tea

The primitive Klix machine at my first workplace had teabags - with condensed milk inside them! I thought (and still do think) that this is especially gross.

I drink too much tea. I drink jasmine tea, chamomile tea, green tea, hibiscus tea, even the occasional yohimbe tea...that stuff...YOWZAH!

Thank you for the complements on my charity shop tea service.

I have lead a very fulfilled life.

i love N.

Cheese from Cow - udders like Primula Cheese Spread = abt to Vom.

how does that work? does it have a flap where the udders should be?

but what do I know, I loves me some herbal teas and have no qualms whatsoever about teabags

I just almost started a thread about tea til I saw this one. How come whenever anything is wrong wth you, people recommend you drink tea? Headache? Drink tea! Can't sleep? Drink tea! Eaten by wolves? Drink tea!

I have all this tea around. I should drink more of it.

Sometimes lemon is busy and doesn't have time to drink tea with you. Then you have to drink tea with sally or perhaps trevor.

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i've been drinking a lot of constant comment and am looking for other recommendations - something with spice but not too much. or just anything. good teas?

SCARLETT JOHANNSEN

tea leoni

lol

i want a good tea dammit

I made a gallon of regular and a gallon of decaf iced teas. BUT then I got them mixed up and I don't know what's what so I am afraid to drink either at night and I just drink Diet Coke in the morning b/c I need the caffeine and don't know which one has it. My clever plan went wrong. :(

I think tomorrow morning I'll conduct a little experiment involving chugging 2 pints and seeing if I get a buzz.

Ah it has been too long since I made myself a nice plate of fresh scones, a big pot of tea, and a heaping of double cream and raspberry jam.

Might have the ex over for just that this week some time. Scones are so easy to whip up in 15 mins flat after all.

Indeed. Good thing we don’t need to sleep in summertime lol

I'm going to ruin this thread now by admitting to enjoying a cup of "toast and jam" tea of an odd afternoon

https://www.bettys.co.uk/media/catalog/product/cache/6916aab0bdbf69d5fe7ff0b530661c40/y/o/yorkshire-tea-toast-and-jam-brew-2004150.jpg

would try

would totally try. i love Yorkshire Tea in general.

when the balkan food market opened up across from my store i grabbed a huge box of Ukrainian tea and i had no idea that they liked their tea all spiced up and it was a blend of green & black also and i was all like what the????? and ALL the tea in the store is flavored. there is literally no straight black or green tea. but you know every once in a while i throw a few bags in a cup and i kinda dig it now. its different anyway.

i should look on the box and see if they have english ingredients. could tell you what the flavors are.

here you go. it has a bunch of stuff in it. cornflower petals for youth!

https://monomakh.com.ua/en/monomax-1001-noch-2/

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my first thought about this one was that cloves overpower the other flavours, then I changed my mind and realised it's a great blend and am drinking too much of it.

That one is the only chai I really like! used to only be able to get it in Sainsbury's.

someone gave me some turmeric chai teabags but I can never bring myself to make a cup

i have some fairly decent vanilla chai teabags from m&s
will be mainly using them in winter

masala chai sounds interesting! and yes deffo winter too

my partner got me lapsang chai from somewhere called 'bird & blend' for my birthday
it's pretty good too

i've never chai-ed. maybe some day.

Make karak chai or masala chai yourself - chuck a regular tea bag, some grated ginger, cloves, cinnamon sticks, cardamom pods and maybe a star anise segment into a saucepan with enough water for two cups of tea, and bring it all to the boil. Then add your milk preference and a teaspoon of Demerara sugar to the pot, bring it back to the boil, then pour into cups through a strainer.

i was offered a sample of karak chai recently and was warned it was strong. yes. yes it was.

when am i gonna graduate to the big leagues and start buying my tea in vintage cakes!? i feel like such a amateur.

"Our Wa Shan Shu Pu’er cake is crafted from spring buds and processed by pile-fermentation of Saiqing maocha over a period of 65 days before being pressed into cakes. Like a fine wine that is properly vintaged, Pu'er tea has the ability to age beautifully, developing new flavors over time."

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https://rishi-tea.com/products/wa-shan-shu-puer-cake-vintage-2018?variant=44376703303930

never heard of that. i started my own kombucha brew today, fingers crossed!!

that's a... um.. suggestive image

I drink more tea in the winter anyway and currently doing a sort of modified dry January, so drinking even MORE tea in the evenings (herbal only after 4 p.m., don't worry). My afternoon treat is those pre-mixed powders from the local Indian market, got myself the variety pack.

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I noticed that some of this group's teas are at a local store and I will try some of the herbal options soon.

https://kazi-yetu.com/

I have a cake of puer like that, been working on it for years. My brother got it for me in China! I fear I lack the sophistication to treat it like it deserves and appreciate it properly but I still enjoy it. I'll have to try it again tomorrow and make tasting notes. I also don't do caffeine after mid-day.

Someone gave me a box of very bougie "Douglas fir & rosehip tea" and it was DEEEEELICIOUS. I might actually buy more.

@NedR, that group set up a tea station on my slow street a few weeks back and I was able to taste a few of their selections. They carry them at Rainbow/BiRite/Gus's as well.

Having been a "loose oolong, bagged black" tea drinker for the past fifteen years-- Twinings Irish Breakfast in the a.m. followed by five-to-six steeps of an oolong in the p.m.-- switching over to LOOSE BLACK TEA a few months ago has been unbelievable, unbelievable.

Yorkshire is my black-of-choice and just a 1/2 tsp in a metal tea lantern makes cup after perfect cup, I can't believe it. (One steep per cup obv). Reading about coffee prices going up and I'm just like "I think I can manage" as I swill down another perfect mug of tea

xpost to Steve S a few weeks back -- I've since scored a batch of their hibiscus tea and I really like it. Will likely be getting another batch tomorrow!

I lurve throwing a hibiscus flower bit into lots of other herb teas, as long as they're not already delicate blends or anything. I also wash and dry orange peels and random stuff to put in tea. Frozen chips of ginger, an orange peel, a peppermint tea bag, with honey is my current fave.

Yorkshire and Barry’s Irish are tied for my brain fuel of choice

Hi dere tealxors, a friend got me some tea as a gift but I don't drink the stuff, never even got into coffee. I figure I should make the most of it tho, so instead of me googling, can you tell me what to do with Pu'er Tuo Cha?

I guess it's the same as pu erh...
if you don't have a caddy of sorts just brew it with boiled water and drain off the bits and enjoy
(apologies if I've missed something here)

this morning, a custom blend of rinsed yerba maté & russian caravan black tea, with lemon juice
I could drink a gallon of this

I lurve throwing a hibiscus flower bit into lots of other herb teas, as long as they're not already delicate blends or anything. I also wash and dry orange peels and random stuff to put in tea. Frozen chips of ginger, an orange peel, a peppermint tea bag, with honey is my current fave.

― Ima Gardener (in orbit)

one time i was drinking a high grade dan cong mi lan oolong tea that wasn’t pulling its weight.
so i added some honey and a dash of cinnamon to the second cup. it felt sacrilegious but i figured i paid enough for it, i might as well enjoy it.
i’d been to a matcha tea ceremony where they added bean paste and other stuff to the second cup, so why not.

it was incredible!! made me feel like dancing. so i poured a cup for the Yijing, who said “don’t let reverence stand in the way of a good time”. sort of.
for the third cup, i put in a raspberry and muddled it. it changed me and i’ve been a prolific adder of random stuff to tea ever since.

Aw thanks for the kind assessment! I do have a nice grassy hojicha and the ginger & orange peel combo has been good with it.

that peppermint tea with orange peel, ginger and honey sounds so good that i wish i had peppermint tea so i could try it.

Last year this house was all perfume and coffee, this year it's incense and loose leaf black tea. My god. Black tea all day all night, I have never felt so enthralled to a single substance before.

Interestingly, I think I was put-off loose leaf black tea because of a not-great preteen experience, in England (or maybe Scotland), I made a "pot" of tea in a French press with PG Tips and likely over-leafed it and over-steeped it and was subjected to the most acidic, orange, pungent grossness, I haven't been able to enjoy PG Tips ever since and it took me until literally four months ago to realise the error of my ways

I've never tried, but if you are of a mind you can set up a homemade smoking contraption in a wok and smoke stuff with it, dan m.

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Picked up some nice, loose Irish Breakfast recently. Makes a lovely cuppa imo

PG Tips recently revised their blend anyway and is now garbage. Too bad, it’s been easy to find in the US for years and a reliable option for something strong. Idk what tf they were thinking

I guess no more ordering tea directly from India for me. What with the repeal of the de minimis exemption and the 50% tariff rate. Understandably the seller is now leaving the buyer responsible for clearing customs and paying duties.

Early on my wife got us into drinking herb tea after dinner so we've been drinking it nearly every night for 15-20 years. We take tea bags when we travel. The ritual is nice. We make tea out of mint from our yard, the leaves from coneflowers (Echinacea), and the fennel fronds from bulbs we buy.

That is hella lovely <3

That sounds amazing

wholesome

Recently: switched from Yorkshire to Barry’s for my “cups all day” and Taylor’s Assam when I want something fancier

Barry’s has continued to be my mainstay for my cups all day as well. Their Irish breakfast to be specific.

these days i drink guilin silvertip, vietnamese high mountain oolong (w/ and w/o added osmanthus), compressed liu bao, and a mint blend. i have a lot of gong fu equipment, but rarely the time to sit down and make a series of nice lil cups.

I miss drinking a bedtime hot tea but that's the stuff of winter weather. Right now I'm making huge pitchers of peppermint + chammomile + honey and then refrigerating it & having iced. It's a great non-water drink. Wish I were making it from mint from my own garden. :)

My day to day is Rooibos Earl Grey, I like the Dragonfly teas which is a brand in the UK or possibly elsewhere. I drink a lot of mint tea also. And occasionally I'll buy a fancier tea when in Paris or similar like Damann Freres.

I saw a video that mentioned some high end taiwanese shops blending tea and coffee -- has anyone tried this (beyond reusing a cup with some leftover decaf)?

never try cofftea

Hong Kong has that too. I'm a black tea and coffee guy but it's a great candy kinda treat (condensed milk).

you can get natural wine with jasmine tea blended into it in china, wild shit

I've been going into the tea shop in Oxford covered market for loose-leaf Earl Grey - on recommendation from a friend and it is genuinely lovely. Mostly drink either Yorkshire Tea or this Earl Grey now. But struck by how many other options there were that I hadn't thought about or explored before. Any recommendations? (Not fruit teas).