[Redway]

I’m waiting for who’s going to come and say they warm their tea up in the microwave.

I will say that leaving your tea to brew for a few minutes and noticing the heat dissipate from the mug in that short space of time is fair enough though. Sometimes re-boiling the kettle and topping it up doesn’t get it hot enough if you’re the sort of person who leaves tea-bags in for up to 5 minutes. Whichever way extracts as much flavour as you want while the brew itself stays hot enough. Just don’t forget about the heat whatever you do, because whoever you serve a non-hot brew to will definitely remember it. And they’ll tell everyone the cuppa you made them was cold by the time their mouth got ’round to it under the anticipation that the tea was going to be scorching hot and needing a good cool. And they won’t let it go. Not until you make them one that’s hotter than Death Valley even after letting it stand for 10 minutes. Then they’ll just about call a truce.