How do you make YOUR perfect cuppa?

[OllieMartin]

Slab of Victoria Sponge on the side!!

Of course, Victoria Sponge! I knew there was something I was forgetting. No wonder my cuppas have been dissatisfying lately!

[squashysu]

well i hate tea, but the perfect cup of coffee is this:-

1, use your Dolce Gusto for Latte yum yum lol! or failing everything else

2. spoon of mellow birds, then add a 1/3 of milk and then add the boiling water!!

Can you tell i like my coffee weak and wilfull, like my men of course

[Pumpkin Becki]

No wonder my cuppas have been dissatisfying lately!

See, you find out all kinds of things on the Vine!!

[Incy]

On the other hand, coffee should always have the milk (or cold water) added before the boiling water, or, the water should boil and then cool for a little while before pouring, because using too hot water makes it bitter. (Or so I've read). I don't drink coffee often but when i do i always put milk in first, much nicer.


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I agree with the tea statements. milk in first only if made in a teapot. However, point of clarification for the coffee. It only applies to freshly ground coffee which burns if the water is boiling and tends to taste bitter. Instant is fine with freshly boiled water poured on. It doesn't dissolve properly if the milk is added first!

[zazen999]

I don't.

My OH makes a lovely cuppa, and I don't ask him how, only when

I make a lovely coffee though.

[maytreefrannie]

The 1941 video is great and right on the button.

I think tea tastes best made in a teapot - as Pipscariad says, leaf tea is probably the very best, but I use teabags all the time.

Boiling water onto the teabags - freshly drawn water, just boiled. There is an old saying -
For coffee, take the kettle to the pot,
for tea, take the pot to the kettle (i.e. catch it while it's boiling).

Enjoy your cuppas, everyone.

[janeyo]

I only really like my own made tea, it never tastes quite right if someone else makes it. Why is this?!?

[OverWyreGrower]

Tea bag and sugar in mug (note that I only drink out of MY mugs, OH has his own)
Boiling water
Leave for a bit
Swoosh round with a spoon, squish the tea bag, remove to compost-pot
Pour in milk

Put cup out of dogs' reach and drink

But I'm probably awful, as I have decaf tea and skimmed milk!

I'm not too bad at making brews for people, but can't make coffee at all! Probably cos I don't drink it...

[lainey lou]

You're all wrong!
Boil kettle, then leave to settle for a minute (lot of lime scale round these 'ere parts)
Pour water into lovely big mug.
Dip tea bag in and then straight out of water and discard.
Enjoy lovely coloured hot water.

[SarzWix]

Enjoy lovely coloured hot water.

LMAO This is how my dad drinks his - murky dishwater I call it! Even worse, my friend Janet does this with an Earl Grey tea-bag, and then adds loads of full-fat milk Bleeuurgh!

[OverWyreGrower]

My mum shows the tea bag to the hot water then adds loads of full-fat milk - I always ask why she doesn't just drink hot milk?

[OllieMartin]

My mum has it the same way as me, but with goat's milk. Don't know if you've ever tried goat's milk, but it tastes of goats!

[taff]

Enjoy lovely coloured hot water.

I thought that was called something else? Hot wee? Ewww!!!!!

Two different methods for myself and my partner. Exlcuding pot-tea-making as that's always the same.
Me
Teabag in, the stronger the better, preferably yorkshire or glengette or mostly pgtips
pour on boiling water
leave it
come back and pour a bit of milk in till the colour looks ok, the squish teabag for more flavour.
His
Same as above except he squishes, and squishes, and squishes the bag, takes it out, then stirs furiously and dribbles the milk in the vortex created till it looks right.

Perfect after any sort of labour, even sitting down, but fantastic after a big fry up.

[shirlthegirl43]

My mum has it the same way as me, but with goat's milk. Don't know if you've ever tried goat's milk, but it tastes of goats!

Not if it is cooled straight after milking and if there are no billy goats around it doesn't

[bluemoon]

The water for tea needs to be boiling at 100C, this is why you can't brew a decent cuppa up Mount Everest as the water there boils at 98C due to air pressure being lower (was told this by a mountaineer, haven't actually tried it). Anyway, if you put the milk in first how can you later titrate it to the correct colour - in my case almost stewed black with a tiny drop of milk