Noticed I’ve started appreciating the different notes of each. I’ll get used to one, then find another one interesting, like polygamy or something.
A box of tea is a medium-term commitment, but still – if you’ve got PG Tips, Yorkshire Gold AND Typhoo in the cupboard, you’d never get bored and it’d work out the same in terms of cost.
So long as you’ve got room in the cupboard for 2-3 big value boxes. 3 mini ones would just be decadent.
Is this a thing other people already do? Writing this feels like heresy.
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Quite a few people do have multiple types of tea, albeit maybe more varied than your suggestion.
You want to hear heresy, I prefer coffee over tea, and when I do drink tea, it tends to be stuff like “lemon and ginger tea”.
I think having different types of tea is fine (because of my own tea heresy)
Trying different types and flavours can also be fun. I once drank Liquorice tea for a week, because that is what the people I were staying with had, and they insisted on providing the Englishman with some tea.
Those are all basically the same thing. What would be the point?
Lots of people have more than one kind of tea in but more likely things like earl grey, green tea, chamomile, assam etc
We’ve got quite a few in, from own brand to twinings, special seasonal blends, fruit teas, cold infusions. We like choice.
If you want a variety of teas you’re better off getting different loose leaf blends not just different brands
It’s like having a sandwich with two types of bread
We have about 10 types of (leaf) tea (not including the herbal crap my partner drinks sometimes, that is “A substance almost but not entirely unlike tea”).
There’s nothing wrong with that.
We do drink a lot of the stuff, it must be said.
All the ones you’ve mentioned are relatively cheap blends. A combination of different types of tea, and the cheaper you go, the worse the quality.
If you want different notes, try teas of one origin, eg: Assam, or Darjeeling, or Ceylon. These are regions where different types of tea are grown.
Assam for instance is what gives the aforementioned tea blends their kick. It is very strong, black tea. Want a builders tea? Assam is what you need.
Darjeeling is light, and called the champagne of teas. Best without milk.
Ceylon is a golden brown tea with a distinctly different flavour.
Skip the blended teas. They’re like the blended whiskies of tea. Instead go and try the single malt versions of tea, some of which i mentioned above.
i have Yorkshire for everyday, earl grey for fancy , twinings English breakfast for the weekends, and a specialty tea as yet unopened.
I might do this so then I can taste test the different brands. Everyone always says Yorkshire Tea is the best but being from Lancashire I’d like to be able to disprove this.
I just don’t do tea anymore, I’m a coffee wanker now. The tea I have in the cupboard is only there for guests and trades people. It’s probably well past its sell/use by date. I do however have a collection of PG Tips cards from my childhood. My parents were into tea, and don’t remember them ever drinking coffee. I think they thought that’s what posh people or the French did.
Absolutely – I’m with you on this one.
Multiple types of tea in the house – you must have a more refined palette than me though, mine are all different varieties that are usually brewed in different ways or served in different ways. E.g. Darjeeling/Ceylon/Lapsang Suchong/Earl Grey and I don’t think I could tell the difference between a PG Tips and a Tetley.
Buying 3 nearly identical teas sounds boring.. I’d rather have Yorkshire tea, peppermint and some particular black tea like Lapsang souchong
Buying 3 nearly identical teas sounds boring.. I’d rather have Yorkshire tea, peppermint and some particular black tea like Lapsang souchong
I don’t have a preferred brand of tea and just buy a big pack of whatever is on special offer.
My Dad will only drink Yorkshire Tea, my Mum like Tetley but sometimes Earl Grey. So I can pick n choose whatever I want when I visit lol!
I’m a Yorkshire man myself (tea and origin), but all three of those are ordinary tea.
However I like lemon & Ginger, Mrs drinks pepermint.
I’ve also taken to Chai recently. And occasionally breakfast tea.
I’m no expert, but I do know that others have much more variety than me.
Whenever I order my favoured loose leaf teas from the mail order shop I use, they normally chuck in a trial sized bag of some other blend to try as a freebie. Consequently, there are the three large bags of my normal ones, plus about fifteen other little pouches of exotic sounding blends in the tea cupboard. When my wife had a friend visit, and she asked for ‘just a normal tea’, I read out some choices… apparently, the names of some of the actual types of tea used in some standard bags is ‘never heard of it, honestly, just normal tea…’. Stood no chance with White Peony or Formosa Gunpowder…
We didn’t have any ‘normal’ tea bags of something like PG or Yorkshire stuff to offer, so I had to dive up to the village shop for a small box of gold-dust priced PG.
From this I conclude that it is fine to have more than one type of tea in, for myself, but just have something common in, just in case a normal person visits.
I have multiple teas in, but not the types you mentioned (because… Why?). I have
* green tea
* Scottish blend
* Russian caravan
* lemon and ginger
* peppermint
There are others, but these are the main ones we drink on a regular basis.
If you’re going to have different teas in it isn’t the cheap teas you want, it’s like having Carlsberg, Fosters and Carling in, there’s not enough difference for it to be worth it just buy the cheapest if that’s what you are after.
If you are after actual variety you get one bulk bag of your tea of choice and 1 or 2 nicer teas.
PG is my go to for tea so we have a largish box of that, (240 bags).
I also enjoy Darjeeling and Earl Grey so we have smaller boxes (50 or 100 bags) of those. (The Earl Grey has a best before on it of Feb 2020 so it’s been a while since I’ve drunk it.) We also have a box of Yorkshire Tea Toast and Jam (which tastes like toast and jam) and a box of peppermint which mainly my wife drinks but I will have it occasionally.
Comparing the forbidden thrill of using a different brand of tea to polygamy is the most British thing I’ve read this week.
I’ve currently got Twinnings English breakfast and lapsang black tea in tea bag form. In loose leaf, I also have assam and ceylon.
I like to alternate between black tea flavours. I don’t usually buy PG or Yorkshire as that’s what we have at work. But I do tend to buy a different variety everytime I run out.
I also tend to have jasmine green tea, green tea with lemon and peppermint tea as both me and my partner have IBS and they can really help with that.