Everyone makes tea differently – but if you popped round to our place for a visit, this is how we’d make you a brew.
Choose your weapon
Mug or Teapot?
Proper cuppaProper teapot
Treat your water kindly
Run the tap a little so the water’s nicely aerated, and only boil it once to keep the oxygen level up. Oxygen in water helps flavour!
Add tea and water
Pop a tea bag into your mug, pour over the hot water and stir briefly.
Wait patiently
Tea needs time to unlock all its flavour, so give it 4-5 minutes to do its thing. This is a perfect time to munch a sneaky biscuit or daydream about holidays.
Give it a squeeze
Before removing the tea bag, gently squidge it against the side of the mug. Just the once, mind – if you really mash it, it'll taste bitter.
We like a splash of semi-skimmed or whole milk, but your brew is unique to you – so add milk, sugar, honey, lemon or nothing at all. Most importantly, enjoy!
Treat your water kindly
Run the tap a little so the water’s nicely aerated, and only boil it once to keep the oxygen level up. Oxygen in water helps flavour!
Keep everything toasty
Tea likes hot water, but a chilly teapot cools things down – so swirl a little boiling water around the empty pot first. For bonus points, use that water to warm the cups too.
Add tea and water
Add two tea bags to a regular teapot or one tea bag to a mini teapot. If you’re using loose tea, add one teaspoon per person and one for the pot. Pour the hot water in and stir a bit.
Wait patiently
Tea needs time to unlock all its flavour, so give it 4-5 minutes to do its thing. This is a perfect time to munch a sneaky biscuit or daydream about holidays.
Customise your brew
We like a splash of semi-skimmed or whole milk, but your brew is unique to you – so add milk, sugar, honey, lemon or nothing at all. Most importantly, enjoy!
So when should you add the milk? It’s an issue that divides tea drinkers into two camps: those who pour the milk into their mug first (Miffys) and those who pour their tea in before the milk (Tiffys). Like the Montagues and the Capulets, these warring factions may never see eye to eye – but the truth is that this great debate can be solved in less time than it takes to dunk a digestive.
It’s all a question of heat. Tea brews best in very hot water, but adding milk cools things down. So if you’re brewing tea directly in a mug, it’s better to add the milk last, after it’s brewed. And if you’re brewing in a teapot, the order doesn’t matter at all – it’s just a question of personal preference!
Add two tea bags to a regular teapot or one tea bag to a mini teapot.If you're using loose tea, add one teaspoon per person and one for the pot.Pour the hot water in and stir a bit.
3. Remember to Spoon. Loose leaf can seem fiddly, but the truth is it's as easy as teabags. Just remember: use one teaspoon (around 2g) per cup of tea, or two per cup if you're brewing white tea, yellow tea or a fruit and herbal infusion.
4. Add one tea bag per cup or one heaping teaspoon of loose leaf tea per cup to your teapot (read below for full loose leaf tea brewing instructions). Many teapots are one liter in size, which is about 4 cups (meaning 4 tea bags). 5.
Or, as the scientists at the University of Northumbria put it in their formula: TB + (H2O at 100 degrees centigrade) 2mins BT + C (10ml) 6mins BT = PC (at OT 60 degrees centigrade). If you're wondering, TB means tea bag, BT is brewing time, C is milk, PC means perfect cuppa, and OT stands for optimum temperature.
Use 1 tea bag per cup, or 1 teaspoon of loose tea per cup (6 oz.). Steep the tea for the required time as indicated on the chart to the right. Never judge tea by its colour. Colour comes more quickly, but flavour takes a bit longer to develop.
Use 150 ml.(roughly 2/3 cup) of water per 8 grams (roughly 1/4 oz.)of tea leaves. It is recommended that you use a small Gongfu-style tea pot or a Piao-I tea cup with an inner pot.
We suggest milk-first for loose tea purists, and milk-last for tea bags – because generally when a tea bag is brewed in a bigger, cylindrical mug, the heat dissipates faster, and chances of milk scalding are much reduced.
The pot should be filled with freshly boiled water to within 4-6 mm of the rim and the tea should be brewed for six minutes. When preparing tea with milk, the guidance suggests tea is added to the serving vessel after the milk, to avoid scalding the milk.
Place a tea bag in your favorite cup or mug. Bring water to a rolling boil and immediately pour over your tea bag. Steep for a good 3 to 5 minutes. (Great taste can't be rushed—it really does take the full time to release the tea's entire flavor.)
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Treat your water kindly
Add tea and water
Wait patiently
Give it a squeeze
Customise your brew
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