[hennessy]

As a young boy in a Irish houshold you're taught to make tea at an early age so here is my secret on how to make the perfect tea and coffee at the same time and leave the counter spotless

1) Boil the kettle (of course)

2) Put teabag in and sugar (add milk if you like it milky) don't if you like it strong

3) next for coffee put sugar in cup first and then coffee (how often do you find coffee in the sugar bowl?) and then add milk (to cushion the boiling water on the coffee)

4) With kettle boiled, pour boiling water pour thru teabag while squeezing it, stop around a quarter from the top and pour a little boiling water on spoon, give the spoon a little shake (or/and blow on it gently) and now you have a dry spoon

5) pour water in the middle of coffee cup and stir vigorously (to get rid of the coffee spots) and like the tea pour water onto spoon out of cup to dry it
( coffee done!)

6) teabag stewed, squeeze teabag and discard, add milk

7) stir and once again pour the water over spoon

And there you have it, one tea, one coffee , no mess and a teaspoon that's dry and sterilized.


PS try with full fat milk, you'll use less, the coffee/tea will be hotter and richer in taste

[Maia]

Amazing, thank you for that

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

doing it now

[GypsyGoth]

I'd need a french press for my perfect coffee

[MTVN]

Sugar before the coffee and before the water, that doesn't seem right

[hennessy]

Originally Posted by MTVN

Sugar before the coffee and before the water, that doesn't seem right

If you pour the water directly onto the coffee, you'll burn the flavour of the coffee and if you're going to stir it than why not add sugar?
If you put coffee in after either milk or water you're more likely to get spots

[Livia]

I like my tea mashing away in a pot until it's industrial strength.

[Maia]

I always go Sugar > Tea/coffee > Milk > Water

[MTVN]

Originally Posted by hennessy

If you pour the water directly onto the coffee, you'll burn the flavour of the coffee and if you're going to stir it than why not add sugar?
If you put coffee in after either milk or water you're more likely to get spots

But how do I know how much milk to use if adding it before the water?

[Locke.]

I make the worst cups of tea and coffee ever I will give this a go later an see if they improve

[MTVN]

Coffee > water > sugar > milk is the correct way of doing it

[hennessy]

Originally Posted by Livia

I like my tea mashing away in a pot until it's industrial strength.

That why I like to have two teabags (if you do than leave more water in when stewing) but if you're more frugal than me leave for longer

[Redway]

Printing this out now. You're a don.

[Josy]

Perfect tea is made in a pot

[hennessy]

Originally Posted by MTVN

But how do I know how much milk to use if adding it before the water?

experience but you've also got the water in the kettle to top it up

Originally Posted by Josy

Perfect tea is made in a pot

I know but sometimes you just want a quick cuppa?

[MTVN]

Originally Posted by hennessy

experience but you've also got the water in the kettle to top it up

Hmm might try this now, normally prefer doing the milk last and just putting enough in to get the right shade of brown

[hennessy]

Originally Posted by MTVN

Hmm might try this now, normally prefer doing the milk last and just putting enough in to get the right shade of brown

the good thing is if you put the milk in and give it a stir you can kinda judge what colour it'll end up before the water gets in.

milk first with coffee and last with tea (unless you have a fragile china cup) so the bag will stew more (have you tried to milk a teabag in tepid water?)

btw to the people who pour the milk on after the boiling water in coffee, look at the label of your coffee jar and it will tell you to pour water "just off the boil" or 'not boiling water'
it's not much but the milk helps a little


PS try with full fat milk, you'll use less, the coffee/tea will be hotter and richer in taste

[Livia]

Originally Posted by hennessy

That why I like to have two teabags (if you do than leave more water in when stewing) but if you're more frugal than me leave for longer

I prefer loose Assam tea. And you're right about the boiling water and the coffee... coffee boiled is coffee spoiled. I mostly take mine black, so just I don't use boiling water.

It's a very personal thing, I think, how you take your tea and coffee. I often think there should be colour charts for people to show you exactly how they like it.

[hennessy]

Originally Posted by Livia

I prefer loose Assam tea. And you're right about the boiling water and the coffee... coffee boiled is coffee spoiled. I mostly take mine black, so just I don't use boiling water.

It's a very personal thing, I think, how you take your tea and coffee. I often think there should be colour charts for people to show you exactly how they like it.

I know, I hate ordering it (coffee) at a cafe or when a friend makes it weak,
when I drink black coffee (run out of milk) I add a little cold water before the boiling water

[Josy]

This thread made me want a cuppa

[hennessy]

Originally Posted by Josy

This thread made me want a cuppa

Then my work here is done!

[Omah]

Originally Posted by Josy

Perfect tea is made in a pot

Originally Posted by Livia

I like my tea mashing away in a pot until it's industrial strength.

Yeah, and while I wait, I sing :

I'm a little teapot,
Short and stout,
Here is my handle, (one hand on hip)
Here is my spout, (other arm out with elbow and wrist bent)
When I get all steamed up,
Hear me shout,
Tip me up and pour me out! (lean over toward spout)

[Marc]

Tea