Tea or coffee?

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.

I’ve had Americano with caramel syrup before and it’s good! Coffee machine coffee is nice and there’s definitely a quality to the taste that you don’t get with instant coffee. Those boxes of pods are expensive though! When I had a functioning coffee machine I always used to wait until Sainsbury’s had a special offer on the boxes of pods then bulk buy! There are some people who don’t seem to get kept awake by coffee, I’m not one of them though!

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A good caffeine hit first thing in the morning is good! I need at least two very strong coffees to get my brain to wake up properly!

You and your milk is on a par with you and your biscuits! How many get dunked in a drink of milk? 

One teabag or two?

Im sure that the caffeine content of a cup of tea is comparable to that in a cup of coffee, yet you’re not the first person I know of who can drink tea yet reacts badly to coffee! I wonder why that is, what are they adding to the coffee that I don’t know about?

Thank you for the herbal tea tip, the sorrel, hibiscus and ginger looks good! I’m going to have to hunt that down and try it!

I wonder what they put/don’t put in the different brands of tea to make them taste so different? I’ve heard that caffeine free tea or coffee is actually worse for you than caffeinated, not sure why, probably something that they put in it!

I prefer Nescafé coffee, preferably gold blend but original will do; Beanies flavoured coffee or Carte Noir.

I can imagine that if you were never able to have milk in your tea as a child that it would be quite novel and good when you did finally try tea with milk?

Coffee is an acquired taste. It is bitter but once you get used to it, it’s a weirdly pleasant bitterness, or maybe the caffeine addiction over-rides the bitterness?

I also drink very strong coffee! We had a coffee machine at home which was great because you can get so many different pods to go in them, I used to like the caramel latte. Then the coffee machine broke ️ I’ll have to get another one at some point.

I don’t usually drink hot chocolate but I bought a tin of posh hot chocolate powder from a stall at a chocolate festival on good Friday and had to try some. It was Honeycomb flavour, it tasted pretty good! Do you drink flavoured hot chocolate?

Coffee always. But never ever instant. To me instant coffee is so wrong. My favourite coffee is oat milk flat white or Americano with caramel syrup and hot soya milk. I like espresso based most but filter can be ok. Luckily I have a coffee machine or else I'd be spending a small fortune! Actually I only have 2-3 coffees a day but I so appreciate each one. I can drink espresso based coffee right before bed and then fall asleep right away. Very strange.

A strong black coffee first thing in the morning is necessary, right?

The vanilla milkshakes seem like something that my 5 year old daughter would love! I might try to recreate one for her tomorrow  Did you buy those milkshakes often?

Another person who drinks good coffee

I used to take milk and sugar but the fridge is now the dining room (it’s too tall to fit under the work surface) so it just became too much hassle to keep going to get it! I stopped taking sugar last year when I joined slimming world online.

What brand of coffee do you drink?

How do you take your tea?

Coffee is bitter, but it has caffeine in it  I only started drinking coffee when I was 24 and started working night shifts and needed something to keep me awake! I never drink it after 6pm (unless I’m on a night shift) as otherwise, as you said, it makes it difficult to fall asleep!

Thank you for the herbal tea recommendations. The Taiwanese bubble tea seems particularly interesting, what ingredients are in it?

Coffee from a vending machine is also bad and too hot! I always take my own jar of coffee with me when I go to work!

I like chocolate but not hot chocolate, weirdly!

I’ve never been to the US or tried their tea or coffee but I guess no one does tea like the British?

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1 cauldron of tea in the morning, followed by 2 cups of coffee... then fingers crossed and out into the world! 

Tinyexplorer said:

On the way home from school there was this cafe, they were making plain vanilla milkshakes in front of you, a measure of ice cream, a measure of milk, probably something else but I never had the attention span to follow as I was already anticipating seeping on that fresh cold tasty glassful. Yum.

Now that is perfection! Vanilla shake is my fav!

Milk above all, but if we are just talking tea or coffee, it would have to be tea.

Strong tea, two sugars, and with milk. I keep it simple. Quickbrew tea bags.

Can't drink coffee at all, makes me shake, sweat, and feel like ***.

I drink herbal teas occasionally. I like ginger and sorrel mix, or limeflower. My ex got me into a lot of the Carribean teas, those are my two favourites. Dalgety is the best brand imo, they do a lot of flavours.

This is the boss of herbal teas imo. Cheap too.

Now!!!! I drink both tea and coffee with milk and two sugars. 

At home I prefer tea, but only specific brands.  Other brands I can't stand.  I love Ringtons tea, waitrose gold blend, Punjama,  Thompsons.  I hate brands such as PG tips,  Yorkshire tea and caffeine free tea makes me feel sick.

Away from home I always drink coffee because I can stomach any brand.

In my early childhood at home we always had tea, never coffee.  But the tea was either black, with lemon juice or wirh black/red fruit juice.  my mother never put milk in tea.  When I first came across tea with milk while on holiday, I fell in love with it.  And never drank black tea again.

Never used to drink either until I was probably about 30 or so. Up to that point only hot drinks I had were hot choc or hot orange/blackcurrant squash. Got a bit fed up with people at work offering me tea/coffee etc at meetings so thought "oh maybe I'd better make myself like them to fit in". Hate the smell of tea so that was a no-no, so tried coffee. Took less than two weeks for me to start really liking coffee!

Now I drink really strong coffee. Try and limit myself to 3 cups a day, and not after 7pm as it makes me wired. My preference is Kenco 3in1 sachets, as then I don;t have to judge how much coffee/sugar/milk etc. Also like tassimo americano grande pods as we have a machine at work. Usually have them black with lots of sugar. Preference if out is always a mocha.

Still like my hot choc though; and that s always my pre-bedtime drink. Oh apart from Sundays when it's usually hot squash, orange and blackcurrant mixed.

Big strong black coffee with a little spoonful of sugar, just to make it a bitter-bitter-sweet, if it makes sense. I also drink tea in the afternoon, black and unsweetened.

But reading about milkshake spurred childhood memories. On the way home from school there was this cafe, they were making plain vanilla milkshakes in front of you, a measure of ice cream, a measure of milk, probably something else but I never had the attention span to follow as I was already anticipating seeping on that fresh cold tasty glassful. Yum.

Coffee, strong, black, unsweetened. I really don't like tea & never have.

As a child I had milk & two sugars in the coffee, but when I started making it myself I remember thinking that making instant coffee without milk and sugar from a recently boiled and re-boiled kettle took about half the time of making one with milk etc, and as a bonus took away the impact of the risk of running out of milk/sugar - so I switched, and I've been that way since!

I haven't ever properly counted but I'm sure it's easily 8 instant coffees a day!

I personally prefer tea over coffee. I didn't drink coffee until the past couple of years (and only latte with lots of milk; and only very occasionally). I feel that coffee is too bitter so it's difficult for me to drink. I also find it hard to fall asleep if I drink coffee in the evening. 

A couple good/interesting tea recommendations to try: (1) lemongrass tea; (2) Taiwanese bubble tea; (3) milk tea with ginger (but self-brewed with fresh ginger) ; (4) honey and aloe vera tea; (5) a variety of loose leaf tea
(compared to those made out grocery-store tea bags, I much prefer tea brewed from original ingredients or loose leaf tea)