Tea

My mother was very fussy about tea, she insisted that tea bags be square/rectangular, I once bought a box of round tea bags, all 80 went straight into the dustbin.

D4

I used to love Russian Caravan tea

I hate earl Grey, it smells and tastes like tea with perfume.

I’ve never tried earl grey! I just remember when I was a teen, having to make a cup of tea for someone and it being earl grey, and I presumed it smelled of flowers and was for posh people  

I like the look of B4... has to be Earl Grey though! 

I love bergamot orange in all its forms... 

I found a delicious coffee but it’s too expensive for me to buy all of the time. I’m quite fussy and have realised I generally like Brazilian coffee mostly. 

I also have to have in it certain types of mugs at home. I can’t explain what cups are right, and why, But I just know by looking at a mug if it’ll be a good tea/coffee.

That’s just a cup of milk isn’t it

Same time for me, though I do squash the teabag in the water during those 6 seconds. I keep meaning to try oat milk but all of the substitutes I’ve tried to date have made my tea or coffee taste weird. 

Depends on how much milk you put in.  I prefer D4.

I have found that I can drink almost any coffee but only my favourite brands of tea.

At work or any situation outside my home I play safe and only drink other people's coffee because I can't stand 90% of brands of tea or how people make it.

At home it's 75% of the time tea, 25% coffee.

My late mother was even more fuzzy than me.  She would only drink tea or coffee she made herself.  Her tea was black or with lemon or fruit juice, never milk. Coffee had to have boiled milk.  Not cold or hot but boiled.  I once made her coffee without boiling the milk, she poured the whole mug down the sink and spent twenty years complaining that I was a useless son who doesn't even know how to make a cup of coffee.

I can see a "main sequence" of teas and mine fall within that

I don't drink a lot now as I never feel that thirsty. I prefer tea to coffee. My perfect cuppa is c2. Getting it perfect like that is a hardship all its own.

Anything on the F1 to A6 diagonal is fine by me. The F2 to B5 and E1 to A5 diagonals are the ones I'll drink if someone else has made me a cup of tea. And I'm pretending the top left corner doesn't exist, they look like they haven't even seen the teabag

C3, probably. No more than 6 seconds of teabag in the mug of hot water, a fair amount of (oat) milk.

1. Yes I think I could drink D2. I am an expert at weak to medium tea but difficult if people want very strong, which I can't stand. 

Ah I can’t stand too much milk in tea! It has to be just right but I don’t like the strength too weak. D2 might suit you! 

Not sure if E1 or A4. I am trying to work out which ones are weak tea and which are stronger tea with more milk. So I am looking for weak tea with not too much milk.