[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.

[Ammi]

…folk drink tea…?…well that’s quirky and novel……I’m not being serious obviously, I’m just not a tea drinker…my grandad would pour his into the saucer though and drink it from the saucer because it was cooler…but if he was served a cooler tea that wasn’t boiling hot then he couldn’t drink that, that wasn’t right…and then he proceeded to cool it down in his saucer…/…weird and quirky stuff…

[Redway]

Originally Posted by Ammi

…folk drink tea…?…well that’s quirky and novel……I’m not being serious obviously, I’m just not a tea drinker…my grandad would pour his into the saucer though and drink it from the saucer because it was cooler…but if he was served a cooler tea that wasn’t boiling hot then he couldn’t drink that, that wasn’t right…and then he proceeded to cool it down in his saucer…/…weird and quirky stuff…

Hmm. That’s quirky alright.

[Redway]

I think I prefer store coffees (Starbucks/Costa/Caffe Nero/whichever) and herbal teas (that just-about includes Earl Grey, because of the bergamot notes) to anything within the normal cupboard selection of tea and coffee but if it’s gonna be between PG Tips and Nescafe, Tips would obviously win. I only drink instant coffee when I have to.

I do love a good Earl Grey, I must admit. Some days it’s drink, drink and drink some more.