How do you take your tea?

I drink it plain, as my father did.

Growing up, I drank it with a bit of milk and a teaspoon of sugar, the way my granny taught me.

In my family, we had tea after dinner every night. Unless a child had a pressing need (like getting ready to go somewhere) we were not excused from the table until my father had finished his first cup of tea.

When I drink tea, just a touch of local honey.

Black tea with a little milk. I prefer herbal teas and other teas as they come. I found a great infuser in one of the tea stores here. It actually works very well. This isn’t the exact one, but it’s very similar.

I’m on a mobile device that doesn’t allow me to make seamless links.

My tea pot is a Bodum Chambord. You can easily Google it. When I make a single cup, I use a Bodum infuser.

I drink plain green tea in hot water. I don’t particularly like the taste but love the way that it makes me feel. It wakes me up slowly and I feel alert without feeling jittery like how I use to feel when I drank coffee (don’t touch it any more).

Herbal teas, green tea and white tea are all taken plain.

For black tea it changes based on my mood and what I’m eating with it. Sometimes plain, sometimes just sugar, sometimes just milk, sometimes both.

Honey and lemon when I’m sick, with whiskey if it’s available.

I almost never sweeten Earl Grey, but occasionally I’ll add milk.

Five sugars. No cream/milk.

Orange Peoke, touch of sugar. Constant Comment/Bigelow a fav.
Earl Grey, sugar and spot of milk. Twinning’s.
English Breakfast, touch of sugar. Import or Twinning’s
Black Hot Tea. straight. House blend pot with food from Far East.
Black Iced Tea. One sugar. Starbuck’s
Cambrick Tea, Me ‘Mither’s blend.
Lipton’s Tea, straight. When you need a strong cuppa’, fast.
Unless having the leaves read, I don’t care for loose tea as much. :)

I don’t, can’t stand the stuff.

I drink decaf regular black tea typically. Good ol’ Liptons is fine, although not overly delicious. A really good English or Irish breakfast tea, or Chinese tea like they serve in NYC restaurants is extra special.

I don’t like orange pekoe or earl grey, not most of the herbals. I don’t like my tea to taste like flowers or spices or fruit. There are some rare exceptions where I like a unique tea, very rare.

I drink my tea straight when I have it with dessert. When I drink it alone, or with a meal, I add one to two sugars, depending on the mood I am in for sweetness. I usually don’t stir it. I like the extra sweet at the end if some of the sugar granules stay intact and fall to the bottom.

English Breakfast in the morning, black, no sugar.

Chamomile or Mandarin Orange Spice if later in the day.

If I have company, I brew a pot; “hot the pot”, put in tea bags and steep. I used to buy loose tea but I generally don’t at this point.

Iced (more often just “chilled”) with a bit of lemon and a bit more of cranberry juice. It’s pretty much all I drink, when I have a choice. (At work I just leave out the cranberry juice.)

I’m sad to report that I have used the last of my Pappy’s Sassafras Concentrate Instant Tea, and I can’t find a local supplier.
I love it hot in the winter with a dash of honey or a packet of Stevia.

I’m currently looking for Mayan Cocoa Spice locally too. Yogi had a rich, almost chocolaty tea several years back that was incredible.

As is.

Iced tea – No sugar, plain. I am not an elitist. I will drink whatever is available.

Hot tea – only when I am sick. No preference. Lipton is fine with me.

Very lightly sweetened is all, thank you.

I love a good strong cup of just about any kind of tea with cream and sugar. If I don’t have dream, just honey works.

Orally.

Tea is a big thing for me. I love Five Roses and even import it from South Africa. Tea has to be strong, with a slight ‘nip’ in it! There is nothing worse than a bad cuppa! Nip as in bite not a nip of vodka!

I, too, brew strong tea.

^^ Hebrews strong tea.

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I am at my work computer and can make links.

My tea pot

My one-cup infuser looks very similar to this but it’s by Bodum.

@Hawaii_Jake I’ve ordered one of those and a tea called ‘Gun Powder’! Hmm! Not sure about this!

@LornaLove You ordered one of what?

I’ve had some gunpowder tea. It was good. I shop on Amazon a lot. I bought 5 different kinds of tea after Xmas with a gift card I received. They are arriving any day.

@Hawaii_Jake The teapot. Also Amazon, not the same as yours, though, although nearly the same! I’ve also been gifted a set of teas, one of which is called Gun Powder! This was before Xmas so I hope they arrive soon.

@LornaLove The Bodum Chambord tea pot is the best thing to make tea in. I put in the filter, add the tea, pour over the boiling water, let it steep, lift the tea out with the filter, and the result is perfect tea every time. I have the one pictured, although I think mine is a larger size. They also make one with a metal strainer for the filter, which seems like it might be a bit better.

My electric kettle I bought 8 years ago has developed a glitch. It has a clear plastic area with a hole that allows water to enter so you can read how much water is in the kettle. For whatever reason, the water won’t go in this clear plastic area. I’ve stuck things through the hole, but the water stubbornly stays in the main chamber.

Luckily, I’m getting a newer, fancier kettle by Cuisinart. It has different temperature settings for specialty beverages.

In a Bodum double wall glass.

I bought a couple of these at the Goodwill because I thought they were cool looking. Turns out they are great for tea. I can heat the water right in the glass in the microwave, then steep and sip all from the same cup. Nice and warm outside – never too hot to hold.

In luxury at Laduree’s in Paris.

The local grocery had a cart of tea boxes for 50¢ and $1 a box!
I bought a box of Celestial Seasonings Gingerbread spice and it’s great. Caffeine free, so I’m having one before bed. Egg-noggin (Bigelow) was…different. Not bad, but odd. The 2 boxes set me back $1.75, so it’s all good.

I bought my Mayan Cocoa Spice today, too. Yogi Tea. I’ll have to wait until tomorrow to try it.

Oh, and I’ve tried a dash of amber Blue Agave sweetener in my tea, and it’s nice.

@ibstubro – I forgot about the Celestial Seasonings holidays tea specials! Oh! They are so good! Lucky you! Enjoy-yum. ( get it? huh?huh?- enjoy them- enjoy-yum. Get it? Huh? Oh fine. never mind…) :D

2 a.m. memo to self: “Don’t drink a glass of hot tea before bed!”

I loved the Mayan Cocoa Spice tea.

If you’re feeling adventurous, every store I visited (but for Walmart) had tea on sale this week.

It took me awhile- but if you go back and it’s still on sale- try the Nutcracker flavor. (no pun intended here!) It was excellent. I missed it this (last) year. :/
Enjoy!

Celestial Seasonings, “Roastarama”. Purchased at Big Lots today.

Practically a savory tea. I almost added salt instead of sweet. Tastes better than it smells. 3 on a scale of 5.

I brewed my first pot of Harney & Sons Supreme Breakfast tea this morning and drank it sitting by the stream that runs by my place. It was excellent. I’m very pleased finding this tea.

It depends on the tea. On land, at breakfast, I drink strong Earl Grey with milk added. I use loose-leaf in a teapot with a “sock.” I like caffeine in the morning, but find the Earl gives a nicer, gentler high, unlike coffee which makes me burn too bright and fast in the morning.

At night, I sometimes have a cup of Chamomile with honey, no milk. During the day, if I’m drinking hot tea, I prefer strong Orange Pekoe and honey. Mostly I drink iced sun tea (good old fashioned Lipton black breakfast tea bags sweetened with saccharin as no amount of sugar will sweeten iced tea).

But in the afternoon, it’s strong Cuban coffee and a pastry to get my second wind. It’s espresso-strength and I sweeten it with sugar—honey makes it taste funny. Maybe a little leche, if thar be wimmin-foke about.

At sea, it’s always cafe Cubano, no tea. At sea, tea’s fer Limey bastards and them Chineeee.

@Espiritus_Corvus What – no scurvy?

Aye. Must be slippin’. ..SCURVY LIMEY BASTURDS!. Howzzat, penguin?

^^ Better, much better.

If you put a little lemon in your Earl Grey, you won’t get scurvy.

I drink green tea from a stained green mug. A sprinkling of tea leaves first thing in the morning gives me three or four mugs during the average day. I dont add any milk or sweeteners. I drink biluochun Chinese green tea.