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Post by piccadillypilot on Jul 28, 2005 18:45:42 GMT
The great debate over putting the milk is first or last continues to rage across all Britain.
However, historically speaking, polite society (i.e. not you lot) always put the milk in first.
Why?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 28, 2005 19:35:39 GMT
Is it because putting milk into hot tea 'turns' the milk?
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Post by compsci on Jul 28, 2005 20:00:47 GMT
I've heard that the cold milk protects scarily expensive (and thin) china from cracking when it comes into contact with the hot tea.
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Post by piccadillypilot on Jul 28, 2005 20:24:59 GMT
I've heard that the cold milk protects scarily expensive (and thin) china from cracking when it comes into contact with the hot tea. Is the correct answer, which gets first prize of ... a nice hot cup of tea(but you have to make it yourself in your preferred manner ;D ) |
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Post by compsci on Jul 28, 2005 20:39:28 GMT
Oops. I appear to have run out of tea bags  . There is infinite free tea at work, but it comes in the form of sachets for the "Flavia" device or Twinnings tea bags. Still not sure if I should get Yorkshire original, hard water or gold around here. |
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Post by chris on Jul 28, 2005 21:19:34 GMT
Don't worry compsci, on the Yorkshire Tea site there is a map which'll tell you what to buy! www.yorkshiretea.co.uk |
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Post by q8 on Jul 28, 2005 22:33:08 GMT
I've heard that the cold milk protects scarily expensive (and thin) china from cracking when it comes into contact with the hot tea.
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That is correct and one should also put some cold water into a ceramic bath first to prevent the glaze from "crazy paving" So was I told many years ago when at boarding school.
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Post by q8 on Jul 28, 2005 22:48:31 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jul 29, 2005 0:46:21 GMT
OK yeah, in an ideal world.... But when both you and your mate are 'tight' in booking-on for a dead-early, and you're due out of the yard in 10 min or less, some 'short-cuts' in the tea brewing process need to be made!  |
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Post by piccadillypilot on Jul 29, 2005 7:26:50 GMT
But when both you and your mate are 'tight' in booking-on for a dead-early, and you're due out of the yard in 10 min or less, some 'short-cuts' in the tea brewing process need to be made! Just one of the hazards associated with being a minute-snatcher. ;D |
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Post by q8 on Jul 29, 2005 7:51:26 GMT
Well if you are "tight" I don't think they'll let you book on you know!!
(I'll get me coat....and me titfer)
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Post by chris on Jul 29, 2005 8:24:37 GMT
Wow. A museum all about tea and coffee. Brilliant.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2005 9:41:44 GMT
If I need tea while on the handle, I tend to carry a small bottle of milk, and a dozen or so tea bags in one of those plastic containers. Before taking the handle, I fill the flask with hot water 'borrowed' from the canteen  then, while on the move, dump a bag in the 'Alladdin', add milk, add hot water. After a stop or two, open side cab door and fling tea bag out. Ah! A nice refershing cuppa... the natural momentum of the train acts like turning the teapot, giving a nice 'full' flavour BTW, I also refrain from using the canteen's hot water supply, after being told I needed to PAY 20p for 'thier' water!!! |
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Post by q8 on Jul 31, 2005 10:45:31 GMT
BTW, I also refrain from using the canteen's hot water supply, after being told I needed to PAY 20p for 'thier' water!!! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Well there's a difference  In my time every canteen and messroom had an old boiler for making tea. They were also strategically placed at certain points on the road too. All the western termini had one. Tower Hill had one and the messrooms at Barking and Upminster had one as well. When you got to Tower Hill eastbound you were usually held just long enough to dash into the little room and the boiler if you fancied a quick one. |
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Post by maxtube on Jan 27, 2009 15:09:44 GMT
I always put the milk in last.
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Post by citysig on Jan 27, 2009 15:24:08 GMT
I always put the milk in last. A good 3 and a half years later, all I can say is I hope the milk resembles this thread - old, sour, and probably extremely cheesy. Half the posters of this thread are not even with us anymore to see your response. Any more threads you're about to bump maxtube? I'll get me gramophone out, stick on an old track, and maybe choose a sepia look for my desktop, and open that bottle of whiskey I put away probably around the time the thread started. |
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Post by Tomcakes on Jan 27, 2009 15:36:30 GMT
Please don't bump threads - check the date they were last posted in. Locked.
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. There is infinite free tea at work, but it comes in the form of sachets for the "Flavia" device or Twinnings tea bags.
then, while on the move, dump a bag in the 'Alladdin', add milk, add hot water. After a stop or two, open side cab door and fling tea bag out. Ah! A nice refershing cuppa... the natural momentum of the train acts like turning the teapot, giving a nice 'full' flavour 
In my time every canteen and messroom had an old boiler for making tea. 
