hanno wrote: ↑Fri Mar 26, 2021 4:19 pm

Chad Sexington wrote: ↑Fri Mar 26, 2021 4:03 pm (Fans of loose tea might want to add a couple of pinches of sawdust)

Lipton tea drinkers don't need it; they already have plenty of factory floor dust in their tea bag....

cautious colin wrote: ↑Fri Mar 26, 2021 4:25 pm

Chad Sexington wrote: ↑Fri Mar 26, 2021 4:03 pm Lipton’s yellow label T-bag in a (pre-warmed) large mug, fill with boiling water, mash the bag with the back of a teaspoon til a dark chestnut color is achieved, sling the used bag on the garden, add two heaped spoons of sugar, stir vigorously until dissolved completely, add a good splash of milk, stir and drink before it gets too cold.
(Fans of loose tea might want to add a couple of pinches of sawdust)

How do you manage to get a dark chestnut colour from a lipton tea bag? it'd have to steep for a fortnight

hanno wrote: ↑Fri Mar 26, 2021 5:36 pm

Chad Sexington wrote: ↑Fri Mar 26, 2021 4:31 pm

cautious colin wrote: ↑Fri Mar 26, 2021 4:25 pm

Chad Sexington wrote: ↑Fri Mar 26, 2021 4:03 pm Lipton’s yellow label T-bag in a (pre-warmed) large mug, fill with boiling water, mash the bag with the back of a teaspoon til a dark chestnut color is achieved, sling the used bag on the garden, add two heaped spoons of sugar, stir vigorously until dissolved completely, add a good splash of milk, stir and drink before it gets too cold.
(Fans of loose tea might want to add a couple of pinches of sawdust)

How do you manage to get a dark chestnut colour from a lipton tea bag? it'd have to steep for a fortnight

Who said anything about steeping? Ain’t got time for that, mash the bag with the back of the spoon as many times as it takes to achieve the desired color/strength.

Hear that sound? That is Charles Grey rotating in his grave. “I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.” Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground