What am I missing?
We've always used teabags for convenience, but being a coffee snob, and recently having moved to Yorkshire, I thought we'd better have a go at doing it proper, like.
All I seem to end up with is lukewarm tea (despite warming the pot and the mugs) that at best tastes no better, whilst taking a lot more faff, creating more washing up and using double the hot water (a hit on both the leccy and water bills). Most of the time it actually tastes rather worse - a bitter edge to it, despite using an identical brand of tea (Yorkshire Tea).
So is tea from a pot the working class equivalent of a Wandsworth mum's mokawokaskinnylattewithashotofsyrup, or have I missed an essential technique to make the perfect brew?


