Tea thread
Cluelessmama1979
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Couldn't find one, made this one.
What's your favorite type of tea. How do you make it? Do you add sugar? Honey? Milk?
Iced tea and coffee drinkers also welcome, I enjoy all 3, but it *is* the internet, so post at your own risk.
What's your favorite type of tea. How do you make it? Do you add sugar? Honey? Milk?
Iced tea and coffee drinkers also welcome, I enjoy all 3, but it *is* the internet, so post at your own risk.
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Earl Grey hot and nothing added.4
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If I want caffeine...I like spiced teas (chai or similar) or flavored black tea. Nothing added.
If I don't want caffeine...I like some herbal teas or fruit infusions. Most are not technically "tea", but still a hot brew. David's Tea has some really nice varieties....expensive, so I don't get them often. Again, nothing added.
Iced tea is great in the summer...I brew my own with black or green tea. I like lemon in iced tea, but no sugar.2 -
I'm a little bit of a tea snob. >.> *sheepishly looks around* Loose leaf only, with the water heated to the correct temperature for the type of tea and steeped for the proper time. No sweetener, though. Of course, I have a teapot that makes this very easy to do.
My favorites are greens and oolongs. Gunpowder, hojicha, sencha, and genmaicha are my fav greens. Oolongs I tend to go for the flavored ones like maple or jasmine. Pu erh teas are also pretty good, though a bit earthy.2 -
I love tea usually drink hot tea , my favorites are chai tea, lemon loaf or honey vanilla camille, I like to add a splash of vanilla creamer to it...yum0
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I'm also a fan of earl gray.
But anyway...
Now that we have some tea lovers, and even a self-designated tea snob...
My daughter would like to put 2 tea bags in the coffee pot in place of a kcup, and make it like coffee.
I'm appalled and disgusted. I've nixed the idea, and she says I'm being ridiculous.
Am I overreacting?2 -
I like chai tea a lot. I went to the factory where celestial seasonings is made and.. wow it smells great.
This may anger some people, but I put almond milk and sweetener in my coffee…. And I put sweeteners in my tea😎0 -
Tea is love. I have quite a collection of teas. During the day I like a chai (Strong Black tea with Darjeeling blend) with milk and a little sugar. On rare occasions I add the tea spices and cardamom to it.
But mostly I prefer my tea without milk and sweeteners. Just loose leaf tea brewed in a tea pot or I use the glass pot with the special infuser.
Most my teas are blacks and greens, some with herbal (ginger, saffron, cinnamon, peppermint) or fruity blends (peach, lemon, bergamot, berries, apple). I have some white too (Darjeeling and white peony).
Not a fan of any chamomile, rooibos or Pu'er though.
I love to add flowers sometimes to the glass pot infuser (Lavender, pea flower, marigold, globe amaranth, red rose, pink rose, golden rose, jasmine). Keeps things less boring since staying hydrated is a struggle for me.
Today's Jasmine Oolong with pink rose and globe amaranth flowers.
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Green tea, possibly with fruit, fruit infusions, herbal teas. Nothing else in it.1
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Chamomile tea with nothing added is my go to tea - I also like lemon and ginger maybe with a bit of honey.1
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Cluelessmama1979 wrote: »I'm also a fan of earl gray.
But anyway...
Now that we have some tea lovers, and even a self-designated tea snob...
My daughter would like to put 2 tea bags in the coffee pot in place of a kcup, and make it like coffee.
I'm appalled and disgusted. I've nixed the idea, and she says I'm being ridiculous.
Am I overreacting?
You can buy a reusable kcup and put loose leaf tea in it.
The problem is that brew time for tea is much longer than coffee, so if she makes it in the Keurig, it's going to be very weak tea. Maybe she likes weak tea...it won't hurt the machine, so if she wants to try it, I'd just look away and silently judge her.1 -
@88AViva that tea looks amazing! I've always wanted to branch out with more teas but I'm scared it will become an expensive habit I cannot afford, lol.
@SuzySunshine99 deal, but I'm going to judge her very loudly and vocally lol0 -
Cluelessmama1979 wrote: »
My daughter would like to put 2 tea bags in the coffee pot in place of a kcup, and make it like coffee.
I'm appalled and disgusted. I've nixed the idea, and she says I'm being ridiculous.
Am I overreacting?
Appalled is the appropriate reaction, I would think. Though I agree with @SuzySunshine99 that maybe looking away and silently judging is best.
@88AViva I'm interested that you prefer greens and blacks, and yet you drink white? I would think a delicate white would taste like nothing compared to your usual preferences. I know I have a hard time switching to white.0 -
I love Bengal Spice tea. It is my very favorite. Anything with a lot of warmth. I drink it with nothing added.
Peppermint tea is delicious too!0 -
I’m boring - decaf tea bags, PG Tips for preference, with skimmed milk. The bigger issue for me is what biscuits should accompany it…Now THAT is a polarising debate. And whilst there shouldn’t be a right or a wrong answer - the wrong answer is defo Oreos. 🤣🤣3
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This reminds me...my brother is now the executive chef at a hotel that has fancy-pants "Afternoon Tea".
Maybe he'll give me a break on the $70 cost....I mean, you DO get fancy little sandwiches and tea cakes and macarons and things with your tea.1 -
I feel we need a food porn photo of the afternoon tea!SuzySunshine99 wrote: »This reminds me...my brother is now the executive chef at a hotel that has fancy-pants "Afternoon Tea".
Maybe he'll give me a break on the $70 cost....I mean, you DO get fancy little sandwiches and tea cakes and macarons and things with your tea.
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claireychn074 wrote: »
I feel we need a food porn photo of the afternoon tea!SuzySunshine99 wrote: »This reminds me...my brother is now the executive chef at a hotel that has fancy-pants "Afternoon Tea".
Maybe he'll give me a break on the $70 cost....I mean, you DO get fancy little sandwiches and tea cakes and macarons and things with your tea.
I'll take a photo for you if I end up going...but here's one that accurately represents what they serve...
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Ohhh wow… 🤤0
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That looks amazing!!0
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I don't drink caffeinated teas, but love peach ginger and Bengal Spice.0
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SuzySunshine99 wrote: »This reminds me...my brother is now the executive chef at a hotel that has fancy-pants "Afternoon Tea".
Maybe he'll give me a break on the $70 cost....I mean, you DO get fancy little sandwiches and tea cakes and macarons and things with your tea.
You know, the whole idea of this sounds absolutely not attractive to me. Just sitting somewhere to eat snacky food and white toast with edges trimmed... do me a proper good cheese sandwich with good, artisan bread. behind my computer. Yes, I know I'm strange.1 -
deannasawyer wrote: »
@88AViva I'm interested that you prefer greens and blacks, and yet you drink white? I would think a delicate white would taste like nothing compared to your usual preferences. I know I have a hard time switching to white.
Oh it's like when you choose to buy something more expensive because you don't have that at home, and you were feeling extra fancy and foolish that day 😁 and sometimes you have a collector's mentality.
It doesn't do it for you but you will still drink it since you bought it already 😸
On the other hand, the flowers you add in with it aren't overpowered (like it sometimes is with the black teas) so you can really smell the roses.
Also white teas always come in pretty wooden boxes. Maybe I bought it for the box 🤷0 -
You know, the whole idea of this sounds absolutely not attractive to me. Just sitting somewhere to eat snacky food and white toast with edges trimmed... do me a proper good cheese sandwich with good, artisan bread. behind my computer. Yes, I know I'm strange.
Sameee. Snacky snacks and tea, computer and maybe a Shisha (hookah). I don't mind any bread, just not with those seeds in it, hate those multigrain things.
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SuzySunshine99 wrote: »This reminds me...my brother is now the executive chef at a hotel that has fancy-pants "Afternoon Tea".
Maybe he'll give me a break on the $70 cost....I mean, you DO get fancy little sandwiches and tea cakes and macarons and things with your tea.
You know, the whole idea of this sounds absolutely not attractive to me. Just sitting somewhere to eat snacky food and white toast with edges trimmed... do me a proper good cheese sandwich with good, artisan bread. behind my computer. Yes, I know I'm strange.
It's honestly more about the experience/atmosphere than the actual tea and food.
It's in an ornate, historic room with harpists playing in the background. People dress up.
It's not something I'd do on a regular basis, but kind of fun for a special event.
And where else are you going to get choux buns shaped like swans?2 -
I love chai tea and lemon loaf or honey vanilla chamomile tea. I love to put a splash of sweet cream creamer in my tea, so good0
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Cluelessmama1979 wrote: »I'm also a fan of earl gray.
But anyway...
Now that we have some tea lovers, and even a self-designated tea snob...
My daughter would like to put 2 tea bags in the coffee pot in place of a kcup, and make it like coffee.
I'm appalled and disgusted. I've nixed the idea, and she says I'm being ridiculous.
Am I overreacting?
I would go for sad rather than appalled. Is your daughter a child/teen, so that it would be appropriate for you to lovingly explain that this is pointless and wasteful (using two tea bags to get a single weak cup of tea). She could use the kcup device to heat the water and just put a single tea bag in the cup, then let it steep for an appropriate time (personally, I go for a full five minutes for black tea).
If she's an adult, you've probably lost your window of opportunity to teach her basic life skills, unless she asks. Still, if it's your kcup device she want to do this with, I think you can still put your foot down, as it seems like the little "tooth" that pierces the kcup could pierce the tea bags, and then you'll have an unpleasant mess of tiny bits of chopped tea leaves to try to clean out of the crevices of the device.1 -
I like pretty much all kinds of tea. Like all babies are cute, all teas are good?
Favorites include earl grey, irish breakfast, and chai. Usually black and unsweetened, but when I'm feeling under the weather I might add a splash of milk and a bit of sugar -- takes me back to my childhood when I got tea and toast when I was sick.
I enjoy green, white, and oolong.
For herbal blends, I like ones that include naturally sweet flavors, like mint, cinnamon, ginger, and licorice.0 -
@lynn_glenmont oh, she's just doing it to shock/offend me. It happened already. Pics are on her phone though, so I'll have her send them so i can upload tomorrow. Share the horror with yall.
@SuzySunshine99 i don't know if even choux buns shaped like swans could convince me to undergo such a big social experience, but I do understand the appeal! And it's fun to live vicariously lol0 -
They're obnoxious and I barely consider them tea, but Red Rose has a line of stevia-sweetened herbal dessert teas that are sometimes exactly what I need to quit eating. The blueberry muffin and lemon cake are good.1
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I love all different kinds of tea, I make herbal iced tea to drink in place of water every day. I also love my morning coffee then switch over. I grow herbs and have added some new ones to try in tea, I have a bunch of different mints, lemon balm, lemon verbena, chamomile, then toss my evening primrose and borage flowers in them as well. Love spicy teas like chai and have been drinking a lot of tumeric ginger tea lately. My favorites for iced tea are usually fruity or spicy. I also brew kombucha with Sweet and Spicy tea or Chai tea.2
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