The temperature of the water used depends on the type of tea you’re using. You cannot use boiling water with green tea, but you can use it with black tea.
@@Keefcooks looking at history tea at first was shipped to England from China was ether Oolong tea or Green tea. I think that is why America told King George III stick his taxes and tea at the Boston tea party. They prefer their coffee🤣. Anyhow Keef I really enjoyed this video.
Rouge Squadron I’ve always loved tea! I got a dna test last year actually and was kinda surprised to find that I’m 78 percent English! Now I’m embracing it haha
I found myself nodding all the way through this video. That's a reet posh kettle Keef, excellent to demonstrate the importance of using boiling water. The tea cosy is sublime!
Yorkshire tea is actually grown in India and Africa. There was recently a humorous exchange between their twitter account and a slightly racist man who was quite shocked by the whole thing.
Fun fact: The Boston tea party was just an American attempt at making the east coast into a nice large pot of tea. You have to burn the ship in order to properly boil the ocean water.
It depends on what tea I'm looking for. I like Yorkshire Tea, but PG is my go-to. For Earl Grey, we have Bigelow where I live, and it's the only one I've had that doesn't have that icky aftertaste I hate so much.
My friends mother in the USA had tea cozies, which isn’t common here. I thought that they made the pot look like old lady hats. She hand steeped tea. The one that Mrs Keef Cooks is cute.
Just ordered me an 80 pack of yorkshire and I'm going to enjoy my first cup of british tea here in the states. Genuinely enjoyed the video and all the info!
I'm from Norway, i've never liked tea really, or rather i just didn't prefer it over a cup of coffee. But only recently i was told it was because i might be making it wrong, or i had hard water in the tap. I actually found that yorkshire tea had a brand for people with hard water in their homes, so i thought i'd buy it and check out a video on how to make it. And what do you know you're also using yorkshire tea, must be the perfect brand then!
Wow, my children, and I are impressed with all these tips! Warm the tea kettle, roaring boil to be used immediately for the water (and my own) of warming the milk, cream, or honey too. Much more factually thorough than other tea videos. Next time, please do a video on serving tea, and what accompaniments go with tea (scones, sandwiches, etc.) Thank you! 🙏
Proper British tea for the Brit's, thanks for sharing Keef...love a good cuppa, made with an old fashioned whistling kettle and fresh milk straight from the milkman...., sweet memories of Great Britain. God bless you and Mrs Keep from the South Coast
Thank you for the video. Also, I love that mug of British sayings. Here in the southern U.S., we say the 'fair to middlin' one. I guess we carried it over with us.
Twinings Earl Grey 😎👍, I also love crushed licorice root tea, and Lapsang Souchong is a wonderful complement to a smoked meat dish. Hats off to Mrs Keef for the off-the-hook cozy! I just awoke to a light snow. Perfect time for a cup. Cheers!
Licorice root can raise your blood pressure. JUST FYI. 🥰 I am a Registered Nurse. I can’t control the giving of the unsolicited advice. BOSSY IS MY LOVE LANGUAGE, 😂
Love Lapsang souchong. I once asked my very kd school, conservative father if he liked Lapsang souchong and he replied, " I don't DO Lapsang souchong!" 🤣
Well I cannot abide unsolicited advice givers at least you admit it and I like your spirit! I am a holistic practitioner and I have learned that licorice is helpful for people with burned out adrenals who usually have low blood pressure. Cheers
I am a Constant Comment tea girl. When I was a little girl 58yrs ago, my dad would smuggle it in for me when you could only buy it in Canada. I like the pomp and circumstance surrounding the tradition, plus the taste!
I think the extra bag is possibly because when you're making a pot you usually don't put in the exact amount of water you'll need like you do when pouring in a mug. You typically add a bit more just to be safe. Maybe half a mugs worth more. So it will be a bit stronger but spread out to 3 or 4 cups it comes out just right imo
Spot on Keef, we do our Tea the exact same way, winter it's all about the pot, summer mugs as we go. Yorkshire Tea is sourced from Assam In North East India as i recall, Tetley and PG Tips used to get a lot of their stock from Kandy in Sri Lanka not sure if they still do. I used to travel to SL and India with business very often and would take Tea tours when i had the chance. Cheers Moose. P.S. the Tea Cosy is the love child of Lady Gaga and Dame Edna. lol, classic.
@@Keefcooks cheers, mate. I have generally consumed Tetley tea in the past however I will have to try Yorkshire Tea. A few friends of mine from the UK have told me Yorkshire really is the best brand for tea. Great video, BTW
There actually is a huge difference between tea bags and loose leaf. The stuff in tea bags is ground up left over stems and bad leafes. They release a bitter taste which good quality loose leaf doesn't. So you don't have to add sugar, milk or cream :)
I've recently started using loose tea (because the bags don't compost properly). I can't say I've noticed ANY difference. And I think this thing about teabags containing rubbish is possibly an urban myth. Given that about 70% of tea sold is in teabag form, it can't ALL be sweepings, unless they deliberately throw it on the floor!
@@Keefcooks I'd suggest you look into a tea set like kamjove or something :) very easy to brew lose leaf tea that way! And thats possibly true that it's not all sweeping but it definitely is the lesser quality leafes :) but hey, to each there own! Just stumbled upon your video haha. I'm just a tea purist, in my opinion using milk and sugar negates the health benefits of tea and it loses its taste. But again to each there own. I still liked you video and your charisma!
I've got a micro-perforated pot that sits in the mug while the leaves are steeping. Works great and is the least messy way of dealing with leaf tea I've ever come across.
This is great thank you for the video. I am finding myself drink more and more tea these days. Definitely have to try it your way. I love the tea cozy very cute😊
Now that's a proper cuppa! Yorkshire Tea is just the best, nice and strong. A few years ago, I switched from regular sugar to brown rock sugar (similar to what Frisians do, they use white though). Makes a huge difference, and really adds to the malty flavour of the tea.
More childhood memories. On the weekends my mom served elevenses. Sometimes we'd make diminutive cucumber sandwiches, or watercress, or very thin ham--"fairy sandwiches," as I called them. Sometimes we'd have scones or dainty cakes. This served as lunch, as we seldom had afternoon tea (although we never ate dinner earlier than 7:30). It was loose tea in our home and the Brown Betty for a casual service.
my dad always had his elevenses. and we lived in the states! But my grandmother was English and my father grew up with these customs which continued. My mother used to make capers for us and fried bread with our eggs on special mornings. Yum.
Oh yes! My mother used to make the most wonderful tea sandwiches cucumber water cress being her specialties. She always made of nice trade them for birthday parties and special occasions. tea sandwiches are the greatest!
If you ever get a chance try Barry's Irish tea. Its the best selling tea in Ireland apparently. They had it in Tesco a while back and now its the only tea I use.
A few years ago my son had a project for school where he had to study a country. He picked Ireland. I happened to find Twinnings Irish Breakfast. The day of his presentation I made 2 large thermos bottles of the tea with milk and sugar and Irish soda bread with Kerry gold butter. It was a hit!! Here in America, especially South texas we only drink sweet iced tea so this was a very new thing for the class of 8 year olds. I will look for Barry's now 😉
I really enjoy your channel. I'm a 2nd generation Irish transplant and can't remember when I didn't drink tea. I never order it when I'm out. They just haven't been trained properly. If there are any restauranteurs out there I suggest they show this episode at your next in-service. Thank you.🍀🎑
We yanks almost all have garbage disposals in our kitchen sinks, so loose leaf isn't such a hassle for us. We can simply rinse out the pot in the sink.
Yes 🙋 oh I laughed when you said one for the pot and memories of Billy cans of brew on worksites sprung to mind. When we had visitors my mum would say Bren go put the kettle on which was code for put tea in the pot with boiling water let it draw for a bit so you could find the biscuit tin them a drop of milk in china cups topped with tea from the pot brought to you with a teaspoon on the saucer for stirring, and god help us if we went somewhere and had tea ands she got a cracked or chipped cup. She only drank instant coffee made with milk from a mug. 😍💕 My dad wasn't so fussy as long as it was wet and warm as he would say 😀 That cozy is the Bomb Diddy.
I only use distilled water for tea, which imparts nothing but a medium for the real taste of the tea. And unlike Keef, I use loose-leaf. I live in Virginia USA and picked up the habit while at university from my music teacher who had lived on the isle of Skye in Scotland back in the day where she picked up the British tea culture. I have since passed it on to my family and to some friends. The winter weather now is ideal for a hot cuppa of Yorkshire Gold.
Agreed the quality of the water is critical to the flavour of your drink (as it is with beer). Here in West Yorkshire we are blessed with soft water that tastes great. I wish I'd mentioned it in this video - if you have hard water, filter it or use distilled.
Yes, we do ... but only at home where I can make a proper cuppa (like my English Nana taught me). When I go out in Germany, I never drink tea because in this country, you always just get a cup (or glass) of hot water and a teabag to put into it. Horrible. Without using boiling water, it's simply not a real cup of tea - it's just a lightly flavored warm beverage. Not willing to pay money for that. There are a few exceptions - in a few cafés or restaurants, they actually make real tea that is drinkable. Usually, however, they are pretty expensive.
It just makes me so happy to see you happy brewing tea. I could not help smiling and that kettle warmer, nothing tops that! I am a coffee lover, but I do enjoy cup of tea the English way. I am gonna have one right now, Thanks!!!!
Tea bags here in the US like Tetley are proper rubbish. It's Green Tea that has to be brewed off the boil at around 180 F/ 82 C not black tea. I am partial to builders tea my self. Nice review Keef, Cheers
Fanks, Luv. I would have liked to see you pour out the tea from your tea pot. Just to have a full circle experience. I've always liked Yorkshire Gold , but now I shall have to give the red a go. Blessings.
I'm one of those horrible people who drink rather weak tea instead of "builder's tea". Also, I use loose leaf tea -- which requires me to shop at Indian markets instead of supermarkets (which stock only tea bags).
Thank you for this; this is just how I have been making my tea here in the chilly Autumn nights in Pennsylvania. For the authentic experience, I'm using a genuine British tea sold locally as "Make Mine A Builders", imported from Britain.
Well one day I didn't bother with temper the pot...my favorite tea pot, Beatrix Potter bunnies cuteness, exploded to bits. What a mess. Sad very sad day.
Omg, I knew that tea cozies were a thing, but I never expected your tea cozy to be that quirky! I also knit and crochet too. The tea cozies I happened to see online (I literally have never googled tea cozies or British tea before the pandemic, not even after I developed a celebrity crush on Benedict Cumberbatch) looked like colorful oven mitts or something all sewn together.
Czechia here: Lemon is mandatory in many teas there. Also, we use honey instead of sugar for tea. And if you ask for milk to your tea, everyone will look weird at you, I have been there 😂 And lose leaf tea is “better” because low quality waste leafs and grit are more obvious in it, so there is smaller chance they will put it in there. While this lower quality product can be hidden in the bag.
Many people like to say the tea in bags is entirely made up of sweepings from the floor. Given that tea in bags now accounts for 80% of all tea sold, that means that workers are deliberately throwing tea onto the floor and then sweeping it up to put in the bags. Not likely really. You carry on with your loose tea habit while I enjoy the luxury of not having my kitchen sink blocked by tealeaves. 😀
@@Keefcooks Well it is easier to put this “bad” parts of tea in the bag, but it doesn’t mean they did it. I was just telling the believe people have, that’s all 🤷♀️ It is only in “you can see it better in lose leaf” that’s all. I do like my black tea in bag (you just need to find good seller). But there are some teas I like lose leaf, because I find great local seller with amazing blends that are only lose leaf. And you can regulate how strong you make it this way. And also, Czech people has long tradition in herbal teas (almost everyone with garden has herbs in there just for teas. And you use this as lose leaf tea, in strainer). But in the end, if seller is good, it doesn’t matter if it’s in tea bag or lose leaf.
“A topic surrounded by myths, legends, and a fair bit of snobbery” 😂 🤣😅🤣 Indeed, who doesn’t think of a bunch of Victorian snobs when you hear the term, British tea. That was hilarious👌
I am from Hawai`i. Heavily influenced by England before American Anexation and statehood, we drink both hot tea and iced tea here. We sweeten but do not put milk in our tea. Iced tea is very popular throughout the United States as it is an alternative to drinking soda.
Here in the Southern USA , It has to be SWEET ICED TEA I don't like hot coffee or tea I do however like a cold Mocha coffee with milk. only if it is not a Starbucks lol because they are pricey and I hear bad things about their water ( like fecal matter in it)
