Cup of tea?

[Miss 1929]

I know we had a thread on tea... and I cannot find it! If it wasn't in Connoisseur it should have been.
Amusing rap on YouTube about tea - I think this guy must be one of us!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eELH0ivexKA&feature=related

[Ripper]

That was good. I love tea, English style of course ;) . Have you shopped here, they have wonderful tea and goodies.

http://www.englishteastore.com/

[Mike in Seattle]

That was great - sent a link to a friend who has some weird throat thing going on and had to skip today's voice lesson and I was saying he needed some hot tea with lots of lemon & honey and of course, some bourbon in it.

[Miss Neecerie]

http://www.thefedoralounge.com/showthread.php?t=25956&highlight=cuppa

http://www.thefedoralounge.com/showthread.php?t=22327&highlight=cuppa

http://www.thefedoralounge.com/showthread.php?t=6928&highlight=cuppa

[jamespowers]

I know we had a thread on tea... and I cannot find it! If it wasn't in Connoisseur it should have been.
Amusing rap on YouTube about tea - I think this guy must be one of us!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eELH0ivexKA&feature=related


Oooo-long. :p lol lol lol
I prefer Earl Grey so, yes please. :p

[Miss 1929]

http://www.thefedoralounge.com/showthread.php?t=25956&highlight=cuppa

http://www.thefedoralounge.com/showthread.php?t=22327&highlight=cuppa

http://www.thefedoralounge.com/showthread.php?t=6928&highlight=cuppa

Feel free to merge if you like...

[Dixon Cannon]

Lord Buckley's or a nice cuppa Typhoo, if you please, thank you vedy muuch!

-dixon cannon

[TidiousTed]

A solid strong Assam in the morning with milk and a touch of demerara sugar

Pure Ceylon with a slice of lemon for the rest of the day until dinner

Darjeeling first flush Tigerhill, Golden Nepal or Sikkim Temi with milk in the evening

[TidiousTed]

And I take my tea drinking seriously. This is my tea shelf, my own design and my own handy work. 12 caddies and 12 sorts. Note the tin of “Uncle Joe’s Mint Ball (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7aoyF0enNU)s” in the middle on the bottom shelf. It’s there as a tribute to Mike Harding (http://www.mikeharding.co.uk/) and his very funny song by the same name.
The mouse at the top is a gift from a very nice and very gifted artist and sculptor for whom I made a website.

http://retrorambling.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/01552_tea.jpg

[Mrs Chaddsley_Corbett]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGQASun9d8E

[fortworthgal]

I love tea and often drink it in the afternoons. I will be totally honest and say that while we do buy loose tea sometimes, often we end up with bags of Twinings or Harney & Sons. I always try to keep assorted tea bags in my desk at work so I can enjoy a pick-me-up cup of the tea in the afternoons. My favorite is probably Earl Grey.

[Marzena]

I love the afternoon tea custom and due to many years spent under the Communist regime I have never acquired the teabag habit - teabags did not exist. l We automatically turned to the teapot , and tea was THE drink of the day, coffee being completely absent from regular shops. Truth be told, most of that tea was a rather mediocre tea from Georgia, but with any luck one could find Assam. It is so good nowadays to enjoy all those different Teas! but I probably still like Assam best.

[Heather]

I'm partial Earl Gray & English breakfast. I sometimes buy loose tea leaves from adagio.com. I always have red rose tea bags in my stash for my mom. Whenever they visit, my dad always likes his coffee (or pepsi if it's too hot) and my mom will always, ALWAYS have a couple cups of tea. :)

[DNO]

Lifelong tea drinker here. I'm a big fan of loose tea from the Marinya estate in Kenya or, alternately, from the Margaret's Hope estate in Darjeeling. I also enjoy pretty well any Assam tea or Yunan black. There is such a wonderful variety of teas!

[TidiousTed]

I always keep 12 sorts of tea in the house and I enjoy them all. Darjeeling FF Tiger Hill, Assam, Pure Ceylon, Keemun, Samovar Dusjka, Golden Nepal, Sikkim Temi, Kenyan high grown, Lady Gray (mostly for my girlfriend). English Breakfast, Yunnan d,Or and a good supply of PG pyramid tea bags for when I don’t have time to brew loose weight tea or just want a single cup.

[Miss sofia]

I'm drinking a nice cup of mint tea as we speak, supplemented with some mint i filched from the flower bed outside my shop. My friend in the shop next door managed to find some neat, empty teabags in a health food store, so you can in effect blend your own teas and make your own teabags. Which is great as i do prefer loose teas and have a nice collection at home, which i can now enjoy at work. I suppose you could make your own emvelopes from coffee filters if you wanted, but i'm far too bone idle.

Nothing beats a pot of tea though, with the obligatory tea cosy to keep it all piping hot!

I like English Breakfast, Earl Grey, Assam and Lapsang (like drinking a bonfire - mmmm)!!

[TidiousTed]

I sometimes have to work outside the house as I sometimes do projects in colaboration with an old friend who's a desidgner like me. I never bother to take a car when going to his studio but take the bus then the tube. And I always bring a nice cup of tea in one of these. You can use both loose weight and tea bags in these and they keep the tea warm till the last drop

https://www.kitchn.no/admin/images/view.asp?id=15207&type=.jpg

[Miss sofia]

OOOh i like that! Must put it on my list for Santa!

[Danny Ocean]

My personal choice is loose leaf, Ceylon Orange Pekoe, followed by Russian Caravan.

And when time is tight, Twinings Pure Ceylon tea bags.

Danny O

[TidiousTed]

OOOh i like that! Must put it on my list for Santa!

You find it here (http://www.bodum.com/gb/en-us/shop/prodlist/61/) :)

[Shangas]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGQASun9d8E

That it does, that it does.

I'm an occasional tea-drinker here. Like mine with a dibbly-dabble of honey in it for the sweetness. I like Cammomile, Mint and Rooibos.

In fact, just before I spotted this thread, I went and made myself a pot of tea. It's cold here and I need something heat me up!!

[TidiousTed]

I see that there is room for a little confusion here. Only leaves from the tea bush is correctly called tea. Mint, rooibos and other hot drinks made by infusing dried leaves other than tea in hot water is if one likes to be correct called infusion ;)

[TidiousTed]

My personal choice is loose leaf, Ceylon Orange Pekoe, followed by Russian Caravan.

That strong black Russian tea you get in Russian Caravan is a great pick-me-up in the morning. I usually use Samovar Dusjka which is Russian Caravan with seven different citrus oils added. It is particularly nice with a teaspoon or two of akasi honey.

[Pompidou]

I see that there is room for a little confusion here. Only leaves from the tea bush is correctly called tea. Mint, rooibos and other hot drinks made by infusing dried leaves other than tea in hot water is if one likes to be correct called infusion ;)

What's correct and what's practical, sadly, are often two different things. Herbal tea is understood by all. Herbal infusion? Not so much. Sounds like a women's body wash - I think it actually is. People will think you're offering them soap. Retailers sell "infusion" as "tea", and thus the word "tea" aught to now, correctly, have an expanded definition. That's how I see it. If the point of communicating is to get a message across and understood, we might as well use the language of the person we're communicating with. I vote for amending the definition of tea and rendering infusion archaic. For what it's worth, my cafe is going to sell all the tea-like variants under the monicker of tea: rooibos tea, chamomile tea, etc. Whether right or wrong, it's what everyone understands. Even people who know what infusion is will know what we mean.

EDIT: More on topic, though, I've always been a fan of Earl Gray tea, myself. I think I mostly like the smell of it, but the taste is great too.

[Shangas]

I see that there is room for a little confusion here. Only leaves from the tea bush is correctly called tea. Mint, rooibos and other hot drinks made by infusing dried leaves other than tea in hot water is if one likes to be correct called infusion ;)

Awww...

*Leaves thread dejectedly*

[Black Dahlia]

Early Grey, Lady Grey or Orange Pekoe for me. And mint tea on occasion.
X
BD

[Pompidou]

Early Grey, Lady Grey or Orange Pekoe for me. And mint tea on occasion.
X
BD

Mint does amazing things for a whole bunch of ailments, I've found. If I put honey in it, it helps my sore throat. By itself, it helps my upset stomach.

[Black Dahlia]

Mint does amazing things for a whole bunch of ailments, I've found. If I put honey in it, it helps my sore throat. By itself, it helps my upset stomach.

I concur. Ginger tea is really good for nausea and upset stomach also.

I'm quite fond of mint tea lattes!
X
BD

[bellaclaire]

Well, being from Yorkshire its gotta be Yorkshire tea!!! closely followed by Ringtons and then Tetley!!! these are simmular to what you may call "breakfast" tea......there a mixed black tea. i do like green tea, ginger, lemon and varies others but cannt beat a "builders" tea with milk and sugar.....served hot! in the Army known as a "brew"!! lol

[LoveMyHats2]

Oooo-long. :p lol lol lol
I prefer Earl Grey so, yes please. :p The "Earl" has a longer reach, and is just peachy with me, as well!

[LoveMyHats2]

Dandelion tea...is the magic medical tea......

[Black Dahlia]

Dandelion tea...is the magic medical tea......

Dandelion tea is really good! Especially roasted Dandelion tea.
X
BD

[lolly_loisides]

Genmaicha (Green tea with roasted rice) is a particular favourite.
http://www.asianchoicecuisines.com/Japanese-Choice/products/genmaicha-green-tea-roasted-rice2.jpg

[A.C. Lyles]

I was using a friend's house in Majorca a while back and she had one of these gadgets in the kitchen. It worked like a charm.


http://i508.photobucket.com/albums/s325/calikinz/1_penguin_tea.jpg

[Black Dahlia]

I was using a friend's house in Majorca a while back and she had one of these gadgets in the kitchen. It worked like a charm.


http://i508.photobucket.com/albums/s325/calikinz/1_penguin_tea.jpg

And it's so unbelievably cute! Aw

Think I need some tea right now. It cures everything I hear! ;0
X
BD

[DNO]

The two best tasting cure-alls: a cup of tea and English bitter ale. (not together, of course!)

[dnjan]

... Margaret's Hope estate in Darjeeling.
That is my Sunday afternoon read-the-newspaper tea!
Every morning I make a pot of Ceylon tea (Keniworth Estate), and enjoy a cup while listening to Morning Edition (NPR) on the radio.
The rest goes into a pre-heated thermos and into work with me. It is usually consumed by the time I have caught up on e-mail and FL postings.

[Henry Gondorff]

I take my tea drinking very serious, too. I never use tea bags. I do prefer chinese tea and here are my favorites: Lung Ching (Dragon well) green tea from the Zeijiang province;

http://i1143.photobucket.com/albums/n623/Gondorff/top-lung-ching_2011.jpg

And a chinese stone tea, an Oolong (the name comes from the very high areas in which this tea grows, above 2000m) Jing Luo Tiao;

http://i1143.photobucket.com/albums/n623/Gondorff/2213_0.jpg

[dnjan]

I had some Dragons Well a few years ago - a grad student of a colleague's brought some back for him after a trip home. He isn't a tea drinker, but he knew I was. So I was fortunate enough to have some tea that would normally be well out of my price range.
A very nice tea indeed!

[TidiousTed]

The two best tasting cure-alls: a cup of tea and English bitter ale. (not together, of course!)

I've been known to drink the two together, though with tea I prefer a darker beer ;)

[dnjan]

I have a colleague who refers to beer as "hops tea", though I suppose it should be correctly referred to as an infusion.

[Henry Gondorff]

I had some Dragons Well a few years ago - a grad student of a colleague's brought some back for him after a trip home. He isn't a tea drinker, but he knew I was. So I was fortunate enough to have some tea that would normally be well out of my price range.
A very nice tea indeed!

And again you're right, dnjan. I'm always impressed by the sweetness and richness of this tea. Even as a cold drink, during summertime, it's wonderfully refreshing.

[TidiousTed]

A new teashop has turned up in Oslo "Le Palais Des Thés", and I'm afraid it is going to put a serious dent in my economy. Not only do they have close to a hundred different teas, but they have a whole range of teas accessories as well, tea pots, tea caddies, books, tea marmalades, the lot. Besides, they run several tea courses, Japanese tea sermon courses, tasting courses and several others. The first visit set me back 55 $ and that was just 125 g of 4 different teas, not their cheapest ones though.

[TidiousTed]

I have a colleague who refers to beer as "hops tea", though I suppose it should be correctly referred to as an infusion.

Fermented infusion even ;)

[m0nk]

I came across this thread and think it's great that some people here share the same affinity for chinese tea as myself. After trying numerous tea varieties, I've started blending my own mix. It starts with some Jasmine Green Tea that we pick up at the local Asian market (my wife is Vietnamese/chinese so we end up there quite often). I then get some Jasmine White Silver Needle, Slimming Jade Oolong, and Phoenix Moutain Oolong (Guandong Dan Cong) all from an online supplier and blend them all together. The resulting Jasmine flavor is perfect without being too overpowering, and there's a slight sweetness brought by the Oolong varieties that works great. This blend also has numerous health benefits, as it has white, green, and oolong teas in the mix.

[esteban68]

It's good old 'English builders tea' for me the colour of well tanned skin as my Grandfather used to say!
All that fancy stuff tastes like perfume to my palate dulled by years of room temperature ales and fine Indian cuisine!

[dnjan]

A new teashop has turned up in Oslo "Le Palais Des Thés", and I'm afraid it is going to put a serious dent in my economy. Not only do they have close to a hundred different teas, but they have a whole range of teas accessories as well, tea pots, tea caddies, books, tea marmalades, the lot. Besides, they run several tea courses, Japanese tea sermon courses, tasting courses and several others. The first visit set me back 55 $ and that was just 125 g of 4 different teas, not their cheapest ones though.
Those tea prices seem to be about on par with your beer prices!

[TidiousTed]

Those tea prices seem to be about on par with your beer prices!

They have teas a lot cheaper than that, I just fansied trying something both rare and exclusive. ;) But you are right, Norway is a very expensive country, but we usually highly paid for our work as well.

[DNO]

That is my Sunday afternoon read-the-newspaper tea!
Every morning I make a pot of Ceylon tea (Keniworth Estate), and enjoy a cup while listening to Morning Edition (NPR) on the radio.
The rest goes into a pre-heated thermos and into work with me. It is usually consumed by the time I have caught up on e-mail and FL postings.

I tried Keniworth but I didn't really warm up to it. I'm a big fan of Kenyan Marinyn though...and most Assams.

Not really a tea, but given it's new popularity, I gave Rooibos a try...tasted a tad medicinal to me. Must be an acquired taste. I think I'll stick with teas.

[TidiousTed]

I tried Keniworth but I didn't really warm up to it. I'm a big fan of Kenyan Marinyn though...and most Assams.

I usually have between 12 - 15 sorts of tea in the house and I buy only loose weight and usually in 125 g's batches. Some of these might last 6 - 9 months, but the assams never last more than about 2 weeks. Assam will always be my "staple" tea

[DNO]

I just ran out of Margaret's Hope and my Marinyn is running low...time for a trip to the tea shop!

[Mrs Chaddsley_Corbett]

I saw Madam Flavour in my local supermarket, at very reasonable prices, a nice website too

http://www.madameflavour.com/

[MissNathalieVintage]

Loose tea tastes better then tea in a bag. I noticed the tea bag adds a bitter flavor to the tea.I like it hot with nothing in it. However it has to be decaffe.

When I use the tea ball I end up with tea bits in my cup. I came across this at the market and it makes loose tea super easy to brew. http://www.americanwildfoods.com/prodimages/2253.png it fits in my mini tea pot or any coffee cup. All I have to do after use is toss the used tea grounds in the trash. Wash the basket and slip it into my next cup read to use.

[MissNathalieVintage]

Tea quote: Tea Earl Grey hot. -Captain Jean luc Packard (Star trek the next Generation)