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My wife thinks I'm strange for this but I think it makes sense.
Sometimes I'll make myself two cups (actually mugs) of tea. One cup just doesn't satisfy me.
I've tried bigger cups/mugs in the past but with their bigger openings, I tend to spin tea down my front when getting to the tea at the bottom. I also reckon that a big cup/mug goes colder quicker.
Really, if I had any class, I'd use a tea pot.
Anyone else do the same? Or maybe do something that also baffles their partners?
Classless Freak.
Use a tea pot with tea cosy.
Yes.
Use a tea pot with tea cosy
Well I know what to ask for from the kids on my 47th birthday.
https://www.teacosyfolk.co.uk/Cyclist-Tea-cosy-p-339.php
Really, if I had any class, I’d use a tea pot.
amen, bother
yup
sport direct have done little for the planet, but their oversized mugs almost makes up for all the rest.
Have you tried making a cup, then making another one? It’s the future.
But I'd have to wait for the kettle to boil again.
No, because I have something along these lines:
https://uk.yeti.com/products/rambler-14-oz-414-ml-stackable-mug?_pos=1&_sid=c90132661&_ss=r
Holds almost 1/2 a litre of piping hot brown joy, won't go cold too fast, optional lid means you don't spill it down yourself and if you get the plain silver one it can go straight in the dishwasher without looking tatty.
A Camelbak will give you 3 litres of lovely tea and no risk of spillages. Also a nice warm, sweaty back. If the sweaty back isn't to your liking you can hang it from a hospital drip stand.
As I understand it its two girls to one cup....
Wouldn’t you need four girls for that?
I thought this was about some video that was doing the rounds on the internet a few years ago ... yes, it's weird.
Take it a step further and just make the tea in the kettle and drink it out of the spout (you can flip it on to warm the tea as and when required) . You're clearly a wrong'un so why not lean into it.
More seriously,
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Accept no substitute.
Use a tea pot with tea cosy
But I’d have to wait for the kettle to boil again.
That's just poor forward planning.
I stand in solidarity with the OP.
A big mug doesn't taste the same, although two teabags helps.
Brewing a second cup never tastes as good as the first cup IMO.
The first cup gets finished and there's a perfect second cup sitting there ready to be enjoyed.
The extra washing up is a downside I will admit.
I'd like to point out that Singletrack have introduced a new 1.5 mug standard that brings the trail alive. Big enough to quench your thirst yet not the silly t-shirt staining megafat 'standard' offered by Sports Direct.
Plus, annoyingly, it looks like STW have slashed the price since I bought mine!
https://singletrackworld.com/shop/singletrack-coffee-mug/
(Although... can't actually see how to add the mug to your basket...)
My missus thinks I'm weird by using fresh water each time i boil.
I also reckon that a big cup/mug goes colder quicker.
You want a big thermal type mug.
I could easily have two cups but separated by an hour or so. I'd love to drink small amounts all day but I like rather strong coffee so that makes too much caffeine.
I agree that a big mug just isn't right. Tastes wrong somehow and goes from too hot to too cold at the wrong pace.
Trouble with lining a second cup up is by the time you've finished the first it will be just a fraction cold. Sure the microwave (yes I am unrefined enough to occasionally microwave tea) can help but it's never as good as just making a second cup.
Our kettle boils water for a standard mug in just under a minute. Do you need a faster kettle?
Peer’s Eats pint mug for first cup of the day. Then coffee all morning. Normal mugs of tea in the afternoon.
Just to throw in an extra twist I often makes myself half a cup. I don't know why, it just seems right.
I’d bet you good money that you wouldn’t be able to tell the difference if you didn’t already know,
Ok, you’re more than welcome to come to my house, make two cups of tea (black, none of this milk nonsense) with exactly the same amount of tea leaf steeped for 4 mins and I guarantee I’ll know which is which.
While you’re here, I’ll sit you down in my acoustically treated room and let you hear and notice the difference between 320kbs mp3 and 16/44.1kHz cd quality.
😉
sport direct have done little for the planet, but their oversized mugs almost makes up for all the rest.
So much so I asked my daughter to get me one for Christmas this year. Cheers me up no end at the start of a working day 🙂
Mike Ashley lover! 😜
Just to throw in an extra twist I often makes myself half a cup. I don’t know why, it just seems right.
WRONG!
Thanks for translating my autoincorrect mangled post Convert. My mug is from the time before the place trebled in size. We had two… one cracked… luckily replaced before they shut. Fingers crossed it comes back in some form. And that more good things can happen in the village… always surprised that a place with so many visitors can’t support more businesses and jobs.
I’ve just gone back to leaving milk out of tea again Somafunk. Used to always drink it that way about 30 years ago… can’t remember why I swapped to putting milk in… or why I stuck with it so long. Habits are odd. Next… time to try going back to loose leaf…?
Those insulated bottles are ideal, I have green tea in mine because tea with milk in just tastes manky after a while, they hold half a litre, so I boil a kettle and fill the bottle, empty the hot water into a jug with a teabag, stir it around a bit then pour it back into the insulated bottle. Beauty is, it’s still hot enough to be finish it off six hours later. Certainly hot enough an hour after filling it to nearly scald your tongue!
Better than any insulated mug I’ve ever used.
Ok, you’re more than welcome to come to my house, make two cups of tea (black, none of this milk nonsense) with exactly the same amount of tea leaf steeped for 4 mins and I guarantee I’ll know which is which.
I guarantee you won't. Where do you live?
Typical cougar, you are always supremely sure of yourself and the opinions you hold but please don’t assume that because you can’t, others can’t either.
Galloway btw, door’s always open if you’d care to pop by.
I don't drink tea, vile stuff, but I always make two cups of coffee so there's one in the kitchen and one in the study. Then, when I get bored with what I'm doing and wander into the other room, there's a cup of coffee waiting for instead of having to go back and get the one I left behind.
I will make 2 mugs of tea if there some digestives in the tin.
One for the dipping and one for the sipping!
Bet all the haters on this thread are coffee drinker? 🤣
I go flask now, make one to drink, and fill a flask to keep supping during the morning.
Typical cougar, you are always supremely sure of yourself and the opinions you hold but please don’t assume that because you can’t, others can’t either.
Nothing to do with opinion. I'm concerned with facts. Your claim is readily testable if someone else is brewing up for you.
I used to work with a guy who demanded separate spoons for tea and coffee in the brew round because he claimed he could taste the contamination. The lads took to chucking a few coffee granules into his tea to see how much it took for him to actually notice. The results were wholly predictable.
😉