Making tea in a teapot...

[gentlegreen]

Loose tea that I have delivered twice a year - (£100 worth x 2)

Made in the same pot I've been using at work for over 20 years :-

(and which I wash as infrequently as possible ..

 

[danny la rouge]

(and which I wash as infrequently as possible ..

What would Aggie and Kim say?

 

[Blagsta]

that's disgusting

 

[Biddlybee]

What would Aggie and Kim say?

You are only meant to rinse teapots, not wash them.

 

[innit]

I wash mine. Is that bad? It's lovely and clean.

 

[danny la rouge]

You are only meant to rinse teapots, not wash them.

Is that what they'd say?

 

[gentlegreen]

Mine only sees the tap if I accidentally leave damp tea leaves in over a warm weekend and it goes mouldy.

 

[Griff]

Mine only sees the tap if I accidentally leave damp tea leaves in over a warm weekend and it goes mouldy.

Shit man, that's fucking rank.

 

[Biddlybee]

Is that what they'd say?

Probably not, no

I wash mine. Is that bad? It's lovely and clean.

It's what I've heard.

 

[danny la rouge]

Probably not, no

Exactly.

 

[Biddlybee]

Do you live your life by what they would say?

 

[crustychick]

I voted teabag in mug because I don't have a teapot.

If I did, (ooooh, must add it to crimbo list) then I would make tea in it, with teabags most probably....

but occasionally with loose tea as and when I came across suitable loose tea to buy....

 

[gentlegreen]

I really shouldn't be using a metal pot, so I like there to be a healthy build-up of tannins - it's a bit like the way you season mild steel woks with oil ...

 

[danny la rouge]

Do you live your life by what they would say?

No, but I saw a teapot like that on a show of theirs last night.

 

[gentlegreen]

Weirly that pot is the one I used to share lovey-dovey intimate Rosehip and Hibiscus with my first g/f - 27 years ago

She turned out to be a full-on bunny boiler.

 

[danny la rouge]

Weirly that pot is the one I used to share lovey-dovey intimate Rosehip and Hibiscus with my first g/f - 27 years ago

She turned out to be a full-on bunny boiler.

I know. I can see bits of it still in the pot.

 

[innit]

It's what I've heard.

I really hate tea stains. And I really love my tea pot.

 

[Blagsta]

Mine's not it's silver.

Is it short and stout?

 

[mentalchik]

I don't own a teapot so it's a teabag in a mug for me..............

 

[Geri]

When I make tea it's usually just for me, and I only ever have one cup, so I just use a teabag in a mug.

Butchers tends to make a pot.

 

[geminisnake]

I don't drink tea but if my in laws are visiting I make a pot of tea coz they and son all drink it and it's easier in some weird way. Think coz you can take all 3 mugs AND the pot through at once iykwim.

 

[mentalchik]

that's disgusting

good job you didn't see the bathroom then........

 

[gentlegreen]

 

[Tacita]

Loose in a teapot, ideally. With nice green tea.

or ginger or... do infusions count?

 

[bi0boy]

It's fine to use teabags with a pot.

The milk needs to go in first, but the water needs to be boiling when it hits the tea leaves. The only way to achieve this is with a pot.

 

[moose]

Sometimes loose tea in a mug - I have a little teapot-shaped infuser thing. Sometimes bag in pot.

 

[gentlegreen]

The milk needs to go in first, but the water needs to be boiling when it hits the tea leaves. The only way to achieve this is with a pot.

The milk only needed to go in first in the days when english crockery couldn't stand boiling tea. - in fact that was why the disgusting habit started.

 

[clicker]

The milk needs to go in first, but the water needs to be boiling when it hits the tea leaves. The only way to achieve this is with a pot.

Philistine.

 

[bi0boy]

The milk only needed to go in first in the days when english crockery couldn't stand boiling tea. - in fact that was why the disgusting habit started.

It has to go in first otherwise it gets scorched when it meets the tea.

Unless of course you don't have milk, often the best option for good loose leaf tea, but the OP uses teabags, and black tea bag tea is just foul.

 

[gentlegreen]

It does seem to be a controversial subject. I'm prejudiced because I hate the way the British have turned a delightful drink into a foul milky drink - certainly when made in a mug with an inadequately brewed teabag of blended tea.

.. though googling reminds me that in India / Tibet they put yak butter in everything.