See I'd love to do that but I don't have a grinder in my sink, so I'm reluctant to wash all the soggy whole-leaf tea down the drain for fear of creating a clog. Plenty goes down anyway as a result of my not wanting to scoop by hand each last bit out of the pot.
Thank you for the input, though! I was afraid I was missing something very obvious...it's happened before!
Half fill the pot with boiling water, swish the pot in a circular motion to capture every bit into the water and while swishing tip the pot down the loo or in the trash or wherever...
BTW you *never* wash the inside of a tea pot with any detergents, or put it into a sink full of water or a dishwasher... Just swill it with hot water inside, tops, clean the outside as usual with detergent. :)
I find using a tea pot makes the question about tea in the cup first or not a bit irrelevant, unless you take a lot of milk.
Aha! The Loo! Now that makes sense and can handle all the leaves! In a house as small as mine it won't even count as exercise to walk down the hall :D You're so brilliant!
I find using a tea pot makes the question about tea in the cup first or not a bit irrelevant, unless you take a lot of milk. Huh? I would think that not using a pot would make it irrelevant since if you brewed it in a cup it would already be in the cup...
The whole argument (which I wasn't even sure was a thing, being Merkin and all) is that Arthur Dent says it scalds the milk and makes it taste bad if you pour the milk into the tea...(IIRC). If I use logic as my guide, I would think the tea would be hotter if it were poured into the milk, since the act of pouring it into the cup would cool it down... But I never let logic interfere in matters such as theese.
So it was because of Arthur Dent that my sons and I started brewing tea this way.....to please a fictional character! (won't be the last instance of it, either, I can proclaim)
You can also keep some leaves till they cool and spread them on the soil of a pot plant or plants in the garden, only do this once every few months though, it's good for plants when not too much. :D
I get what he is saying and the normal thing when brewing is to add the milk last, but here in Yorkshire most of us make *very* strong tea, thus we make it milky and if using a tea bag you cant put the milk in first then add water cos the bag wont brew with a quarter of milk. We make it in the pot only these days so it dont matter when we add the milk to the cup really.
Quite frankly, I'm not sure if I like good tea or not :D I know that plain green tea is not to enter this mouth again ever. Ever. I do love Assam, though. So...I don't know you'd wanna waste your good tea on me. I prefer bad coffee most of the time (with the exception of Kona, which is locally the most expensive...go figger).
You don't know.... Oh dear, despite all you said and even if you dont enjoy it, you has to have some real proper tea now LOL None o that green junk.... English tea :D Do I have your address? I cant even remember LOL
Oh, there are many more kinds of tea that are just as goodnabikibOctober 29 2013, 08:57:46 UTC
Or better than English tea. In fact, there's one made from the root of the sassafras tree that is far better and so is tea made from the leave of Euchinaca plants. Some folks call those last ones Purple Cone Flower...and they give an incredible boost to the immune system.
I like common tea as much as the next person but I'm used to using various other infusions both as regular beverages and as nutritional aides.
Either use a strainer...nabikibOctober 29 2013, 08:48:28 UTC
Or buy fine cloth mesh and a stapler and make actual tea BAGS from the dry tea first.
I'd recommend the second option. I'm an American and we use many, many more kinds of tea than most people in other countries do...so we're used to making our own teabags. In fact, the only teas I use that I also use a strainer are the root and bark ones, not leaf, flower or stem.
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Thank you for the input, though! I was afraid I was missing something very obvious...it's happened before!
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BTW you *never* wash the inside of a tea pot with any detergents, or put it into a sink full of water or a dishwasher... Just swill it with hot water inside, tops, clean the outside as usual with detergent. :)
I find using a tea pot makes the question about tea in the cup first or not a bit irrelevant, unless you take a lot of milk.
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I find using a tea pot makes the question about tea in the cup first or not a bit irrelevant, unless you take a lot of milk.
Huh? I would think that not using a pot would make it irrelevant since if you brewed it in a cup it would already be in the cup...
The whole argument (which I wasn't even sure was a thing, being Merkin and all) is that Arthur Dent says it scalds the milk and makes it taste bad if you pour the milk into the tea...(IIRC). If I use logic as my guide, I would think the tea would be hotter if it were poured into the milk, since the act of pouring it into the cup would cool it down... But I never let logic interfere in matters such as theese.
So it was because of Arthur Dent that my sons and I started brewing tea this way.....to please a fictional character! (won't be the last instance of it, either, I can proclaim)
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I get what he is saying and the normal thing when brewing is to add the milk last, but here in Yorkshire most of us make *very* strong tea, thus we make it milky and if using a tea bag you cant put the milk in first then add water cos the bag wont brew with a quarter of milk. We make it in the pot only these days so it dont matter when we add the milk to the cup really.
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I like common tea as much as the next person but I'm used to using various other infusions both as regular beverages and as nutritional aides.
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I'd recommend the second option. I'm an American and we use many, many more kinds of tea than most people in other countries do...so we're used to making our own teabags. In fact, the only teas I use that I also use a strainer are the root and bark ones, not leaf, flower or stem.
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