And no, the microwave is not a valid option.
I put the teabag in first so the hot water will hit it and move it around and release the flavour.
This is the way!
This is the way
That’s a great way to make the air inside the teabag expand but not be able to escape through the wet paper, making the teabag float on top of the water like a confused little fish that just escaped a dentist’s aquarium.
That’s why you dunk it a few times until it sinks!
Take your hatchet and slash some leaves in the misty fields of Kerala. Make sure it’s monsoon flush, so roughly july to september. Then, chop up an old Ginkgo Biloba that looks wise. Leave it to dry in a Kenyan plain for three years, and head for Nepal. There, you will gather the purest glacier water there is. By then, your tea leaves will be dust. Go buy some Lipton and microwave tap water, it’s all you can do at this point. And, uh, teabag first
Sounds like that guy who made a sandwich from scratch: growing wheat, raising chicken etc. He said it was „okay“
Heh, I’d like to read this
The teabag. Otherwise it would float on top, similarly to why you put cerial in before milk.
You use so much milk and so little cereal that the cereal would float?
You don’t?
I like milk being just at or below cereal height, myself.
if you do the characteristic “teabagging” motion it saturates quickly. tbh I do it whichever way is most convenient since I’m almost always brewing on the way from one task in one part of my work area to a different one somewhere else. What I put into the travel mug first has much more to do with which one I get my hands on first than it does with any personal preference.
I don’t put the milk in first so it won’t travel across the inner curve of the bowl and spill out, making a huge mess. But that’s just me
Do you fill your cereal bowl with a garden hose? How does it travel with such a velocity that it spills out the other side? 😂
I had a traumatic milk based experience as a munchkin. When my motor control was still developing. eheh
Tea bag first, then freshly boiled hot water.
This is the only answer
This is how you scold the tea
Perfect
Thankyou for preventing microwave comments. Its an abomination
Set the bush on fire, toss a bucket of water on it, drink the hot bush broth drippings
So primitive, in the least impressive way imaginable
For me:
- Cup.
- Reusable metal tea infuser.
- Loose leaf tea.
- press button on Japanese instant hot water dispenser
- (^this was probably the best $200 I’ve ever spent, fucking worth every dollar).
Teabag, honey, hot water and then milk (almond in my case)
Honey first you don’t get it on the tea bag Obviously
You know I’ve never tried honey in tea… I may do it
First step is to gather sticks under the bushes.
Start a fire using paper, newspaper, cardboard, then add sticks and make a larger fire.
Heat up water until boiling.
Add tea bags to thermos and pour the water inside. Now we have 2 days worth of hot tea.
Optional delicious step: pop popcorn
They’re designed to deliver the maximum amount of flavour in ~20 seconds.
So: bag first, then just-boiled water. Wait/steep for 20-60 seconds, fish out the bag with a teaspoon and squeeze against the cup, and then milk.
How do you milk your teabag?
Nice. :)
But next you’ll be saying you don’t know how to use the 3 seashells…
With a come here motion with your finger(s)
It truly is such a versatile motion
Squeeze against the wall, milk it hard
Through the nipples.
Tea bag
I usually drink coffee so the water goes in before the teabag, although to be fair the teabag never goes in.
First the filter, then the loose leaves, then water.
Absolutely! Nobody should use teabags, they’re subpar and we’re allready getting plenty of micro plastics in our bodies.
This depends on the water temperature. I boil mine, so I pour water first, wait a bit, then put the bag. If I do the other way around, sometimes the tea gets burnt and tastes too bitter, which I don’t like.
I could also heat the water to a lower temperature but I don’t have one of those fancy kettles with temp selection, and I usually get distracted to interrupt the kettle before it boils. But, if the water is hot enough already but not just boiled, then I’ll put the bag first, then the water second.
Depends what tea I’m making. For green and white teas I will add water first (175-185F) then steep the tea bag for 3-4 minutes.
If I’m making black tea or some fruity/herbal tea, I will toss the bag in first, then pour in boiling water and steeping for 3-5min depending on preference.
Same for me. I like drinking white jasmine tea, but the flavor becomes too bitter if you pour boiling water over the leaves. It’s better to drink at 80 or even 70 degrees (sorry, don’t know the F one).
I used to make tea for my coworkers back when we had a team room and got way into it. I had my own little kettle, all kinds of tea leaves, a weighing scale spoon and even a thermometer :)
I learned that pre-heating your kettle was important for black teas because boiling water would drop to 90 degrees or even less if you didn’t.
