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It would appear, according to some recent UK media reports, that some of our "American Cousins" require a microwave oven to make a cup of tea. I have never heard of anyone using or needing a microwave oven to make tea before.
My perfect cup of tea is simply made by adding boiling water to a mug with a "Yorkshire tea bag" in it, letting it "stew" for a few minutes, extracting the tea bag and then adding a dash of milk.
AMERICAN MAKING BRITISH TEA ? (VIRAL VIDEO) - YouTube
Or like the Australians using 600 rds from a Vickers gun to boil a pot in the desert...so you just need a Vickers...Quote:
Originally Posted by Flying10uk
And just a little bit of ammo…
Expensive tea cup anyway.
Now I need a cuppa!
"stew"? I believe the correct term is 'steep' and the proper process is to place one teabag, preferably Earl Grey per cup with an additional one for 'the pot'. Cover with a tea cozy and let the tea steep. When ready serve with baking powder biscuits slathered in Devonshire clotted cream and the preserve of your choice. C'mon Man!Quote:
Originally Posted by Flying10uk
Or just ba cup of tea made from the standard 'compo' rations tea bag which I understand were actually NAAFI 'red label' tea bags........ only MUCH bigger. They were like pillow cases! Two of them could be used as a cammo-net for a Land Rover. (just joking...) . OK if you had a large 'dixie' to make but just for a single cup or mess-tin, a 2 second dunk was enough!
Compo tea, made to what we called NATO standard. Tea in a dirty cup, two sugars and a big dollop of that thick milk-in-a-tube. The norm for recovery mechanic crews. And the abuse if you didn't fill the mugs right up to the brim...........
I seem to remember hearing somewhere that Brit tanks had 'BV's' (boiling vessels) installed for their crews to enjoy a 'cuppa'.
No, "Tea Pots" and Tea Cozys" are for "Posh People".Quote:
Originally Posted by Sapper740
I wasn't going to say anything, but since we're now getting into the "technicalities of tea making" it was also suggested yesterday that salt, yes salt, be added to tea, something else that I haven't heard before.
I grew up in British Columbia with an emphasis on "British". Our provincial capital was Victoria named after, you guessed it, Queen Victoria. One of the largest, oldest, and grandest hotels in Canada is The Empress Hotel named after, well I think we can guess who. The reason I mention this is everyday afternoon tea is served in the 'Lobby Lounge' in the finest British tradition with scones and crumpets covered in clotted cream and jam, cress and cucumber sandwiches and canapes. Tea is served in the finest china by formally dressed and attentive staff. It's quite a treat to experience at least once in your life. I'm more of a coffee drinker now and far from 'posh' especially after years of drinking the industrial coffee we were served at a mess hall.Quote:
Originally Posted by Flying10uk
I always thought so too...but having been where we have, you know sometimes things like that don't matter.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ovidio
We had those in the Grizzly/Cougars too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sapper740
Yep. Taxpayers pay:lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by browningautorifle
But you're where they probably don't want to be, so...
That video is NOT tea. It was milk and sugar with a splash of tea flavoring. Good lord she added the whole container of sugar! and 3/4 of the cup was milk.
Looks like a hot tea flavoured drink, not British tea.
Having a British mum, I was raised on tea also. I received my first "cuppa" when I was 13 months old from my grandad and have been drinking hot tea (with milk and sugar) for my entire life. In my younger years my mum would have elevenses with tea or coffee and biscuits. The coffee was made with boiled milk ,instant coffee and sugar. We would get care packages from our English family consisting of Typhoo tea, biscuits and other British snacks. During my parents later years, my dad used to take a container of hot tea to my mum's work at Ft. Lewis and within a month had her whole office staff enjoying "English tea." Fortunately, stores in the States started carrying Typhoo tea, so we didn't run short.
In my own family, my children were indoctrinated to Typhoo tea a 13 months, as I was, and now we have a ritual for my grandchildren when they turn 13 months that I make Typhoo tea for them. My tea is made the old fashion way : boil water in the kettle, add tea to the pot, add boiling water, cover with cosey, add milk and sugar to the cups and after steeping serve the tea.
And yes, I do use a microwave..... to warm the cups with the milk before pouring the tea.
I do remember trying to make some iced tea in my younger years (strictly verboten) and thought I was going to be excommunicated from the family.
BEAR
Waste of a teabag to only make one cup. And ma mere from Angleterre always emphasized warming the pot first with a good swirl of boiling water then poured out before the bag and and remaining boiling water went in.
A good strong cup is as much of a jolt as coffee and a lot easier to make. Ultra-strong tea was a "high" enjoyed by the criminal class in the Gulag for example; only they could afford black market tea of course.
Quite a history tea: silver, opium wars, clipper ships etc, and the recycling of used tea leaves and the various adulterations practised by some of the finest "names" in the business. :ugh:
The Australian way !
Disregard the health & safety aspects of swinging boiling water over one's head & shoulder region !!!!!
Richard shows how to swing a billy tea-an Australian tradition - YouTube
Interesting fact: In my first year of college chemistry one of our labs was to isolate the caffeine from equal weights of tea and coffee. We brewed up a pot of each and began the process and were surprised to find that for equal weight, tea had twice as much caffeine as coffee. I stumbled into the lab early that morning feeling the effects of a few pints the night before with my Rugby team and figured the pure caffeine would be a good pick me up so I dabbed a finger into the dish and licked the caffeine off. The effects were instantaneous and profound!
Always thought tea didn' have caffeine, until research told me otherwise. Except you rarely get the tea aroma as you do for coffee.
I suggest we coin a new term here: "Crockadee" for an Aussie who's living up to the Crocodile Dundee image just a wee bit too much! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by CINDERS
Yeah Surpmil, I winced a few times watching his efforts just handling the lid let alone swinging the thing around & around hopefully not in line with the audience, wonder if he did a Take 5 & a JSA!
= "Washing up water tea/Anaemic tea"Quote:
Originally Posted by ssgross