About a year ago there was a tea expert on the radio and he said – the key is boiling water hitting the tea. So with tea bags its milk last but for a pot it doesn’t matter.
Tea from the teasmade first thing. Milk first because that’s how I take the cups up to bed. Fill the boiler and add two teabags. Always nice to wake up to. And I only drink out of china mugs or cups.
Coffee and tea ad libitem throughout the day. I can drink caffeine without impunity at any time and still sleep like a baby.
Tea from leaves in a pot, if it’s only one cup then a decent infuser or strainer to get it right, looking at some funky insulated mug with integrated strainer for travelling. As for yorkshire tea WTF is it, not sure what it actually tastes like but it’s not tea.
Tea comes from here http://www.t2tea.com/en/au/tea/
Nothing worse than paying for a pot of tea when your out and getting a bag in it.
in the early days of tea-drinking, poor-quality cups were inclined to crack when hot tea was poured into them
I call rubbish on this.
In The early days of tea drinking the stuff was so hideously expensive it would never have been drunk by poor people except as left overs from those upstairs. If they were very lucky the servants may have been able to re use the leaves but they would likely have dried and resold them when they could. I doubt it predates its import into europe as we never had a high opinion of foreigners (especially from the far east), and i doubt it’s continental european custom either as, whilst they drank tea before the UK they are not famed for milk in tea in europe, Spain and Portugal particularly.
More likely it’s some Victorian middle class nonsense derived to distinguish the grasping middle-class from their lessers like big sets of cuttlery. After all, if it was the weakness of your pottery its as like to effect your teapot as your teacup and you’d never put milk in that.
