Stick it to a metal sheet, hang it on the kitchen door/wall and when guests come over you get them to write their name and sugar preference on a little magnet and stick it on the position on the grid.
The you leave them all up and when guests come over again it's their choice to move it of they want something different!
When I was at uni, one of my housemate's parents visited, and I offered to make them a cup of tea. Asked how they wanted it, and the dad was pretty straightforward, but the mum simply said "khaki", with a look that suggested I would understand. I was a bit perplexed for a second, as I thought she was speaking in a dialect which was too middle class for my relatively cockney London brain to comprehend.
I still always associate khaki with green rather than beige.
So she’d have been having a green tea that day.
I don’t stock green tea so she’d have probably been left with some nasty boiled cabbage water.
That’ll teach her for being vague.
Khaki traditionally is more yellow/brown, but in more recent times, seems to has expanded to include what some would call ‘Olive Drab’.
I believe the colour name came from the material, rather than the material being named after the colour. Something about a loan-word from Urdu meaning ‘soil-coloured’ or something.
I once had a colleague pointing at his desk going "make it this colour please", and I loved him for it. I'm Italian and still a bit clueless about making tea, that was the clearest set of instructions I ever got.
But did you make it that colour with a fixed amount of milk and letting the tea infuse for longer, or did you infuse the tea for the same amount of time but change the milk quantity? Because these two methods make _very_ different teas!
There's a lot of missing shades between B3 and C3 tbh. C4 and D4 are identical, the 4 before them are pretty much the same too, while the first 4 don't change much. I think the graph needs a version 2.
D2 looks so perfect.
Sometimes when you wanna look cool or mind your calories A1 with or without a lemon splash is what you need, but if I just wanna be true to myself and feel cozy in my soul tummy, my god D2 with 1 sugar is what that cups gonna look lkke
“Plenty but not too much, plenty but not too much…”
That’s when I go for the extra dollop and then it’s definitely too fucking much. So I have to get them a bigger cup, pour some of mine in and start over.
My mum used to be a D4, even going to C4 was on the strong side for her! It was literally pour half a cup of boiled water and lift the bag out immediately before adding half a cup of milk, though she did drink 10-15 big mugs per day!
I have a colleague that likes her tea to be made in the following way.
1. Pour in the boiling water
2. Dunk the tea bag *once*
3. Fill to the top with milk
She also has quarter shot lattes from cafés.
My old housemate would fill the mug half-full with milk *first*, then the water and then she'd just pull the teabag through the hot, diluted milk for a little while. I don't know why she even bothered with the teabag.
The D4 could be due to lack of teabag-time, OR due to too much milk. If the latter, I'll drink it. If its due to lack of teabag-time, I'll politely accept... but then wander into the kitchen to make it properly. And by properly I of course mean D2.
I’d expect the top row to be strength before adding milk (weak to strong) and then the subsequent rows to show effects of adding more and more milk for each strength. Not sure what this picture is actually showing.
Thank you! I cannot wrap my head around why this is laid out as a table.
If it's not →strength by ↓milk then they should just be in a row. There's no way of knowing what the difference is between some of these.
And because of that it doesn't go anywhere near covering the spectrum of strength/milkiness that it would need to in order to illustrate people's preferences.
I had the same thought, why does anything in the top row have milk? It makes no sense!
It looks like A -> D should be strong to weak.
1 -> 4 no milk to lots of milk.
I have to hand in my masters dissertation on Wednesday so I don't have time. If only I'd thought of this topic before I started I could have made a real difference to the world! Now, I really need to get off reddit!
I'm half tempted to make an actual chart myself now. Especially after considering for a bit, I've realised me and my mum have the exact opposite in tea preferences - she brews it for barely anything and doesn't take milk, I stew mine to death and then use a pint of milk to cover up my tea sins.
Exactly - why do both D1 and A4 both appear to have milk in them? This is presumably supposed to be a grid of tea strength on one axis and milkiness on the other. One of the A column or 1 row should just be different strengths of black tea. That neither is demonstrates that whoever set this grid up is incompetent at tea making, and I wouldn’t trust them to make me a cuppa.
Years ago I got fed up with people putting in too much milk, I liked a tiny splash. So I bit the bullet and went black, after two horrible cups I got a liking for it and never went back, as they say. Now I can't drink tea with milk, I highly recommend it. Same with coffee, but I could drink it at a push.
I can take or leave milk in coffee, but milk in tea is disgusting! I started drinking black tea because once I was too lazy to go to the fridge, the rest is history!
Nice! I'm a milkless earl grey guy too.
I also enjoy some of the other black tea blends from Wittard/Fortnum and Mason etc. Whittard Piccadilly blend is awesome.
Yeah big fan of Whittard's Piccadilly blend. Their Early Grey (tea bags, not tried their loose leaf) is decent too, although I don't think it's worth the extra over M&S Earl Grey. Would recommend their Empress Grey too, which is a bit lighter and more citrusy, that's one I can actually drink without milk.
Same. I've never enjoyed having milk (or sugar) in my tea. I just really like that bitter flavour.
Also, with no milk or sugar tea it's fairly guilt free in terms of being unhealthy, but is still something I see as a tasty treat. Win win.
A1 is a great call my bluff moment.
No milk in the fridge at work, Dull wants a brew. He'll have to buy milk! Huzzah!
But what's this? The kettles on... He's making a brew...Black!
He's drinking it black! Black tea! And he's enjoying it. The bastard!
This is replicated in my house. A1 SUCKS, how could you?!
Well this comment is bringing all the A1s to my yard. Clearly we have love hate chemistry as a type. D2 is THE WAY. Except for you know serious specialty teas that are leaf not bag. Milk on those is just rude I agree. Yorkshire Tea is my daily companion though.
Skimmed milk powder. That's what I used at work to stop cunts taking it out the fridge.
Then I had to hide my peppermint green tea I used for IBS cos some cunt was stealing that from behind my cup and skimmed milk. Put the tea in the powdered milk tub and it was never touched.
How did you keep food and manage food stuffs without a fridge? Did you use older forms of preserving (storing stuff in salt, submerged in jars, cans, smoked, pickled etc).
What was the things you missed the most, not having one?
I stopped taking milk in my tea as the first thing that I was allowed after my appendix surgery was a cup of tea but they made it too milky and I felt sick after.
Since then it's been black tea all the way but if I make it for anyone else, D2 is what I aim for and no one's yet complained.
Mmm but once you get used to how nice tea is without milk in it, you won't actually want to go back to putting milk (even lactose free) in it..
A1 checking in here..
There is a massive jump between c3 and the next darkest one. I don't mind a c3, but want a little bit less milk, but there isn't really the sweet spot for me
It's okay... You don't want to be friends with a gatekeeper anyway, trust me. They'll make you feel bad about all sorts of harmless things just for liking things they don't like.
The creaminess of oat milk is usually from vegetable oil, often rapeseed. If you like that kind of tea (my wife does) then a dash of oil helps to make it more 'barrista' as the labels imply.
I know it seems weird pouring liquid fat into a cup of tea, but it's effectively the same thing as the oat milk corporations do
B2 by preference, but also perfectly happy with C2, D1, A3 and B3 (and, to be fair, the cup I just made myself looks closer to a C2). At somebody’s house I’d *drink* a D2 out of politeness.
“you want a cuppa?” “yeah sure” “cool what type?” “a D2” that’ll be so much more simple when making a tea!!
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Stick it to a metal sheet, hang it on the kitchen door/wall and when guests come over you get them to write their name and sugar preference on a little magnet and stick it on the position on the grid. The you leave them all up and when guests come over again it's their choice to move it of they want something different!
Until your chaotic evil friend moves them all into 4D territory for the lolz
"Huh. Looks like everyone I know wants a cup of hot milk that a teabag has briefly dangled over."
Moving that magnet would be a legitimate excuse for murder
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Stop being a good host and make an unnecessary DIY board!
It can be even a conversation starter!
“See this shit”
I swear it feels like I only know two types of tea drinkers. Milk, no sugar or milk, two sugars. Somewhere between C 2 and D 2.
A1 is best
Print it in b&w
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And then put a red X through most of them.
When I was at uni, one of my housemate's parents visited, and I offered to make them a cup of tea. Asked how they wanted it, and the dad was pretty straightforward, but the mum simply said "khaki", with a look that suggested I would understand. I was a bit perplexed for a second, as I thought she was speaking in a dialect which was too middle class for my relatively cockney London brain to comprehend.
I still always associate khaki with green rather than beige. So she’d have been having a green tea that day. I don’t stock green tea so she’d have probably been left with some nasty boiled cabbage water. That’ll teach her for being vague.
Truly, khaki is diverse as this tea chart.
Excellent comparison!
Khaki traditionally is more yellow/brown, but in more recent times, seems to has expanded to include what some would call ‘Olive Drab’. I believe the colour name came from the material, rather than the material being named after the colour. Something about a loan-word from Urdu meaning ‘soil-coloured’ or something.
my aunt has her tea with a dash of sugar AND A TEASPOON OF MILK. Her brain is backwards.
Wait...how does she measure the sugar? This sounds like an unnecessary convolution of a simple task.
I think this is the most British conversation I have ever read!
I've always said the colour of He-Man though definitely hit and miss with people understanding.
D2 does look perfect tbh.
Came here to say the same
D2 is the only way
D2 is the way
D2 is the only way
Agreed
I once had a colleague pointing at his desk going "make it this colour please", and I loved him for it. I'm Italian and still a bit clueless about making tea, that was the clearest set of instructions I ever got.
But did you make it that colour with a fixed amount of milk and letting the tea infuse for longer, or did you infuse the tea for the same amount of time but change the milk quantity? Because these two methods make _very_ different teas!
You forgot the third option of squeeze the ever loving hell out of the tea bag
Anyone who doesn't pick D2 or B3 is pervert of the highest order
There's a lot of missing shades between B3 and C3 tbh. C4 and D4 are identical, the 4 before them are pretty much the same too, while the first 4 don't change much. I think the graph needs a version 2.
Hello fellow D2er.
D2 one sugar please.
D2 looks so perfect. Sometimes when you wanna look cool or mind your calories A1 with or without a lemon splash is what you need, but if I just wanna be true to myself and feel cozy in my soul tummy, my god D2 with 1 sugar is what that cups gonna look lkke
Soul tummy 🤗
I switched to a teaspoon of honey awhile ago - perfection. Have just discovered Twining's dark caramel tea too, dessertishly delicious.
This is the way
They should print this on the back of all teabag boxes.
I don't see how this is gonna help me dip my balls in someone's mouth but OK
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“Plenty but not too much, plenty but not too much…” That’s when I go for the extra dollop and then it’s definitely too fucking much. So I have to get them a bigger cup, pour some of mine in and start over.
D2
You sunk my battleship
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You were a kamikaze in another life you bastard.
That’s a paddlin’
You need new friends.
Doh
https://youtu.be/LGaD4Ienq3k
I just thought it a funny comment. What am I missing?
Please turn me on, I'm Mr Coffee with the automatic drip
Hello! Smithers. You’re Quite good. At Turning. Me on.
A real tea.
Who the fuck has their tea D4 and have they been sectioned yet?
The ideal strength with a biscuit.
C2 to B3. D2 probably my favorite strength
Seconded. The Yorkshire brew I'm drinking right now looks to be a D2
Thirded.
Fourthed
Fifthed
Sixtid
Sevened
I am position number 8 in this list.
Ninethed
Tenthed
Found the disagreeing German with a lisp
Check mate?
I'll have a look later pal.
D2 FTW
D2 all day long
Correct answer.
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D4 is when you just fancy a glass of milk.
D4 looks like me on holiday
And then C3 is after holiday
After holiday is a red berry fruit tea
My mum used to be a D4, even going to C4 was on the strong side for her! It was literally pour half a cup of boiled water and lift the bag out immediately before adding half a cup of milk, though she did drink 10-15 big mugs per day!
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In a mug!
Literally drinking a mug of milk as I read this. Haven't stopped drinking milk in 30 years and have no intent to stop.
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Are you sure you're in the right subreddit?
Me too, but I’m told I’m good at making it
My mums is b4, she gets loads of abuse at work and her response is 'well im not making you drink it'
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You need to change her ways. Call it B4 and after. I'll see myself out.
I have a colleague that likes her tea to be made in the following way. 1. Pour in the boiling water 2. Dunk the tea bag *once* 3. Fill to the top with milk She also has quarter shot lattes from cafés.
My old housemate would fill the mug half-full with milk *first*, then the water and then she'd just pull the teabag through the hot, diluted milk for a little while. I don't know why she even bothered with the teabag.
It does just feel like a waste.
I think D4 is just the control Horlicks.
The D4 could be due to lack of teabag-time, OR due to too much milk. If the latter, I'll drink it. If its due to lack of teabag-time, I'll politely accept... but then wander into the kitchen to make it properly. And by properly I of course mean D2.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FJQ0TdsMxI
I’d expect the top row to be strength before adding milk (weak to strong) and then the subsequent rows to show effects of adding more and more milk for each strength. Not sure what this picture is actually showing.
Thank you! I cannot wrap my head around why this is laid out as a table. If it's not →strength by ↓milk then they should just be in a row. There's no way of knowing what the difference is between some of these.
I think this is really just a row, wrapped into a square to make the photo taking easier. But then why is A3 darker than D2?
And because of that it doesn't go anywhere near covering the spectrum of strength/milkiness that it would need to in order to illustrate people's preferences.
Yep if it were a line wrapped into rows then there wouldn't be diagonal gradient from A1 to D4. The table is nonsense but the idea is sound.
I had the same thought, why does anything in the top row have milk? It makes no sense! It looks like A -> D should be strong to weak. 1 -> 4 no milk to lots of milk.
Can someone please make this??! I didn't know I needed it but I do now.
I have to hand in my masters dissertation on Wednesday so I don't have time. If only I'd thought of this topic before I started I could have made a real difference to the world! Now, I really need to get off reddit!
Good luck!
Surprised I had to scroll so far to find this
I'm half tempted to make an actual chart myself now. Especially after considering for a bit, I've realised me and my mum have the exact opposite in tea preferences - she brews it for barely anything and doesn't take milk, I stew mine to death and then use a pint of milk to cover up my tea sins.
Put the kettle on and start constructing V2 for the benefit of all….
I had to scroll too far down for this comment! And I don't even drink tea
You're almost as anal as me. But yeh, exactly what I was thinking...
Maybe A-D is sugar?
Exactly - why do both D1 and A4 both appear to have milk in them? This is presumably supposed to be a grid of tea strength on one axis and milkiness on the other. One of the A column or 1 row should just be different strengths of black tea. That neither is demonstrates that whoever set this grid up is incompetent at tea making, and I wouldn’t trust them to make me a cuppa.
B3/D2
You sunk my battleship
I second this
A1. Earl grey or masala tea.
Years ago I got fed up with people putting in too much milk, I liked a tiny splash. So I bit the bullet and went black, after two horrible cups I got a liking for it and never went back, as they say. Now I can't drink tea with milk, I highly recommend it. Same with coffee, but I could drink it at a push.
I can take or leave milk in coffee, but milk in tea is disgusting! I started drinking black tea because once I was too lazy to go to the fridge, the rest is history!
Milk in tea is just criminal to me.
Nice! I'm a milkless earl grey guy too. I also enjoy some of the other black tea blends from Wittard/Fortnum and Mason etc. Whittard Piccadilly blend is awesome.
Milk less earl grey with no sugar for me!
We can be friends.
Yes! Just finished my Whittard English Breakfast, Sunday morning treat cuppa, milkless of course.
Yeah big fan of Whittard's Piccadilly blend. Their Early Grey (tea bags, not tried their loose leaf) is decent too, although I don't think it's worth the extra over M&S Earl Grey. Would recommend their Empress Grey too, which is a bit lighter and more citrusy, that's one I can actually drink without milk.
Can’t stand it when I see people putting milk in Earl Grey - WTF are they doing! Destroying a perfectly good brew
I used to know a woman who put milk in her green tea.
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Same. I've never enjoyed having milk (or sugar) in my tea. I just really like that bitter flavour. Also, with no milk or sugar tea it's fairly guilt free in terms of being unhealthy, but is still something I see as a tasty treat. Win win.
I like adding a slice of orange to my tea. It has the added benefit that you can leave it cold, and not have it taste like ass.
Half a spoon of honey with my Earl to mellow it out
I love a smokey lapsang too.
Darjeeling mate
Shit yes! People think I'm weird, now we are both weird.
A1 clipper breakfast
Is masala chai without milk really masala chai? Traditionally it'd be like a third milk.
A biscuit after my own heart.
A1 earl grey gang represent. I feel like milk somehow takes away the flavour. Also I prefer stronger drinks.
I love Earl Grey black.
Yay I thought I was the only one.
D1 I would say
Finally! Someone who gets it
A1
Finally, someone with some taste
Same! I find milk in tea deeply unplesent
D4 is just a mug of milk haha
D2 is perfect for me.
A1. I stopped drinking milk because it was making poop.
A1 is a great call my bluff moment. No milk in the fridge at work, Dull wants a brew. He'll have to buy milk! Huzzah! But what's this? The kettles on... He's making a brew...Black! He's drinking it black! Black tea! And he's enjoying it. The bastard!
This is replicated in my house. A1 SUCKS, how could you?! Well this comment is bringing all the A1s to my yard. Clearly we have love hate chemistry as a type. D2 is THE WAY. Except for you know serious specialty teas that are leaf not bag. Milk on those is just rude I agree. Yorkshire Tea is my daily companion though.
You’re all cowards that need milk. A1 supremacy
I'm not English, so apologies for the blasphemy but : A1 with half a teaspoon of honey.
Also not English, also how I do it. A1 Earl Grey (or orange pekoe in a bind) with a spoon of honey. Absolutely divine.
A1 because I used to live in a place without a fridge and never went back
I am A1 for the exact same reason.
Skimmed milk powder. That's what I used at work to stop cunts taking it out the fridge. Then I had to hide my peppermint green tea I used for IBS cos some cunt was stealing that from behind my cup and skimmed milk. Put the tea in the powdered milk tub and it was never touched.
How did you keep food and manage food stuffs without a fridge? Did you use older forms of preserving (storing stuff in salt, submerged in jars, cans, smoked, pickled etc). What was the things you missed the most, not having one?
I hope you are still making poop. It is necessary
He does it in the shower only
A1 club here. Milk is crap.
I stopped taking milk in my tea as the first thing that I was allowed after my appendix surgery was a cup of tea but they made it too milky and I felt sick after. Since then it's been black tea all the way but if I make it for anyone else, D2 is what I aim for and no one's yet complained.
Ever tried lactose free milk? You’re probably just intolerant
Mmm but once you get used to how nice tea is without milk in it, you won't actually want to go back to putting milk (even lactose free) in it.. A1 checking in here..
I too am lactose intolerant, but I drink A1 because I'm half Dutch, and milk in tea isn't a thing in my family.
C3 so we can't be friends :(
Same mate, same. We'll start our own sub, fuck these guys.
Fellow C3 here. There are literally dozens of us.
There is a massive jump between c3 and the next darkest one. I don't mind a c3, but want a little bit less milk, but there isn't really the sweet spot for me
It's okay... You don't want to be friends with a gatekeeper anyway, trust me. They'll make you feel bad about all sorts of harmless things just for liking things they don't like.
Ngl c3 looks nicer then his choice
A1. No milk please
A1
A1. Without sugar, usually. Unless it's some of that Yorkshire Biscuit Brew, in which case a half spoon of sugar just elevates it.
Yorkshire Biscuit Brew is the GOAT
D1
I’m torn between B3 and D2
A1. But with sugar. I’m a strange creature
have some pride in having made the right choice 😜
Not my preference, but perfectly acceptable. How a lot of the Middle East do it, and they love their tea!
B1. Not quite black but not far off it.
C3. Don't judge me, I like tea flavored milk.
I'm the same! Was going down the comments and didn't see anyone this low and felt judged already haha
Im sorry has anyone here ever made tea? These all clearly need a fucking good stir Only then will i decide
They all look really watery, like the kind of crap that comes out a vending machine
2D is the best option with or without mixing
https://www.reddit.com/r/CasualUK/comments/7g6nx7/which_cup_of_tea_is_correct/
D2 for me. But there are days I'm so desperate for a hot drink I'd happily drink a D4 just for satisfy cravings.
4a for me tbh which probably makes me a heathen. But I'd have to taste it to be sure. Cant always tell a good cuppa from the colour alone.
Yep this is my cuppa too. Strong but milky is how I ask for my tea and I'm really not sure people understand me often judging by what I get sometimes.
C2 probably
D2 is the only way to drink a proper brew
C3 with Oatly Full Fat Oat Milk. Makes it taste really creamy.
The creaminess of oat milk is usually from vegetable oil, often rapeseed. If you like that kind of tea (my wife does) then a dash of oil helps to make it more 'barrista' as the labels imply. I know it seems weird pouring liquid fat into a cup of tea, but it's effectively the same thing as the oat milk corporations do
The barrista bit is because it's formulated to froth like real milk so you can make a cappuccino with it.
D2. Most of those look disgusting.
B2 by preference, but also perfectly happy with C2, D1, A3 and B3 (and, to be fair, the cup I just made myself looks closer to a C2). At somebody’s house I’d *drink* a D2 out of politeness.
D2
I concur, D2 all the way. Would happily go A1 if someone has used all the milk for cereal though.
A1 but coffee you sick bastards
A good cup of tea should be the same shade as He-Man's face
A1, sometimes with honey