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I stir clockwise direction, the same way as water drain. I'm left handed, so is this the same for right-handers ?, but also begs another question. What direction in the Southern Hemisphere do people stir their tea :?,is it in a clockwise clockwise direction, or do they follow the direction of draining water and stir anti-clockwise.
A circle in the vertical plain. Round the circumference is inefficient you want maximum turbulence.
Clockwise and up and down, right hander.
Right-hander, anticlockwise.
Stir?
Milk in cup, tea poured from pot. No stirring needed.
I dont drink tea, but anything that stir, I do so anti clockwise. Right handed.
No milk, no sugar = no stirring
Woah! What kind of crazy person puts the milk in first? As for stirring I’ve never actually paid any attention. I just stir on autopilot.
Right handed and clockwise
How many dings though?
How big is your teacup?
Coriolis only has an effect on bodies of liquid >10km or so…
What kind of crazy person puts the milk in first?
Poor people during the 18th century* who can't afford china of sufficient quality to withstand the thermal shock of boiling liquids. Thats the real reason to put the milk in last - to signal to your guests that you can afford to.
Clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere.. anit-clockwise in the southern... just to follow spinning water rules
Right handed, anticlockwise.
No idea on direction of stirring (depends on which side of the equator?!) but the main thing is to not squeeze the bag as it makes the tea bitter. Brew for longer instead. Ideally in a teapot.
Depends...how solid is the meal? Things like curry and rice or mince and tatties, I tend to mix it all in so don't really stir it...same with spag bol...slice it up and mix it around.
Why would you stir your tea? How runny is it???
Right handed, most definitely clockwise and at the bottom to fully dislodge the two heaped spoons of sugar and that way you can tell if any sugar hasn't dissolved.
Is this a stealth question about religious persuasion?
Anyway, as per Frank above, no milk no sugar no stirring. And no dunking.
Don't want to come across as some sort of tea heathen but, boiling water on a tea bag , leave for a bit , pour in some milk and stick fingers in cup to get tea bag then squeeze the bag
A left hander who stirs Anti clockwise and put milk in last.
Right hander, both ways and beat the hell outta that sucker.
"...same way as water drain[s]" argh triggered, lol.
Leftie, anti clockwise. But the correct answer of course is get a decent brand, boiling water and don't stir just agitate a little and let it brew.
And cloudnine, it depends on your frame of reference, are you following the parcel of tea being turned or are you looking down from above? Cyclonic = anticlockwise in northern hemisphere, clockwise in southern.
No milk, no sugar = no stirring
This +1000
Milk in first to avoid scalding the milk.
Loose leaf tea brewed in tea pot.
No sugar. No stirring.
Then hand to my wife to drink.
I’m more of a black coffee, bean to cup sort of guy.
Anti-clockwise and right handed.
I don't know and I'm trying very hard not to think about it because I have a life, or at least I thought I had till I started thinking about it and it's clockwise, great now I don't have a life, I don't even drink tea ffs why did I click on this?
Tea (strongest possible) + sugar + turbo stirring S.E.Asian style.
Turbo stirring = tea spoon remains in one place and paddle it like no tomorrow quickly to get the water/tea in a whirlpool motion clockwise. Non of those slow stirring in circular motion coz that's for very old people.
Stir? I dunk the tea bag up and down.
Milk in last tastes different.
Although you can change back to how it would have tasted if you'd put the milk in first by letting your brew cool, then reheating in the microwave. 🙂
Try it.
Oh, milk last, then squash bag against side of cup with tea spoon until desired strength achieved, then stir clockwise.
Ambistirrer, can use either hand.
Anti clock.
Best way.
squeeze the bag
Some people shouldn't be allowed tea 😳
Stir? I dunk the tea bag up and down.
LOL! Do you have your pinky finger pointing up while dipping your tea bag? LOL!
I let God's Brownian motion do the work.
Left handed. Stir anticlockwise.
Of course.
Waggle the teabag side to side before hooking it out with your biro 🙂
Before pouring, don't forget to turn the pot.
Woah! What kind of crazy person puts the milk in first?
If you're making tea from tea bags direct in the cup/mug then I agree. The instant cooling effect of the milk on the hot water you pour in affects the brewing and infusion process. But if you make tea in the tea pot and pouring ready infused tea into the cup/mug then it doesn't matter...apart from if you think it tastes different if milk goes in last. But I'm a tea bag kind of guy so cant really comment on milk in first or last.
Definitely stir the bag in the mug though to force a flow of water through the bag picking up all that lovely tea-ness. I'm all for a light squeeze of the bag though...just enough pressure to squeeze out the infused liquor out of the bag, but not tight enough to release the tannin rich absorbed water from the tea.
Right handed and anticlockwise.
Same way I stir anything, mixing cakes or whatever
Widdershins.
Figure-8. Inducing roughl-laminar flow in a circular direction does less for increasing tannin distribution than making things swishy by stirring in random directions.
Black tea, no sugar. Fingers of right hand grab tea bag (asbestos hands) after it has sat quietly for a minute or so and up-down it then out. Nice
LOL! Do you have your pinky finger pointing up while dipping your tea bag? LOL!
Probably, as I don't have milk or sugar I just grab the tea bag a dunk it.
LOL! You just sound like some deranged **** when you make your tea, LOL!
Left handed and stir clockwise
Woah! What kind of crazy person puts the milk in first?
I do! You wanna fight?
Milk in first, along with teabag, boiling water, leave for a minute or two, then move the bag around to achieve desired strength, remove bag from mug.
Simples.
I do! You wanna fight?
No, but only because I know you’re old and infirm from reading your posts so it wouldn’t be a fair one 😉
Honestly find it hard to believe people know which way and how they stir tea. Either I’m going through life in some sort of daze or you lot pay way too much attention to extremely mundane things. Honestly it could be either!
I’m going to make a cuppa first thing tomorrow and report back.
I caught the youth of today I work with stirring two cups of tea simultaneously holding a teaspoon in each hand. Needless to say I made him feel ashamed of himself and he's never done it again.
Right handed.
For one teaspoon of sugar it's 9 rotations clockwise, 6 counter clockwise, 3 clockwise. This gives optimum distribution of the sugar throughout the beverage.
I'm now on sweeteners so can get away with 3 clockwise and 3 counter clockwise.
Both must be followed up by tinging the edge of the mug with "shampoo and a haircut, six bits". Does nothing for the flavour but underlines my manliness. See also, whistling.