# Do you like tea? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 20, 2016, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-tea/763424 "2016-08-20T18:03:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2016, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-tea/763424/81 "2016-08-22T21:13:30Z")
For a cold drink I want juice or milk or water. I don’t want a hot drink unless I’m sick, when I’d choose broth. ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2016, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-tea/763424/82 "2016-08-22T21:22:05Z")
An average day for me is 4-6 cups of tea. I have heartburn and other issues, so I’ve switched to only drinking decaf tea. I’ve never liked the taste of coffee, so tea is my hot drink of choice. ---
**Author:** ![Cartoonacy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/848f3c/32.png) [@Cartoonacy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartoonacy)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2016, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-tea/763424/83 "2016-08-22T21:52:30Z")
I didn’t care for tea at all until my early 20s. Coffee, I couldn’t stand until I turned 40. Now I love both, hot or iced (though I prefer hot coffee and iced tea). ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2016, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-tea/763424/84 "2016-08-22T22:01:25Z")
My family is Southern. Iced Tea is a part our heritage. I love good Iced Tea. I cannot tolerate in any way mediocre to bad Iced Tea. ---
**Author:** ![NAF1138](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naf1138/32/3245_2.png) [@NAF1138](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NAF1138)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2016, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-tea/763424/85 "2016-08-22T22:01:39Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > A recommendation to my fellow tea drinkers: get an [Adagio IngenuiTea cup](http://www.adagio.com/teaware/ingenuiTEA_teapot.html). It works great. You can make loose tea in it without getting any leaves in your mug. You can pop it in the microwave if you want. It’s easy to clean. And I found that it makes just the right amount of tea to fill a normal sized mug. You can even buy one in a [package](http://www.adagio.com/gifts/holiday_ingenuiTEA.html) with some sample tea. Seconded. There are other similar devices out there but this one works great and costs the right amount. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2016, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-tea/763424/86 "2016-08-22T22:16:35Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > If your blood tests are coming out normal don’t worry about it. . . . Cool! Milion gracias! > [@thirdname](#): > > Tea is better than bad coffee. Good coffee is better than tea. . . . There’s something vaguely tautological about that… Like, butterscotch is better than bad chocolate, but good chocolate is better than butterscotch. I find that coffee, when it gets cool, is awful, but tea, when it has gone cool, is still pretty good. Am I alone in not having any love at all for iced-coffee? I do not enjoy it at all. > [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > A recommendation to my fellow tea drinkers: get an [Adagio IngenuiTea cup](http://www.adagio.com/teaware/ingenuiTEA_teapot.html). It works great. You can make loose tea in it without getting any leaves in your mug. You can pop it in the microwave if you want. It’s easy to clean. And I found that it makes just the right amount of tea to fill a normal sized mug. . . . It looks good, but what advantages does it have over an infuser ball? ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2016, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-tea/763424/87 "2016-08-22T22:22:17Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > It looks good, but what advantages does it have over an infuser ball? An infuser doesn’t increase the “IngenuiTea” manufacturer’s bottom line. ---
**Author:** ![NAF1138](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naf1138/32/3245_2.png) [@NAF1138](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NAF1138)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2016, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-tea/763424/88 "2016-08-22T22:39:34Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > An infuser doesn’t increase the “IngenuiTea” manufacturer’s bottom line. Not fair. The idea is that making tea in a larger pot let’s the tea open up all the way and insfuse better. Getting your own large tea bags is better than an infuser ball (but less good for the environment). For example, my every day tea is a green tea that is tightly balled when dry. A tsp fills half my teapot when steeped. That doesn’t happen in an infuser ball because they aren’t big enough. And I have a full teapot too but this makes one mug at a time so if I am drinking tea by myself I don’t have to make a whole pot. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2016, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-tea/763424/89 "2016-08-22T22:40:51Z")
Tea tastes like dirt to me. I do not enjoy the taste of dirt. Therefore I do not like tea. Hot, cold, makes no difference. I do occasionally like Chai, though. I’m guessing there’s little more than trace amounts of actual tea in that, at least the ones I’ve had. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2016, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-tea/763424/90 "2016-08-22T23:19:37Z")
> [@TBG](#): > > Tea tastes like dirt to me. I do not enjoy the taste of dirt. Therefore I do not like tea. > > Hot, cold, makes no difference. I do occasionally like Chai, though. I’m guessing there’s little more than trace amounts of actual tea in that, at least the ones I’ve had. Chai (which literally just means “tea”) is tea with sugar, milk, and a few spices, particularly cardamom. It’s mostly tea. A chai latte, like any latte, is mostly milk. Chai latte is somewhat similar in result to “milk tea” of northern India, which is tea made by steeping the tea leaves in hot milk instead of hot water. It’s incredibly rich, stinks of dairy cow, and has a buttery undertone. I can’t drink it. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2016, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-tea/763424/91 "2016-08-22T23:44:46Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > It looks good, but what advantages does it have over an infuser ball? The tea can float loose in the water rather than being packed together inside the infuser. I feel that way you get all of the flavor out of your tea. And I’ve used infuser balls and found you have to pack the tea leaves in carefully or you end up with some of them sticking outside the infuser. It’s more convenient to just throw some tea leaves into a cup. Plus there’s the coolness factor. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2016, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-tea/763424/92 "2016-08-22T23:44:54Z")
> [@NAF1138](#): > > Not fair. You’re right. My response was flippant, cynical and somewhat calculated to entertain rather than be serious. I apologize. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2016, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-tea/763424/93 "2016-08-22T23:45:20Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > An infuser doesn’t increase the “IngenuiTea” manufacturer’s bottom line. Um…thanks, but not helpful. > [@NAF1138](#): > > Not fair. The idea is that making tea in a larger pot let’s the tea open up all the way and insfuse better. Getting your own large tea bags is better than an infuser ball (but less good for the environment). For example, my every day tea is a green tea that is tightly balled when dry. A tsp fills half my teapot when steeped. That doesn’t happen in an infuser ball because they aren’t big enough. And I have a full teapot too but this makes one mug at a time so if I am drinking tea by myself I don’t have to make a whole pot. Helpful! Thank’ee. (They had me 66.67% sold at “easy to clean.”) ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2016, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-tea/763424/94 "2016-08-22T23:52:27Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > Chai latte is somewhat similar in result to “milk tea” of northern India, which is tea made by steeping the tea leaves in hot milk instead of hot water. It’s incredibly rich, stinks of dairy cow, and has a buttery undertone. I can’t drink it. That’s what my cousin Saroj makes. It’s a taste I, eh, haven’t fully acquired. ---
**Author:** ![NAF1138](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naf1138/32/3245_2.png) [@NAF1138](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NAF1138)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2016, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-tea/763424/95 "2016-08-23T00:09:22Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > Helpful! Thank’ee. > > (They had me 66.67% sold at “easy to clean.”) Dishwasher safe! The hardest part is figuring the correct wrist flick to get all the leaves into the trash in one shot without getting tea leaves everywhere. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2016, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-tea/763424/96 "2016-08-23T00:29:37Z")
And just FYI, in South Asia, “chai” or “cha” just means “tea,” which is generally served with milk and sugar. That spiced stuff we call “chai tea” here would be called “masala chai” (“spice tea”) or something like that. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2016, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-tea/763424/97 "2016-08-23T00:39:30Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > …“milk tea” of northern India, which is tea made by steeping the tea leaves in hot milk instead of hot water. It’s incredibly rich, stinks of dairy cow, and has a buttery undertone… OH, man. Now I’m all hungry for some milk tea of northern India… ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2016, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-tea/763424/98 "2016-08-23T00:47:44Z")
> [@Miss\_Mapp](#): > > The only time I’d order tea in a restaurant would be if it were something like [Flying Childers](http://www.chatsworth.org/plan-your-visit/shop-and-eat/where-to-eat/flying-childers-restaurant) at Chatsworth or [The Orangery](http://www.orangerykensingtonpalace.co.uk/) at Kensington Palace, where you can get a smashing (if expensive) afternoon tea. Very cool. I had elevenses at the Orangery last spring when I was in London. Darjeeling with good bread-and-butter and a few pastries. _Tres elegant._ The Ukulele Lady is crazy about afternoon tea and makes me go to them in luxury hotels or places like Fortnum & Mason whenever visiting Britain or Ireland, though I find them irresponsibly expensive. Luckily she’s also crazy about good bitter ale and stout, so we also spend a responsible amount of time in pubs. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2016, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-tea/763424/99 "2016-08-23T00:56:48Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > OH, man. Now I’m all hungry for some milk tea of northern India… Well, I just gave you the recipe. You could make a version of it tonight! 😃 Just get yourself some full fat milk, loose Indian tea, and sugar. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2016, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-tea/763424/100 "2016-08-23T01:00:01Z")
> [@NAF1138](#): > > Dishwasher safe! The hardest part is figuring the correct wrist flick to get all the leaves into the trash in one shot without getting tea leaves everywhere. Uh-oh! Now I’m in trouble! STR 15; INT 11; DEX 6. (WIS 3; I’m an SDMB addict!) Spin-off question: is it okay to run used tea leaves through the garbage disposal, or do they harden into concrete and block up the grinder and the pipes? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-tea/763424.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-like-tea/763424.md?page=6)