How do You Brew Tea?

[brian64]

I drink a lot of black tea...hot, unsweetened. I'm too lazy to deal with loose leaf so I use bagged. The best I've found to my taste is Newman's Own organic. Out of the 4 or 5 brands of black tea I've tried in the past, it is by far the best. I just make it in my drip coffee maker...but put the bags directly in the pot, not in the basket.

 

[samb]

Tea bad in a mug with boiling water. No special ceremony in my tea making

 

[FLDRD]

Loose leaf in a container in a mug, sometimes a whole pot, sometimes a bag in a mug; 1 gallon jug with appropriate sized (or number of) bag(s) for sun tea that is subsequently chilled.
Various varieties.
Unsweetened.
I try to minimize the sugar consumption.

 

[Briarcutter]

I use Yixing clay pots to brew. Pu-erh,black,green,Oolong,Darjeeling, not all at once of course.
PG tips when I'm lazy.

 

[cshubhra]

I have a set of baskets for steeping whole leaf. Since I drink alone most of the time, I brew in a 11 oz porcelain mug, using a single serve basket.

With trial and error I have figured out that my mug produces water around 212 F when microwaved for 2 mins. I steep for 5 minutes which is typical for black or dark oolongs. I will use water at lower temperature and steep less if I am drinking a white tea. I don’t drink green tea.

If I am brewing more cups or brewing tea with milk, sugar, spices I boil water in a saucepan and steep using a bigger basket

 

[brian64]

So apparently common tea bags are the latest thing that's been found to be highly toxic. This has motivated me to make the switch to loose leaf, because I drink a lot of tea. Ordered one of these:

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[JackOrion]

I use to only buy loose leaf tea from a Chinese herbal shop. If you’re looking for quality, no doubt that’s obviously the way to go. Quality leaf, the right water temp….. but when life gets hectic and you stop making time for the ritual…. It’s a bag in a travel mug filled with hot water from the cooler. It’s kind of sad but it works. Really the saddest part is the cleaning of the mug, or rather lack of.

 

[Mikerr]

I make tea using loose 'Yorkshire Tea' in a Forlife pot with inner basket tea strainer. Boiling water, minimum 3min brew time. No milk, no sugar and drink from a mug. Usually make 3 times a day, morning, lunchtime and teatime.

Mike

 

[Flatfish]

I make tea using loose 'Yorkshire Tea' in a Forlife pot with inner basket tea strainer. Boiling water, minimum 3min brew time. No milk, no sugar and drink from a mug. Usually make 3 times a day, morning, lunchtime and teatime.

Mike

I had one in that colour. Lost the strainer though. Then broke the pot. All human error. The Forlife teapot was otherwise quite good.

 

[frozenchurchwarden]

For most of the last decade I would brew tea in a coffee maker (brewing tea and coffee is virtually identical), but in recent years I got tired of coffee makers breaking down so now I only make tea in a rice cooker.

 

[Mikerr]

I had one in that colour. Lost the strainer though. Then broke the pot. All human error. The Forlife teapot was otherwise quite good.

Like you Flafish I broke my original black Forlife teapot, don't know what happened to the strainer.
Went back to using what's called a 'Brown Betty' teapot. But the pour on it was terrible, it dribbled.
So treated myself to the red Forlife teapot that I have been using for some years now.

 

[Andre_T]

I sometimes use Yorkshire Gold as well.

I too am a fan. If it is good enough for His Majesty The King Its good enough for me!

 

[edger]

Punjana loose and Punjana tea bags.
Small Sadler pot with stainless basket strainer similar to Brown Betty.
5 minute brew.
Splash of milk.
Reverse osmosis water with addition of Keto Chow Electrolyte Drops.
I drink this all day every day ‘cause I’m an Ulsterman by heritage.

 

[telescopes]

Boiling water poured into a Moroccan tea pot. Several tea bags of Moroccan tea is steeped with just a touch of sugar added. Tea is poured into small tea glasses which are then dumped back into the teapot. Tea is pored again back into the tea glasses. Part ritual, part good tea.