Americans Try British Tea for the First Time + Dunking Hobnobs
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In this video we try British tea and actually make it the correct way, including adding milk and sugar. Join us as we do a taste test of 5 varieties of popular British tea for the first time! We also tried Hobnobs dunked in tea, which was also a completely new experience as well. So many people have asked us to try biscuits with English tea, we're so glad we did.
While Lindsay has always been a sweet iced tea lover, I have never been a fan. So, going into trying British tea for the first time I had no idea what to expect. Without giving any spoilers, I must say this was a much different experience than I was expecting.
The British teas we tried are:
* English Breakfast Tea
* Earl Grey Fine Tea
* Yorkshire Tea
* Tetley Tea
* PG Tips
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Two Americans dunking Hob Nobs in Yorkshire tea & grinning like Cheshire Cats, the most British thing you will see on TH-cam this year 🤣
I love how Lindsey is so polite and does her best to perfect things. One of my Ancestors was a Tea Sampler by profession way back in the early 1900’s, it’s an art.
P.S. meant to say the best tea is from Tea Leaves imo.
@@chrissielefranc1916 Aye, ya man "assumes the trousers" in this household.
Taking an Englishman tea, is like trying to take a crack of a crackhead 😂
, 😂🤣😂
Anyone else watching the opening preamble with a growing sense of anxiety that the tea is stewing and getting cold.
😂Yep!!
Yes 😅
Indeed !
Yes, water should be boiled for a decent cuppa
Definitely, as someone who loves my tea hot....I doubt they will get a nice cuppa!
Does anyone else suffer from the tea curse where you might have 8 cups of tea in a day, but only 1 of them will be a "perfect" cup of tea? 😂
No, I brew in a teapot lol
Only 8 i drink about 20 cups a day of black tea, 2 sugars.
I used drink loads of tea in a day, 2 sugars, but then started having a sweet taste in my mouth all the time, sign of pre-diabetes, so I cut the sugars back, then decided I was feeling too dehydrated thru the day, no matter my water intake. So now only 2 Brews a day with a non aspartame sweetener & yes they have to be perfect or I feel cheated.
That is something I manage to avoid by only drinking tea that I make. There's also a word for it. Tepidophobia. Look it up
Nah, I'll drink anything from 15/20 a day, after so much practice all the cuppas turn out perfect
I love how every sip preempts a couple of seconds of contemplation. You're more British than you know!
It's why tea solves everything, by the time you brew up, drink the tea and eat a HobNob you don't want to kill anybody.
Your comment was so funny.xx😊
if the Second Amendment gave the us citizens a right to own hob nobs the world would be a better place
So true❤
I nearly dropped me brew lol😊
oh i could a bucket list
Now imagine a nice cup of tea, a couple of biscuits and a good book, a blanket on your lap and rain outside... that is why the Brits like tea and biscuits
I personally don't like tea or coffee, but my dad LOVES tea and my mum LOVES coffee lol
Or somebody welding a mazda bits of metal in youre hair and in youre tea mug, but we soldier on and keep dunking
Or a couple of slightly overweight builders on a building site having a tea break
Yes, but tea has to be HOT, no sugar and a minimum of milk. Would they drink luke warm coffee !
Spot on a cup of tea puts the world to rest
Tea and a book a recipe for total relaxation
Yes you can say a do love a good brew
You two crack me up! From letting the teabag sit too long in the water and getting cold, you progress to holding the mug with both hands and making "ahhhh" noises when you swallow in the approved British manner, and without any prompting! And yes, most British biscuits are designed to be eaten with tea or coffee with milk, so *of course* they taste best that way.
You’re absolutely on the money with this comment……..I’m so emotionally invested in these guys I need to be paid dividends!!!!
Tea is such an important part of our culture. Start the day, have a cup of tea. Your friend is coming over, puts the kettle on for tea. There is a life crisis, tea must be served. Wedding, cup of tea to get you through the mid afternoon slump before resuming alcohol. Funeral, cups of tea handed out to soothe everyone. My mum even made me a cup of tea to have the birds and the bees conversation 😂😂😂
It's horrible and so is coffee. Hot drinks in general are horrible. Drinking hot liquid is not nice.
No its an important part of your life not "our" culture. I never drink tea or coffee and I'm very British
@@frankdux5693 so you've never had soup in your life thats crazy
@@nice900 of course I've had it. Don't really care for it. I prefer to eat food not liquid. And you don't drink soup from a cup as a drink. You eat as a meal, from a bowl with a spoon.
@@frankdux5693 but it is still mainly hot liquid that you have to drink, yeah you use a spoon but you still drink the soup off the spoon. Could it be that you just live somewhere hot and therfore appreciate cold things more? because it would seem a bit bizzare to me if you lived somewhere cold and didn't enjoy the warmth that a hot drink provides
Yelling at my phone "of course its strong, you left it to steep for 10 minutes" 😂
😂 Honestly it was only steeped for a few minutes.
@@reactingtomyroots Takes thousands of hours of practise to make the right cuppa tea. They used to employ people in china to do a ceremony to clean the cups and the same teapot was used for every cup never washed like a seasoned skillet for steaks.
I am a long time tea drinker and hate long steeped . A good 60 sec hard jiggle with my teabag does me . White NO sugar is my go. Not keen on Yorkshire Tea haven't had PG for ages and ages. Love Dilmah & Australian Nerada
I brew Yorks Tea for 10 minutes for a decent flavour.
Lol they don’t know though. It’s supposed to be steeped for up to 5mins max…they even put that on the boxes of herbal teas over here. Just in case anyone was wondering.
Someone rear-ended my car on a minor road in a small town on the way home from work. The driver of the offending vehicle helped push my car off the road and into the driveway of a nearby house. We were waiting for the arrival of the police when the house resident appeared five minutes later with two bone china cups and saucers on a tray containing piping hot tea, a little jug of milk and some sugar cubes. Oh yes, and some biscuits daintily set out on a side plate. This is what tea means to the British. It appears at almost every crisis, physical or mental. It's the national panacea and should never be called just a drink. Coffee's great but when the chips are down, only a good British cuppa will do. Always try to drink it piping hot, and preferably without sugar, but dunking of biscuits is permitted and actually preferred! Great video guys!
A perfect summary of tea. Always made straight on the boil - and preferably in a pre-heated teapot with loose leaf (take the pot to the kettle, shouts mother).
The British tanks all have a tea making device in them, so they are all technically a war kettle that is also equipped to kill the enemy. This was because so many tank crews were killed getting out of the tank and making a brew during the war. This also includes the most modern British tank, sorry, war kettle.
Earl Grey is like drinking air freshener, breakfast blend every time for me,Hobnobs too gritty and bitty for me.
the ritual of tea takes you out of the chaos of the moment, having an argument 5 mins away logically thinking. and so on.
@@user-cd6wf6mu8t😂 only if there's too much bergamot
I visited Sacramento many years ago and stayed with friends. On the first night they made me a mug of tea. I was so grateful as they'd never bought it before, until I tried it. I found that they'd opened the teabags and poured the contents into the mug before adding the water. I was picking tea leaves from between my teeth for hours afterwards.
😂
When Tea bags became the thing many moons ago, my Nana would cut a corner off and pour the tea into a caddy while muttering " bloody stupid idea if ever I saw one"
@meloncauli8594 my nan used to have the little thing you hung in your pot & I used to ask her if it was a smaller version of what a pontiff swings about with smoke coming out 😂
My mother binned it in 2016 when my nan passed away & now I like loose herbal tea, can I bloody find one! Grrr 😅
😂 rookies
I've visited USA once to attend a wedding (New England). The family kindly allowed us the use of a holiday house. There was no kettle!!!! I had to boil a pan like an absolute savage. My temper improved noticeably when I finally got a cuppa.
Steve.. " I'm not a tea person". Slowly drinks nearly four cups of tea and a pack of hobnobs. 😂.
I was thinking the same thing, if I had to taste tea, as a tea hater, I wouldn’t go back for seconds!
Me too
I thought this 😂 I reckon if he drank a cup a day for a week, he’d love it lol!
I'm not really a tea person, but when everybody else is drinking tea, I end up drinking tea. Tea is OK with milk and a couple of sugars.
😂
Finally eating biscuits properly!
All hail the tea 🇬🇧
Lindsey is reconnecting to her British roots, it’s great to see! she would love our little uk!!
When we play cricket, we stop for tea. Nothing more refreshing on a hot summers day with some scones, jam and cream.
Ah, cricket. A game so long it is measured in meal breaks. 😂
I'm a roofer, so imagine a freezing cold winter morning in Britain, sitting on a roof, and then someone brings you a cup of hot milky tea. It's the best. Even just warming your hands up on the mug is like heaven.
Glad to hear that, I gave my roofers tea or coffee with bikkies..weather boiling hot but they did n't want a cold drink!!
@margaretflounders8510 It is ALWAYS appreciated, by me anyway. Day after day breaking your back, freezing cold, catching your thumb under a hammer because you're shivering 😂 a cup of tea fixes it all.
I always remember my nana telling me that drinking tea in hot weather actually cools your blood down 😂😂 I dont believe her but will still have my 10 cups a day of pg tips in all weather@margaretflounders8510
Just a splash of milk for me,no sugar.
Don't be safe with your comments, mention your favourite tea.
The “warm, fuzzy feeling” is exactly why Brits enjoy tea and biscuits. Such a comforting ritual and it’s hard to imagine a day without drinking tea (or coffee). And many biscuits are improved by dunking them in tea.
I must be the only Brit in the world who can't stand dunking my biscuits 😁
May I suggest that you're not British or are just really posh? Just a hunch.@@lexi-501
I've always taken my own tea bags on trips to the US, Lipton's tea is disgusting😊
I tried Lipton's tea when I was in China and wanted a more traditional cup than their offerings of various green and red (our black) teas. Their tea is delicious, and next to it, I found Lipton's tea to be utterly disgusting. I'm returning to China shortly (I hope), and I'm taking my latest loved version of tea with me to see if they can duplicate it, but in better ways, out there. It's Russian Caravan Tea.
And a hot cuppa can warm your hands when you come in from cold weather.
We all just witnessed the saying... Tea is the gateway drug to biscuits .
Lindsey you will love shortbread dunked in tea!!!
Never realised watching people who have never made a cup of tea before, is so anxiety inducing! 😂
I at they haven’t done the usual non British thing of putting a t bag in a mug with water and then in a microwave 🤮
@chrissielefranc1916 warming up hot drinks in the microwave should be a criminal offence 🤢
Thank goodness they didn't try loose-leaf in a teapot; that's a skill learned from childhood and can't be taught.
I’m grinding my teeth in anxiety
Mentally bruised ... 😂
You don’t know how many souls have been destroyed when you over dunk and the biscuit falls back into the cup 😂
That's why HobNobs were created. The tea will evaporate before the biscuits structural integrity fails.
White-knuckled anxiety and despair.
Indeed, would anyone 'dunk' a slice of cake in a cup of tea...or a chocolate eclair perhaps?
@@MrIaninukwell these days the young uns be dunking their MacDonalds fries in their milkshake so who knows? 🤷♀️
We call a particular biscuit "fucking one dips" where I'm from, I'd bet most fellow brits know the exact biscuit I'm referring to 😂
Also, without intending it to be, this is pure comedy gold! Something that I do literally ten times a day being contemplated so seriously just made me laugh! Love it!!
I actually cant believe im sat here smiling. I KNOW its good hahaha. For those two, brilliant
In the UK there's a thing called "The Great British kettle surge" or "TV Pickup", its when the National Power Grid has to brace itself for additional thousands of megawatts of power surging throughout the nation, all because of an ad break during a prime time television show or a special televised event, mainly due to millions of people turning on the kettles to make tea.
And the staff at Cruachan power station inside the mountain turn the switch to send the water to power the turbines!
'Was' a surge past tense....i don't think anyone watches corrie anymore.😄
Yes indeed!..
A common surge is at half time when England are playing a big match and everyone puts the kettle on at the same time.
@@jacquieclapperton9758
That Welsh hydroelectric power station in Snowdonia uses water from a small lake reservoir. Overnight they use spare power from the grid to pump water back up to the lake, ready for the next day's demand.
I love how Steve doesn't like tea yet he can't stop drinking the tea. I think it's growing on you Steve 😂
Sugar and hot tea first then milk!...Have I started something? lol
@@margaretflounders8510 That's the beauty of tea making; it's customised to each person's taste. There's no right or wrong way to brew up. Enjoy!
It definitely is 😂 (he's a secret lover) 😂😂
He definitely did the ubiquitous "ahhhh" after sipping his tea like a proper Brit. Good lad!
Love yorkshire tea with milk and biccys ❤
My dad was told by a rep from an Indian tea company that tea should be brewed for 3 minutes. It sounds like you both like “Builders Tea”, which is white tea with 2 teaspoons of sugar.
Not just tea and biscuits. Tea and buttered toast and marmalade. Cake without tea is just wrong. Tea and crumpets, 2 cups of tea and full English. Tea all day lol, I don’t even drink any other fluids in a day lol. Everytime we take a break we get the kettle on, it’s just what we do. As a plumber every call I make I get a cup of tea. It’s why in every tank made for the British army it comes supplied with a boiling vessel called a bivvy 😂 it’s what the tank crew calls the most important part. A cuppa isn’t an obsession for us it’s really just part of life. There’s something to be said for coming home after hols abroad and sitting down a decent brew after going without for a week or two.
Welcome to an a average daily part of British life. I can’t believe I actually sat and watched a video of 2 people figure out how to have tea and biscuits. 😁
Same😂
hahah, we appreciate you hanging out! :)
I know , you would think that we were the novice tea drinkers😂😂😂😂
How sad are we? Would you watch your partner or kids tea? Our dog loves his tea and I’d watch him. 😀
One of my horses adores drinking my black Earl Grey, he'll finish the whole cup if I give it to him from a feed scoop!!@@susiesmith2852
Most of us Brits put the kettle on for a cuppa when ever we get home from shopping ,or when we get stressed or anything really!😅
The kettles never at least warm in our house 🤣 I drink faaaaar too many cups in a day 🫣 if I’ve not had 10 teas I’m obviously at work or out shopping 🤣
When it's cold ,a blanket on your knee, nothing better to dunk biscuits in your tea , I love rich tea biscuits with tea
Rich Tea just doesn't compare to any other once it's been in tea, it's the most blandest biscuit otherwise, until there's tea to put it in. I just hate the way they always seem to snap lately, I inspect them all for cracks now b4 I dunk lol
bourbons are the best
I love that Steve and Lindsay are very passionate in the reviews they make. They're such an endearing couple and little Sophia is so sweet. Perhaps try doing the tea video again using your choice of tea. (I personally like pouring boiling water onto my teabag and milk snd leave a minute). Boiling water is essential for making good tea!!
“Warm and fuzzy” is the perfect antidote to a cold wet British day. Come in from a wet windy day, sit in front of an open fire with a hot cup of tea and a couple of biscuits and the world is suddenly good.
Could definitely see that! :)
You cannot beat that first cup of tea after waking up
I sometimes like to add some honey in my tea. It gives it a richer sweetness than just sugar. I like Yorkshire tea. It is so nice with some McVities Chocolate digestives. They have white chocolate digestives now and they are so lush. Yummy .
A couple of biscuits? you mean packs don't you?
@@user-eg8mt6gf7v The white chocolate digestives are really good, but they feel so morally wrong, like I'm betraying the milk chocolate digestive 😂
Tea rules - good when you’re happy, sad, stressed, relaxed, poorly, healthy in fact just any time of the day or night.
Why so many words to say it’s good any time?
You can say that with most drinks.
I feel like vodka at 9am at work is frowned upon...
Dunking biscuits in tea is a science! Chocolate covered the best but takes a few goes before you know when to take out the buscuut before it drops off into your tea 😊
Always enjoy you videos but this was a favourite for me, so charming watching you enjoy one of our favourite and most traditional past times! Thanks for the wholesome content and willingness to try new things, so much fun to watch ❤
When I worked in an office and we made tea for others we had a paint colour chart pinned to the wall (orange and browns) with peoples names written on the different colour hues as to what strength people liked their tea.
Brilliant idea
I have the done the same in the past with work colleagues.
That's cute.
Lindsay gets it; "Warm and fuzzy" sums up the attraction of a decent cup of English tea and biscuits.😁😁
I love you two Your grasp of things,your respect for trying new things.So enjoyable
Whats nice about this video is you were willing to try some thing out of your comfort zone , with steves dislike of tea and lindsay not wanting to put milk in it , you did really well . A strong mug of tea on a cold wet day , good for having a chat with a friend , the list goes on , you got a problem a friend and tea solves it all lol. its the ritual the warmth cozyness. If we lived in a hot country i'm sure iced drinks would be a thing but the UK is wet cold windy most of the year . Good content you guys
Tea is very popular in India so it is not just for cold countries. If it's very hot outside, a cup of hot tea is very refreshing and it makes you sweat and that cools you down.
British tanks have had a boiling vessel for making tea, and preparing hot food since the end of WW2. Can’t go on campaign without tea!
Do they really?
I'm laughing at the thought of it, such a British thing to do.
Very true! my mate was in the Tank Reg....Everything stops for tea! @@Debbie-henri
@@Debbie-henri if you can make a hot cup of tea whilst waiting for things to happen, it improves moral. Making tea outside the tank is dangerous, as you might get hit by bits of flying metal, aimed or otherwise. If there is a nuclear, chemical or biological threat, you’re safer inside as the air is filtered. The U.S. army military vehicles adopted something similar, but I’m not sure when, sometime after the gulf wars I think.
@@Debbie-henri its true. And other Nato tank crews are jealous and demand to use it as they don't have anything similar
Ah yes, the Royal Tank Regiment and their 60 ton armoured kettles. Putting a big cannon on the thing to protect the mission critical tea-making supplies was a smart move. Very sensible.
When I was in the British Army, we called tea with two spoonful's of sugar and milk NATO Standard Tea.
White+2 = NATO std, was always, for tea or coffee. These days, it seems to be white+0 😕
That why i left the army ,i do not want some eu cronie telling me what to do.
@@XENONEOMORPH1979 ????? Someone really messed with your head, didn't they. Tell us one thing where an 'eu cronie' told you what to do.
That makes me cringe everytime I hear NATO tea lol.... I'm a strong tea with one sugar guy, and milky sweet tea always set my teeth on edge lol.... but brewing up with your squaddies in a cold damp field are some of my best memories...
They used to put bromide in tea years ago in the armed services. Apparently it subdues urges.
Oh you two just make TH-cam better for us all! Love catching your videos! ❤️
When i started working for British Rail, the question was always, "Tea or Coffee?" I always replied, "Coffee please". When i left 25 odd years later, it was always, "Tea or Coffee?", to which, having learnt that the railway runs on tea, i always now reply, "Oh i'd rather have a cup of tea!" Now i have been converted to Masala Chai tea ( black tea with ginger, cinamon, cloves and anise) with a teaspoon of honey with a little milk and leave the bag in, delicious.
Chai means tea, btw. I love masala chai too.
If you had an endless supply of Yorkshire tea and hobnobs you could rule the world
We did 😊
Yorkshire Tea with Richtea biscuits.
@@Philippians2v10-12 If you can dunk a Richtea biscuit without it falling in YOU are British! They should make it a solid part of the entry requirements to Britain.
The digestive is the biscuit of elite dunkers. It needs split second timing.
@@colinmorrison5119 You know, I've never timed them, but I'd say a Rich Tea has to be dunked when it's not looking, but a digestive is bigger making it a tad awkward.
Yorkshire tea for life
I live a mile away from their premises. I think it’s overrated.
You do realise all these brands are exactly the same? They are literally just black tea, which is a crop. It's like saying "Oh I prefer Morrisons dried oregano to Tescos". Lol, you are being fooled by the packaging and what other people have told you. FACT
@@I_Never_Read_Comment_RepliesYou do realise black teas can and do taste different due to numerous factors, I suggest you educate yourself before posting idiotic comments
Black teas are not clones of each other. Depending on how much sunlight they get, how long they are left before harvesting, how long they are dried, quality of soil etc all contribute to differences in flavour.
Yorkshire Gold makes the best 'Builders Tea'; brew it in a large mug with two bags for 5 mins, add a glugging gush of full fat milk and more sugar than is healthy. Mate, the result is better than a double espresso. At least it doesn't give you the shits.
Tea on a hot day is very refreshing, especially when working outside.
Loved watching this, especially the i hate sweet tea part while going back for sips over and over, think you're warming to it, spot on with the tea ritual bit, tea & biscuits with family/friends is time well spent ❤
Lindsey = honorary Brit! If you drink tea with a little milk and no sugar its hardly any calories.
Nah, for me (and my entire extended family), it needs to be a strong tea with a lot of milk and no sugar 😅
I actually totally agree but tea with a little milk and no sugar is still low calorie.@@Draiscor
@@Draiscoragreed, Tetley is pants, you need 2 bags for a decent Brew, English breakfast or Yorkshire are the best by far
Been saying that since I started watching these guys. She seems very open to new, old and very old things which gets a big 👍🏽 from me. I’m they haven’t already, someone needs to send these guys a ‘proper’ electric kettle 😊
"no sugar"
For those with a Sweet Tooth, there IS a safe, non-chemical, entirely _natural_ subtitute: Xylitol - which has 40% fewer calories, and zero side-effects (apart from the _natural_ sweetness - identical to that of refined sugar). It's also good for your teeth!
Two newbies to British tea and you got your ranking spot on. Tetley is cheap canteen tea, PG is everyday tea, Yorkshire is real tea, English breakfast is what it says, Earl grey is almost a cross with herbal tea. You get it 👍🏼
Yorkshire tea is the only one grown in Britain that's why it's the best.
Personally, I find Tetley to subtle and mild. Yorkshire tea is a little strong for me but each to uk their own
Now they've graduated to next level. They need to try Lapsang souchong. That's really an acquired taste for tea lovers!
Spot on with you maybe but me , tetley is my number 1 and I’ve tried them all 😅
@@bazahaza Grown on the sunny hills of Yorkshire 😂
I’m a Norfolk born, Lincolnshire raised Yorkshire tea drinker. Love using loose tea leaves the whole process of warming the pot, adding the leaves the just boiled water, stirring allowing to brew for a 3 minutes is very meditative. I won’t drink any other tea. Except earl grey. Early grey can be drunk with a splash of milk or a slice of lemon both are delicious.
Typhoo and Tetley are utterly foul.
The early grey taste the difference is from a supermarket called Sainsbury’s.
As a a serious Yorkshire woman, I would always recommend Yorkshire Tea. I don't squeeze the bag more than once though and it's a light squeeze or it's too strong. I like Earl Grey without milk but with a bit of sugar. I think you'll find that hobnobs are yummy with anything. If you can make a decent cuppa you'll be an honourary Brit..
Whenever a visitor comes to your house, almost as soon as they come through the door "Cuppa tea?" You don't even need to say "Would you like/do you want a". Everybody understands. Tea is for every stopping point in the day, its just what we do.
😂 in ours it's "Brew?"
Essential for any tradespeople too.
lol! Fact
Yes 🙌
Your friend texts to say she’s on her way - you text back
“I’ll put the kettle on”
Standard
Spot on!
Dunking Hobnobs in tea is one thing, but until you have dunked a ginger snap in coffee you have never lived! Loved watching this video, your faces were priceless. x
Ginger biscuits r great
Break it with your elbow n try make a 3 piece clover n make a wish if it does
Funny that - halfway through this video I ended up in the kitchen getting a cuppa and looking for hob nobs or digestives.
I was shocked to find out of my 13 packets of biscuits that the closest I could get to those two were some dark chocolate covered digestives.
I settled on half a packet of Ginger nuts ✨They disintegrate in your mooey!
(and three of the dark chocolate digestives as "pudding".)
Ginger biscuits in orange squash too! 🤪
Stem ginger cookies in tea are lovely also 😅
@@hopesprings7812 they truly are, I just love ginger biscuits 💚
Great watching you guys’ next step is a teapot 😁enjoy your weekend 👍🏻💯
The warm fuzzy feeling. Tea and biscuits …… that’s why we have tea and biscuits so often
Congrats on joining the long British tradition of dunking your biscuits - be prepared for mishaps with different types 😊
Dunking rich tea biscuits is a challenge.
@@geoffpoole483 It's bliss though when it works !
One thing that people never mention is that the hardness of your water can affect the brewing and taste of tea, you can find tea blends that are formulated for hard water areas.
There’s nothing like a teabag that’s been steeped for eight hours and drunk cold, you never throw away a cuppa.😂
That’s why Scottish Blend is definitely better in Scotland, and it’s my builder’s tea of choice…..I love Earl Grey best tho 😋
I could never drink a cold cup of tea, never, NEVER! Until I had to teach, and I'd forget I had a brew. Now I can now drink tea stone cold. I live in Merseyside but had to go down to Kent (Margate and Ramsgate in Thanet) to deliver sessions. Their water used to leave a chalky residue in the tea, so I used to buy large bottles of water from the supermarket specifically to fill the kettle up.
I often forget I’ve made a cuppa and when I realise it’s gone cold I shrug and drink it anyway. Tea, powering the UK for centuries!
I'd make a fresh cup if it ever got even luke warm.. they never last that long tho! 🍪
@@abigail1stYes, our water is so soft, teas do indeed taste different. My favourite tea is Nambarrie. Nice and strong.
im a yorkshire girl sat here watching your content with the best mug of tea...tetleys!
Tea that has been left to brew for over 5 minutes is called "Builder's tea" or a builder's brew. When you get builders or construction guys in and you make them a drink, they like it strong and sweet. Brewed for ages and with at least two sugars!
A hot cup of tea on a hot summers day. Nothing better for cooling you down.
Absolutely!
Well that kind of depends on if you then sweat or not, to actually have the cooling down process to be effective. Otherwise you're just drinking a warm drink and feeling warmer 😂 tea is also a diuretic, so if you don't then also drink a sufficient amount of water on hot days, and just drink mostly tea, you won't be hydrated enough.
@@kezlana6907 tea has little diuretic effect, which is why it’s counted in hospital oral fluid charts the same as water, in fact it’s very hydrating, esp with milk.
I’m a medic , fyi
And who’s only drinking tea on hot days?
You can add milk to Earl Grey, also Lady Grey tea's, or at least I do. The type of tea you should not add milk to is fruit tea's, as the milk curdles when added. The Earl Grey is Sainsburys (Supermarket) own brand range.
Me too as regards to Earl and Lady Grey. Twining used to make one of my favourite teas ever - Blossom Earl Grey. It was better than Earl and Lady and it was divine. They discontinued it a few weeks after I discovered it and I was and still am gutted 😢 I managed to grab the last 4 boxes Tesco ever had, at half price. It's been gone for years.
I tried milk in Earl Grey but not for me I'm afraid and I'd never put milk near Lady Grey, two of the best pure relaxation teas.
Bleh, milk in earl/lady grey is sacrilege 🤮
Ruins the taste.
Earl Grey, with just the slightest suggestion of milk goes great with a joint! 😘👌
They all taste different because they are all blends, taking different proportions of tea from different areas. It’s like wine from Chile tastes different to wine from Italy.
Boiled water 100C, brew for 4 minutes, milk to taste. Perfect
You two truly love each other, I don't think I have ever heard of someone offering to share the last piece of digestive when there is 5 cups of tea to be dunked.
Yorkshire tea made in a teapot with a splash of skimmed milk, no sugar. Biscuits - custard creams, chocolate digestives, M&S viennese biscuits - delish !!
2 sugar plz
❤Black Yorkshire Gold - no milk. No sugar for me please❤And_😮😢😢😢 NO__SLURPING__PLEASE😢😢😢😢😮
Remember these folks are American ,please don't put the milk in the tea pot ,milk goes in the cup 😂
No sugar and full fat milk!
Ooh yes, perfection x
Tea is something that is trail and error to find out how you like it.
(how long to leave teabag in, how much milk, how much sugar) - Once found how you like your tea. (Chef kiss)
Longer teabag is left in - the bitter it is, more milk creamy, sugar sweeter (like coffee, need to experiment to find right ratio)
My husband is very bitter, while I like it milky with a little sugar. (Stronger tends to be called a builders tea)
I love how you taken the feedback from the biscuits and tried it :D
Love your mug with the biscuit pocket.
Yorkshire tea is also my favourite. Going to have to make myself a cuppa right now after watching. Great video guys
Steve: "I don't like tea"
*Proceeds to try the teas multiple times* 😂
I like how much you of a chance you really give the taste test of things! 😊 I can't say I could so the same if I really didn't like something. Also I loved the fact that you guys basically finished all the biscuits since last week despite the fact you guys weren't massive fans of most of them! ❤
OMG .. LOL my thoughts exactly!! Made me laugh so much ... 😂😂😂
He just needs to give them a chance a couple more times and he'll be hooked 😂
Some notes on tea leaves: all except the Earl Grey are English Breakfast (though they're not just drunk at breakfast), they're a blend of different black tea leaves from places like Assam and Kenya. Earl Grey is different in that it's a blend of black teas from China, flavoured with bergamot
Good points.
I did not know the difference was to do with the regions! That's cool to know. Thanks 😊
Tea is the elixir of the gods. I drink it in a pint mug, and leave the bag in. An office day for me can see 6 to 9 cups consumed.
Marks & Spencers tea leaves are the best made in a tea pot brew for 8-10 mins, perfect 😊
Love you guys so sweet 💗
Tea is something of an acquired taste, like when you first start drinking beer. The more you drink it, the more you will like it. If you grew up in a tea drinking family, then you will have become used to it at an early age.
I totally agree. My mum disliked tea and anything that you put milk in, so she never gave it to my sister and I once we were weaned off "the bottle".
I can't get past the smell of tea to be able too taste it, I gag. I have tried neat Earl Grey and it was ok but I would sooner have coffee if I'm having a warm drink. Which 4 or 5 times a year lol
My sister still never drinks anything warm.
I was brought up on sweet tea, as a teenager started to drink it without sugar (much more refreshing), and then in my early twenties when I decided to stop drinking anything with caffeine, I stopped drinking it altogether. Forty years later I can still appreciate the thought of hot tea. It would be nice to start drinking it again, but I know it would give me a headache. 😞
My mother refused to make anything except strong sweet tea with 2 spoons full of sugar. Even when I asked for no sugar. So I rebelled and only drank instant coffee for years after leaving home. With half a teaspoon of sugar. I occasionally make a cup of tea, so a packet of teabags can last me years. @@carltaylor6452
Love how Lindsey is becoming a Brit! ❤ biscuits are made for dunking! Steve I'm proud of your open mindness in this and I'll take your reaction as a win for Britain. Great video as always guys!
You definitely should take it as a win! :)
Rich Tea Fingers are the Olympics standard dunk.
Bless him… he is a drama llama… but he ‘gets it’ 😂
We have a tea chart in our office so we know how brown (or not!) to make everyone's cuppa! My collegue likes super strong with about 3 drops of milk!! It's such an individual thing! I drink decaf tea, so always leave the teabag in, as it's never strong enough!! Yorkshire tea is definitely my favourite though! Earl Grey is nice without milk, but with a slice of lemon & a little sugar!
The colour of He-Man for me, please😊
Coming Home from a hard day at work, kick the shoes off, the slippers on and sit down with a good cup of tea. Nothing beats it. Oh and I'm from Australia 🇦🇺
Slippers are a must 😂 if I'm in the house I'm never out of them unless it's a really hot summer.
If you don't really like that taste of tea, you might want to try Darjeeling. It's known as the champagne of teas, because it has a much more subtle and delicate flavour. It is taken from the tips of the tea leaves so it doesn't have the high tanin content that the normal tea leaves do, so it doesn't have that bitter taste. It is a much lighter colour and a much lighter tasting tea. Perfect for the tea ritual and buzz but without the bitter tea flavour.
That was quite a tea bagging experience here
Think I need to pop the kettle on now for a cuppa 😂
the tiny little dunks of the biscuits into the tea is hurting my heart 😂 dunk the whole thing!! 😂
Dunk it till your fingers get wet !
You aint dunking it right till you feel the sweet sear of pipping hot tea on your fingertips.
Lol
If you dunk it all you risk disintegration, best not do that.
@@Phoenix8Rising That's got nothing to do with amount and everything to do with time - You're leaving it in too long!
Best biscuit to have is a ginger nut for dunking.
Hi
I’ve just stumbled across your videos and they are great to watch. Yes, us Brits love our tea. I like my tea with a little bit of milk, nice and hot, no sugar and the teabag dipped a few times in hot water before adding the milk. If you leave the bag in too long, it’s strewed and it tastes disgusting. Thanks for making these videos. They are very entertaining to watch 😊
As an Englishman I’m loving this 😆🇬🇧🫡
Love that Lindsay loved the Yorkshire and the English Breakfast, since they’re BOTH made Taylors 😀😀
Yorkshire tea with Yorkshire watter! Remember taking some Yorkshire tea out to my sister who’s been living in the US and then Botswana for decades, her initial reaction was uncertain but she quickly became a convert.
And technically they were all breakfast tea except the Earl Grey, just different brands. Personally I like the PG best but it's much harder to get the right brew since they got rid of the pyramid bags.
Many years ago, I controlled a distribution centre where we packed forty foot containers of Tetley tea for export to the States. We were always amazed to see tea flavoured with strawberries, blackberries and raspberries. All made for export, no self respecting Englishman would touch them with a barge pole, but the Yanks seemed to love them.
Gotta remember they are a sugar nation
I was going to say the same thing. It's because they're sweet.
This is so much fun to watch! Tea is one of my favourite things, but earl grey is a close second to regular tea. I always have my earl grey with milk and a bit of honey, also really nice with a slice of lemon and honey ^^
Funny thing is, I've always got a cup of tea when watching this channel.
Yorkshire Gold are the best, with Yorkshire tap water. (Doesnt taste exactly the same anywhere else, usually due to hard water) I have 1 a day in the morning. Then regular Yorkshire Tea throughout the day and maybe the odd Tetley just to mix it up. 4-5 mins to brew, lightly squeeze bag, add dash of milk and sugar, perfect.
You two are now british....you have a kettle 🎉❤ love watching this x
Your one of us now 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
not british enough because they called it a Tea kettle and its just a kettle!!! and im from Yorkshire i know what im talking about that and yorkshire puddings xx
Not quite, they need a teapot!
It's surprising how much flavour black tea has and how much, erm, rounder the flavour is with milk. For want of a better word.
I am from the US and my family thinks I am weird because I only have a kettle because I am not a fan of coffee and prefer tea. Lol
Well done Lyndsay - you’re obviously a natural tea drinker/biscuit dunker 👍👍👍🏴🏴🏴🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
Dipping like it's salsa. 🤣
I'm definitely doing a tour of America with a suitcase full of tea and biscuits to show the nation how it's done. 🤣
Lindsay loving the biscuits and Yorkshire tea makes my heart sing!!! Watching you two holding the cuppa teas literally made you look like you were British! 😂😂 x
Oh, and we’re a pretty cold country too, so this little tea and biscuit ritual warms us up! If you haven’t had 3 or 4 by lunch time, are you even British?!?!
Guys, the 'Taste The Difference' Earl Grey tea is from Sainsburys, from their own brand range of 'finer' food products. 🇬🇧 😘
Earl Grey should be served with a slice of lemon, why do Americans feel they have everything sweet?
Steve and Lindsey, as a Yorkshire lad from Harrogate I never though I would sit watching two Americans drinking tea. I take out the tea bag after just a few seconds, certainly not a minute. Taylors of Harrogate and Yorkshire Tea are one and the same company. They are also coffee makers. Where ever I go in the world, dozens of countries, I see Yorkshire Tea AND Harrogate spa water. And, when you two do arrive in the UK you must visit Harrogate, a lovely town.
I live in Harrogate and I love to see it abroad.
The prolonged dunk was giving me anxiety..you have to concentrate or you are going to over-dunk and lose your bicky😮. Persevere with the cup of tea.... it's so lovely and refreshing. Great review guys xx 🇬🇧🐻👍
Every person who likes tea makes it to their own tastes.
Best thing in the world when in the army & on a wet cold exercise & a mate brings you a mug of tea. Just makes things just that bit better
I was an Army chef. And main job is making sure “ brews” are hot.
Made me chuckle when every there was a “ stand too” or everyone left in cookhouse uniform wasn’t complete without thermos of tea…
My dad and his team in a bunker on exercise RAF, 3 days now showers or heating, first thing they did was have a cuppa XD
Builders (contractors) traditionally have really strong tea, steeped for a long time, without much milk and with LOTS of sugar. It's a matter of honour amongst "manly" men how strong they take their tea (and the same with hot curries) 😁
I have builders tea without sugar
@@mariacurtis9247 The best way to sup tea, in my eyes, or on yer palate !
Guys you can definitely add a splash of milk to the earl grey - it's lovely!!
Yorkshire tea without doubt my fav ! One sweetner and milk.
I find it funny how you explained the' ritual' lol