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It's so good! The pearls are mostly for mouth feel/chewy texture, but it's one of the best parts. I love bubble tea better than fruit smoothies. And it's a million times better than a frappuccino. I recommend anyone with a bit of a sweet tooth to try one.
Strong and milky with half a teaspoon of sugar. Proper tea, not peppermint or other pretend teas.
So first drink in the morning is coffee - instant, granulated because I can't be bothered with fresh ground which is too expensive and a little too bitter for my taste. My other two hot drinks for the day are both tea.
We have a lot of people who like things ranging from fruit to milk in their tea. I didn't expect that.
Some great suggestions here; I'm going to take this thread with me to the grocery store this weekend!
But right now I need to go back to sleep and see if I can shake this cold thingy. Now it's mostly a headache, but it's time for some aspirin and a nap. Good thing it's after 1 am!
How often do you drink tea?
Several times a week.
Do you drink factory tea or small-batch/boutique tea?
Regular name brands and Trader Joe’s
What's your favorite brand and flavor, and if different, what is the brand and flavor you drink most often?
I don’t really pay attention to brands. I like ginger lemon a lot, peppermint, Chai, green, berry antioxidant, any interesting flavor really. Sleepy time tea at night or sometimes detox tea or breathe easy tea.
Do you like your tea hot, at room temperature, or cold/iced?
Hot, but it usually sits around so long it becomes lukewarm. At restaurants I order ice tea though.
How long do you steep your tea, and what method do you usually use?
Just stick a tea bag in a mug of hot water from the Arrowhead dispenser and let it sit for several minutes.
Do you add anything to your tea, like sugar, cream, rose petals, or "other"?
Liquid stevia
If you had one recommendation for a "tea newbie" (ranging from tea selection to water temperature, steep time, etc), what would you suggest?
Don’t worry about it.
What do you eat with your tea?
i don’t. Just usually have a mug nearby when I’m on the computer or maybe watching TV.
Two to three times a day.
Supermarket brands but just switched to non-plastic teabags!
I just steep for colour.
Only add Oat milk.
Has to be hot and brown!
I like my tea like I like my women: hot, dark, and strong.
How often do you drink tea?
Whenever I eat Chinese food, or visit with my Chinese friends.
Do you drink factory tea or small-batch/boutique tea?
Imported from China
What's your favorite brand and flavor, and if different, what is the brand and flavor you drink most often?
Tieguanying mostly, but I alose love Da Hoing Pao, Jin Jun Mei, and Juwah cha with Goji berries.
Do you like your tea hot, at room temperature, or cold/iced?
Hot. Only hot.
How long do you steep your tea, and what method do you usually use?
About 5 minutes. Chinese teas can be reinfused 3-5 times.
Do you add anything to your tea, like sugar, cream, rose petals, or "other"?
Just the Goji Berries in the Chuysanthemum tea.
What do you eat with your tea?
Usually real Chinese food.
..Joe
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Do you even like tea? No.
2-3 large mugs per day
Tetley Tea, one bag in the mug, and pre-heat the mug.... we are tea fanatics in Newfoundland. In fact, there is a Tea Ceremony every time someone enters a home to visit.
Pour boiling water into the mug..... I like my tea HOT..... fusion reactions hot, like the center of a star.
Cover the mug with one piece of aluminum foil, allow to steep perhaps 3-4 minutes, and remain hot.
Add evaporated milk, just enough to remove the bitterness..... drops, really,,,,, no sugar.
Sublime in the morning with breakfast, homemade bread toasted with peanut better.
I will sometimes have tea with cookies, pie, pastries.
Love it hot in the summer too.
Also like hot chi tea.
Hey, it's good to have guiding principles!
Bonus points for proper pronunciation!
Really? I wonder what makes a tea more or less reinfusable.
If you put it into your tea, yes of course!
If you have it while the tea remains in its bag, and the bag in the box, with the box in the pantry, well...no, kind of not.
It's always good to have a plan!
As I said in a response above, everybody has their thing. The beauty is that your thing doesn't need to be my thing, or her thing, or his thing, or their thing over there. Yay, personalities!
Neat!
Oh wow. Warp reactor hot!
I have two or three cups a day. For breakfast I have English Breakfast tea, used to be Twinings but I can't seem to find it locally anymore so I just use Marks and Spencer's own brand. In the afternoon/evening I drink Yorkshire Tea.
Tea has got to be hot and brewed in a pot, boiling water poured on loose leaves - not bags. A little milk and one level teaspoon of sugar in the cup then the tea poured in.
I rarely drink tea on its own, usually with a meal or a snack - cereal, sandwiches or cake.
Here in England the continuous critical question is: "Do you put your milk in first or last?" (answered above!). Another point worth making is that, for me at least, tea has to be "just so", if it's too milky or sweet or warm then it's not nice at all.
How often do you drink tea?
Very rarely.
Do you drink factory tea or small-batch/boutique tea?
Hard to say. I have no idea where this stuff comes from (see below).
What's your favorite brand and flavor, and if different, what is the brand and flavor you drink most often?
Despite being British, I don't actually like tea (this may be why I had to leave the country). When I drink tea, it will be either:
I am indifferent to (1); I drink it because it's there. But I really enjoy (2). Not only does each miniature glass contain enough sugar to put the entire US Marine Corps into a collective diabetic coma, but it tastes good and it makes me think of travel and good times.
Do you like your tea hot, at room temperature, or cold/iced?
First almost too hot to drink, then rapidly getting cooler.
How long do you steep your tea, and what method do you usually use?
You'd have to ask the people who keep giving me tiny glasses of mint tea. I have no idea.
Do you add anything to your tea, like sugar, cream, rose petals, or "other"?
Mint, and an assload of sugar.
If you had one recommendation for a "tea newbie" (ranging from tea selection to water temperature, steep time, etc), what would you suggest?
Find out if you actually like tea first. If you don't, try the mint tea. It's really good.
What do you eat with your tea?
Usually nothing, but sometimes the tea is just a prelude to a bigger meal.
Is there anything else you'd like to share about your tea predilection?
Did I already mention that I like mint tea?
Did I forget to ask a critical tea-loving question? If so, please make up your own question and answer it!
Q: How do you stop yourself from burning your fingers on the glass when drinking hot mint tea?
A: Hold the glass very carefully by the rim, using your thumb and forefinger. If you have a napkin, you can wrap that around the glass, but it's generally easier just to use the thumb-forefinger pinch to hold it until it cools down enough that you can touch the glass without sustaining third-degree burns.
I am a long time user of tea (many, many years) and drink it many times a day, but different kind at the evening.
I prepare a tea only from tea bags, because I do not have time to use it otherwise.
I just add boiling water to the cup with tea bag in it and I do not add anything else.
I wait a few minutes and then I remove the tea bag from the cup.
Usually I divide one cup of such tea in 3 parts, take each part to a separate cup
and fill with the cooled down, already boiled water to the full capacity of the cup,
to have it at the proper temperature and consistence. Then, I drink it.
I drink black tea until early afternoon and Rooibos kind at the evening.
I drink tea after meals, if possible, to digest properly the food, I have eaten.
I never drink a tea hot. If it happens (very rarely) not very hot and only, if I have limited amount of time.
Usually, I regret drinking a slightly hot tea afterwards. My mouth and the rest of the digestion system
has very little resistance to high temperatures and it is easily get hurt by such extravaganza.
As a matter of a brand, I drink mostly Lipton black tea and for the last 2 years Rooibos at the evening,
because it is easier to get asleep at night. Black tea is better for me during the first part of the day,
because it keeps me going.
-- 2 or 3x a week (I drink lots of coffee)
-- Twinings Earl Grey
-- Ditto
-- Hot, but not piping hot
-- Tea bags - until the color looks right
-- Sugar, sometimes milk
-- No particular recs from me, I'll leave that to tea experts, but my aunt insists your tea cup must first be warmed (pour hot water in it, then toss) before the tea is poured.
-- My fave is scones and cream, but any not-too-sweet pastry will do
-- I don't like fruity flavors. On ocasion, I have purchased tea (bags) that smells just like cookies (but tasted like plain tea)
-- What is your tea related wish? I wish we had more tea rooms on this side of the pond, and that more of the tea rooms nearby served real clotted cream
I have forgotten to add this as well. I am doing this all the time, but for a different reason.
Brand = PGTips
Quantity = 7am, 12 noon, 3pm and sometimes in the evening.
Milk, no sugar.
Water should be just boiled NOT boiling
Preferably heat cup/pot before adding tea.
If feeling under the weather I may add teaspoon honey.
Milky coffee preferably Columbian at 9am
Best Wishes from the United Kingdom
Steve.
Q: How do you like your tea?
A: Not at all....
How often do you drink tea?
Almost every day! I like to sip it in the evening while I watch old horror movies, Korean action shows, YouTube reviews of videogames, etc.
Do you drink factory tea or small-batch/boutique tea?
Just factory stuff, usually. I have virtually no palate for this kind of thing so unless my sister's making her special chai, I just drink inexpensive bag teas.
What's your favorite brand and flavor, and if different, what is the brand and flavor you drink most often?
So far, Bigelow's Decaf Vanilla Chai. No store near me carries it, but it's pretty inexpensive by the case on Amazon! Failing that, I will always choose a spicy decaf black tea or a peppermint herbal. Dogadan also used to have a chocolate tea I loved but sadly they don't seem to sell it any more.
Do you like your tea hot, at room temperature, or cold/iced?
Hot, for sure.
How long do you steep your tea, and what method do you usually use?
4-5 minutes. Put bag in cup, pour boiling water over bag, wait.
Do you add anything to your tea, like sugar, cream, rose petals, or "other"?
I add some dairy-free milk to mine (alas, in my 30's I developed a dairy allergy). Unlike coffee, black tea doesn't taste really bitter to me, so I don't usually sweeten it (again, unless Fuseling's special chai is on the table).
If you had one recommendation for a "tea newbie" (ranging from tea selection to water temperature, steep time, etc), what would you suggest?
Steeping in boiling water is better than microwaving even if the latter does produce a stronger tea faster. Don't let anyone tell you what to like. Try everything once or twice. And if you like something that isn't "sophisticated," that's perfectly all right. Don't be discouraged by the bitterness of herbals, there are many options out there that don't require you to have caffeine if you don't want. And especially try rooibos mixtures. It has that fuller-bodied taste like black teas have but is natively caffeine-free.
What do you eat with your tea?
Nothing any more, I'm looking at a bariatric surgery soon so I can't eat anything within half an hour of drinking anything.
Is there anything else you'd like to share about your tea predilection?
This is a fun thread idea, I like it. :) Trader Joe's has a good English Breakfast Tea for surprisingly cheaper than anyone else, if you like that kind and live near them. Be sure and check online, too, sometimes it's cheaper to buy in bulk (and teabags keep basically forever).
Anybody got a rec for a good chocolate tea, now that I'm thinking about it and Dogadan doesn't make it any more? I don't really care for Stash's.
How often: A mug or two an hour. It is the stuff I drink. Not water, beer, coffee, just Tea. 15+ mugs a day. Less fluid intake than that and I get gout.
Type: PGTips
Temperature: Hot. Room temperature is unpleasant, cold or iced is utterly disgusting
Strength: Generally 5-10 mins stewing. However, frequently stewed for 30 minutes and reheated in a microwave. The more like tar the better.
Drunk with: Milk/powdered milk + sugar
Advice to newbies: if the mug is used 15 times a day it's sterile, regardless of how thick the black crust inside an unwashed mug. When the crust starts flaking off, scrape the rest off, the crust isn't very tasty, and chewy tea isn't nice. The crust starts flaking off at about 1/32" thick.
I have tea both with and without food.
In hard water areas, PGTips tastes best. In soft water areas, Yorkshire Tea/Tetley taste better.
Regards
Richard
I don't drink tea nor coffee. I do enjoy a cup of hot cocoa from time to time.
How often do you drink tea?
Average two mugs per day, both in the afternoon.
I'm in the UK so tea is supposed to be my national drink (it certainly is for most of my family) but I really prefer decaff coffee most of the time (so I'm considered rather odd by the others) - however I do like my green tea in the afternoon.
Do you drink factory tea or small-batch/boutique tea?
I suppose factory is the right answer
What's your favorite brand and flavor, and if different, what is the brand and flavor you drink most often?
Twinings Jasmine Green Tea (the only type I drink at home, though I'll drink plain old "black" tea when I'm out)
Do you like your tea hot, at room temperature, or cold/iced?
Cooler than "hot" but warmer than "room temperature". About 5-10 minutes after brewing.
How long do you steep your tea, and what method do you usually use?
A single teabag in a pint-sized teapot - add water just off the boil, stir then stand for 1m 30s before pouring.
Do you add anything to your tea, like sugar, cream, rose petals, or "other"?
Never in my green tea, a splash of (preferably skimmed) milk in the black tea when I have it.
If you had one recommendation for a "tea newbie" (ranging from tea selection to water temperature, steep time, etc), what would you suggest?
Let the water go off the boil (or maybe use one of those fancy kettles where you can set the temperature?)
What do you eat with your tea?
First choice fruit scone with strawberry jam, failing that a biscuit.
Is there anything else you'd like to share about your tea predilection?
Can't think of anything
Did I forget to ask a critical tea-loving question? If so, please make up your own question and answer it!
Not that I can think of.
I never used to drink tea until a few years ago. I still don't drink coffee. That stuff has never appealed to me. I drink about 1-3 mugs of tea a day now. It's usually white, green or herbal tea, hot in the winter, cold in the summer. We always get the tea that has some type of flavor in it, like berry, orange, vanilla, etc. There's also an herbal chai bag tea that I like. Then there is the chai tea/latte that I love because they tend to be so sweet, but I drink that less because of the calories. Once in a while, I'll have a black tea. When I'm at home, I use monk fruit sweetener in my tea, but if I get tea at a coffee shop, I'll use a little sugar or have it infused with a bit of flavored syrup. I'm unable to make my tea myself, even at home, so I leave that to my girlfriend/caregiver. However she makes it, it tastes good to me.
What's your favorite hot cocoa?
I love hot chocolate. I am partial to many different varieties. My current favorite is cocoa powder, dash of cinnamon, and honey. I also have been known to melt two or three dove chocolate squares in hot milk to make cocoa.
The frozen bean is my go to premade cocoa and it's on Amazon. You can make it hot or cold to make frozen hot cocoa.
I declare this weekend "Tea Weekend" for any who care to indulge!
Fun Quote regarding tea as not just any beverage choice:
I find dutched cocoa makes very good hot chocolate, but I don't just follow the instructions on the package. I add sugar and vanilla and whatever else to taste. My aunt used to make excellent hot chocolate with Mexican chocolate rounds and evaporated milk.
Well, my familiy hails partly from East Frisia, so it is sort of my family duty to have some basic apprecition for tea :)
How often do you drink tea?
Something between 1-5 mugs a day, depending on the day.
Do you drink factory tea or small-batch/boutique tea?
Factory, mostly, although my favorite is kind of a local brand that is hard to get where I live.
What's your favorite brand and flavor, and if different, what is the brand and flavor you drink most often?
Well, I drink a lot of Chamomile tea of whatever brand I find. I don't like it much, just drink it because it is supposedly somewhat healthy.
Other than that I have recently fallen in love with a fruit tea called "Fantasie der Feen" ("Fantasy of the Fairies") by Meßmer. It is as delicious as it is embarassing.
Mostly, of course, I drink black tea called "Grüngold" by Bünting, which is an Assam tea. Pretty much what my Grandmother used to make for us when we were kids ^^;
Do you like your tea hot, at room temperature, or cold/iced?
Hot.
How long do you steep your tea, and what method do you usually use?
Depends on the tea.
Chamomile: 5 - 6 minutes.
Fruit tea: 8 minutes.
Black tea: 2-3 minutes.
Do you add anything to your tea, like sugar, cream, rose petals, or "other"?
Nothing gets aded to chamomile, fruit tea with some sugar.
Black tea with milk and sugar, which is sacrilege, of course, since it is traditionally served with cream and Kluntjes in East Frisia. I am too lazy to keep those in stock, may Oma (grandma) forgive me.
If you had one recommendation for a "tea newbie" (ranging from tea selection to water temperature, steep time, etc), what would you suggest?
Don't buy tea bags where the string and lavel come off easily to avoid disaster. Get a quality mug where you don't burn your fingers.
What do you eat with your tea?
Anything, really. Although, while I won't get cake to drink tea, I might make tea if I am already going to eat cake.
In fact, my local baker sells a nice treat called "Teestange" ("tea pastry") made of puff pastry, marzipan, almonds and a ton of frosting. So I often eat that with some tea.
Is there anything else you'd like to share about your tea predilection?
I used to work at a hotel which had some wonderful thick-walled tea glasses. Convenient and beautiful. One of my great regrets is that I didn't steal buy one from them, when I quit :/
Oooh cool a poll!... I like taking polls and filling out forms and adding my thoughts to suggestion boxes!... remember those junk mail packets they'd send with all those cards inside you could fill out to get catalogs and sign up for time share vacations?... I'd love filling those out... not necessarily in a way that was appreciated or intended, but that's what you get when you send me forms that have pre-paid postage.
But since you are not a shady organization trying to sell me a shack in Boca Raton, I'll answer seriously.
Or as close to that as is possible with me.
How often do you drink tea?
Infrequently... I used to keep lots of it around when I lived in NYC there were lots of places where I'd get specialty or unique teas from all over the world. I don't really bother with that anymore as the sun has set on that chapter of history and mostly those kind of stores no longer exist, having morphed into expensive specialty shops selling overpriced teas with stories.
Do you drink factory tea or small-batch/boutique tea?
Factory tea is probably what I call... "tea you can find in any crappy old grocery store"... that's usually where I get tea...
Small batch/boutique tea reminds me of the hoity-toity shops in a nearby hoity-toity town where they tell you an intriguing story about the origin of each tea and how they once summered in a beautiful villa near where the tea was harvested by the most charming peasants, blah, blah, blah, blah, and I have to leave before something tragic ends up happening to the person telling me the story...
What's your favorite brand and flavor, and if different, what is the brand and flavor you drink most often?
I don't really have a favorite brand, but I tend to like Bigalow or Twinnings as they come in foil packets... I recently found a Korean supermarket chain that has loads of interesting teas (like "Horny Goat Weed")...
No particular brand, but I really dig good real matcha tea... the powder type... I really haven't found a good one that's not ridiculously expensive, so I hardly ever get it.
Do you like your tea hot, at room temperature, or cold/iced?
All of those, depending on how I feel or if the microwave is unplugged.
How long do you steep your tea, and what method do you usually use?
Is "steeping" where you put the tea in the hot water and forget about it for an hour and then find a mug of brown water with a drowned spider in it which you forgot about because you were out in the yard cursing at squirrels which you now remember about because when you went to pick out the spider you noticed the tag floating around near the bottom, so you warm it back up in the microwave, but since you failed to remove the teabag it's really strong now, but you drink it anyway and then you remember the spider and you wonder if it added anything to the flavor, which isn't quite that bad and now you are wondering if you should add spiders from now on... if that's steeping, then yes.... and I think I may have just reveled the method too.
Do you add anything to your tea, like sugar, cream, rose petals, or "other"?
At first I wanted to say "the sweet salty tears of my enemies"... but, I hardly ever do that anymore, so besides spiders, who sorta add themselves, usually just sugar and milk or half & half... it really depends on the tea.
I suppose the only "other" I might add is ginger, but that's more for my wife when she is not feeling well... also she gets mad if I put spiders in her tea.
If you had one recommendation for a "tea newbie" (ranging from tea selection to water temperature, steep time, etc), what would you suggest?
Don't drink the spider... take it out first... if you don't have lots of spiders, shake it off and let it dry on a paper towel and reuse it later.
What do you eat with your tea?
Stuff... depends on the tea...sometimes nothing, sometimes the spider if I forget.
Generally I like to drink tea by itself... by myself... with a mallet in my hand...
It's a long story, but it's relaxing.
If it's Indian tea (see the statement below for further information), then it's probably because someone came over and maybe Samosas or Pakoras... also, since everyone here serves the tea at 26,000°F, I like to keep a burn kit handy for my tongue, because I still haven't mastered the control necessary to not drink flaming hot tea every time.
Is there anything else you'd like to share about your tea predilection?
I think I mentioned the spider thing... um... if you like tea, you probably should try real Indian Masala tea, my wife's family is Indian and we often have Indian style tea... there are many kinds, because India is a big country with many different styles of tea... incidentally if you order "Chai Tea" you are ordering "Tea Tea" because "Chai" means "tea" in Hindi... generally you can get by with just "Chai" or calling it "Masala tea"... there are also lots of recipes online if you want to try making it for yourself if a good Indian restaurant isn't available in your vicinity.
Did I forget to ask a critical tea-loving question?
Yes... a very important one but I'm not going to tell you what it is.
If so, please make up your own question and answer it!
Ok!
Have you ever had an erotic dream involving a llama attending a formal tea party where everyone is wearing gorilla costumes?
No... unfortunately, no... but it's late, so who knows... tonight may be the night!
I hope this was helpful or at least sort of amusing.
FYI
World Health Organization Says Very Hot Drinks May Cause Cancer