What do you put in your tea?

34 comments

1. Milk and sugar; the English way.

   I actually don’t drink much tea, but back in Uni, one of my professors was… well, he still is… an Englishman, and when you had meetings with him, you were only offered tea, no coffee… So I had to drink tea, with milk and sugar.

2. If it’s a strong black tea, then stick with milk, if it’s anything else then nothing, should be fine on its own.

3. Sugar if it’s black tea, honey if it’s green tea. No milk.

4. mint, ginger, lemon balm, lemon, honey, buckthorn, raspberry jam, rosehip – are acceptable.

   sugar – banned.

   milk – straight to the prison you go.

5. Black Tea – just milk (I am probably the only Turkish person who does this).

   Other teas – sometimes if I am sick, I drink tea with lemon and honey. Otherwise, just straight, no sugar.

6. Usually sugar/honey (sometimes nothing with some fruit teas), lemon if black tea.

   I tried milk once. It was appaling.

7. I have simple tastes: I only drink tea with a little sugar.

8. Depends –

   Traditional tea- boil/simmer milk, black tea and water in a pan, might add cardamom.

   Masala tea- same as above but with some cinnamon and nutmeg.

   Afghani green tea- cardamom lemon and honey , with crystal sugar, some times mint is added.

   Iranian tea- very red -black tea with sugar cubes.

   Kaymak tea- pink tea with milk, cardamom, rose water, clotted cream ( kaymak), pistachios, almonds and cashews and candied rose petals ( if I’m feeling fancy).

   Bbq tea- same as the first one, but gives the tea a smoky flavour and a pinch of butter ( some time twigs)

   Ginger tea- same as the first one though either add some ginger or candied ginger for flavour, and an asian spice ( forgotten the English name it has an aniseedy flavour).

   Some other teas that I have are tamarind tea, chill tea, black pepper tea, butter tea, noodle tea and salt tea.

   As you can tell I take my tea very seriously.

9. Never actual tea leafs.
   Straight. Once in a while I feel like changing things and add four drops of milk.

10. Nothing. I buy mostly aromatized tea ( red fruits or mint ) and it’s good enough for me

11. Kluntje or Kandis. Brown sugar crystals which are mostly used to sweeten black tea together with milk. I heard that they are sold in the USA as “rock candy” but northern Germany, especially “Ostfriesland” has a long tradition in using this kind of sugar.

12. Splash of semi-skimmed milk (1.7% Fat as I believe other countries may use different terminology). Nothing else needed. Sugar ruins tea imho. I have been known on occaision to replace the milk with rum.

13. Half teaspoon of sugar and 1/5th milk for black tea. Lemon and berry jam is nice as well. Nothing if its green tea.

14. Sometimes I put sugar, candy sugar or honey, depending on my mood or the tea. My black tea I usually drink with oat milk (I used to be lactose intolerant and got used to the taste of oat milk, I can’t stand the taste of regular milk in my tea anymore)

15. Just sweetener. Used to be refined sugar in the past, nowadays it’s mostly in form of stevia.

16. Nothing. Years ago, I replaced sugar with honey, but I have since cut it out. Nowadays I put honey in my tea only when I’m down with a cold and have a sore throat.

17. Pinch of citrulline malate to add some fruity tartness, and small lump of sugar.

18. I like my tea like I like my women: hot, black, and with as little dribbling as possible.

19. I usually only drink black teas and I put milk in it. If I have a cold or sore throat then I sometimes also put some honey in it too.

20. Depends what I’m having.

    Herbal teas (most days) – plain

    Rooibos (a few times a week) – oat milk

    Black tea (rarely) – oat milk (or honey + lemon if I am unwell)

    Green tea (occasionally) – plain

21. LV- If the tea has lemon, ginger I use honey,
    If it’s other tea then sugar, black tea sugar and milk

22. Honey, sweetener, lemon juice, milk only in really strong English tea.

23. Nothing in green tea. Nothing in fruit tea. Either milk and sugar (normal tea) or cinnamon, cardamom, pepper and cloves (masala chai) in black tea. Honey in ginger tea

    My wife uses the same black tea as me (British or East Frisian tea), but always adds lemon juice, sugar, pieces of apple and either a drop of strawberry juice (daytime) or some mulled wine (evenings). She has at least six cups a day of this.

24. Thyme or mint is a good addition to black tea.
    Other than that – nothing.
    Good tea generally doesn’t need any taste changers.

25. Short: Depending on the tea, either nothing or brown sugar (candy sugar), especially when I have more cups – a pot full for myself – I put in a lot of sugar and don’t stir – so I do not have to re-sugar it and only tip it up with tea once it becomes too sweet.

26. Nothing. Even when I order tea in restaurants it usually comes with nothing else in it (or on the side). Some people put in sugar or milk.

27. Just a small amount of milk normally. But occasionally I like a cup of “Builder’s Tea” which is very strong (3 teabags left in there for ages and thoroughly squeezed) – in which case a small amount of sugar is good.

28. I spent a lot of time living in China so I usually have green tea or jasmine. Sometimes herbal blends or some green or black tea with some flavorings already added. No sugar, no milk.

    I might have milk with black tea on occasion bad honey when I’m sick.

29. Nothing. If steeped correctly you don’t need anything. Black tea starts to release tannic acid at around 3,5 minutes. Don’t leave the tea in your cup, savages!

30. I enjoy Brennessel tea with a teaspoon of honey. It’s just nostalgic because whenever I couldn’t sleep as a child, my father would make it for me.

31. Nothing. I like my tea the best when it tastes like tea and if I want a change of taste I try different variety of tea instead.

32. Depends on the tea.
    I usually drink hip rose tea, black tea and fireweed tea. For black tea and fireweed tea I use sugar or honey. Hip rose tea is best plain, same with green tea.

    Also, there is a kind of caucasian walnut jam called kaklis muraba that is awesome in black tea.

    Milk should never be near tea IMO

33. Nothing. I don’t want to ruin my precious teas that taste so delicious in their purest form.

34. Nothing. Tea itself is flavorfull enough. I drink mostly black tea.