Correct me if I got anything wrong, TA!
Also just leave the tea bag in the tea. How else will anyone know what you’re drinking!
I prefer to use one of my well-used coffee mugs. The one that’s heavily stained and makes everything taste like coffee no matter how many times you wash it.
Ewww fake pyrex
We lost our smaller measuring cup in the move, so one of my first purchases when I got my first job was a pyrex measuring cup. I learned the hard way that the only thing pyrex about it is the logo
Heh, no worries, I just wanted to spread awareness about this issue in a cheeky way ! Though it does legitimately feels weird seeing these as a European because we only get the “real” ones here.
Fake pyrex? Thats a thing?
“True” Pyrex is made of borosilicate glass and is very resistant to changes in temperature, making it excellent for lab or kitchen use. You can tell when it’s “true” Pyrex if the lettering is in all caps. If it’s not, it’s just regular glass.
Just FYI in case anyone thinks they are safe finding the old style logo at a yardsale or something…
Damn it, now you are making me get up from my bed and head out to the kitchen.
TIL
I could swear I bought a Pyrex measuring cup. It has the red lettering and measurements just like a Pyrex. It’s called Anchor Cooking!
And did it have the pyrex name on it too?? O.O
No it didnt. It had the red printing and I made an assumption. I hate shopping and just tend to grab items blindly.
You were bamboozled!
Do Brits really never drink coffee? I have both
I’m British and I only drink coffee, but I don’t meet many other people who do. Gotta bear in mind that most people only drink either disgusting freeze-dried instant coffee, or posh boutique coffee from, at worst, Starbucks and, at best, a decent independent coffee place.
Uncouth wretches. I get mine from the gas station!
Watching Sorted Food (London based food channel on YouTube) it does seem that some Brits enjoy both or one over the other. The majority seem to drink just tea, the next group enjoys both but for different events, and the smallest group is coffee only.
For the middle group it’s people who have coffee in the morning and tea at noon/afternoon.
Excellent work you horrible person
I’m ngl I have tea semi regularly, and I put the teabag in with the water to the microwave. The method works, I don’t see the problem.
Firstly, does the water not go all weird and frothy? Secondly, burn the heretic!
I don’t think I’ve ever had this issue. Here’s the full method.
Put teabag and spoonful of sugar into mug, pour maybe 2cm of water into mug. Nuke for about a minute. Let sit for a bit. Agitate the teabag a bit to get more of the delicious leaf juice out. Chuck out the tea bag. Pour in milk. Nuke for 20 secs. Done.
I think I’m going to be sick.
Seriously though, that sounds like a very different method to just pouring boiling water on the bag and then adding milk and sugar. Have you done both and compared?
I have not, I’ll give this method a try when I get a chance.
Did you enjoy your new cup of tea?
It’s been 3 weeks, haha, but yeah I got around to giving it a try. The verdict is… It’s basically the same. I will be continuing to do it the way that I did before since it’s easier, but I have enjoyed this experience of having my horizons broadened :D
Fake Pyrex as well
That new age dog shit “pyrex” is the worst
That’s because Pyrex sold pyrex. There’s a difference between the capital and lowercase “p.” Actual Pyrex with the capital “P” is supposedly the original quality. Anchor Hocking is like pyrex, lowercase.
I could be remembering wrong but didn’t How To Cook That disprove that? Either way almost all of the uppercase P pieces of cookware ended up being borosillicate anyway
There is a difference between “pyrex” and “PYREX”, but the difference is which company owns it rather than necessarily what it’s made of.
However there is truth to it. European PYREX is now exclusively made from borosilicate glass (the original material). There is older PYREX brand stuff made of other materials, but new stuff is all borosilicate. All pyrex glass stuff is now soda-lime glass instead of borosilicate.
Basically, if you’re buying new, the brand is a fine indicator. But if you’re buying anything second hand, the logos won’t help you as all three variants of the branding (Pyrex, PYREX and Pyrex) have made products with both materials at various times.
This all sounds about right, except maybe wiping your unwashed genitals around the rim of the cup before you start. Other than that, spot on.
What better way to start off the day than getting your eight essential vitamins on.
That is only a bit worse than what British people do with their tea. OK, theirs is reasonably fresh, but they let the teabag sit in the pot for ages and they commit the serious, undefendable crime of adding milk.
Milk only belongs in chai tea
What about boba? Although I guess that’s arguably tea in milk, rather than milk in tea.
Chia … tea. Chia … tea.
Chai literally means tea. So chai tea is tea tea. It’s like pizza pie or ATM machine.
pizza pie
Those two things are not remotely the same
The Americans seem to have a very wide definition of the word Pie and none of them seem to be pies.
It’s the same with brits and the word pudding…
Yes and but that’s just how the distinction is made. Prime example: Shiba/Akita “Inu”. Inu is literally dog. Yet it refers to the purebred dog of Japan, not the american shitmix (no shade, theres just not much consistency with what they’re mixed with). Language evolves over time, even the dumb evolutions.
I don’t think they’re engaging in etymological reductionism.
Their argument is that instead of saying “milk only belongs in chai tea”, one could’ve just said “milk only belongs in chai”.
Hungary?
Watch it. Builder’s tea is the literal backbone of the British economy.
Oh, wait.
Milk in Earl grey with honey is just amazing
You drown the flavour of the bergamote oil with the honey, and kill off most of the beneficient ingredients of the tea with the milk. What’s the point in using a tea bag in the first place?
Someone call the ICC. This is a crime against humanity.
To be fair it’s better than my process for making tea for myself.
Tea bag, sugar, cold water all go into a mug and into the microwave for three minutes. I forget about it for roughly an hour, then drink it as is.
You could give it another short spin after the hour has passed.
What I usually do (for ~4 cups) is boiling 1,1 liters of water in a kettle, filling a teabag with 3-4 teaspoons of tea, rinsing the thermo bottle with the 0,1 liter of water, brewing the tea, then forgetting about it for 15-30 min, suddenly exclaiming “Oh, the tea!” (but in my own language) which, to me at least, is funny because (short story long) I once ordered a bunch of free Christian bumper stickers online, which I, long ago, before I even had this habit of forgetting the brewing bottle, had cut out into different words and letters of said christian bumper stickers and stuck onto the thermo bottle, reading (exactly) “Oh, the tea!”.
On a sidenote, no matter how long I usually forget it while it’s brewing, it’s always still too hot - and even never too strong. Pure Earl Grey - no milk, no sugar!
That’s not tea. That’s an insult to those who came before us.
Tea sucks. Coffee sucks.
Water is better.
Water is the best choice for washing out that filthy mouth of yours!
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You’re doing it wrong.
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Depends on the tea.
honestly both coffee and tea are better raw
“friend”
That’s some nice hot leaf juice you’ve got there.
I prefer to get my morning zoomies from hot bean juice
How could a member of my own family say something so horrible?
Well, the US once made the biggest cup of tea in history.
A whole harbor.
Americans make the worst tea. Cold and salty.
Cold and salty.
Sounds suitably British.
Now THAT was a wild party!
I doubt it, but now I wonder what the biggest amount of tea that ended up in the ocean is and how to search for it. I know whole ships were lost, but digging through manifests (assuming they exist) wouldn’t be fun. I also wonder how many in Asia there would have been, possibly before tea even gained popularity in the west.
