No no no no!!! You scald the milk if you put the milk in first.

I like my really strong.

Those Adelaidians are a weird breed, they only just got the internetz there you know.

my mom puts milk in her tea. I grew up thinking that that was normal behavior. On the rare occasion that i drink tea, I drink peppermint tea with nothing in it.

lumberjim is a fancy, tea-drinking lady

you're picturing my pinky extended as I sip from a dainty porcelain teacup.

i think that makes you gay.

teabag

You say it like it's a bad thing:sniff:

In our own personal tea ceremony I take two cups, pint sized at least, one with a white inner, one black ( we'll both do green, she'll do the blues I don't like them). I put some milk in the white one and half fill it ( PG, loose leaf) then fill the the black one, then top off the first one and milk the second.

I like the white inner, milk in first, monster has the milk second. The difference in taste and colour is obvious and we don't like each others.

I think alot of Americans are drinking 'erbal teas, Earl grey, green tea etc. that I agree shouldn't be drunk with milk ( can't stand them myself anyway.)
British tea, PG tips, Tetley, Red label, is a blend and I think needs to be drunk with milk.

PG Tips wiki
Anyway, back to cream, anyone for whipping ? :whip:

Oh I agree with things like peppermint, nettle, fruit teas etc - they would be too grim with milk. But you know that "tea" meas good old British tea unless stated otherwise.

I wonder why I put the milk in last? My parents put it in first. Their tea always looks nicer but tastes milkier. Mine has floaty brown bits and makes the roof of my mouth sing.

I've been considering buying this book:

The Lady Tasting Tea: How Statistics Revolutionized Science in the Twentieth Century

I like mine prepared much like Sundaes'. She missed the final steps in the process, however. Carefully carry the cup to the sink. Pour the tea down the drain. Take the now warm cup and add black coffee.

I like Earl Gray or English Breakfast with a little bit of whole milk (to me, that is cream, since my ingestion of dairy is so seldom) and perhaps a little bit of sugar. I love the way the cream looks when I stir it with a spoon in the tea. Everyone who has ever seen me do this to tea has laughed or balked. I don't know why. It just adds a richness to the tea. I think I learned it from Perth, who, incidentally lived in England for 2 years as a child. Perhaps that is where he learned to put "cream" in tea?

I don't drink much tea these days.

putting the milk into your tea first is a bit weird, especially if you're using a tea bag, but even if you're using leaf tea and a pot you put the milk in second if you're at my house anyway. I'll second what Ducks said about Adelaidians. They're just plain weird down there...and they talk funny too.

I dont think the tea is as strong if you put the milk in the first.

I read/heard somewhere, that the leaves and paper stuff needs a certain temperature to release correctly, so to me, I should get a stronger tea if I dont put cold milk on the bag. LexLogic that is.

One of those stupids *myths* my Pa used to say, was you would get red haired children if you put the milk in first.

We need to check in with LabRat about this!

I was always told if I ate my crusts I'd get curly hair. I wonder which came first, the fact that I love crusts or the fact I've always wanted curly hair...

So that's what I can tell Danny's "father"... :D

Chi tea in packets is black spiced tea and I do add half n half to it. My mother in law drinks tea with milk and she is a red blooded American.