gnats piss" rather than tea.
My average is nearer 1,500 cups a year (abt 4 a day). Adding cold milk to the hot tea makes it the perfect temperature to start drinking straight away. I make mine the same way as the lady in the video. I only have biscuits with an afternoon cuppa or any time of the day if family/friends are round for a brew.
On a healthier note we only have cakes at a once a month tea party.🤣
I use my big teapot if I've got loads of family/friends around, saves me a little extra time messing about with seperate tea bags.
Drinking milky tea in our house as children meant we could be like the grown ups and join in with some of the gossip.
I had several toy tea sets growing up to make pretend tea which consisted of milky tea/plain water and a few biscuits, for tea parties with my friends and toy dolls/teddies. 😄
My parents would have at least 5 cups of tea per day. Loose leaf tea brewed in a teapot, cold milk added to the cup then the tea poured into the cup. On more formal occasions the milk would be in a jug and added after the tea was poured into the cup.
Yeah that's pretty much how we all make tea in the UK, The milk helps cool it down so you can drink it straight away without burning yourself (its still hot though), plus it adds a lovely creamy taste to it, I have about 5 cups a day on average with two teaspoons of sugar in each cup of tea
I’m a huge tea drinker, average is 8 cups of tea per day, sister gets through 20 per day. I do love a biscuit with my tea, mid morning. I will have one or two after a meal.
Yes we have 'erbal' teas and fruit teas in the UK but we pronounce it 'herbal' tea🤣they come in an array of flavours and are very popular.
My husband lives on mint tea, loves the stuff.
My kids had tea, very milky, in sippy cups from about a year onwards. Theres not much caffeine in a weak tea. About 1mg, as opposed to 10 mg in coffee. They didn't drink fizzy though. Or coffee. 😅😂
I used to drink tea out of a bottle after I moved on from that baby formula stuff 😂
Same for my son xx
Rather give children weak tea than sugary fruit drinks. Myself I don't like tea.
My mother heavily contributed to this stat. She has over 20 cups per day.
Me as well
@@paul-ig8hwseems right to me
Decaf? 🤣
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@@bpf5666 You go wash your mouth out! I'm not a tea drinker but why would anyone buy decaf anything? Unless it naturally has no caffeine, of course.
A great reaction video. We drink way more than 3 cups of tea a day in our house (probably 6-7 cups). I'd be disappointed if I was only allowed to have 3 cups.
Yeah tea is like a treasure for us Brits. We love our tea. It helps you get through everything. Hell. Our soldiers even have a machine in their tanks. To make tea. We all drink it like that with some biccys i have about 5 cups a day. It de stresses you it cools your nerves. Our. Soldiers go in to war with a tank that can make tea
When a brownie - many moons ago (girl scout aged ~7) there was a tea making badge and there was an annual charity tea making event (where biscuits were served).
I'm one of the rare Brits who doesn't drink tea or coffee. I have never felt out of place by not drinking it. I will choose a hot chocolate or cold drink if I am out for a meal. I do have both tea and coffee in my kitchen cupboard for guests. I really enjoy your channel.
Glad to hear it's not a big deal if you don't drink tea or coffee :) And appreciate you hanging out with us!
1pm here in the UK and just about to go make my third cup of the day. I would say 3-5 cups a day is my normal intake, although there is the odd day here and there where I won’t have any at all.
She’s right about asking for a tea overseas - even if they have a ‘breakfast tea’ on the menu you pretty much always have to ask for milk; and if you forget to be specific (just a small amount of cold milk) you end up being given all sorts! I’ve had a full glass of milk given to me, frothed milk, hot milk, etc.
Her method is pretty much the way I make mine. I put my sugar (1.5 teaspoons) in the cup first along with the teabag, as I find that adding it after the water has been poured means sometimes you’ve already wet the spoon or it’s got moisture on it from the steam when adding one sugar, so if you have more than one and go in to the sugar again for your next spoonful it can be sticky and make it clump together; or to avoid that you have to use another spoon for the sugar, so I think it’s easier to just chuck all the ‘dry’ parts in first.
Really she should have been making the tea right by the kettle, so as to get boiling water on the tea bag as quickly as humanly possible, rather than walking it across the kitchen where even in a few seconds it has cooled down enough to not be on a rolling boil anymore. I think most people probably do as I do and make tea directly in front of the kettle!
Cold milk probably mainly for convenience of just grabbing it from the fridge rather than faffing about heating it up etc, but also, as you pointed out, it just cools it a bit and allows you to be able to start drinking it sooner.
I find in company, like visiting people at their home etc, the number of teas I have increases just because a host will likely offer multiple times and if others are accepting you find you end up saying “oh, go then, if you’re making one” even if you didn’t particularly want one!
I was having tea in my baby bottle from about 10 months old - very milky and weak I believe, and all my friends’ and family’s kids have all started drinking tea in a similar way around a year old.
My favourite thing to have with tea, similar to her, are crumpets. I’m a crumpet fiend, and probably explains my ever-growing belly. Vegemite for me rather than Marmite,though (I know, deport me!), but my absolute favourite (which I’m also about to go have with my third tea!) is extremely buttery, well toasted crumpets with Ardennes pâté on top 🤤 - with tea, it’s just a chef’s kiss 🧑🍳 👌🏻
Step 1: Yorkshire Tea
Step 2: See step one
Step 3: Pour freshly boiled water into a mug to warm it, pour out the water. Add Yorkshire Tea and more hot water.
Step 4: Stir and wait for 3 minutes. Use this time to finish drinking the cup of tea you made earlier.
Step 5: Add milk (and sugar if you are a heathen)
milk second is the cowards way and makes thin, pissy tea.
@@BH-rx3ue Do you actually practise at being wrong?
Hot water? No, boiling water.
Exactly 😂😂
She is absolutely correct in almost every way except I don’t take milk and 1 teaspoon of brown sugar and just 1 squeeze of said teabag against the mug’s side. Tea and toast in the morning………you can’t beat it!!
I remember as a child being introduced to tea at an early age, my mother bought Lyons 'Green Label & to drink up to six cups, a day was not uncommon, sometimes more, sometimes less. When we farmed at Swangles Farm, Cold Christmas near Ware in Hertfordshire there was a cafe in the town of Ware run by a Mrs Lee, her tea was often so thin you could see the bottom of the cup & other times it was so thick you could stand a teaspoon up in it. There was also chapel tea, served at the chapel after the Sunday services, from a huge brown metal teapot
Basically tea is life. I started before I could walk and three cups will that's the morning taken care of. Also a lot of Brits take their own tea on holiday with them
It made me think about how much tea I drink a day..... 2 cups before I go to work, 2-3 cups at work and 3-4 cups at home during the evening/night so 7-9 cups a day, probably more on my days off and i'm at home.
I have my tea the same way she made it but add 1 sugar, and just enough milk to colour the tea to the same shade as a Digestive biscuit.
I started drinking tea over sixty years ago when I was about six and easily get through at least 8 cups a day. I hardly ever drink water.😊
I only drink tea at home. Coffee a couple of times a week when I'm out because I rarely get tea that I like outside.
My late father would have at least 8 large cups of tea a day. He liked it strong and would always have the last cup from the pot as it was strongest.He also preferred leaf tea to tea bags which he said were made from sweepings not proper tea.
The stuff that goes in bags is actually called 'dust'. So he was right to a point. If you compare it to high quality loose lead it is worrying how different they are. One is actually leaves the other looks like coffee powder.
An epic combination of food to have with tea is toast. Can be buttered toast, Jam on toast.. they even do flavoured teas that taste like tea combined with toast and jam as some folk like to dunk toast and jam in tea.
I used to drink about 8-10 cups a day, I'm down to 1 a day. My thing was I'd have a smoke about every hour so I'd have a cup of tea with it. I'm down to 3 smokes a day, 1 after breakfast, dinner and before bed. I also used to take 3 sugars and now i'm down to 1
The original purpose of milk was to stop the delicate porcelain cup cracking when boiling water is poured; hence milk was supposed to go in first. This might be an urban myth. Tea in the UK is a source of hydration, like beer in medieval times.
I think it’s true as boiling water and delicate porcelain is definitely going to crack your best tea service.
@@dee2251I believe it was a myth
I think a cow might disagree with you on that ;-)
in pompous circumstance perhaps thats true lol, but the milk particles are actually bigger than the perforations in the tea bag which stops the tea massing enough flavour in a posh cuppa(milk first) so usually its just milk last after a good squeeze.
Milk in first if pouring from a teapot.
I heard if you order hot tea in America you get Liptons or nothing. So us travelling Brits take nothing! However, we bring our own plus a travel kettle 😂😂😂
😅😅😅 absolutely 👍🏻
Iiving in the US, for the past 40 years, I'm English, whenever I'm asked if I want tea, at a restaurant, I tell them, you don't make tea so, no. They usually say, we do, I say no, you don't make real tea, you pour warm water over a teabag, that's not tea. 🤔
And maybe small pots of milk.
I worked in the US briefly some years ago. Partway through my stay, I came home for a weekend. A couple living in the apartment complex I was staying in that I'd got friendly with asked me to bring them some tea, as you just couldn't get it there. I got them a big box of Tetley. That Liptons is just rubbish. I had a similar experience working in France, except I did find proper tea in their supermarket, which I was pleased about. The only tea they drink there, as with the US, is herbal tea, so they had no milk either. Once I got those details sorted out, I could have a cup of tea with a pain au chocolat when I got to the office. Cross-cultursal bliss. 😁
If you ever want to be looked at like you're mad, try asking for hot tea with cold milk in a cafe in Paris. These crazy Englishmen! 😂
Lipton is a popular brand - but there are many others.....Like anything - some brands are better than others.
As a kid I would spend 1 week every year making tea for folks, this was a charity drive thing we did in the Cubs Scouts and Scouts, as well as Bob a Job Week where we would do odd jobs for folks to also collect money for charity. My dad taught me to make a cup of tea when I was about 6 years old and we always had an 'Irish Tea' at Xmas, which to be fair was just an excuse for a cup of tea with a splash of Irish Whiskey in it, we had this every year from as young as I can recall.
Same for my mums family, I do find it the best ver of tea lol & I'm NOT a drinker rarely have a little alcohol & same with tea/coffee have on average 3 cups tea per yr (1 maybe with drop of whiskey)
coffee abt the same but likely mocha, my go to for a hot drink is hot chocolate (try have low sugar). Like Steve mainly drink water (helps health condition). Oh plud occasionally herbal tea & in recent yrs Kombucha (sadly not home made) which is made with green tea.
My daughter has inherited my mums like of tea but now lots if cups.
I remember one Bob a Job my brother and I did. A woman got us to remove the moss from every crack in her huge red brick drive. We were there all day and she gave us a pound. My mum went over and got more money out of her, and Akela put her on a list of people that young boys, often on their own, shouldn't knock the door of and ask to come in to do jobs for 😂.
Most people in the UK will prepare tea as shown in the video. Adding sugar is something that is down to the individual, but it is better from a health perspective if you don't. Different people like different amounts of milk in their tea or tea brewed to different strengths so there is a lot of variety. People start drinking tea in the UK pretty much as soon as they stop drinking bottled milk as a baby (usually brewed to be weak so as not to overpower their taste buds) and many people will have tea with most meals and at break times. Biscuits (cookies to you) are a classic accompaniment for tea.
I used to love tea as a toddler lmao. I probably only have a few cups a month now. Some people drink 10+ every single day.
Fun fact, because we use 240v electricity instead of 110v, electric kettles boil water far more quickly. That's why they are not very common in the US.
That's pretty much how I make it although I let mine brew for a good 5 minutes before adding milk. I drink anywhere from 1-5 cups a day starting when I wake up and I also drink coffee although not every day. Afternoon tea where you go to a restaurant or cafe and sit with a pot of tea and sandwiches and cakes is more of a treat you might have for your birthday etc, definitely not an every day thing.
Loving your videos 😁
I make my tea with lose leaf tea and leave it to steep for around 10 minutes (the instructions always say 3 - 5 minutes) then add milk and sugar/sweetener. I can drink in excess of 10 cups a day.
Plus tea actually tastes better from a cup that is already stained from previous cuppas.
Your last part there is good news because I struggle to clean my tea mug (I use a different mug for my Cappuccino) as I drink my tea black, no sugar, and if I've waited til it's 'cooled slightly', the stains are more difficult to remove from the rim of the mug!! Neither my daughter or I 'share' our mugs with others, so any family who visits will receive an 'unused' mug - to each, their own! Unless dropped accidently, each of our mugs 'do their duties' for ages...❤️🙂
(I _was_ sad on each separate occasion on dropping/breaking: my 'horses' 🐴🐴Cappuccino mug, & 'guitars' 🎸🎸tea mug though!!😥😥)
Best tea ever is loose tea in tea pot,leave to brew for 5 mins,put milk in cup pour tea through a tea strainer add sugar if you like stir and enjoy ❤
@@kathyhayden2499 milk second. You heathen ;)
I drink my first cup of tea within 10 minutes of waking up and then usually a cup every 2 hours until about 4pm when I move to water. I have it exactly the same way as she did it. I can't drink it black. Tastes so much better with a splash of milk.
I remember someone from the US asking if it was true that we always offer police a cup of tea if they visit. Everyone who visits, invited or not, gets offered! If the police are calling about something upsetting they will offer to make you a cup of tea in your own kitchen. The military also run on tea - even tanks have a facility to boil water.
It's always very important to provide workmen in your house with tea and the Good Biscuits.
The British answer to absolutely everything is to make tea. There's almost no situation that won't look better after a cuppa.
Lindsay is right, take the tea pot to the kettle then the second the water has boiled pour it straight into the tea pot which has the tea in it. Brew for 3 minutes or longer to suit yourtaste 😅😊, I like it brewed for at least 5 minutes, pour into cup then add cold milk, sugar if liked and bingo perfect tea.
We also call it Herbal tea, although we do pronounce the H. Xx
When I was at school in England (aged 8-13) our cook told us there was black tea (as in Breakfast, Earl Grey, Kenya Highland, etc), green tea (Konacha, Sencha , Gunpowder, Matcha), and tisanes (Camomile, Mint, Elderflower, any 'tea' made from plants or fruits which are not the Camellia Sinensis or tea plant).
1000 cups a year is less than 3 cups a day. Everyone I know (in Ireland) drinks more than that. I'm on the low end at 2 - 4 cups per day, but most people in my family drink at least 10, and my mother drinks 2 or 3 cups an hour, as does my brother's girlfriend (during their waking hours, obviously).
Wow. That is shocking to me and definitely highlights the differences in cultures. Thanks for sharing your perspective! :)
Regular Brits drink "builders tea." Posh, people have afternoon tea
My late husband would drink tea and coffee into the double digits, bloody kettle was always on 😆. Me? Depending on the day I'd probably have between 5-7, and then cold drinks on top of that. No we don't have biscuits with every single cup. I have mine on an afternoon, after i pick the grandbairns up from school. Tea is a massive part of our culture. I have mine in my Nana mug, or right now I'm drinking tea out of my auntie mug, my niece sent down for my birthday. I do have posh cups though. I'm going on a cruise in four weeks, and we've already booked an afternoon tea. Oh and in my town, one of the pubs does a boozy tea. The scones and finger sandwiches, but with alcohol! We buy afternoon teas for two, for birthdays and stuff too. Like tea in a posh restaurant.
If you've had a stressful or busy day, that first sip of tea is heavenly. Ohvand the cold milk, generally makes no difference, because you use boiling water, that's why we love the kettle, and balk at americans using the microwave. It needs to be a rolling boil.
Here in Wales we tend to add the sugar before we pour the hot water. Otherwise we do it just as she describes in the video. On average I drink around 5-6 cups per day. The statistic of around 3 cups per day seems a lot lower than the average that I see around these parts :)
Technically it’s only tea if you are using leaves from “Camellia Sinensis” anything else is a Tisane.
My 2yo granddaughter enjoys a cup of milky tea, I drink a minimum of 5 pints of tea a day and in the summer if it’s hot I will drink 8 pints and yes it’s pints as I have 1 pints and 2 pint mugs.
Sports Direct mugs? I actually measured the volume of one and got exactly 568ml.
No not Sports Direct my mug is a Best Dad mug and can hold 700ml (24floz).
The 2 pint mug is somewhere in the region 1600ml 2x the first cup + 2cm more to top up. I don't know where my daughter got it from.
My wife uses the Sports Direct mug for her coffee.
Hi Steve tea in the Uk is a must for most of us, in some cases tea is not just a case of having a drink it can be used for a variety of things, for instance it is used for people in shock, it is a social thing as well on a building site you may have a tea boy who will make tea for everyone then break time workers will sit around and maybe talk about the football the night before. very often the tea trolley will come around if you are in hospital, But also there are times that you will be asked if you would like a coffee this happens in Banks and some factories where you may have a coffee machine,
Hey Steve. Most tea drunk in the UK is black tea. Other types of teas like Earl grey. I drink my tea in a large mug. 4-5 cups a day for me. I like my tea strong with just a little milk. I started drinking tea when I was 6 or 7 but it was a rather milky tea.
My daughters first three words were Dada, tea and then Mumma. She is 46 now and is still an avid teadrinker, as we all are. I reckon about seven or eight very large mugs per day, on average, sometimes a lot more but always made in a teapot
My mum was a big tea drinker, her cup was still warm from the last one she had by the time she wanted her next one, and if she got anything less than a full cup she would just stare at it and say "wheres the rest of it" hahah
My niece knew how to make a cup of tea before she was even old enough to go to school (albeit she wasn't allowed to boil the water). Personally I probably average around 5-6 a day starting from the age of 12 ish (in my 30's now).
I’m not a big tea drinker, but enjoy one every now and again. My in-laws literally can’t go near the kitchen without putting the kettle on. Even if you’ve got half a cup left they’ll ask if you want a fresh one. I generally prefer instant coffee myself. We make that the same way we do tea. Teaspoon of coffee in a mug. Fill almost to the top with boiling water. Added slash of cold milk and a couple of teaspoons of sugar if you have a sweet tooth. We usually keep instant coffee and teabags next to the kettle and it’s polite to ask any visitor if they would like a drink. It is expected that if you visit someone you will be at least offered a drink, you don’t have to accept, but the offer must be made otherwise it would be considered rude.
You should never use boiling water with instant coffee. It burns it. I can smell if the water has been too hot from the kettle.
On the rare occasion I have a hot drink it's usually instant coffee (Douwe Egberts Pure Indulgence or L'OR Intense, which are the same company but different prices.) I put fresh water in the electric kettle. I listen for it to change tone, mine goes quieter when it is about to start boiling. I switch it off before it can.
I sometimes add a drop of cold water to the instant coffee, coffee whitener and sugar/sweetener I have in the mug and stir well. Then pour on the almost boiled water.
You make a good point about offering visitors a drink. As someone who rarely drinks hot drinks so the thought of them never enters into my head. I never offer anyone a drink.
My Dad would say "put the kettle on 'ell.". He said I made the best tea he'd ever had (long steep, no squeezing bag).
I now never have tea in the house, that'll stop him wanting to come round, eh. haha
I don't drink tea or coffee. When I tell people, they're often surprised as it's not very common, but they usually accept and move past it pretty quickly. I don't ever feel pressured by it.
If I’m at work I normally start with a coffee at 5/6am, then around 8ish a latte, 10 a cup of tea, 11 tea, 12ish tea, 3 tea lol all depends how busy work is and who I’m working with if one lady is on we have about 1 brew every 30 mins to an hour on a 12 hour shift, helps I work in a tea and cake cafe so the company has its own tea blends as well lol
I quite like Earl Grey as well. That is tea as well.
in my circle of friends, children start drinking tea age 1, no they don't get a hot cup of tea a day, they try the cold dregs at the bottom of the cup, but by age 2 they can have a small amount cold in their own sippy cup, I would say 5 cups of tea a day is not a lot, 1 cup when you wake up, 1 cup at lunch (with lunch) 1 cup in the afternoon around 3pm, 1 cup with your dinner and a final cup just before bed. My father didn't drink a cup of tea, he drank a pint of tea 5-6 times a day, so you could say he drank double
We need to see you both taste test some properly made tea with or without sugar.
We're planning on it! :)
Tea, whether black or green or yellow, is made from the dried crushed leaves of the Camelia sinensis plant. Every other type of so called "tea" is not the real deal.
I drink both tea and coffee, even green tea, but definitely more than 3 a day, my parents used to have at least 10 a day, it depends on the people and families really I think. The pottery items she was using and had displayed looked like what my mother used to collect and they were most limited run items for an old Yorkshire tea company call Ringtons Tea my home county. They do tea's, herbal tea's and coffee, both instant and ground coffee. They even do chocolates, biscuits and other treats now too. They are a family owned business since 1907, I thought you would find that interesting guys.
When does tea-drinking start? Just a few minutes after getting up in the morning. A nice cup of tea with your morning cereal starts the day and then off to work to greet your co-workers to share another cup of tea. There may be one at lunch-time and then another in the afternoon. On arriving home then a nice cup of tea will relieve you of the day's stresses and, of course, there may be a final one an hour or two before bedtime. It will be made up of the tea, milk (and perhaps sugar- depending on taste). We do not have sweet tea from bottles or cans. No, this is the real thing with hundreds of flavours from bitter green tea to a variety of other interesting tastes from around the world. My favourites include Orange Pekoe to Red Bush. Come into an English teashop and see the cans on the shelves and buy a small amount from those tins to find the ones you have a taste for.
Steve must at least try dunking biscuits in tea. It adds 30% more flavour to the biscuit 😊
My sister has at least 4 large mugs of tea a day, probably more! First thing she has in the morning. That makes up for me not drinking it 😂
I have 3 before I go to work. It's between 8 and 10 throughout the day.
Yes she is correct. Never mind the posh way. We squish the teabag against the cup after adding hot water. All that crapp about things coming out absurd. I have a bout 5 cups a day. Milk and sugar. With bickies. Don’t over think our tea. We wake drink tea and coffee in between. It’s no big deal 😊
And all have asbestos fingertips from the final squeeze of the teabag against the spoon
@@hayee 😂 I was gonna say that but your right
Ok so we’re all clear no one has any excuses how to make a cup of tea. This was a excellent tutorial. Very simple just follow the correct order.
Oh and this is how serious we take our tea … as ex British army we even build into our military vehicles boiling vessels known as the BV to make a cup of tea. Everything stops for a good cuppa
\spot on correct for me how she does it. Remember a coffee maker normally heats the water to only around 80 degrees, our tea uses boiling water from the kettle which is 100 degrees, so by the time the tea has brewed for around a minute and cold milk added, it will probably be the same temperature as your coffee out of the coffee maker
5:55 I appreciate the tea pun! I am a rari-tea because I am British and I don't drink tea.