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Offline pjeans

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Re: Do you take tea?
« Reply #15 on: July 03, 2018, 06:31:11 pm »
American here. I drink tea hot and iced, every day. I prefer black, with no milk or sugar. I can't think of the last time I saw anyone put milk in their tea. Sometimes sugar or honey (both seem to be equally popular here), but never milk.

I'll have to join with the others here who don't group tisanes into the category of 'tea.' I don't like when I choose tea from a list of beverages, just to be presented with lots of herbals and no real tea whatsoever. I do like a pure peppermint infusion, but not when I'm expecting tea.

I boil water in an electric kettle that sits out on my counter, then pour into a teapot with loose leaf tea, and I like nearly any kind of black tea I've tried. Green, white, oolong are all nice enough, but black is the best. I suppose it is a faux pas that I let the tea steep waaaay too long before my 3rd & later cups and it gets awfully strong. I actually kind of like that, though!

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Re: Do you take tea?
« Reply #16 on: July 04, 2018, 08:47:54 am »
I am not a big tea drinker.  I don't mind chai, and berry teas, and sometimes I'll feel for a green tea.  But never black tea.
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Re: Do you take tea?
« Reply #17 on: July 04, 2018, 08:57:25 am »
I love my Earl Grey, clear, nothing in it.  I don't like the taste of it with milk, though I used to put a bit of sugar in.  I gave that up when trying to reduce sugar for weight loss reasons.  Never lost much weight but never went back to adding the sugar, either.

I like Orange Pekoe, too, and also get a good decaf version of it.  I can't find a good decaf version of the Earl Grey; the last one I looked at used methylene chloride in the decaffeination process.   :o

Herbal teas and even green teas all taste like steeped grass to me.  As in, gather up the lawn clippings and throw them in the tea pot because that's what it tastes like to me.  So I don't drink them at all.

I'm very fussy; the water has to be boiling as I'm pouring it in the pot or my mug.  So I rarely have tea out at a restaurant with that little pot of sorta hot water and a tea bag on the side.  If they'll put the tea bag in the pot in the kitchen and then add the water from their hot water dispenser, I'll have it but only if I need the caffeine.
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Re: Do you take tea?
« Reply #18 on: July 04, 2018, 09:52:18 am »
 'Orange Pekoe', more or less, is generic black tea. It's a term used in grading non-Chinese teas- specifically the leaves next to the buds on the tea plant- and doesn't denote any particular blend or flavour by itself; Broken OP will taste a lot more robust than the lighter Flowery OP.

 So you could get Earl Grey OP, or Darjeeling OP, or raspberry vanilla spice OP or any form that black tea comes in, and they'd all taste wildly different, and the quality could be fine-china-level posh whole leaves, or broken bits in mid-range tea bags.
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Re: Do you take tea?
« Reply #19 on: July 09, 2018, 11:45:22 pm »
I could take or leave tea when I was a kid -- we were pretty much a coffee family.  But as a teen, I spent a semester in Ireland, and learned to absolutely love a good cup of tea!

Those weak gross Lipton bags I grew up with had nothing, NOTHING, on the delicious smoky black brew that, with a little sugar and milk, absolutely made life worth living every morning.  When I got back, I made my mom switch to Twinings, because it was more drinkable than Lipton.

Now, when I need comfort or emotional support or a little pick-me-up that won't keep me awake all night, I have a sealed jar of really nice loose-leaf Irish Breakfast mix in my tea cabinet that has never yet let me down.  :)

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Re: Do you take tea?
« Reply #20 on: July 10, 2018, 05:24:12 pm »
Quote from: Queen of the Night on July 09, 2018, 11:45:22 pm
I could take or leave tea when I was a kid -- we were pretty much a coffee family.  But as a teen, I spent a semester in Ireland, and learned to absolutely love a good cup of tea!

Those weak gross Lipton bags I grew up with had nothing, NOTHING, on the delicious smoky black brew that, with a little sugar and milk, absolutely made life worth living every morning.  When I got back, I made my mom switch to Twinings, because it was more drinkable than Lipton.

Now, when I need comfort or emotional support or a little pick-me-up that won't keep me awake all night, I have a sealed jar of really nice loose-leaf Irish Breakfast mix in my tea cabinet that has never yet let me down.  :)

Your comment about Lipton reminds me of when I was in college, dating a guy from India. I thought of all the tea estates in and around India, and what wonderful tea he must have! I asked him what he like best and he said "Lipton" 🤨

Not quite the connoisseur I was expecting!
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Re: Do you take tea?
« Reply #21 on: July 10, 2018, 06:21:10 pm »
I like plain black tea. I don't doctor it up with sugar, milk, lemon, etc. I once tried it with sugar since that's so common it must be good, right? Nope. Not to me.

Though I'm a person that the less ingredients, the better when it comes to food and drink.
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Re: Do you take tea?
« Reply #22 on: July 10, 2018, 08:05:12 pm »
I just made a version of the London Fog - loved it.  I usually drink Yorkshire (which is pretty strong imo) or Red Rose, with cream and sugar.  I don't use milk, but will use honey and lemon or orange if I'm sick.

Coffee is definitely my main choice, but I drink a cup of tea a few times a week.  I have an electric kettle and a regular kettle for the stove top, but usually I microwave a mug of water with the tea bag right in it.  Sometimes the bag breaks, but that is unusual. 
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Re: Do you take tea?
« Reply #23 on: July 11, 2018, 11:38:55 am »
Quote from: Crispycritter on July 10, 2018, 08:05:12 pm
I have an electric kettle and a regular kettle for the stove top, but usually I microwave a mug of water with the tea bag right in it.  Sometimes the bag breaks, but that is unusual.

I used to put the tea bag right in the mug of water and microwave it all together--but then once (at work, no less!) the tea bag actually caught fire due to the microwaves sparking off the metal staple! My co-worker and I looked at each other like, "Why do we smell smoke?" and ran to the microwave where my tea was, just in time to see the little staple flaring bright orange.

So ever since then, I heat the water in the mug in the microwave, and then add the tea bag to it.
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Re: Do you take tea?
« Reply #24 on: July 17, 2018, 08:42:05 am »
I like tea. I like apple chai infusion. I like herbal teas. I like sweetened iced tea. Yes, I live in the Southeastern United States. I do not like milk in my tea, nor creamer. Just water or apple juice, tea, and honey.
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Re: Do you take tea?
« Reply #25 on: September 28, 2018, 11:36:41 pm »
Quote from: Free Range Hippy Chick on July 02, 2018, 03:54:35 am
Things I've read from non-British people: honey in tea. I'm told people do but I've never seen it or been offered it. In herbal tea, maybe, but in ordinary black tea, never seen it.

I've never tried honey with black tea, just with herb teas.

I would like to try Russian tea with jam one of these days.
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Re: Do you take tea?
« Reply #26 on: September 29, 2018, 11:59:03 am »
USian here. I learned to take milk in black tea when I did a semester in London. I still have coffee first thing in the morning, but tea with milk & 1 sugar is my preference if I want a warm drink during the rest of the day.

I love Irish Breakfast, but Red Rose or any kind of plain black tea is better than no tea.

I can't drink Earl Grey or Lady Grey. I don't like the flavor of bergamot, plus they give me a headache. I also can't stand Lapsang Souchong. It smells like hot dogs cooking.

I will put honey & lemon in black tea if I have a sore throat or need to coddle my voice for choir practice. It seems to "cut through" the rattly gunk better than plain hot water with lemon. But I don't consider that a beverage, as much as a treatment.

I finally got an electric kettle a few years ago, and love how quick it is. We switched from a standard coffee maker to using a French press. We use it anytime we need to boil water, not just for tea. If we had a gas stove we might not use it as much, but the electric stove takes forever to heat up and cool down. And things always seem to boil over in the microwave, or else they don't quite boil at all.
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Re: Do you take tea?
« Reply #27 on: October 03, 2018, 09:20:53 pm »
I'm more of a coffee drinker, but I do like a nice hot cup of tea before bed. My favourites are Harney and Sons African Autumn (red bush tea with cranberry and orange - so good), Celestial Seasonings Gingerbread and Candy Cane Lane teas, Stash Apple Cinnamon spice and Licorice Spice Tea, and the Metropolitan tea company's Irish Cream tea.
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Re: Do you take tea?
« Reply #28 on: October 04, 2018, 01:53:14 pm »
The only time I ever drank tea growing up was when I was sick.  Everytime I had a cold or chest congestion I'd get lipton tea (microwaved) with honey and lemon.  I now associate tea with being sick and don't drink hot tea any other time.  A few years ago a friend of mine from across the pond sent a box of "British stuff" to me for fun.  It included a box of tea bags (red something) that I had one of an thought that is definitely not lipton, but the rest of it sat for ages until I tossed it.  Long long ago I was gifted a stove top kettle that I kept around but never used until I realized I'd had it a decade or more and the sticker was still on the bottom so I tossed it.  If I need hot water I either boil some in a regular pot on the stove or pop it in the microwave.

I do make sun tea when the weather permits (Lipton in a clear glass jug sitting in the sun all day, then refrigerated) and drink quite a bit of that iced during the summer.

Mostly I'm just a strong black coffee girl.
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