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Duncan113 said:
See, as a man who drinks tea morning, noon and night, I want the specifics on optimal tea flavor, as depicted here. What is the best type of kettle? Cup? Brewing method, etc. I know there must be multiple answers to these pressing questions, but a basic guide is what I seek. I know I'm not getting the maximum bang for my tea buck.
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See here and here and here and here. The single most important thing all sources agree on is that when the the water hits the tea leaves or vice-versa, the water should be boiling, not merely hot or warm (at least with black tea, which is the kind most familiar to Brits and Americans).
 
KingOrfeo said:
See here and here and here and here. The single most important thing all sources agree on is that when the the water hits the tea leaves or vice-versa, the water should be boiling, not merely hot or warm (at least with black tea, which is the kind most familiar to Brits and Americans).
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Starting with cold water, yes?
 
Of some additional interest:

How they [the Brits, who are Yanks' main inspiration in this field] drink it: Black, hot, and in large quantities. Typically, they use teabags, although stores are more likely to have fancy loose-leaf teas as well than in other places. Beyond that, it can vary a lot, and it's entirely possible to divine a Briton's class, upbringing, and even politics by how they drink tea.

* Adding milk is the common way of drinking it; the ongoing holy war is whether the milk or the tea goes into the cup first. Some people avoid the debate altogether by squeezing lemon into it instead. But don't do both; curdled milk tea is not a nice thing.

* There's a whole mid-afternoon light meal called "afternoon tea", famous for tiny sandwiches, scones, and precise etiquette. It's typically an upper-middle class thing, and it was essentially an invention of a rising middle class looking to feel "posher". Lower-middle class people just call it "tea". The upper class has multiple tiny meals it calls "tea", with afternoon tea being "low tea" and the later, middle-class timing "high tea". It gets confusing sometimes.

* "Builder's tea" is a staple of the working classes; it's cheap tea brewed extra strong, with a generous amount of milk and sugar (jokingly, enough for the spoon to stand upright in the mug).

* Polite Britons will typically offer tradesmen (e.g. plumbers, carpenters), firemen, and policemen a Spot of Tea if they're staying as guests for more than an hour. As more and more tradesmen in Britain are immigrants, this is starting to cause some confusion, but as you'll see below, this sort of offering is not unheard of in other parts of the world.

* Flavors are numerous, but Earl Grey is one of the most common. It's flavoured with oil of bergamot, a bitter citrus fruit, and in some varieties it might also have orange or lemon peel, or flowers like lavender, verbena, or rose petals. The blend was originally concocted as a scam—the flavourings were added to cheap teas to pass them off as the more expensive Fo Shou or Keemun, teas which naturally tasted of bergamot; but nevertheless, the Britons developed a taste for it. It's named after the Earl Grey, who (may or may not have) received a shipment of it as a gift.
** "English Breakfast" and "Irish Breakfast" are both popularly named tea blends you might encounter, but the actual teas in them may vary. What matters is that they're strong, hearty concoctions that can stand up to the full English/Irish breakfast of eggs and fatty cured meats.

* Tea is popularly made with electric kettles rather than stovetops or microwaves. Such electric kettles are that much more popular in Britain than in the U.S. (where it didn't catch on outside college students making instant ramen).
** It helps that British power standards are different from those in the U.S., allowing powerful appliances that are generally rated at 3 kW, which an American kitchen probably couldn't handle. But sometimes everyone wants tea at once, which has necessitated rapid-response power stations like Dinorwig, which can come online in seconds to meet sudden surges of demand. These surges typically coincide with the end of soap operas (Britain from Above once showed a National Grid employee nervously waiting for the end of EastEnders). Major one-time events, like the wedding of Prince William and Duchess Kate, after which British utilities recorded a surge of 2,400 megawatts. If you're wondering, the all-time record is 2,800 megawatts, after Germany knocked England out in the semifinal of the 1990 FIFA World Cup on penalties, and the nation needed a freaking Spot of Tea.

* Tea figures in hugely in the military in Britain.
** During World War I, the British used water-cooled machine guns. They quickly learned that they could use the hot water in their guns' cooling jackets to make tea, sometimes firing off hundreds of rounds at a time to do so. British tanks from World War II onwards also had on-board water boiling vessels, which were designed mostly to disinfect water or cook "boil-in-the-bag" rations, but which were mostly used for a Spot of Tea.
** Tea distribution within the country during World War II was a big deal, for morale if nothing else. One of the Luftwaffe's biggest blows to British morale was a 1942 bombing attack on Mincing Lane, the largest centre of the tea trading businessnote I.e. that was where nearly all the firms and brokerages had their headquarters, and so that was where they kept all the records on who owned how much tea, and what kind of tea, and where it all was; the warehouses where the physical tea was actually stored were in a number of locations across the country in the British Empire. In response to shortage fears, the British government decided to buy all the tea. That is not an exaggeration; the British government bought every ounce of 1943's global tea crop that was available to them at wholesale. They sent more tea to British troops, by weight, than anything save bullets — even more than artillery shells. They also assigned civil servants to coordinate the dispersal and movement of tea stockpiles throughout the country, a job Arthur C. Clarke describes having done in his autobiography.
** World War II soldier Spike Milligan observed that they were damn lucky that Rommel never tried baiting minefields with tea. He describes a mate, Harry Edgington, who showed bravery under fire in North Africa — by protecting his still-brewing tea from German aircraft with his own helmet.

* Tea is also commonly used as a coping mechanism, sometimes for things as trivial England's admittedly frequent sports humiliations, but also for things as serious as riots and disasters. Rescue volunteers distributed tea to victims of the 2005 terrorist bombing of The London Underground, and during riots in London in 2011, bystanders made tea for the police officers at the scene.
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I have not made the effort to attend one, but I wouldn't say no if given the chance.

:rose:
 
It might be coffee in her cup, but I thought the pic was great, so I brought it to share with you all. :)




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