Quick question for everyone.

Am I the only person in the world that uses one tea bag for two cups of tea?

This is not because i'm so poor that I cannot afford tea bags, its just something that i've always done. It just seems wasteful otherwise.

So how about it?

Mash in a mug then you need one bag for each mug,
But in a tea pot 1 bag for 2 cups is fine. If they are large mugs then you might need a second bag, but it's ok to top up the pot without extra bags. That's the magic of mashin'

i use one teabag for each cup unless there's no teabags left in which case i use it 'til its dead hehe. ahhh the beauty of yorkshire tea! they say that one bag makes two cups but id rather use one bag per cup , resulting in a much fuller cuppa.

The quality of the tea bags is all important, I prefer to use loose tea purely because I can choose the blend that suits me and Rlass.

Pollards in Sheffield or Northern Tea Merchants in Chesterfield both do very good quality tea & coffee, not your average supermarket cack.

Originally posted by owdlad
The quality of the tea bags is all important, I prefer to use loose tea purely because I can choose the blend that suits me and Rlass.

Pollards in Sheffield or Northern Tea Merchants in Chesterfield both do very good quality tea & coffee, not your average supermarket cack.

Ooohhhh, somebody's getting ideas above their station.

Next you'll be telling us the proper way to hold a tea cup is with first finger and thumb, leaving all other digits extended.

Does not matter which teabags you use - one bag per cup unless you like drinking water with milk in it.

Teabag, sugar, hot - but not boiling water - poured straight onto the bag. Never put milk in first. Always stir the tea in a clockwise direction ;) unless you live in the US or Australia in which case you stir counter-clockwise. (LOL)

Dragon

Next you'll be telling us the proper way to hold a tea cup is with first finger and thumb, leaving all other digits extended.

Yes of course it is.....served with with cucumber sandwiches!!

Originally posted by Dragon
Teabag, sugar, hot - but not boiling water - poured straight onto the bag.
I'm afraid I disagree with you about this one, the water must be boiling, that's why tea in other countries is awful. They are equpped mainly with coffee making facilities which make excellent coffee which should be cooler than boiling so that it is not scorched.

To quote the great Ginger Baker, in his song T USA, from the Masters of Reality album sunrise on the sufferbus.

.. You pour boiling water, over the tea, how simple and clear can the instructions be..

Rock and roll having all the answers as usual

I heard on the radio about Kathy Burke always using 2 bags per mug. Because she cannot be bothered waiting to get a decent brew!!

How the other half live. Eh?

Nah! Let the water boil for three minutes in the kettle and then switch the kettle off. Wait until the it stops bubbling and then pour onto the teabag. That way you do not scald the tea which makes for a stronger brew.

Dragon

My dad has some weird ideas about tea. He not only can use a bag up to four or five times - and only uses one per teapot, but when you're having a brew, if you get halfway down the cup he tries to snatch it off you and top it up with hot water. It's sick. I have no idea where he gets it from because my grandparents used to drink tea so strong it would take the lining out of your mouth. Which is what tea ought to do.

Next you'll be telling us he hangs the used teabags out on the washing line ;) If its raining he could always tumble dry them I guess.

The word - skinflint comes to mind.

Dragon

One tea bag for me add hot water leave 20 seconds loads of milk, i hate strong tea and no sugar.

Originally posted by Abdul
Ooohhhh, somebody's getting ideas above their station.

Next you'll be telling us the proper way to hold a tea cup is with first finger and thumb, leaving all other digits extended.

Well of course it isn't, everyone knows you stick your first finger through the handle and wrap the rest of your hand around the mug (no not Kirky) :P

PS Abdul, I think your signature says it all :thumbsup: :D

Has anyone tried that instant tea? Like the stuff I imagine you get in vending machines, except bright sparks at typhoo etc decided to sell it in jars.

So - anyone risked it at all, other than me? That stuff tastes disgusting and the flavour suggests it would make a cheap perfume.

Dragon

Originally posted by muddycoffee
Mash in a mug then you need one bag for each mug,
But in a tea pot 1 bag for 2 cups is fine. If they are large mugs then you might need a second bag, but it's ok to top up the pot without extra bags. That's the magic of mashin'

My dad adds another tea bag and then another until at the end of the day there's about 15 bloody bags stewing in the pot. Mashin' is definitely the word but he calls it "bulling" it up. I think it's the same as beefing it up - adding strength. Anybody else call it "to bull up the pot"?

Two bags one cup matey. I like my tea to be tea :D

Originally posted by Dragon
Has anyone tried that instant tea? Like the stuff I imagine you get in vending machines, except bright sparks at typhoo etc decided to sell it in jars.

So - anyone risked it at all, other than me? That stuff tastes disgusting and the flavour suggests it would make a cheap perfume.

Dragon

Risk what, dragon? Your life? Possibly.

Yes, I used to try QT several months ago.

It was surprisingly good to drink, considering that it was made in a lab by scientists (I suppose) rather than in a teapot.

I stopped drinking it after looking at the ingredients, though...it was quite high in fat and carbohydrate:

Fat 22.6g per 100g :loopy:
Carbohydrate 43.4g per 100g

(Although this may refer to the dry product, not the cuppa)

I am 'speechless'. I just do not know how to respond to that. To think that water contains all that fat and carbohydrate - cos that is what tea is mostly made of.

You are talking about per 100g which is quite a few cups of tea, unless you are really mental and try making a paste using a whole jar each time.

Was you by any chance being serious Abdul?

I just do not know what to say more than that.

Dragon

I never joke about my tea, I'll thank you for noting.

Here are a list of the ingredients in Typhoo QT:

Tea whitener (dried glucose syrup, hydrogenated vegetable oil, acidity regulators (E340, E331) milk proteins, emulsifiers (E481) )
Dried skimmed milk
Soluble solids of tea (13.8%)
Flavourings

It says each 2.5g serving contains 1.1g carbohydrate and 0.6g fat

Like I said - are you being serious? Do you realise how little 1g is? Especially when mixed with a third of a pint of water?

Come on - next you'll be telling me tea is one of the most fattening drinks available.

1.1g and 0.6g - wohooo! One piece of chocolate has more than that. And do not ever say we should not eat chocolate.

Dragon

one cup per tea bag. However, my mother would always stretch it to two and my father would demand a tea pot....

One tea bag per mug and let it mash for ages.

Does any one remember there mum leaving the teapot on the gas to keep it warm?
Talk about stewed.

BLEURGHHHHHHHHHH

i hate tea, foul tasting stuff it is

My grandmother used to like weak tea - "Dambusters' Tea" made by bouncing the teabag off the water surface.

Personally I drink coffee. It's over two years since my last teacup.

Originally posted by Hopman
My grandmother used to like weak tea - "Dambusters' Tea" made by bouncing the teabag off the water surface.

thats not tea, thats pretending youve got tea when youve actually got hot water

Originally posted by Dragon
Like I said - are you being serious? Do you realise how little 1g is? Especially when mixed with a third of a pint of water?

Come on - next you'll be telling me tea is one of the most fattening drinks available.

1.1g and 0.6g - wohooo! One piece of chocolate has more than that. And do not ever say we should not eat chocolate.

Dragon

Well I'm sorry, I misread the nutritional information. No need to have a go at me :roll:

Did you not say you run confidence building classes for people?I hope you don't belittle them every time they make an honest mistake.

You sadist :rant:

You would be surprised how you can build someones confidence. Anyhow - well done for reading the list of ingredients. It is not you who is at fault in this, but the manufacturers of the instant tea label.

Is there anything at all that does not carry the warning "May contrain traces of nut"? Jeze!!!!

Dragon

Originally posted by Dragon


Is there anything at all that does not carry the warning "May contrain traces of nut"? Jeze!!!!



maybe this forum should "may contain a few nuts"

Is that because this forum is one of the few things not so labelled?

And to which nuts are you referring? The edible kind; the metallic kind; or the screwball kind; or the hairy ones?

Dragon

One bag in mug, but one bag two mugs in a pot.

Know a bloke that had a box of tea bags in old money 8 years after decimalisation. He broke the teabags open got a pair of tweasers took out two tealeaf and put them in the mug (left them in) added a spoonful of sugar and a spoonful of condensed milk.

instant tea is just pants
1 tea bag and loads o cups o tea for me