Re: Milk in your black tea?
I'm not sure how I feel with milk in my tea, or even sugar. Granted I've never tried it, I guess because I feel it's no longer tea, but some tea/milk beverage, same goes for coffee. I guess I'm just too much of a purist.
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Re: Milk in your black tea?
I would only put milk in my black tea, but I always try it without. I like tea, but sometimes i feel like it needs a little bit of something to make it more yum.
Re: Milk in your black tea?
Hey Plant... No, not a chem teacher... I'm a PhD student of Genetics
Granted, add milk in tea, and it's no longer tea, but is that such a bad thing? For a lot of people around the world, if there's no milk or sugar, it's not tea any more... it's dishwater.
I started drinking a lot of tea in college to tide me over till mealtimes. Plain tea with no milk no sugar just wouldn't work. The research lab where I work shuts down twice a day at 11 & 4 for half an hour tea breaks. we need milk and sugar to get us through our day.
Granted, add milk in tea, and it's no longer tea, but is that such a bad thing? For a lot of people around the world, if there's no milk or sugar, it's not tea any more... it's dishwater.
I started drinking a lot of tea in college to tide me over till mealtimes. Plain tea with no milk no sugar just wouldn't work. The research lab where I work shuts down twice a day at 11 & 4 for half an hour tea breaks. we need milk and sugar to get us through our day.
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Re: Milk in your black tea?
Another point to think about with putting milk in tea is whether to put the milk in first and then the tea or tea first and then add milk.
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Re: Milk in your black tea?
I usually drink my tea straight, but I've been trying out Adagio's mango black tea (hopefully it's okay if I post in this thread and not in the Flavored Tea forum) and the smell is very sweet and almost candylike, but it brews *very* strong.
I've been steeping a smaller amount than I usually use for black tea at 3 minutes and I still needed something to soften it, so I tried adding a spoon of sugar in one cup, and a drop of milk in another (I put the milk in the cup first, though I heard some think the British started this custom so the boiling liquid would not crack their porcelain.) Quite nice!
I've been steeping a smaller amount than I usually use for black tea at 3 minutes and I still needed something to soften it, so I tried adding a spoon of sugar in one cup, and a drop of milk in another (I put the milk in the cup first, though I heard some think the British started this custom so the boiling liquid would not crack their porcelain.) Quite nice!
Re: Milk in your black tea?
I don't even put milk (or creamer) in my coffee, let alone my tea...
but to each his own. Though milk with a China black seems especially displeasing to me for some reason...
but to each his own. Though milk with a China black seems especially displeasing to me for some reason...
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Re: Milk in your black tea?
+1debunix wrote:If I need to add milk to make a tea palatable, I find another tea.
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Re: Milk in your black tea?
I would love some black tea recommendations! The only ones I ever bought were from Adagio!
Re: Milk in your black tea?
I have 3 large cups of black tea for breakfast. The very good quality I drink black or red. On the lesser ones I add a little milk and little brown sugar on the last cup and find it enhances the flavor. The milk first and as I call it only a cloud. It should not overpower the flavor of the tea nor for that matter should the sugar.
Re: Milk in your black tea?
With stronger black teas I use milk. Always pour the milk in the cup first then add the tea to the milk. I grew up in England and that is what i grew up on. With more subtle blacks such as darjeeling, I would never add milk.
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I find vanilla and/or hazelnut creamers in a strongly brewed chai is quite nice.
Re: Milk in your black tea?
+1. This is my perspective as well, kind of.chef07172 wrote:With stronger black teas I use milk. Always pour the milk in the cup first then add the tea to the milk. I grew up in England and that is what i grew up on. With more subtle blacks such as darjeeling, I would never add milk.
I do use tea in some subtle teas, very rarely, if I over steep.
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I also enjoy flavored creamers with chai teas.TwoPynts wrote:I find vanilla and/or hazelnut creamers in a strongly brewed chai is quite nice.
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