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Tea or coffee?

Kitsune

I’m just finishing my 3rd coffee of the day (I really need to cut down again!) and just wondered what hot drink other people prefer? Are you a coffee drinker or do you prefer tea or perhaps you like herbal tea (good flavour recommendations welcome!) or something else? How do you take your tea/coffee/other. I drink strong black coffee with no milk or sugar but with half cold water due to sensitive gums; I don’t drink tea but do drink herbal teas depending on the flavour, lemon, ginger and manuka honey is a current favourite but peppermint and liquorice is a recent fail on the herbal tea front!

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  • I enjoy tea and coffee most when I make it myself.

    With tea, I like it strong.  I always stir the tea bag within a few seconds of pouring in the boiling water to make sure the flavour comes out.  I then wait a minimum of 5 minutes for it to brew before adding the milk.

    The drinks I hate are in cafe's where they use cooler than boiling water to make the drink.  The worst recent coffee I had was in a Morrisson's cafe where the water was only tepid. Yuk.  I gave that place a poor review on trip advisor.  the main meal was also microwave reheated and barely warm.

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  • I enjoy tea and coffee most when I make it myself.

    With tea, I like it strong.  I always stir the tea bag within a few seconds of pouring in the boiling water to make sure the flavour comes out.  I then wait a minimum of 5 minutes for it to brew before adding the milk.

    The drinks I hate are in cafe's where they use cooler than boiling water to make the drink.  The worst recent coffee I had was in a Morrisson's cafe where the water was only tepid. Yuk.  I gave that place a poor review on trip advisor.  the main meal was also microwave reheated and barely warm.

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  • in reply to Robert124

    Lots of tea drinkers seem to like to leave the teabag to brew for a while!

    I drink luke warm coffee BUT I put boiling water in first with the coffee granules and stir it before adding cold water. If it was made with luke warm/tepid water to begin with then the coffee granules wouldn't dissolve properly! I would expect food to be hot after cooking or reheating otherwise there is risk of food poisoning! I may have to leave it to cool down before I can eat it but I would prefer all of the bacteria to have been killed first! Have these guys not done their food hygiene training? I'm not surprised that you gave Morrison's cafe a bad review for that!