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  • Best teaspoon for stirring tea
  • glasgowdan
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    I want to stir my tea with the best spoon possible. Obviously any spoon will do, but I guess there’s a lot of difference in the flavour if it’s stirred with the right thing. Right now I’m using a cheapo 10 for £1 jobbie and won’t stir tea in front of guests due to the shame.

    Any recommendations?

    PS It’s Punjana, with a tip of a teapsoon of sugar and splash of milk, if that makes a difference.

    akira
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    Has to be the Mustard Rockstirs Flying Tea Guitar Shaped Tea Spoon.

    scotroutes
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    Aye but are ye corrie-dookit?

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    Cougar
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    It’s all about technique. Are you stirring it in the right direction? If you’re unstirring it you’ll never get a satisfactory blend even with the most artisan of spoons.

    BigButSlimmerBloke
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    jobbies are far from ideal when it comes to stirring tea, even if the colour is about right.

    molgrips
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    OMFG.

    Come back when you’ve grown up and stopped using sugar in tea. And the cheap rubbish for a spoon.. hopeless.. you’ve got no idea. You’re worthless, absolutely worthless.

    footflaps
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    I use the silver spoon which I was born with 😉

    perchypanther
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    The McMoonter Teaspoon ?

    bigyinn
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    Surely if you’re after an artisan stirrer, then it should be something completely inappropriate to be used for the job, so I’d suggest a cat.

    Cougar
    Full Member

    A pedigree cat, of course.

    LeeW
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    Rotate the cup not the spoon for the best results.

    benp1
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    I often use the same spoon as I use for my instant coffee. Goes back on my little teaspoon rest after each cuppa

    (heathen)

    landslide
    Full Member

    A pedigree cat, of course.

    Not just any pedigree, you’ll be wanting a heritage breed.

    Teetosugars
    Free Member

    This.

    It’s all about technique. Are you stirring it in the right direction? If you’re unstirring it you’ll never get a satisfactory blend even with the most artisan of spoons.

    It’s 13 times, anticlockwise.

    scotroutes
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    avdave2
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    a tip of a teapsoon of sugar and splash of milk,

    It makes a big difference, you are making a drink for a small child or infant and it really doesn’t matter what spoon you use. Tea does not contain either milk or sugar and such infantile practises should not be encouraged. 🙂

    CaptainFlashheart
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    n0b0dy0ftheg0at
    Free Member

    A pedigree cat, of course.

    Didn’t you mean Pedigree Chum? 😆

    glasgowdan
    Free Member

    I think the stirring amounts to about 7 times anti clockwise. That means I’m sub-stirring by around 6, right? Damn. I do put the milk on top of the dry bag first before the water, sometimes WITH the sugar.

    RustySpanner
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    Skills course.

    Totally transformed my whole tea drinking experience.

    Rich_s
    Full Member

    Ah, don’t get me started on this! As chief tea maker in this house I only use one of the two “proper” teaspoons we have. Everyone else seems to think that the (?) demitasse spoons we have about 5 of will “do” for making tea or coffee and they’re about 3ml.

    Can’t you taste the difference morons?

    Anyway, steel, 5ml, doesn’t matter a right lot else to answer the OP. O’Neida Metro if you can still find ’em.

    Stirring – 12 x clockwise, 9 x widdershins, 6 x clockwise. Perfect for consistent sugar distribution and those little bubbles in the middle of the piping hot still spinning tap water…

    Cougar
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    I do put the milk on top of the dry bag first before the water, sometimes WITH the sugar.

    You sicken me.

    That’s not tea, that’s warm milky sweetened water.

    CaptainFlashheart
    Free Member

    about 3ml.

    6.5ml really brings the tea alive.

    stumpy01
    Full Member

    Rich_s – Member

    Anyway, steel, 5ml, doesn’t matter a right lot else to answer the OP

    Steel?!

    Mild steel? Spring steel? 1.3401? 1.4401? We need ANSWERS!!!

    Anyway, I reckon the tea-holding vessel is more important than the stirring device (end of a Bic would do at a push).

    colonelwax
    Free Member

    I do put the milk on top of the dry bag first before the water

    Why are you using a dry bag?

    Rich_s
    Full Member

    Steel?!

    Mild steel? Spring steel? 1.3401? 1.4401? We need ANSWERS!!!

    18/10 obs.

    But I have heard that 6al/4v would provide a lighter, more robust taste.

    stumpy01
    Full Member

    Rich_s – Member

    But I have heard that 6al/4v would provide a lighter, more robust taste.

    Whilst damping any stir-induced vibrations, no doubt?! I like it……

    glasgowdan
    Free Member

    A chipped enamelled tin camping mug ftw

    Cougar
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    You stir your tea with a camping mug?

    Rubber_Buccaneer
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    But I have heard that 6al/4v would provide a lighter, more robust taste.

    Spoon for life that….or at least until it cracks

    nedrapier
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    For the purest, smoothest blenderlising, you want to employ the non-invasive Coriolis Stir.

    Milk to taste, hold the cup, spin round about 5-7 times, Keep an eye on the tea – for faster spins, you’ll have to angle the vessel in towards you to avoid loss.

    Stop spinning, watch the magic. You might want to hold on to something so you don’t fall over and scald yourself on immaculately-agitated tea.

    If you take sugar, you might find this method a little subtle for you, but the rewards of a well executed CS would be wasted on you anyway.

    maccruiskeen
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    You stir your tea with a camping mug?

    You should see the size of his teacup. I don’t really understand why he keeps it under his bed though

    BigButSlimmerBloke
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    Travis
    Full Member

    mine arrives to me already stirred.

    Otherwise I’ll send it back. Not wasting my dunking time stirring the tea.

    kayak23
    Full Member

    anticlockwise.

    This.

    funkmasterp
    Full Member

    This

    Or this

    CaptainFlashheart
    Free Member

    An eCup?

    Beginning of the end for tea access issues, you mark my words.

    DezB
    Free Member

    Well, I think it all depends on whether you want to be a STWer and buy something stupidly expensive and kid yourself that it works better and makes your tea nicer (only you will notice this), just because you paid more for it. Or, you want to be sensible with your money, pop into Asda and pay a few pennies for something that’ll work just as well, but won’t come with the middleclass smugness warranty.

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