How tea.......should be

[Zak33]

that's nearly dark enough.... nearly

[tiggerai]

that's nearly dark enough.... nearly

Should be the colour of He-Man. Apparently.

(I may or may not be part of Rate My Tea on Facebook....)

[tiggerai]

8 years ago....
http://forums.hexus.net/kitchen-cook...ea-recipe.html

It's still the best!

Ok I'm giving that a go this weekend then...

[MrJim]

that's nearly dark enough.... nearly

Nope, that'spretty much perfect!

[sammyc]

Dont listen to the heathens Zak, thats spot on.

I'm with you. Who better to judge?

html colour picker says 'russet' for OP's teaface - that's tea-coloured if you ask me.

On thinking about it, it appears my tea-making routine is milk first, find it too weak, tip a bit away, add more tea from pot. Every day. Says it all about my capacity to observe/learn/change.

[Biscuit]

that's nearly dark enough.... nearly

There's dark enough and then there's wrong

[peterb]

I've been following (when I remember!) the advice given in BBC's 'In the Factory" about tea bags to let the tea brew for 5 minutes. Interestingly it doesn't make it much stronger, but it does give a deeper flavour. Using filtered water (through a Brita filter jug) makes a difference as I live in quite a hard water area.

[Lucio]

Yorkshire Tea announced an Iced Tea prototype yesterday. (although I'm more of a Twinings Girl these days)

https://www.yorkshiretea.co.uk/brew-...roper-iced-tea

Thanks, letting my other half know to see if she can land herself some.

Incidentally, if you really want something out there you can get alcoholic iced teas

http://www.twistedtea.com/ - Though sadly Tesco's stocked it for only a short while

https://www.harrybromptons.com/ - Available in Waitrose at last check (unless it's the one in Berkhamsted, then they seem to be out an awful lot of the time thanks to a certain Tea-Dragon blogger)

Finally, I guess I should actually share my dragon's blog

https://twitter.com/tearexteagenie?lang=en and http://tearexteagenie.blogspot.co.uk/, though our little monster has sucked up a lot of her time so posts are quite old now

[Biscuit]

I've been following (when I remember!) the advice given in BBC's 'In the Factory" about tea bags to let the tea brew for 5 minutes. Interestingly it doesn't make it much stronger, but it does give a deeper flavour. Using filtered water (through a Brita filter jug) makes a difference as I live in quite a hard water area.

I also did this when I was living in Maidenhead, as the water there was pretty hard. Im back up in the motherland now where the water from the tap is much nicer, but still kept up the habit.
I'm often surprised more people don't do this, not just for the taste, but also how much extra life you get out of kettles and coffee machines. I've never had to de-scale mine, I work from home and they are over 5 years old.

[Xlucine]

Surely for the cost of the water filters you could just replace the kettle every 6 months?

[peterb]

Surely for the cost of the water filters you could just replace the kettle every 6 months?

That doesn't improve the flavour of the tea!