The perfect cup of tea

[KennyR]

The best way to make tea:

* Use an aluminium teapot. Never steel, never brass. The longer it has been making tea, the better the tea will taste.

* The water must be hot when it touches the tea. Boil it beforehand in a kettle. Never put the tea in first with cold water and boil it - that makes horrible watery aftertasty tea fit for nothing.

* Brew on medium gas/power for at least three minutes. Over five is good.

* Use plenty of tea. The liquid should be a deep brown and have a strong smell. If you can see an oily layer on the top, then you've made good tea. Europeans make awful tea - hot water with brown colouring, it must be one teabag to 20 litres of water or something. If there ever was a justification for the British Empire taking over the world, that's it!

* Don't use sweetener or sugar. I may be forced to find you and murder you for ruining this fine beverage.

* Use Scottish water. It has no lime, limescale, or hardness. And it tastes great in tea. English water always makes tea taste horrible, no matter how expensive it is.

* Put the milk in the cup first, if you use milk. Otherwise you curdle the milk and give the tea a bitter aftertaste.

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[KennyR]

Speel wrote:
Aluminium? No! It loses too much heat! Ceramic is the word! For a good cup of tea, always use a ceramic teapot.

Of course it loses heat - but you're applying more from the bottom, so it doesn't really matter, does it? How do you brew tea in a ceramic pot? It would be like drinking out of a toilet. Yuk! ;-)

For the rest, tea mustn't be watery, but in between strong and watery <- and that's the tric!

No, it should be viscous. Only when tea doesn't actually look like water any more when its poured, is it ready. That's real tea. How can you get any taste out of it otherwise?

And a REAL tea connaisseur NEVER uses milk in his tea, only freaky English do such. What do you want to drink: tea or hot watery milk?

9/10ths tea in a cup to 1/10th tea isn't going to give you hot milk. It'll dissolve the flavoured oils in the fat of the milk and increase the flavour. Of course, without milk is good too. But anyone who puts sugar in their tea deserves slapped knees. Very harshly slapped knees!

[KennyR]

You don't get alzheimers from aluminium pots anyway, there's a layer of aluminium oxide between the metal and the tea. :-P

I could boil hot sulphuric acid in an aluminium teapot, test the acid, and guess how much aluminium would be in it? About six or seven picogrammes.

[KennyR]

NoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooOO!

Never let the teabag touch the milk!!