Americans Try British Tea (Blind Tasting Viewers' Favourite Teas)
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
- Today we are trying British tea and many British tea brands that we have never tried before. Before making this video, we asked our viewers what your favourite tea is and these teas were all of the best recommended teas we could find. Today we'll be trying some English breakfast teas, some Earl Grey blends, and a variety of everyday and all day blends. From regional suggestions like Dorset Tea and Ringtons Gold to highly recommended teas like Yorkshire Gold and PG Tips to ultra posh tea blends like Fortnum and Mason, we will be blind tasting as many of the suggested teas we can find and see how they compare.
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What's your favourite tea? Did we miss one we should try? And what do you link to dunk in your tea? Let us know so we can look for it on a future trip!
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Gotta admit I don't have a fave tea, but I am partial to Yorkshire tea
Find out what the best UK Biscuits are for dunking into tea👍
Maybe you could combine cultures and try dunking American cookies in your tea? 🤔 I haven't watched your takeaway video yet, but if you're planning on making some Indian food from scratch yourselves, avoid chicken tikka masala as it's a made-up dish and should be illegal 😂😂😂 Joking, of course, but not about the avoiding it part... Maybe try some picky bits, like bhajis, samosas, etc, with PLENTY of mint sauce and chutneys... mmm... 🤤
@@itsmephil2255Yorkshire is great, but if you can’t get it marksies sell a fab every day tea that’s actually a fair price . IIRC it’s a tad cheaper than Yorkshire
I love the clipper earl grey tea
"Builders tea" isn't a brand or a blend, it's just a way of making the tea, which is to make it really really strong, add a splash of milk and usually sugar as well - because of a stereotype about how builders and other assorted manual workers drink their tea.
One thing to note is that if you are drinking your tea black (or making it for someone else who drinks it black), you want to brew it for a much shorter time than what the packet recommends, because without milk it becomes very bitter quickly - especially if you use teabags, it isn't so bad with loose tea.
Yes. Strong brewed English breakfast tea. A strong colour too. Strong enough to give builders a caffeine boost.
Many spoons of sugar and leave the bag in the cup. Horrible!
That makes so much sense.
Booths has own label Builders Tea bags.
Has to be strong enough to trot a mouse on.
Rington’s tea is produced in my part of the world. Starting in the 1907 they delivered door to door and continue to do so today. I buy my ‘loose’ tea every other Tuesday afternoon and since my maternal grandmother bought her tea at the door, as did my mother after she married her almost youngest son, I continue a family tradition.
A london fog is earl grey with steamed milk, sugar and vanilla and sometimes lavender. It's wonderful.
Lady grey tea bags are by far the best in my opinion. See if you can find them and try them. Love your videos. Great content. Much love from South Devon. X
Completely agree! Lady Grey is the best tea and the only one I drink now!
Awesome! Thank you!
I find it overly floral and horrible and I love fancy teas
It's a lovely gentle tea - which makes it very good for settling an unhappy stomach.
@@TheMagicGeekdom Lady Grey has bergamot, but also has a little orange and lemon blended in, quite a lot of people who drink Earl Grey - which is most commonly drunk in the afternoon - will switch to Lady Grey in the summer as it has a slightly more refreshing taste. Personally, in the summer I like the occasional Lapsang Souchong, which you drink without milk. This is a love it or hate it tea, it is said that people who gravitate to single malt scotches also tend to like it.
My Chinese history is nearly non-existent, so I don't remember which Emperor or when, but a Chinese army on the march picked tea leaves as they went, but since there was no time to dry the leaves in the sun, they dried them over a pinewood fire. The result is a very smoky tea that you either love or hate. My ex would make me keep the bag of it in a sealed tin, as even in a bag in a cupboard, the smell could be quite intense. You would probably have to buy it from a specialty tea store, and it will be sold loose, not in teabags, you should treat yourself to a little bag when the weather is good, its a good drink on a hot day
Hard water is water that has a high mineral content (in contrast with "soft water"). Hard water is formed when water percolates through deposits of limestone, chalk or gypsum, which are largely made up of calcium and magnesium carbonates, bicarbonates and sulfates. It’s difficult to wash with hard water because the detergent doesn’t foam. Soft water is rain water that runs in rivers and lakes from the mountains and rain forests.
The better teas to drink in hard water are a strong breakfast tea such as a Kenyan unblended
Its ph, hard water has a ph above 7 and soft is below 7...
If you want to cook with tea, try making Bara Brith. It's a traditional Welsh tea bread and it tastes amazing! Also if you like Earl Gray tea I would recommend Twinings Lady Gray tea, it's Earl Gray tea but with orange zest as well, very tasty!
Yorkshire Tea is my choice
PG tips all the way.
It's good!
That was fascinating, once we decided that Twinings Earl Grey was our favourite tea we stopped looking for others. I have a teeny business that involves sending teabags to USA in a subscription box and I love how my customer's are getting to try lots of teas and really liking them.
The easy way to see if you have hard water is if you get deposits of limescale around your taps. If so, you might want to buy a fridge filter jug. Another tip, the 1100 teabags that you currently own need to be put in airtight containers (or freezer bags) or they'll go stale and the taste will spoil
Thank you for the suggestions and your business sounds really lovely.
Do you currently provide anything like that for UK customers..I would love a tea subscription
I prefer to choose my tea by its origin rather than brand. Try London's Drury - they may even ship internationally.
As ever, a great video. Thank you. However, loose-leaf tea is far better value - and usually better quality - than tea bags. You can buy all manner of loose-leaf tea infusers - often witty and original designs - or simply put the tea in a tea pot.
That's a good idea. We have a strainer, but a teapot would be a nice next step.
Go for it - I'm sure you won't regret it, especially if you also buy that most quintessentially British item: a knitted tea cosy!
Tell us the UK has rubbed off on you, without telling us the UK has rubbed off on you: 'I had to rinse out my Yorkshire Pudding batter so I could use the container to make some tea'!! 😂 Love it! Also, 10/10 on the tea slurpage, too! It's gotta be done! You're gonna need a LOT of biccies to get through your remaining 1,000+ teabags - assuming you needed an excuse to buy some 🤭🍪🫖
Oh, man. That's very true. Not a lot could be said that's more British.
Clipper tea is my favourite, always with a dash of milk. Fruit tea loaves are great, bara brith is a Welsh tea bread which is delicious, you pre soak the dried fruit in tea before you bake it.
We had bara brith in Wales. It was really nice!
I have just changed from Yorkshire Tea, teabags and moved over to Yorkshire Tea loose tea and it is so much better. I have always drank my tea black and I have also swapped my sugar from granulated to Brown Sugar, and it makes my tea so much better. Also when brewing a cup of tea in a mug leave it for 3 minutes before drinking the tea as you get the fuller flavour
Good to know!
The best way to drink Tea either is Yorkshire or Yorkshire Gold, then add milk from Jersey cows. It will blow your taste buds with a great full mixed flavour.
Hard water is water that is from a Limestone region. Soft water is from Peat or acidic soils. Yorkshire Tea do a blend specifically for Hard water areas.
Here are the biscuits you need to dunk in no particular order. Rich Tea, Custard Cream, Bourbon, Ginger Nut, Nice, Garibaldi, Short bread & Penguin there is a start for you lol I'm sure others will add to the list.
Hobnob
And a milk chocolate digestive 😋
What about chocolate digestives?
@@Ned.1274 if you haven't tried you have to try biting opposing ends off a penguin and drinking tea through it, it becomes goosey and melt and a little messy but worth it for a little indulgence once in a while
I'm not a fan of Rich Tea - they taste of disappointment 😔
Penguin's (Similar to Australian Tim Tams)
bite little bits off two opposite corners, and then you use them as a straw to drink the tea through
Or use an actual Tim Tam, far superior to a Penguin
Those are both really good!
Wow Glengettie that's been going for decades
My favourite.
It was good.
I like biscuit tea by yorkshire tea. Great video ❤
Same, that's my fav ❤
Have you tried the toast and jam tea? That's freaky
@@itsmephil2255 Yeh, it was horrible. It was like burnt toast flavour to me.🤣
@@imchezi hahaha it's certainly different
100% best Yorkshire just shy of their gold 👌
In relation to regional teas you should try Miles tea from Porlock in Somerset. Rich tea biscuits dunk very well too.
Thank you!
Rich tea is fairly boring but is a really good dunking biscuit. Royal Tea that is just a Rich tea with the absorbent side covered in chocolate 100% doesn't work, since the biscuit is too boring for the chocolate to save, but now it is impermeable on BOTH sides, it is no longer a dunking biscuit. Chocolate coated digestives still work because the obverse side is still absorbent.
It was Twinings that made the original Earl Grey for the Earl Grey.
Jackson’s of Piccadilly . Earl Grey had given the recipe to Robert Jackson in 1830. They were first. Twinings had the 2nd Earl Grey blend via the Strand tea shop years later. Twinings became owners of the Jacksons brand .
That's interesting.
If you like Earl Grey then the Clipper Earl Grey is a really nice balanced one. I’ve also recently discovered Waitrose Marquess Grey which are more citrusy than an Earl Grey. Probably not easy to get hold of either in the US, but worth trying next time you’re in the UK. Also we have really hard water and use a Brita filter specifically for hard water, it stops the tea getting a film on top too.
I have to say I just love you both
Your channel is fabulous
If you like Earl Grey then the Clipper Earl Grey is a really nice balanced one. I’ve also recently discovered Waitrose Marquess Grey which are more citrusy than an Earl Grey. Probably not easy to get hold of either in the US, but worth trying next time you’re in the UK.
I love Earl Grey tea. I drink mine brewed strong with a splash of milk and a spoonful of honey ❤ Tesco's own brand is my favourite. Clipper tea is really good too. I used to work at Whittard of Chelsea (there are still a few branches in the UK) They are a tea and coffee merchants, opened in London in 1881. They have some delicious teas and coffees. Old Brown Java is a fabulous aged coffee. I also used to buy their breakfast earl grey- a stronger brew.
Sounds lovely!
Yorkshire tea or PG tips are the British choice for a breakfast tea
I add earl gray tea to my Shepherds pies, it's my secret ingredient, everyone says it's delicious, and that they can detect some flavour that they know, but can't place it.. It gives the pie a lovely bergamot note. You could try making a Shepherds pie in one of your cooking videos, it's really easy, and it's delicious, just gravy, meat, veg and mash, oh and melted cheese on top.
Sounds great! We'll have to try that at some point.
I like Twinnings Everyday or PG Tips. I like to dunk Malted Milk biscuits
We'll have to look for those biscuits.
If you want to dive in more fun flavours I highly recommend Bird and Blend. Their rhubarb and custard tea is amazing!
that sounds amazing.
Very much loved this format of video and love seeing you both try recipes etc. Keep up the amazing work
Thank you!
I’ve never been able to find Twinings Everyday in the US apart from on Amazon. My two favourite teas are the Twinings Everyday and M&S Earl Grey. Fortnum and Mason Queen Anne tea is also very nice.
You can dunk practically any biscuit you like in tea, just be aware of the fact that some biscuits you have to dunk quickly. Otherwise, they’ll break into soggy wet bits in your tea and when you get to the end of your cuppa that’ll be a right mess.
It can get messy.
There is only one type of tea. Camilla Sinensis. There may be some small variation in flavour from the soil it is grown on, or the climate where it was grown, but everything else is down to how it is prepared - how it is dried, and even how the leaves are sliced - or not sliced for drying. It can be dried quickly, it can be left for varying lengths to ferment a little.
When you drink most common teas, like Tetleys, or Yorkshire they are a blend, but they are not blended to a set recipe. Companies each have a flavour profile that their customers prefer, tasters, employed by the company will blend their own profile from the teas they have. This is not done by weight or volume, but by flavour - similar to blended whiskey, based on the tones and variables of each batch of tea, they will add or subtract acidity, or tannin levels by adjusting the blend. For the common or garden brands, it is unfair to say that one is better than another, they are blending to their customers preferences. Companies like Twinings may be less "industrial" in their process, but they charge a premium, as do single malt whiskeys.
Yorkshire tea is simply unbeatable… not even seen your video yet 😂and a good slurp when I’m not in company is essential 😂mc.vities digestives are lovely biscuits to dunk, also nice with a nice spread of butter and nice mature cheddar.
Yorkshire Tea I my favourite and have mine as a builders bew with a small splash of milk and sugar. Fab video guys, really enjoyed it.
Thank you!
I live in a hard water area, but use water filters to soften the water. Brita make a kettle with replaceable filters. It significantly reduces limescale and the floating scum on tea.
I didn't know Brita made kettles. That's very cool!
Hi Folks,
I prefer Earl Grey with a slice of lemon and a little sugar, rather than milk.
Twinings Earl Grey was reformulated about 4 years ago, they lost a lot of customers.
I think you can buy Evian bottled water, which I think is a soft water, otherwise
these states have soft water: Washington, Oregon, Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama,
Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Delaware, Connecticut, Vermont, New Hampshire,
Massachusetts, and New York not sure if that's useful.
For dunking I like Rich Tea, Digestives and a bit 'out of left field' Garibaldi (squashed fly biscuits).
Nice video.
100% I used to drink twinings earl grey. Then they changed the recipe and after much searching, settled on Clipper, which is far nicer.
Thank you for all the info!
I love YORKSHIRE tea, the basic and the gold. Delicious.
But they also sell Yorkshire BISCUIT flavoured tea, and TOAST& JAM.
Haven't try it!
But my favourite is MARKS & SPENCER LUXURY GOLD tea.
The very best!!
I've also heard they just also sell flavoured teas such as SHORTBREAD.
You have to make a special video about all of them.
Anyway, wouldn't try next time so many teas/products in a go at all, they are tooooooo many.
And for DUNKING:
just a simple one to enjoy the tea flavour, such as TEA FINGERS or RICH TEA...
But have to say that ORANGE JAFFA CAKES are amazing because they get so soaked into the flavour... and the chocolate melts.
☕🍪🍪🍪❤✨✨
Just been watching and I saw you mentioned about the Soft/Hard water aspect with Black Teas. This is bang on. If you tried the same brand in England (Hard Water area) and Scotland (Soft Water area) the flavour profile would be totally different. Water quality has a lot to do with the perfect blend. Hard Water is more mineral rich and has more limestone, so it is harsher. Soft Water has less hard minerals and is more meltwater based from the mountains. It leads to a smoother brew. You can even see this if you ever try to lather soap up in both water types. You will get more lather in soft water.. Also the residue you are seeing near the water level in the brew (minus milk) is the level of Tannins in the tea (similar to red wine) which are stronger, the darker the tea blend or longer you leave it to brew (Builders Tea). Lighter Teas like Darjeeling, Earl/Lady Grey, Rooibos etc are designed not to be drank with milk.. they have specific flavour profiles which don't pair well with dairy
Thank you for all the info!
We have soft water also in the North West of England.
Why are some Brits acting like they’ve never heard of iced tea? We’ve had cans and bottles of liptons for years now . I’m 42 and I remember the cans coming out when I was a teen
I know I've seen it there. 😁
Twinings had an Iced tea during the 1990’s. Three flavours.
Liptons isn't tea...
Thank you for this. I have been buying Fortnum & Masons.
I can’t wait to try the Yorkshire tea.
Thanks for watching!
London is a hard water area, I use a Breville HotCup water heater (one mug at a time dispenser) with a Brita water filter that stops the hard water scum you can get on tea and hopefully reduces the limescale on the heating element.
We should have used our filter. Not sure why we didn't in retrospect.
Pukka - pucker usually
adjective
* Genuine; authentic.
* Superior; first-class.
* Same as pucka.
(The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition)
The word is borrowed from Hindi and Urdu "pakkā," which means "solid."
If you don’t like the tea bags, buy loose tea and brew it in a pretty teapot.
I recommend T2. You can order online. My favourite T2 teas are Chai (made with 50% milk, &0% water),and Strawberries and Cream (made with hot water only, preferably soft water/filtered water.
We discovered Welsh tea while on holiday there! Very like Yorkshire tea and I like it best of all.
We need to try more Welsh teas.
It all depends on how you make you're tea. .
Mug or cup. Tea bag in. Boiling water added. Then milk and sugar .. enjoy
Great tip!
Kinda depends. Thing is the milk can get trapped in the bag's holes, blocking the tea inside from infusing any more with the water in the cup. Hence the "put the milk in last", but putting milk in FIRST, especially if the cup is thin, means you don't have to heat that cup up, THEN put cold milk in to reduce the heat. So those who either use a teapot or loose tea insist you put the milk in first.
Pg tips since whenever I began drinking
i have yorkshire gold for breakfast, strong with 2 sugars, then normal yorkies through the day. 2nd best to that in sainburys red label.
Sounds lovely.
Don't worry, Glengettie isn't a Welsh word, but for some reason it was/is popular in Wales. I always loved a cup or two of Glengettie when I visited my grandmother as a kid.
Sounds lovely.
Fortnums do multiple types of Earl Grey tea - one of them was my grandmother's favourite, I used to bring it back to Somerset from London for her. Their afternoon tea is top notch too!
PS If you visit Fortnums, enjoy because its great, but take money, lots of money...
PPS the teas at Fortnums are on the ground floor, not far from their incredible chocolate counters.
PPPS Pukka is pronounced Pucker not pookah
PPPPS HOW did you sleep that night after all that tea (caffeine)?
Thanks for all the info.
I'm not that sensitive to caffeine, but I don't think Cara slept that well that night.
Hot countries like India drink hot tea, and eat hot curries for a reason. It’s proven they cool you down.
Fun fact: it was the British took the tea industry to India in the days of the Raj and the British Empire.
Interesting!
Fortnum and Mason royal blend is the only tea i drink. I just have one tea a day and I want it to be the best and it is, IMO😁
You really need to visit fortnum and mason you could spend at least half a day just looking through all the tea they have to offer. Personal favourite is the countess gray tea black with slice of lemon in it no sugar. Then when you finished with tea visit the food hall you won't be disappointed.
We really do need to visit Fortnum and Mason.
@TheMagicGeekdom best shop ever
I was just reading how tea was introduced to America by the Dutch in 1640. Strange, Americans are not big on tea at all. Unless it's sweet ice tea. Tea wasn't introduced in England until twenty years later. It would've been nice to continue the tradition. Something to talk about with are friends in England.
Yorkshire Gold is my every day brew. I keep mine in one of those tins that you have but it is quite a few years since I've seen them.
I'm not a fan of Earl Grey but I do like Lady Grey.
We need to try Lady Gray.
@@TheMagicGeekdom (to be read in patronising English accent) "My dear this is British tea so it is Grey not Gray" 😉
Only joking 😀
I'm a Twinings type person. I particularly like Earl Grey. My wife loves the classic Tetleys though. I'd also recommend checking out Tea Pigs which is a great, slightly fancier brand
Edit - ok you did try Tea Pigs towards the end
We did! It was quite good. We might have to try some other versions.
England miss you!
Even in hot climates (not very often here in Yorkshire) a hot cup of tea is very refreshing. Most people opt for an ice cold drink, but you should give tea a try when you are suffering from the heat of the day. You may feel slightly worse for a couple of minutes, but then you feel refreshed and also your thirst is surprisingly quenched even more than when gulping down a cold drink. As a side note, cold drinks are good if you are trying to lose a few pounds off your weight, as your body burns calories to bring itself back up to optimum temperature.
That's really interesting.
Thompson's Special Everyday and Thompson's Signature are probably the best you can get from the supermarket.
Thanks!
I love strong tea with a tiny splash of milk. I usually drink Twinings earl gray
Thanks for watching @janelevers291!
I would be curious as to whether loose tea leaves would be different than bagged tea dust.
I think they are.
I’ve never heard of Barry’s. I must admit I tend to have the supermarket’s own blend (Sainsbury’s) which I find good quality and better value.
I also notice that the same tea tastes different in different parts of the UK as the taste of the tap water varies.
We make a version of the Welsh fruit loaf Bara Brith using tea to soak the dried fruit before putting the fruit into the cake mixture.
The water does seem to make a big difference.
The big ones are Typhoo, PG Tips, Tetley. Watch the adverts for these...
Up and comers Yorkshire tea & Twinings.
Then you have the niche teas and the green teas...
I grew up on Tetley punctuated with Typhoo, milk and sugar. My nan used cream and my gran actually put lemon in hers. Now I'm drinking Yorkshire Gold.
Love the Gold.
Have you considered doing a food pairing exercise. Here are some UK classic “_____ on toast” meals to consider:
Beans on toast
Poached egg on toast
Scrambled eggs on toast
Cheese on toast
Mushrooms on toast
Spaghetti Hoops on toast.
You might also have fun trying the different brands of baked beans 🤣
That is kind of a fun idea. We might have to try that.
I use leftover tea in the teapot to make Tea Bread - you soak the fruit overnight in the teapot and use a loaf tin to bake it in. I use a recipe from Mary Berry - yum!
That sounds nice!
The water makes a huge difference to the taste of tea, which could explain why you didn't recognise Yorkshire tea when brewed at home.
We Brits refer to 'builders tea' as a very strong brew of whatever make of tea.
My personal favourite is Twinnings Breakfast tea and either a Yorkshire or Typhoo. You seemed to think that all of the first batch were breakfast teas... they're drunk at any time of day. I drink around 8 - 10 mugs a day! Always left to brew for around three minutes, so strong and I take with milk and a sweetener, but that's because I'm diabetic. I rarely drink coffee.
Thanks for watching @111SecondHandRose!
Really enjoyed watching this! I’m a Yorkshire Tea gal! But I do enjoy an Earl Grey. Although, many of the commercial varieties are made with bergamot flavouring rather than the legit oil so they’d taste quite different! ❤
Thanks for watching.
If you are into teas maybe you can try loose leaf teas next :)
I recommend Darjeeling or Ceylon tea!
Thank you!
Pukka Three Mint Tea is my fave!!! When it comes to 'dunkers' you've got to try Cadbury's Chocolate Fingers...bite the top and bottom off the finger and use it like a straw to suck up a little tea and then eat it. You gotta try it, it's epic! Also love a ginger nut biscuit too.
Those both sound great!
always get an oo with typhoo
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Lady Grey from Twinings best IMO, cant drink tea without milk....
We need to find the Lady Grey.
Cara, what were you stirring your tea with??
Do Americans not have tea spoons???😂😂
One simply must have the correct spoon 🥄😂😂😂
It's called a spork.
It was a big cocktail stirrer. 😂
@@TheMagicGeekdom 🤦🏼
And no slurping.
Where are the digestive biscuits? Schoolboy error.🙂
We did commit an error there.
You can't buy builders tea it means two tea bags in the mug so. It makes the tea taste strong in flavour
That makes a lot of sense.
Tea is a hot drink brewed from various plants, the most popular being black tea because of the colour of the dry tea leaves. Basically, there are as many teas as there are plants! The flavours vary depending on the leaf blends and where they were grown. I think twenty teas were too many for a taste test. Maybe three at a time so you can compare, make notes and then try three more, and so on.
When you try too many, the flavour of one influencers the flavour of the next one. If you then drink them in reverse order, your tastebuds change your perception yet again.
Keep each tea in its own airtight container, to keep the aroma and not mix them together. The aroma is where most of the flavour is, so don’t let it escape.
That makes sense about trying them all at once. Thank you for all the info.
Loose leaf teas are the very best when it ones to taste. You need a teapot and a strainer.
Especially with the finer teas like Earl Grey Lady Grey Assam Darjeeling etc.....
We need to try more loose leaf.
I drink breakfast tea with milk and sugar, mainly because my aunt always would ask, "Would you like a cuppa, m' duck?" (Leicester accent!), and then would proceed to make a cuppa without asking if I wanted milk or two sugars!!! 🤣 However, if I'm drinking green teas like jasmine or Japanese green tea, I have to drink them black. Masala chai has to have milk and sugar.
My aunt used to do that too! Everyone got sugar in their tea 😂😂😂
That's really sweet.
You need to get a filter jug for your hard water, that you keep in the fridge. I like Liptons iced tea in the summer. My favourites are Earl Grey, Lady Grey, Darjeeling, Roobios (Red bush), and Tesco extra strong tea. My usual brands are Twinings or M & S. Earl Grey contains Bergamot, Lady Grey has orange notes in it. I love Ginger biscuits or Oaty biscuits as dunkers.
Thanks for watching @no-oneinparticular7264!
Gosh, watching this video made me very thirsty! In terms of biscuits for dunking, I'd go for a custard cream or bourbon biscuit. Digestives are good too but be careful as they can break off. You might also want to try the non-chocolatey hobnob. I think they're a pretty good dunking biscuit.
Sounds great!
I love dipping my morning Belvita yogurt breakfast biscuits in my brew!
Sounds great!
Marquess grey teabags from waitrose are my absolute favourite, i get a bit anxious when im running low lol, its like a strong earl grey with citrus notes....i have mine with oat milk and sweetener
That sounds nice.
How you make it has an equal effect as the brand, and it's all due to taste.
But some of the cheaper brands are ditchwater.
Indian tea (Chai)never gets mentioned, it's very different !
Great point! We both like chai as well.
Regarding cooking or using tea in your cooking, I know baking wise of tea loves which is a fruity bread loaf, with sultanas that is soaked with tea. It's quite dense in texture but from what I remember is nice. As well as Earl Grey there is a Lady Grey tea which I think is a little more citrus in flavour, I enjoy Earl and lady Grey, but Assam and Darjeeling are some of my favourites.
I believe we've had the bread and it was very nice.
@@TheMagicGeekdom Sometimes it's called Tea Brack. Either eaten sliced plain or buttered.
As a proud Welshman my Grandmother drank Glengetti. You just have to make sure the temperature of the water is above 102 degrees Fahrenheit or you will taste the bitter tannins. I hate tea as everyone I have tried I taste aluminium (metallic) aftertaste on all of them.
Thanks for the info!
The Yorkshire Tea box was illustrated by Andrew Hutchinson who was born in the town where I live - Guisborough. Its about 5 miles from a place you know - Saltburn-by-the-Sea in Nth Yorkshire - you can google him
That's very cool!
You need to try Yorkshire Tea Biscuit Brew! It's so malty and delicious, like it's had biscuits dipped in it 😋
Ooo... that sounds nice!
MacVities Digrstive Biscuits are nice dunked (even the chocolate voated ones) but you need to dunk and remove before the biscuit falls into the tea. Never stop to talk with an akready dunked biscuit in your hand! Lol.....
Jammy Dodgers are anazing ....
Custard xreams are great dipped.....but my favourite are actually Rich Tea buscuits.
We need to try Custard Creams and Rich Tea biscuits.
Yorkshire Tea is my favourite. I drink very strong tea with just a dash of milk (barely enough to change the colour) and one sugar. I love the strong taste of tea.
That sounds nice!
Prefer Yorkshire Red to Yorkshire Gold.
get some digestives and eat them with extra thick cream or clotted cream on them - no dunking needed.
I love the slurp sound 😂
Not everyone does. 😂
Hello Cara and Jeremy. Thank you from Yorkshire. It was an antidote to England losing at football in the second Euros final running.
I had to stop drinking coffee non-stop at university. I was asked if I liked tea in my milk, but I was trying to cut the caffeine. A bit of a waste of Yorkshire Tea from home, before it was popular outside my county, but I did notice Lancashire Tea in the local Tesco.
My girlfriend used to get Rington's tea delivered by a chap in a Rington's van for a relative. They do all sorts of tea related extras.
Thanks for watching @alansmithee8831! Glad we could be a bit of an antidote.
@@TheMagicGeekdomThe pain in English blokes would be felt in The Force across the Galaxy. It ripples back every two years, worse each time, especially intense now the women won their Euros.
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Hard water has a high mineral content. It produces lime scale and can react with soap.
Good to know.
so glad to see you have a proper electric kettle
We do. It's nice to have one again.
I make Bara Brith with Earl Grey Tea. You soak all the currants in the tea first to make them nice and juicy, then stick them in your Bara Brith mix, bake and bob's yer uncle. Then eat slices of the Bara Brith warmed up and with butter and it is banging. Also, Twinings is a little over-rated but it's not massively different in price to Yorkshire (last time I looked there was less than 10p difference). Thing is, it depends on what tea you're getting from Twinings as their English Breakfast is pretty average but their Earl Grey absolutely slaps. Their Assam and Lapsang are decent too.
We had Bara Brith in Wales. It was so lovely!
Twinings is a popular tea at hotels and the reason I take my own tea bags when I go on a business trip. Yorkshire tea is the only one I've found to always taste good regardless of the type of water
Good to know we're not the only one to take tea from hotels. 😂
Yorkshire Gold is the tea I have every day. I don’t like Tetley or PG tips at all.
I love PG tips.
That was one of our favorites.
You have missed one of the Greatest Teas - Typhoo Tea is a Classic ! Another Good couple of Teas are Ringtons and Liptons.
Tetley is rubbish and Yorkshire tea is horrible ! PG is ok and Twinnings is a Posh expensive tea you only have in hotel rooms.
I guess we didn't think of Liptons as it's easiest one to find here in the US.
Builder's tea is just an expression and more to do with the shade and strength of the tea, just as some prefer it on the paler and weaker side which some may say it looks like dishwater.
Typhoo is more of you basic cheaper range of tea but I think it's fine, although I do like some of the supermarket brands like M & S too. Loved this video.
Thank you!
'Lyons', 'Co-op 99' and local to me in Newcastle 'Ringtons', can be added to your next tasting.
Thanks for the suggestions!
That film on the top of your cuppa is as a result of the minerals, mainly calcium carbonate, found in hard water reacting with the tea leaves. Some blends are particularly susceptible to this. If you have a decent water filter you can use it to soften your hard water.
Yorkshire Gold is called "Gold" because it is made with Gold Label leaves - the highest grade of teas.
Ordinary Yorkshire tea is a Red Label blend (I think that's why they chose the colour scheme on the box.
The very cheapest teas you can find in the supermarkets is Brown Label - the lowest grade of leaves - and I don't know how people drink it.
If you are cooking anything that requires raisins, or even if you are just adding them to muesli, soak them overnight in black tea. It plumps them up and brings out the flavour.
I don't understand Earl Grey tea. It's like drinking a weak cup of te whils sitting at the side of somebody who is wearing overpowering aftershave.
We really should have used our filter in the refrigerator for the water. We'll have to do that in the future.
If you're left handed you should stir it anti-clockwise and at least 100 times. Also, put the sugar in before the milk. You get a sweet tasting tea rather than a sugary tasting one.
Thanks!