[neilep]

according to the bbc, this is how to make the perfect cup of tea.

1. Use tea from India or Ceylon (Sri Lanka), not China
2. Use a teapot, preferably ceramic
3. Warm the pot over direct heat
4. Tea should be strong - six spoons of leaves per 1 litre
5. Let the leaves move around the pot - no bags or strainers
6. Take the pot to the boiling kettle
7. Stir or shake the pot
8. Drink out of a tall, mug-shaped tea cup
9. Don't add creamy milk
10. Add milk to the tea, not vice versa
11. No sugar!

although, i have heard that you should not actually take the water to boiling point.

This sounds like the Delia Smith version....if not..it's probably close !

[neilep]

Just as the British ARE  genetically incapable of cooking anything marginally edible. Bangers and beans, fish and chips, boiled meat, Oh My God!

This is a fallacy...the Brits are responsible for fine cuisine through out the entire world:

we invented Pasta and all Pasta orientated dishes, Curries are our dishes, as are all the cuisines available in far east and asian countries, we invented Burgers and Hot dogs, Cordon bleu and eveything in all the European countries . We invented Wine and Champagne (even though some french bloke named a place Champagne in Frenchy land)...hell...we even invented water !!

[Karen W.]

I think you left a lot of thinngs out!!!! LOL

[JimBob]

Just as the British ARE  genetically incapable of cooking anything marginally edible. Bangers and beans, fish and chips, boiled meat, Oh My God!

This is a fallacy...the Brits are responsible for fine cuisine through out the entire world:

we invented Pasta and all Pasta orientated dishes, Curries are our dishes, as are all the cuisines available in far east and asian countries, we invented Burgers and Hot dogs, Cordon bleu and eveything in all the European countries . We invented Wine and Champagne (even though some french bloke named a place Champagne in Frenchy land)...hell...we even invented water !!

Neil, me lad, I really think you need to see your local mental health provider for a check up. (They did let you out, didn't they? or did you just "leave"?) The self-grandiosity you  suffer from is bleeding over into you sense of national identity. Don't you remember that you eat junk food? You have posted questions about string cheese and what to do with left over pickle juice. Sadly, I must inform you that this is not the cuisine of a gourmand.

Admitting to the problem is the first step to recovery.

[moonfire]

After having a bit of curry in England, it was a bit too mild even though they stated it was hot.  As for tea, Earl Grey is good but I also like this mixture this Russian lady mixed up for me it was very delicious!  (it had a bit of spice Karen);-)

[Karen W.]

I can handle some, not alot.. I don't want fire breathing..LOL But I do like spicy.

[Seany]

I like Jasmine Tea. Or Green Tea. []

[Karen W.]

I have never tried Jasmine tea.. would one make it using the prescribed method  below???

according to the bbc, this is how to make the perfect cup of tea.

1. Use tea from India or Ceylon (Sri Lanka), not China
2. Use a teapot, preferably ceramic
3. Warm the pot over direct heat
4. Tea should be strong - six spoons of leaves per 1 litre
5. Let the leaves move around the pot - no bags or strainers
6. Take the pot to the boiling kettle
7. Stir or shake the pot
8. Drink out of a tall, mug-shaped tea cup
9. Don't add creamy milk
10. Add milk to the tea, not vice versa
11. No sugar!

although, i have heard that you should not actually take the water to boiling point.

This sounds like the Delia Smith version....if not..it's probably close !

[Seany]

Ermm probably. Not sure though. Only have it when we go to a chinese restaurant. And I've never asked how them make em! []

[Karen W.]

Well Here I thought you were making it according to those directions!!

[Seany]

Oh, LOL [] Nah.. Just buy it off a chinese restaurant []

[Karen W.]

Sounds like the way to go.

[Seany]

Yipee []

[neilep]

The Chinese drink tea correctly without milk...this is how me luffs it...........after all they invented the drink yes ?

[Karen W.]

I don't know where tea started. I like mine straight no milk although I have never tried milk in it before. Not that I dislike the taste or anything. Roberts mother had started drinking her tea with milk!

[Seany]

Hmm.. Tea started when they brought the tea leaves from africa and things, back to england. But then, they realised that the leaves were all rotten, but they made tea with it anyway. They realised that it tasted quite nice, so they decided to make it like that. []

[DoctorBeaver (OP)]

Just as the British ARE  genetically incapable of cooking anything marginally edible. Bangers and beans, fish and chips, boiled meat, Oh My God!

Have you never eaten beef Wellington? Cumberland sausages?

And there wouldn't be a lot left of French, Italian, Indian or Mexican cuisine without boiled meat.

[Batroost]

The Chinese drink tea correctly without milk

Not forgetting that 98% of South East Asians are lactose intolerant - a genetic difference, from say Northern Europeans where 86% of the population have a gentic make-up making life-long lactose digestion possible.

(At least according to http://www.gnxp.com/MT2/archives/001681.html)

[Bored chemist]

I'm pretty sure the "correct" way to drink tea is exactly how you like it.
As for
"Hmm.. Tea started when they brought the tea leaves from africa and things, back to england."
What, exactly, were they bringing the leaves here for if not to make tea?

Also I suspect the Chinese were making really nice tea while the population of (the land now called) England were painting itself blue and throwing pointed sticks at one-another.