And no, the microwave is not a valid option.
First step is to gather sticks under the bushes.
Start a fire using paper, newspaper, cardboard, then add sticks and make a larger fire.
Heat up water until boiling.
Add tea bags to thermos and pour the water inside. Now we have 2 days worth of hot tea.
Optional delicious step: pop popcorn
I usually drink coffee so the water goes in before the teabag, although to be fair the teabag never goes in.
Thankyou for preventing microwave comments. Its an abomination
Teabag, honey, hot water and then milk (almond in my case)
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
Sounds like that guy who made a sandwich from scratch: growing wheat, raising chicken etc. He said it was „okay“
Tea bags got many microplastics…
Those that are made from this mesh-stuff like that „premium“ Lipton shit? Yeah, I wouldn’t use them. Afaik, paper-teabags are safe?
I recently learned this and bought one of those sieve tongs , but because I still have a bunch of tea bags left over, I opted to just rip them open and put the tea in the tongs. Works like a treat, once you figure out how to rip them without spilling everything lol
Same!
Water.
If the cup is not full enough, I’ll top it up (and spill the amount again once I get to my table).Tea bag first, then freshly boiled hot water.
This is how you scold the tea
Perfect
This is the only answer
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.
Stop right there, criminal scum
Cereal has to go before the water!
Only if you’re adding salt and pepper. Otherwise water first.
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.
You can buy empty tea bags to fill with loose tea…
A tea bag floats though. It’s better to use the traditional balls or anything else metal that will make the tea sink so it soaks better. Alternatively, there are ceramic teapots that keep the tea leaves below the water level.
unfortunately, i believe the microwave was not an option.
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.
Tea bag
Teabag and sugar, then drown it in a scalding stream of boiling water.
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.
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.
Teabag. Make sure the water doesn’t hit straight on the teabag, but kinda dunk it so it’s fully wet while pouring.
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.
