Instructions For Making A Proper Cup Of Tea

[deird_lj]

1) Put some boiling water into a mug.
2) Loose leaves are best, but you can use teabags as an acceptable alternative. Whichever you choose, they should go into the mug after the water, not before. Lower the teabag in slowly, so that none of the tea seeps into the water on the way down.
3) Leave the teabag in the mug until the bottom of the mug is bright red. Then, start jiggling the teabag around until all the water is tea-coloured.
4) Remove the teabag.
5) Add sugar, and stir vigorously.
6) Add milk. Don't stir - the stirring you did for the sugar should still be making the tea spin around fast enough to stir the milk in by itself.
7) Voila. One perfect cup of tea.

I've developed this method over the course of several years, and times when I'm not able to do it like this really annoy me...


(For regular readers of this LJ: I will be away from the internet on Thursday and Friday. I'll try to catch up with the world ASAP.)

Comments

[the-starshadow.livejournal.com]

Being a fellow engineer, I'd imagine you'll appreciate this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iso_tea

[chrisleeoctaves.livejournal.com]

Really? You'd really put a teabag into a mug!?
Even when I am making tea just for me, I use a pot...(I have two sizes, a big one and a two-cupper).

My first cup of tea in the UK...which I had been greatly anticipating...was made with a tea bag in a mug and milk out of a box (that I don't believe even came out of the frig.) I think the experience may have scarred me for life. *g*

[deird1]

Well, as a rule, my cups of tea tend to be drunk at work. And despite having multiple percolators for coffee drinkers, teapots are not provided.
So, really I guess my whole insanely complicated way of making tea is mostly an attempt to get a teabag to taste like I've been using a teapot...

[deird1]

Very cool!

[taiba.livejournal.com]

OCD much? :-p

[deird1]

OCD and out the other side, according to my diagnosis :)