Let’s take a break from today – to talk about tea. I’ve never really enjoyed tea. I like the idea of it, the rituals surrounding it, and teapots. I wish I had use for a pretty, whimsical teapot.
I even like the taste of tea, especially Earl Grey, because yes I am basic. But it’s never quite as satisfying as coffee. Tea is supposedly good for mood and cognition, and I can certainly use help in both those areas. Tea drinkers, what am I doing wrong? Is it in the brewing, do I need honey, lemon, or milk? How do you take your tea?
…there are many finer points of tea…pretty much all of which a coffee drinker such as myself couldn’t possibly help you navigate…but probably you could do worse than consult a brit?
I was counting on you! 😁
No offense to Rip, but I like my tea in this form:
https://www.eonline.com/news
As in spill the tea…
Oooh, I do too.
I never understood that expression. My girls use it all the time. I only drink hot tea at Chinese restaurants but we have a drawer of different teas in my kitchen. The teens around here are crazy for Boba tea with tapioca balls in it. Crazy flavors & u need this giant straw to suck them up. I’m afraid of choking on the damn things! One place is the multi-high school hang out & is packed all day & night.
Boba is weird!
I’m not a fan of that texture in anything
I like actual tea as well, in addition to all the delicious things that go along with it like scones, jam and clotted cream.
Also, I’ve made these on numerous occasions (usually when friends would come over to watch Downton Abbey) and I can confirm they are a big hit:
https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/162319/earl-grey-martini/
(I soak an entire bottle of gin in Earl Grey tea leaves and make them in bulk.)
I’m not a gin drinker but I passed this on to my daughter who is.
I drink tea now and then, a will make sun tea for iced tea in the summer.
My favorite is Pukka’s Three Cinnamon Tea, it is spicy/hot. I like it with cream and sugar.
I think I need to stop thinking of it as a coffee replacement. It’s a whole separate thing.
i never heard of the Pukkas but I have a cinnamon tea from
Harney and Sons that’s pretty good. I usually only drink it in the winter when it’s really cold outside.
I only drink tea in the winter, and usually only when I’m sick. A raspberry tea or Celestial Seasonings Bengal Spice with honey and a little milk. Never lemon.
I normally don’t like herbal and fruit teas, but Bengal Spice sounds interesting.
The Bengal Spice tea has cinnamon, cardamom, ginger and cloves–maybe a few other things, but those are what I remember tasting.
i only drink tea when im out of coffee…wich is..almost never..
and the british side of my family tells me i make it wrong
I think I probably make it wrong too. Although I would never put the milk in first like in RIP’s video. I hate when I see people do that with coffee!
I can’t remember ever running out of coffee. It’s right up there with toilet paper as one of the things you never want to be without.
I drink instant coffee mostly so putting in the milk first ends poorly
The missus swears by it for tea tho
(I’m just going to keep calling her that well see where this ends)
I hope things work out for you.
thank you..same here
tbh shes been a lot more chatty with me since….she must have been bottling that shit up for a while now…
anyhoo…this ones mostly on me…better or worse ill have to live with it…. im not the easiest person to share a home with
…pretty sure none of are, really…so we’ll be rooting for things to go your way…whichever way that might wind up being?
…best of luck with it all, either way
domo arrigato mister splinter roboto
Lol