I’ve been drinking iced Earl Grey with no sweetener for years. How do you do your brew?
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Electric kettle to boil 2 cups of water. 4 twinnings earl Grey to a pitcher Steep tea for about 5 minutes 1 large spoonful of lemon iced tea mix Fill pitcher up to full Chill and serve
Electric kettle + tea berry and a one minute timer. Leave the bag in for extra goodness.
And milk ofc
No milk for me, just strong tea.
Usually I drink Yorkshire Gold with sugar and a little evaporated milk.
Yorkshire Red, neat, over ice.
Three of the small tea bags and a liter cup of ice.
Electric kettle, just off the boil, four minutes brew time.
If I have the time and ingredients, I’ll keep it hot, one tea bag, and do a splash of cream/milk with some Demerara sugar.
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Yorkshire with microfiltered milk for me; utterly, utterly divine
With bags like a savage usually, no sugar or milk. I’d up my tea game but I’m usually more of a coffee drinker.
Glad I’m not the only uncultured swine here haha.
Cold brew over night, unsweetened
Electric kettle and french press.
- Add sweetener and vanilla extract to mug.
- Fill and start kettle.
- Add loose leaf Earl Grey and lavender to french press.
- Pour boiling water into french press.
- Steep for 3 minutes.
- Press and pour the tea into the mug.
- Add a splash of oat milk.
- Stir and enjoy.
It’s called a London Fog and it’s delicious.
As a British person, I want to go mad with the downvotes here.
Wondering how it is done in Britain is a big part of what inspired this question. What would your say is the common method?
Tea bag in a mug. Boil the kettle. Pour boiling water into mug. Give it a little stir and leave it for a couple of minutes. Remove tea bag. Add sugar and milk to desired taste. I’d say that’s probably the way most brits make a cup of tea.
Water in the microwave. Cheap Lipton tea bag for five mins. A little cashew milk. It’s fine.
Whatever black tea steeped for slightly longer than whatever it says, teaspoon or two of sugar, and a splash of milk. I mostly drink black coffee though.
Loose jasmine tea in a tea ball, boil water on the stove in a kettle, pour over the tea & steep 3 minutes (more than that and it goes bitter). Remove tea ball, add a small spash of milk & enjoy.
My mum uses tea bags and adds the milk right over the bag as it steeps. For some reason that enrages me, so I turn away when she’s up to that nonsense.
I mostly drink Shan tea which has added toasted sticky rice flavour and a very strong black tea with milk and sugar, the way indians introduced back in colonial time.
Shan tea is simple. Just put it in a flask with hot water, wait a bit and drink slowly.
Black tea with milk has to be brewed hard though. Tannins are part of the flavour. I personally brew for about 15 to 30 mins. Actual tea stalls brew much longer, like hours long. Also tea leaves to water ratio is quite low as well. The tea needs to be fairly tart. Then we add evaporated milk and sweetener. A serving should be quite small because the tea is strong. May be around 100-150ml.
Big pinch from a cheap 1 kilo bag of black tea, in a pint glass, strain into other pint glass.
Mostly drink coffee, but some days I want something more relaxing.
- Heat water to 70 degrees using electric kettle.
- Put loose leaf green tea in a strainer thingy. Leave room for it to expand 4 times as big
- Swoosh some of the 70 degree water around a glass kettle to heat it up, pour it out.
- Put strainer with tea in glass kettle.
- Pour water over tea.
- Let sit for a few minutes.
- Drink.
- Reuse the same leafs throughout the day using same steps.
I usually use unflavored green tea with decent quality. Very different from tea bags.
