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My wife thinks I'm strange for this but I think it makes sense.
Sometimes I'll make myself two cups (actually mugs) of tea. One cup just doesn't satisfy me.
I've tried bigger cups/mugs in the past but with their bigger openings, I tend to spin tea down my front when getting to the tea at the bottom. I also reckon that a big cup/mug goes colder quicker.
Really, if I had any class, I'd use a tea pot.
Anyone else do the same? Or maybe do something that also baffles their partners?
Classless Freak.
Use a tea pot with tea cosy.
Yes.
Use a tea pot with tea cosy
Well I know what to ask for from the kids on my 47th birthday.
Really, if I had any class, I’d use a tea pot.
amen, bother
yup
sport direct have done little for the planet, but their oversized mugs almost makes up for all the rest.
Have you tried making a cup, then making another one? It’s the future.
But I'd have to wait for the kettle to boil again.
No, because I have something along these lines:
https://uk.yeti.com/products/rambler-14-oz-414-ml-stackable-mug?_pos=1&_sid=c90132661&_ss=r
Holds almost 1/2 a litre of piping hot brown joy, won't go cold too fast, optional lid means you don't spill it down yourself and if you get the plain silver one it can go straight in the dishwasher without looking tatty.
A Camelbak will give you 3 litres of lovely tea and no risk of spillages. Also a nice warm, sweaty back. If the sweaty back isn't to your liking you can hang it from a hospital drip stand.
As I understand it its two girls to one cup....
Wouldn’t you need four girls for that?
I thought this was about some video that was doing the rounds on the internet a few years ago ... yes, it's weird.
Take it a step further and just make the tea in the kettle and drink it out of the spout (you can flip it on to warm the tea as and when required) . You're clearly a wrong'un so why not lean into it.
More seriously,
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Use a tea pot with tea cosy
But I’d have to wait for the kettle to boil again.
That's just poor forward planning.
I stand in solidarity with the OP.
A big mug doesn't taste the same, although two teabags helps.
Brewing a second cup never tastes as good as the first cup IMO.
The first cup gets finished and there's a perfect second cup sitting there ready to be enjoyed.
The extra washing up is a downside I will admit.
I'd like to point out that Singletrack have introduced a new 1.5 mug standard that brings the trail alive. Big enough to quench your thirst yet not the silly t-shirt staining megafat 'standard' offered by Sports Direct.
Plus, annoyingly, it looks like STW have slashed the price since I bought mine!
https://singletrackmag.com/shop/singletrack-coffee-mug/
(Although... can't actually see how to add the mug to your basket...)
My missus thinks I'm weird by using fresh water each time i boil.
I also reckon that a big cup/mug goes colder quicker.
You want a big thermal type mug.
I could easily have two cups but separated by an hour or so. I'd love to drink small amounts all day but I like rather strong coffee so that makes too much caffeine.
I agree that a big mug just isn't right. Tastes wrong somehow and goes from too hot to too cold at the wrong pace.
Trouble with lining a second cup up is by the time you've finished the first it will be just a fraction cold. Sure the microwave (yes I am unrefined enough to occasionally microwave tea) can help but it's never as good as just making a second cup.
Our kettle boils water for a standard mug in just under a minute. Do you need a faster kettle?
Peer’s Eats pint mug for first cup of the day. Then coffee all morning. Normal mugs of tea in the afternoon.
Just to throw in an extra twist I often makes myself half a cup. I don't know why, it just seems right.
I’d bet you good money that you wouldn’t be able to tell the difference if you didn’t already know,
Ok, you’re more than welcome to come to my house, make two cups of tea (black, none of this milk nonsense) with exactly the same amount of tea leaf steeped for 4 mins and I guarantee I’ll know which is which.
While you’re here, I’ll sit you down in my acoustically treated room and let you hear and notice the difference between 320kbs mp3 and 16/44.1kHz cd quality.
😉
sport direct have done little for the planet, but their oversized mugs almost makes up for all the rest.
So much so I asked my daughter to get me one for Christmas this year. Cheers me up no end at the start of a working day 🙂
Mike Ashley lover! 😜
Just to throw in an extra twist I often makes myself half a cup. I don’t know why, it just seems right.
WRONG!
Thanks for translating my autoincorrect mangled post Convert. My mug is from the time before the place trebled in size. We had two… one cracked… luckily replaced before they shut. Fingers crossed it comes back in some form. And that more good things can happen in the village… always surprised that a place with so many visitors can’t support more businesses and jobs.
I’ve just gone back to leaving milk out of tea again Somafunk. Used to always drink it that way about 30 years ago… can’t remember why I swapped to putting milk in… or why I stuck with it so long. Habits are odd. Next… time to try going back to loose leaf…?
Those insulated bottles are ideal, I have green tea in mine because tea with milk in just tastes manky after a while, they hold half a litre, so I boil a kettle and fill the bottle, empty the hot water into a jug with a teabag, stir it around a bit then pour it back into the insulated bottle. Beauty is, it’s still hot enough to be finish it off six hours later. Certainly hot enough an hour after filling it to nearly scald your tongue!
Better than any insulated mug I’ve ever used.
Ok, you’re more than welcome to come to my house, make two cups of tea (black, none of this milk nonsense) with exactly the same amount of tea leaf steeped for 4 mins and I guarantee I’ll know which is which.
I guarantee you won't. Where do you live?
Typical cougar, you are always supremely sure of yourself and the opinions you hold but please don’t assume that because you can’t, others can’t either.
Galloway btw, door’s always open if you’d care to pop by.
I don't drink tea, vile stuff, but I always make two cups of coffee so there's one in the kitchen and one in the study. Then, when I get bored with what I'm doing and wander into the other room, there's a cup of coffee waiting for instead of having to go back and get the one I left behind.
I will make 2 mugs of tea if there some digestives in the tin.
One for the dipping and one for the sipping!
Bet all the haters on this thread are coffee drinker? 🤣
I go flask now, make one to drink, and fill a flask to keep supping during the morning.
Typical cougar, you are always supremely sure of yourself and the opinions you hold but please don’t assume that because you can’t, others can’t either.
Nothing to do with opinion. I'm concerned with facts. Your claim is readily testable if someone else is brewing up for you.
I used to work with a guy who demanded separate spoons for tea and coffee in the brew round because he claimed he could taste the contamination. The lads took to chucking a few coffee granules into his tea to see how much it took for him to actually notice. The results were wholly predictable.
😉
So the results are clear then:
* two cups is the work of a madman: you should be brewing tea in a teapot like any decent person;
* unless it's for the express purpose of blind tasting to prove or disprove a person's ability to detect re-boiled water, a contaminated teaspoon, or similar.
All agreed?
I would throw up if there was any coffee in my tea. I can’t actually believe that people would use the same spoon.
There is no way you'd detect a single dissolved coffee granule in a cup of hot water let alone in tea (maybe unless you were a supertaster). I don't believe you.
But, again, it's readily testable. Prove me wrong.
Yep, I'm in the "yes, you're being a bit weird" camp. Get a teapot like any normal rational person. Your reasoning for having two mugs makes no sense. I mean if you're going to claim that a larger mug cools faster than a smaller one, then the second tea is going to be cooler than the first while you're waiting to drink it. And while few things are more disgusting than tea, luke-warm tea is surely one of them.
Typical cougar, you are always supremely sure of yourself and the opinions you hold but please don’t assume that because you can’t, others can’t either.
It's an interesting point where you can both be right!
In a very carefully controlled study I believe it *might* be possible for an experienced tea drinker to detect a difference in the product between freshly drawn and boiled water versus, previously boiled and reboiled water. I'm less certain that all such tea drinkers would prefer the fresh product.
BUT, I think if you add in all the other variables - quantity of tea, quantity of water, height of the pour, temperature of the mug & room, incubation time, source of the water, brand/age of kettle, stirring technique, cup/mug that its served in, not to mention the particular source of the leaves etc then I think you've zero chance of being able to say "cup 1 was made with fresh, cup 2 with reboiled". Now if you are controlling all of those things - fair play to you - there are plenty of people who are almost that ridiculous with coffee and the ritual of it is as important as the drink.
Personally I quite like a little bit of randomness. Will it be good or great?
I'm totally with the OP, its just nice having another cup sat waiting and one never seems enough early in the morning.
Whilst bike fettling or similar you can drink from each cup at the same time, one either side of the bike so always close to hand.
There is no way you’d detect a single dissolved coffee granule in a cup of hot water let alone in tea (maybe unless you were a supertaster). I don’t believe you.
But, again, it’s readily testable. Prove me wrong.
Well I can detect a couple of grains of sugar in a cup of tea so coffee would be easy but it ain't happening as that would involve me being in the same room as some coffee.
At work, there would be coffee grains in the sugar, from where people had used the same spoon. Thankfully I don't take sugar, pretty grim behavior IMO. Has stopped now we have a new coffee machine. Only took about 2 years to replace the old one.
We did a single blinded brewing time trial a while back and ended up at 3.5 mins for Twinings strong English breakfast tea, so as Cougar says these things are amenable to science.
My theory, not yet tested, is that the reason the first cup of tea after a gap (such as sleeping) tastes better than subsequent cups is because there are taste buds specifically allocated to tea flavour which get saturated after the first mug.
Coffee or sugar spoon in tea is a no no. Yes I most probably am a super taster.
There is no way you’d detect a single dissolved coffee granule in a cup of hot water
Coffee "granule". I think I see where you lot are going wrong.
No need for two cups. One large Sports Direct mug. After all you don't go to the pub and ask for two halfpints because big glasses are too hard to drink out of.