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And no, the microwave is not a valid option.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

Teabag, honey, hot water and then milk (almond in my case)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Take your hatchet and slash some leaves in the misty fields of Kerala. Make sure it's monsoon flush, so roughly july to september. Then, chop up an old Ginkgo Biloba that looks wise. Leave it to dry in a Kenyan plain for three years, and head for Nepal. There, you will gather the purest glacier water there is. By then, your tea leaves will be dust. Go buy some Lipton and microwave tap water, it's all you can do at this point. And, uh, teabag first

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Tea bags got many microplastics...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Water.
If the cup is not full enough, I'll top it up (and spill the amount again once I get to my table).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago

Tea bag first, then freshly boiled hot water.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

Milk, then water, then I empty the teabag into it. Duh.

I also like to put the water in the bowl before I pour the cereal in.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Neither. Tea bags are for chumps. It's so much tastier to use fresher loose tea leaves of whatever mix you prefer (and you can control how strong you make it, plus you end up with less waste). I just boil the water in the microwave then when it's hot I take it out and add the tea.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

You can buy empty tea bags to gill with loose tea...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

unfortunately, i believe the microwave was not an option.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

Does it make a difference that the tea is never in the microwave? It's only the method for heating a single cup of water, not of heating the water+tea set.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago

Teabag and sugar, then drown it in a scalding stream of boiling water.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Depends what tea I'm making. For green and white teas I will add water first (175-185F) then steep the tea bag for 3-4 minutes.

If I'm making black tea or some fruity/herbal tea, I will toss the bag in first, then pour in boiling water and steeping for 3-5min depending on preference.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

Same for me. I like drinking white jasmine tea, but the flavor becomes too bitter if you pour boiling water over the leaves. It’s better to drink at 80 or even 70 degrees (sorry, don’t know the F one).

I used to make tea for my coworkers back when we had a team room and got way into it. I had my own little kettle, all kinds of tea leaves, a weighing scale spoon and even a thermometer :)
I learned that pre-heating your kettle was important for black teas because boiling water would drop to 90 degrees or even less if you didn’t.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

The teabag. Otherwise it would float on top, similarly to why you put cerial in before milk.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

if you do the characteristic "teabagging" motion it saturates quickly. tbh I do it whichever way is most convenient since I'm almost always brewing on the way from one task in one part of my work area to a different one somewhere else. What I put into the travel mug first has much more to do with which one I get my hands on first than it does with any personal preference.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago

I don't put the milk in first so it won't travel across the inner curve of the bowl and spill out, making a huge mess. But that's just me

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

You use so much milk and so little cereal that the cereal would float?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Hot water in the base chamber of the pot. Coffee in the funnel. Top chamber screwed on. Put on a high heat until the coffee is ready.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago

And then the teabag last?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 14 hours ago

This depends on the water temperature. I boil mine, so I pour water first, wait a bit, then put the bag. If I do the other way around, sometimes the tea gets burnt and tastes too bitter, which I don't like.

I could also heat the water to a lower temperature but I don't have one of those fancy kettles with temp selection, and I usually get distracted to interrupt the kettle before it boils. But, if the water is hot enough already but not just boiled, then I'll put the bag first, then the water second.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago
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