A cup of tea...

Bechet45 said:
You were doing well till you mentioned evaporated milk in tea and made me throw up!
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+1, that and UHT milk. I can't stand the smell of UHT milk especially once it goes in a cuppa. I'd rather no milk than that. Our Group Scout Leader always says to get some as stand by, I never do, id rather have too much than have to do that.
 
Hiya,

Just out of curiousity, what kind of taste change occurs (if any) when milk is added to tea? Does that addition lend itself to the tea flavor?

Adding dairy to coffee for example will cause a whole new set of very pleasant notes to become known. The extra coffee flavor is hidden until those two molecules blend together and then bingo! Drinking black coffee means missing out on that extra taste treat. Sugar has a much lesser effect since the sweetness doesn't enhance the actual coffee flavor.

So what's up with that milk/tea thing then?

Martin
 
Wow I couldn't disagree more with that. I think most coffee aficionados would agree that milk pretty much destroys much of the varietal flavour and characteristic of the bean.

I could do you a nice pourover with a Hario V60 or Gino Dripper. Drunk black you'd get a whole range of complex fruit, caramel and bean flavours - add milk and it's gone.

That's not to say milk in coffee is always bad. Some beans are fantastic with milk. Monsooned Malabar springs to mind.

dodgy said:
Drinking black coffee means missing out on that extra taste treat. Sugar has a much lesser effect since the sweetness doesn't enhance the actual coffee flavor.
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Coffee is manky anyway ...

I think historically, milk in tea is a class thing. Tea poured by Jeeves into china cups was taken as was, or perhaps a slice of lemon; tea dispensed from giant urns by women with beefy arms was somewhat watered down and that masked by the addition of milk.

I like those plebian greasy spoon caffs in deepest West Yorkshire where tea is still served by the pint.
 
stellablade said:
Wow I couldn't disagree more with that. I think most coffee aficionados would agree that milk pretty much destroys much of the varietal flavour and characteristic of the bean.

I could do you a nice pourover with a Hario V60 or Gino Dripper. Drunk black you'd get a whole range of complex fruit, caramel and bean flavours - add milk and it's gone.
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Well see now, we all have our druthers about what we consider a good cup of coffee tastes like. It might well be our values can be different, which is always interesting to hear about. Sometimes I see people saying things about what to me sounds like fiction compared to their thoughts.

When I drink black coffee ( about never if possible), I get there are certain notes to be caught and maybe would actually catch some and yes it's a much clearer, deeper, and more streamlined taste that way. I do get that part, but it's not something that tastes especially good to me for whatever reason. Tastes like it's missing something to make it blossom and that something is dairy fat.

I like my coffee the most when it's tasting like the best hot chocolate, but coffee flavored. That creamy mouth feel...it gets me. Doesn't need any sugar...the fat mellows and rounds things out,
 
Over this last few years, I've disovered loose-leaf green tea and spice chai (sadly, my preferred spice chai is in bags, though they are natural colour, not unnaturally white).

I used to have Clipper loose-leaf green as my everyday tea, but our local Holland & Barratt has ceased having it. I'd agree with others who state that loose-leaf tastes much better than bags in general, as the same Clipper green tea in bags is vastly inferior, IMO. Though I buy gunpowder from High Teas (http://www.highteas.co.uk/gunpowder-temple-of-heaven/p3) as an alternative, I was after something I could buy in Norwich so that I wasn't having to order online when I ran low on supplies. Though I hate the Castle Mall (any locals may know what I'm referring to when I say it has a high concentration of chavs), I recently discovered a tea and coffee shop there (http://www.thetjunction.co.uk/content/shop), and have found a suitable replacement for Clipper green tea in their Formosa Sencha Green tea.
 
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