Christopher Hitchens on Tea

[Laurens]

I think milk adds several qualiteas (see what I did there ) to the drink.

1. It gives it that slightly thicker texture
2. Cools it down enough to drink
3. I think it adds something to the flavor too, but a lot more subtly than sugar.

 

[lrkun]

Steamed milk is good. But putting a tea bag in milk is beyond me. >.<

Sometimes, I place honey instead of milk.

 

[Laurens]

Steamed milk is good. But putting a tea bag in milk is beyond me. >.<

Sometimes, I place honey instead of milk.

What exactly is steamed milk, I've never heard of it before?

 

[lrkun]

Steamed milk is good. But putting a tea bag in milk is beyond me. >.<

Sometimes, I place honey instead of milk.

What exactly is steamed milk, I've never heard of it before?

If you are near a coffee shop or a tea shop, then you may ask your barista to show you how it is made. But if that is not the case, then this is the next best thing.

http://www.ehow.com/how_2081418_steam-milk.html

 

[Laurens]

If you are near a coffee shop or a tea shop, then you may ask your barista to show you how it is made. But if that is not the case, then this is the next best thing.

http://www.ehow.com/how_2081418_steam-milk.html

Ah I see, I know the stuff.

I thought you might have been referring to evaporated milk though - which would be far too sickly to put in tea.

 

[FatStupidAmerican]

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That is bad steaming technique right there.

 

[FatStupidAmerican]

How I drink tea

1. Bag in first
2. Pour on boiling water
3. Leave for around 1 minute to brew
4. REMOVE THE BAG
5. Skip the milk
6. Hand the tea to someone else
7. Open a Beer.

 

[Duvelthehobbit666]

How I drink tea

1. Bag in first
2. Pour on boiling water
3. Leave for around 1 minute to brew
4. REMOVE THE BAG
5. Skip the milk
6. Hand the tea to someone else
7. Open a Beer.

Which kind of beer?

 

[Memeticemetic]

Fuck tea. Whiskey is the only way to go. The only way to fuck it up is by doing anything to it other than drink it. Preferably in embarrassingly overabundant quantities. One should never find oneself in full possession of one's faculties, or indeed, one's pants, after a good imbibing session.

 

[ImprobableJoe]

Sweetc crispy fuck, Hitchens is an arrogant prick. He can take his loose tea and his boiling water and cram one down his throat and the other up his ass, and if he pushes hard enough he'll get perfect English tea somewhere in the middle.

 

[RichardMNixon]

Sweetc crispy fuck, Hitchens is an arrogant prick. He can take his loose tea and his boiling water and cram one down his throat and the other up his ass, and if he pushes hard enough he'll get perfect English tea somewhere in the middle.

In fairness, as uptight as he is about tea, that's how frustrated I get when people deign to add sugar or milk to coffee. Neanderthals...

 

[ImprobableJoe]

In fairness, as uptight as he is about tea, that's how frustrated I get when people deign to add sugar or milk to coffee. Neanderthals...

In fairness, that's probably how frustrated I get when some cocksucker tries to tell me how to make my own goddamned drink.

 

[SpaceCDT]

Can be easily spoiled though, especially if you add sugar, or even worse soy milk.

It depends on the tea. I like adding steamed milk to my earl gray tea. But maybe it is an acquired taste?

Would that be a "Tea. Earl Grey. Hot." ?

Well everybody I know thinks its a travesty but I enjoy EG with milk and two sugars

 

[RichardMNixon]

In fairness, that's probably how frustrated I get when some cocksucker tries to tell me how to make my own goddamned drink.

We've got to help our little, cream-colored, brothers.

 

[Independent Vision]

Step one: put water to boil on the stove, not the electronic kettle
Step two: pour water into teapot, and put water to boil again
Step three: When teapot is heated, pour water out and then measure up your tealeaves into the teapot
Step four: pour boiling water over tealeaves and let sit for a few minutes, time depending on what kind of tea you are making
Step five: pour into cup
Step six: Squirt lemon in the eye of whichever person dares suggest milk and sugar if we are having Earl Grey
Step seven: enjoy

or

Step one: Put water to boil
Step two: Take out bag of tea
Step three: pour boiling water over it
Step four: leave it to sit for two to three minutes
Step five: remove the tea bag and give it a nice squeeze to get some extra flavor into your cuppa
Step six: Kill anyone who insinuates they want to put milk and sugar in the cup of green tea
Step seven: enjoy


I prefer making my tea from loose leaves as opposed to teabags. But sometimes convenience gets the better of me.
If you want sugar and milk in your tea, you have Chai teas, not Earl Grey. Or... quite possibly Lipton yellow label.
The subtle flavors of the tea gets completely masked when one drinks it with milk or sugar.
It is the same way with a nice cup of peculator coffee, do not put milk or sugar in it. Never, ever sugar. EVER! Milk might be forgiven, sometimes.

In all fairness, milk and sugar in a cup of Earl Gray is like ketchup on sushi. Some people might do it, but I will never, ever accept it as a practice. I am horribly snobbish that way.
There are some things you do not mess with. You do not eat ketchup on sushi, you do not have milk and sugar with Earl Grey, well... not if you live under my roof.

 

[Laurens]

I have a giant mug from which I drink my tea.

I give the biceps on my right arm a work out by lifting it to my lips when it's full.

 

[SpaceCDT]

Step one: put water to boil on the stove, not the electronic kettle
Step two: pour water into teapot, and put water to boil again
Step three: When teapot is heated, pour water out and then measure up your tealeaves into the teapot
Step four: pour boiling water over tealeaves and let sit for a few minutes, time depending on what kind of tea you are making
Step five: pour into cup
Step six: Squirt lemon in the eye of whichever person dares suggest milk and sugar if we are having Earl Grey
Step seven: enjoy

or

Step one: Put water to boil
Step two: Take out bag of tea
Step three: pour boiling water over it
Step four: leave it to sit for two to three minutes
Step five: remove the tea bag and give it a nice squeeze to get some extra flavor into your cuppa
Step six: Kill anyone who insinuates they want to put milk and sugar in the cup of green tea
Step seven: enjoy


I prefer making my tea from loose leaves as opposed to teabags. But sometimes convenience gets the better of me.
If you want sugar and milk in your tea, you have Chai teas, not Earl Grey. Or... quite possibly Lipton yellow label.
The subtle flavors of the tea gets completely masked when one drinks it with milk or sugar.
It is the same way with a nice cup of peculator coffee, do not put milk or sugar in it. Never, ever sugar. EVER! Milk might be forgiven, sometimes.

In all fairness, milk and sugar in a cup of Earl Gray is like ketchup on sushi. Some people might do it, but I will never, ever accept it as a practice. I am horribly snobbish that way.
There are some things you do not mess with. You do not eat ketchup on sushi, you do not have milk and sugar with Earl Grey, well... not if you live under my roof.

I lol'd. But sadly I'm just not man enough to take mine "Tea. Earl Grey. Hot" like my hero Captain Picard.

 

[Inferno]

Don't know if anyone knows the book "How to be an Alien" but it's quite pleasant, I must say. Especially this bit about tea:

Tea was once a good drink; with lemon and sugar it tastes very pleasent. But then the British decided to put cold milk and no sugar into it. They made it colourless tasteless. In the hands of the English, tea became an unpleasent drink, like dirty water, but they still call it "tea".
Tea is the most important drink in Great Britain and Ireland. You must never say "I do not want a cup of tea", or people will think that you are very strange and very foreign.
In an English home, you get a cup of tea at five o'clock in the morning when you are still trying to sleep. If your friend brings you a cup of tea and you wake from your sweetest morning sleep, you must not say "I think you are most unkind to wake me up and I'd like to shoot you!" You must instead smile your best five o'clock smile and say, "Thank you so much. I do love a cup of tea at this time of the morning." When your friend leaves the room, you can throw the tea down the toilet.
Then you have tea for breakfast; you have tea at eleven o'clock in the morning; then after lunch; then you have tea at "tea-time" (about four o'clock in the afternoon); then after supper; and again at eleven o'clock at night.
You must drink more cups of tea if the weather is hot; if it is cold; if you are tired; if anybody thinks you are tired; if you are afraid; before you go out; if you are out; if you have just returned home; if you want a cup; if you do not want a cup; if you have not had a cup for some time; if you have just had a cup.
You must not follow my exxample. I sleep at five o'clocl in the morning; I have coffee for breakfast; I drink black coffee again and again during the day; I drink strange and unusual teas (with no milk) at tea-time.
I have these funny foreign ways... and my poor wife (who was once a good Englishwoman) now has them, too, I'm sorry to say.

 

[MRaverz]

Step six: Squirt lemon in the eye of whichever person dares suggest milk and sugar if we are having Earl Grey

Never leave. :lol: