If you are referring to adding milk before or after tea supposedly it does taste better before to a connoisseur. Adding the milk before tea, lets the milk warm slowly, cools the tea, so if you have a very fine porcelain cup it does not break from heat, prevents mild curdling and scalding and makes it easier to mix. Adding milk before the tea is the traditional English way of making tea.
If you are asking whether milk should be added to tea at all, that depends on the kind of tea and your taste. Typically green and white teas are not usually served with milk or sugar because of mild flavour. Strong black teas, spiced black teas, and herbal teas are more likely to be served with milk
tea before the milk, and let the tea boil before a bit before putting the milk
Actually, A sceintific study shows that tea tastes like boiled milk if you do it your way. You obvoiusly have half my tastebuds!
Ok. New contributor. To add more detail:
If you are making a traditional cup of English tea you will put the tea in the CUP last.
First:
You put tea leaves in a teapot
Then add hot water.
Leave it to brew for a while (if we're being really traditional we use a tea-cozy to keep the teapot, and therefore the brewing tea, from cooling down).
Now put your milk in the bottom of your teacup.
Lastly slowly pour the tea through a strainer onto the tea.
This way the milk warms gradually and doesn't 'scald'. This is the boiled milk flavour that was referred to by an earlier poster.
Traditionally in the North of England a metal teapot/kettle was used to boil the water, leaves were added and then the teapot was put back on top of the stove to brew/stew for a bit longer. This tea has a completely different flavour and I would imagine has slightly more caffiene than normally brewed tea.
The milk used shouldn't be too creamy. I would say Semi-skimmed would be fine, certainly no creamier than full milk (so no channel island milk or any kind of cream). I would also suggest not much should be used. The purpose of milk in a tea with milk is merely to take the edge of the bitter taste. If you like it bitter then try it with lemon like the French take it.
This is actually a matter of opinion. The real way is to add the milk after you have poured your tea, but if you like to pour tea after milk it will not affect the taste.
Because the tea would already be hot and if you add the milk before it will get thicker than it will already be
No.
you make a cup of tea and then add a lot of milk
the more milk you add, the weaker the tea becomes
The British usually add milk and sugar to their tea
Assuming you are not lactose intolerant it will provide some nutritional benefit. The milk will provide lactose, calcium, protein and fat. If the milk is vitamin D fortified, you will get that, also. How much depends on how much milk you add and what kind of milk you use. Check the nutrition panel on the milk carton and measure the amount of milk you add to know for sure. It is unlikely that milk will cancel any of the benefits you might get from the tea.
The British were the first group of people to add milk to tea. Americans have picked up this custom, particularly when drinking 'high tea'.
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VERY VERY simple take normal tea or what ever type u like Boil water Add boiling water to tea Add sugar And lots of milk If you want it like bubble tea add a full or half cup of ice then it should get cold (When making bubble tea Add more sugar then normal)
its usually sugar, but some people have it just plain. Milk, or milk and sugar. Very few Britons drink 'black' tea, i.e. without milk (but my two daughters do drink it black).
After; the fats in milk will coat the tea bag enough to limit the release of flavors in the tea.
Some people add milk first and tea second, others add the tea first. So why not?