Thread: Tea anyone ??!!

See my thread on Midwesterners and the ghoul....your mind needs proper rotting now

Thanks, Nightblade. It's nice to have a straightforward explanation for making a cup of good 'ol black tea - a staple even for many of us fancy tea drinkers

Just as many find classic shaving esoteric (as I did until a month ago!), tea can be quite confusing; thanks for demystifying it for all our visitors!

Thanks, Nightblade,

I thought myself a heathen using a sauce pot to boil water. I realize, I'm still a heathen for many other reasons, but, I digress. I have a proper tea set on the way, and will pick up a kettle very soonly. My barbarian method didn't seem to do to bad last night with the bag of Earl Grey.

Live long and prosper, Don

Yeah...I use a saucpan all the time to heat my water...Would that I could especially now afford my precious russian kusmi tea,I would be drinkin it now.We do what we can with what we got where we're at . K'PLA!!

If I had a dollar for every overpriced tea I find online...well I doubt I would surpass Buffet, Gates, and the like, but I sure would be rich!

It doesn't make sense that one can purchase a kilogram of premium tea in China for under $25 while online tea suppliers charge anywhere from $5-15 for 2-5oz quantities. I've thought many times of purchasing tea en masse but until now I didn't really know of many people in the states who appreciated tea! Maybe I should rethink that decision...

Yes.....some of the teas out there just like coffee will curl yer toes price wise. These are humble times indeed. As you say and as I have said many times in this thread.....I had no clue of the amount of tea lovers out there. And guys especially. All the ahem...britsh tea shops I have ever been to here in Denver,although nice,were mostly ladies tea room oriented. Most were run by quaint ladies who promoted the whole doily's on the table finger sandwich atmosphere.If you read about British country culture and world war II Britain and even Russian folk culture just for examples, you find more substance in drinking tea and foods to go with it. Nothin like a farmhouse style breakfast with strong black tea and eggs,kippers,suasages,grilled tomato and mushrooms,fried potatoes,pancakes,porridge,bacon the list goes on... Likewise, nothin like sitting down to strong Blacktea with potatoes,sauages,onions,bacon simmered in a skillet with a little stock and dressed with fresh Parsley and maybe some good crusty bread with butter and Mite (Vege or Marm). i could go on an on. The Tommy's and and Commonwealth soldiers all enjoyed a good cuppa in the trenches when times were crappy and it got'em through some misery. Even if it was just black water and whatever they could get their hands on to sweeten it etc. Nothing like tea on a rainy or cold crisp fall or winter day maybe with some fried fish or potato soup or Pot Pie.....anybody here gettin hungry yet ....geeze ,I'm workin up a froth here ! On that note...seeya all in a bit.....i'm goin to the store and gettin some Tuck.......I'm gonna gnaw my own arm off in a minute .....Cheers you lot !

Originally Posted by Nightblade

Yeah...I use a saucpan all the time to heat my water...Would that I could especially now afford my precious russian kusmi tea,I would be drinkin it now.We do what we can with what we got where we're at . K'PLA!!

Well, this makes the second time in my life I've heard, or seen, K'PLA!! the first time was in the timeless classic Team America movie, and just now. If I'm not mistaken, the state of Washington, was looking for a court translator for Klingon. That's when you know this Country has jumped the shark. I have a set on the way, I'll PM you. The kettle I had, I destroyed. Put water boiling, forgot, came back later and it was ruined, FUBAR. It was a good pot, but, alas; killed by my inattention. I still have nightmares, the smell or burnt copper and chrome....

Don you still are a barbarian . Get a kettle with an auto cut off switch. That way it turns itself off without going into 'China Syndrome'.

Steph a great post there on the basic brew. I don't go past that much myself...Actually I mostly fail to even meet those high standards of tea making. And here I am calling Don a barbarian! Case of the pot calling the kettle black perhaps .


Mick

Originally Posted by MickR

Don you still are a barbarian . Get a kettle with an auto cut off switch. That way it turns itself off without going into 'China Syndrome'.

Steph a great post there on the basic brew. I don't go past that much myself...Actually I mostly fail to even meet those high standards of tea making. And here I am calling Don a barbarian! Case of the pot calling the kettle black perhaps .


Mick

Mick,
How could I change? It's too late in the game for me. I am what I am. Barbarian, Heathen or, as a great friend of mine who is addicted to British Cycles, unchooth and unrefined! I'll go on. I guess it's my cross I must carry. I'll get over it.

I wouldn't change any bloke from being who they were, unless who they were included wanting my dog, kids and wife. . Now for my barbrosity. Tonight I made up a big batch of Dilmah extra strong Black tea in a big plastic measuring jug, using five, yes that's right, five, tea bags in one hit. I then squeezed in one whole lime, which proved to be about a half a lime too much, so I stirred in about a dessert-spoon of honey to take the edge off it.
I left it to cool while I proceeded to drink the last 3/4's of the shop bought liptons iced tea in raspberry flavour that was sitting in the fridge. She was another scorcher of a day today, so it went down well, and perhaps a little too fast. Once done , I then gave the plastic bottle a quick rinse and re-filled it with my own brew and put that in the fridge.
The next step will be to tear the label off the outside of the plastic bottle to save confusion as to what flavour I am actually about to swill...I mean...sip/partake of...


Mick