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I drink tea primarily. I'm trying to cut back, but I'll drink at least one 24z pot I the morning (looseleaf in a strainer, electric gooseneck kettle, ceramic pot) and then go drink iced tea all day at work.
You're understeeping your breakfast tea, by-the-by. Most black teas are best around three minutes.
I do it as a cost-savings measure: I steep once for 1-2 minutes, then later in the day re-use the same bag once more, at which point it can steep for several minutes.
I'm probably over-thinking that - especially if I am under-thinking all other aspects of tea-making:-).
But thanks for the tip - perhaps I'll try one at 3min and see how much better it tastes!:-)
The only thing I drink daily is water, followed by coffee 2-3 times a week because it's almost always hot and ready at work. Tea is more of a weekend thing for me. I take my time and use an old school kettle I practically got for free
Every morning starts with Yorkshire Gold, 2 sugars, small splash of evaporated milk.
I'm probably 50/50 coffee or tea daily, both decaf and regular. Earl Grey is my favorite but English Breakfast or other black teas are good. We have an awesome automatic tea maker that has a magnetic basket/timer. Coffee is usually more of a morning drink.
I drink coffee in the morning most of the year, but there's an inevitable point in the winter when I decide I want a hot bowl of soup for breakfast, which means I'm making miso soup, which means I'm making genmaicha to go with it. That actually started today and will probably carry on until some point in February.
I occasionally get a craving for sambar and idli breakfasts, too, so I'll make a huge batch of sambar and for as long as that lasts, I'm making chai with breakfast.
I'll also have peppermint tea after work or late in the evening on occasion. And on some weekends when I'm working on a project for most of the day, I'll make oolong and resteep the leaves over and over again, peeling of layers of flavors throughout the day.
The bf will occasionally offer to fix me a cup of Earl Grey, which he drinks almost exclusively and daily. When I take him up on it, that I'll take with a little cream or milk. The rest I take as is.
And, yeah, the electric kettle is the tits, love that thing.
I married a lady from the UK so we have builder's tea often. Yorkshire tea, splash of milk.
Sounds lovely:-).
I usually have a cup of tea at night before I go to bed
Daily is dependent on time of year for me. I tend to not like hot beverages during warm whether, with the minor exception of coffee with deserts and I still let the coffee cool some.
That being said, I'm having a cup of earl grey as I'm scrolling lemmy right now, and I have a cup almost every day during cooler weather. It is, however, a recent thing. I never liked hot teas, but I have a thing where I retry things I don't like (but not things I hate) every now and then because I discovered that my tastes can change without any attempt at making it happen.
Last winter, I decided to try some of my wife's hot tea, which she does drink every day, all year round.
I found that I found it less meh than I used to, so I tried some other types she had around. I discovered that, while I'm particular about how I like specific teas, I very much enjoy hot tea in general now.
Before, green tea was the only one I would choose to drink hot, and only at Japanese restaurants.
Now, I prefer Earl Grey, it's my favorite tea. I take it with a single sugar and splash of milk. Not cream, milk
I also very much enjoy English and Irish breakfast teas single sugar, splash of lemon.
Other teas vary, but lag behind those in how often I would pick them instead of those. And, I tend to always want a single sugar, no matter the type. Green tea I drink either plain, or with a few drops of honey, but no sugar.
I tend not to like flavored teas as much, though I can tolerate them if I want a hot drink and there's nothing else.
I'm not too picky about preparation. If I'm really wanting to savor a special tea, I boil the water separate, use filtered water only, carefully time the steep, and such. But for day to day drinking, I'm using a microwave. 2 minutes thirty, with the bag in, and the little bit of flavor that's lost is not a problem to me. But I wouldn't do that with loose tea at all, even with reusable bags. If I'm reaching for loose tea, I want every bit of flavor and scent, so it's precise.
But even with the fancy teas, I'm not sweating how the water is heated at all, and I'm not fanatical enough to worry about seconds of steep time.
I never got into Earl Grey for some reason. Irish Breakfast is strong enough to have flavor even with food, and I guess I got used to it, enough to enjoy it even without (in fairness I usually use a bag twice, which makes the flavor weaker:-).
I never add sugar but then again I usually have something with the tea, perhaps a yogurt, in which case I also add no creamer, or eggs for breakfast, in which case I do add creamer.
Herbal teas are supposed to be a bit bitter. As a child I always hated bitter, but now I love these flavors.
I miss green teas. You used to get it for like a dollar in Japanese restaurants, but now that it's tripled in price for whatever reason I never do it anymore. Soups either - I used to get one every time I went but now I just never do. Post-pandemic pricing definitely changed how I eat things, especially "out".
Don't feel shame in using a microwave (then again, I know nothing, so don't listen to me there:-) - so long as the water boils and then starts to back off from that, it's mission accomplished.:-)
But with the bag in - that works?!? Well if you enjoy it, I suppose it must.
Yeah, the bag in does lose some of the strength of the bergamot for earl grey, but other than that, the difference isn't enough to notice in bagged teas. Like, maybe if you were blind tasting side by side, you could tell that the same tea wasn't the same microwave vs normal steep, but I couldn't tell which was which. The best I can describe is that the microwave is a little less tannic, but a little less floral as well
I drink tea most days in the afternoon. I rotate between various black teas, green teas, pu'er, and gunpowder teas. I'll also do herbal teas like chamomile and mint in the evening. I grow mint, and it grows like a weed, so I'm constantly cutting it back and drying it for tea.
I drink a breakfast tea often, moreso in the winter. English or Irish are great, but I love this one Supreme Breakfast blend from Harney. Electric kettle, loose leaf teas, cast iron pot. I like it with a little sugar and honey.