How Do You Have Your Tea?

[FN-GM]

What number is the perfect cup of tea?

 

 

Shamelessly stolen from the Tesco Twitter feed.

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[howartp]

3.5 for tea

2 for coffee

[jthompson]

2.5

6 just makes me feel a bit sick.

They are all too full, though.

[LeMarchand]

1 for coffee, 2.5 if I have to have tea.

 

That said, I thought that

 

[MartinT]

Number 0 is my perfect cup of tea. Yuk!

[DeGrimmy]

The perfect cup of tea is actually coffee

 

I don't drink tea myself, but if I was making one for someone else, I'd aim for 3. My brother, however, doesn't take milk in tea!

[MartinT]

I don't take milk in anything! Black Americano please, and lots of it.

[jthompson]

I can drink tea without milk, but it needs to be brewed for a shorter length of time than normal.

[FN-GM]

6 just makes me feel a bit sick.

 

Agreed! @Dos_Box can we introduce a weeks ban for anyone who responds with a 6?

[jthompson]

I'm not one for telling others that their preferred cuppa is WRONG!! but yeah, don't make me a 6 or I will be very disappointed in you as a person. I might even.. gasp! ... not drink it.

[localzuk]

The numbers are sometimes a bit different if you use non-dairy alternatives to milk. My experience, tea with (good quality) oat milk is darker generally, so if I use that it'd be 4-5. For soy its 3-4.

[msi_school]

Some where between 3 and 4 but if you have just made me a cup of tea I am very forgiving.

[Steve21]

Number 0 is my perfect cup of tea. Yuk!

 

Martin has a good point!

 

Steve

[EssentialRug]

4 with Oat milk. However if someone is kind enough to make me one, I'll drink it whatever shade it is

[Andrew_C]

 

Perfect cup of tea. Which I loath...

[BOOT]

I've seen every shade referred to as 'builders tea'

[elsiegee40]

Black for coffee. Usually 3-4 for tea, but I’ll drink that black too. If my mother in law makes it 6… it’s too much of a hassle to get it stronger

[DalekSec]

In the bag, in the box, on the shelf in the store, where it belongs.

[nwkeene]

Tea, earl grey, hot, number 5...

[Davit2005]

No milk, no sugar and decaf. But I rarely drink tea , like I've had prob 10 cups this year max. Haven't had coffee for a much longer time, probably a good few years. Edited April 21, 2023 by Davit2005

[Koldov]

For a long time I drank tea (this was obviously my gateway drug as a youngster) and I guess I'd take it somewhere about 3.5....

 

Strange thing is I like it brewed strong but then with a lot of milk (sounds odd even as I'm saying it), oh and at least 3 sugars, as nobody asked.... rude!

 

Anyway, then I seem to remember getting addicted to coffee for a long time, then had no preference for a while, then made the switch back to tea.

 

More recently I switched back to coffee and have found a similar experience as with the tea, as I like it both milky AND strong... full cup of milk microwaved and a massive heaped spoonful of Nescafe Azera 'americano intense'... oh and I'm now down to 1 sweetener! So I guess there's a Latte feeling to it, but the thing is I have at least 15+ cups a day so without the milk it plays havoc with my insides.... It's actually all I drink on a daily basis (apart from maybe a lager or a JD and coke once in a blue moon)...

 

Also I have actually really gone off tea!

[jthompson]

Tea, earl grey, hot, number 5...

 

It amuses me that technology as sophisticated as a starship food replicator would have 'cold' as a default setting for serving a cup of tea.

[Koldov]

Iced tea?

[mikeprice]

Personally - somewhere between 2 and 3

basically just enough to change the colour is fine - a little bit more is OK but those higher numbers are just hot milk!

 

coffee must be black as the Gods intended - milk in coffee is the mark of [enter generalised insult here]

 

Oh - and should be hot

 

 

 

will drink more gentle tea black quite happily but your general tea is a bit too acidic without a drop of milk!

[TechMonkey]

I don't take milk in anything! Black Americano please, and lots of it.

 

An Americano is black, so a black Americano is tautology.

 

I'm not getting into the debate of whether an Americano with milk is really a flat white, a latte or its own thing!!