Tea Making Tips (1941) 

Finally the youtube algorithm has figured out what I really like.

This has to be the most British thing ever. A war was raging, the country being flattened by the Luftwaffe, the country on rations but they still had time to make a film about how to make a perfect cup of tea lol

Finally, no more infusion confusion. Just a profusion of drinkable solution.

Tea, the cure for anything in Britain. "Mother just died, have a cuppa tea", "lost your job, have a nice cuppa". As in the words of Harold Steptoe from the BBC sitcom Steptoe and Son "I have been offered tea for disasters, funerals, operations, floods, wars, Dunkirk, the Blitz, coronations, piles, hunger marches and insomnia".

just.. wow!! But I'm glad he pointed out where the two pieces of wood go. 01:54 I was getting confused. 🤔 And remember kids, when pouring boiling water into a narrow test tube, always pour from as high as possible and towards yourself, while grasping the soon-to-be extremely hot glass tube with your hand directly below the kettle to catch any spillage from the boiling liquid. 03:30 🤓

1941: "Do not store tea near fruit or spices..." 2019: (tea aisle) Orange Tea; Lemon Tea; Mint Tea; Cinnamon Tea; Spice Tea...

This is *the* most British thing I have ever witnessed, and I've been on a serious Royal Family binge for weeks

Brilliant. I remember the lovely ladies of the WVS coming to the shelters the morning after a raid. One can't imagine how nice a cup of tea was, how welcoming it was when one had been in the shelter over night during an air-raid

Gotta love the British. "What's that we're being bombed? Oh my. Well let's make sure to pour the tea into the other pot to avoid over brewing- we wouldn't want the survivors to live through a bombing and bitter tea."

Who else was scared when he held up the beaker and poured boiling water into it?!

All I have to say about black tea is this: I remember that the tea was so strong I only put the bag in for 20-30 seconds. Now I don't know what companies have done but somehow they made black tea so weak that I keep the bag in the whole time and it doesn't get dark like it used to. Probably some money saving tactic yet really annoying for the customer.

This is by far the best thing I have ever seen on RU-vid! Thank you!

God bless the Brits. Respect. 🇺🇸❤️🇬🇧

I love my tea, a nice strong cup and loose tea is the best to use!!!

A classic! Absolutely charming.

The world is ending! The world is ending! Quick, quick, put the kettle on!

You have to admire Britain's unshakable devotion to tea, in spite of other distractions at the time...like a war.

First thing I do every day - put the kettle on! What vile wastes would life be without tea? Would there be any point at all? 🤔

Lived in England while attended Cambridge. (working on my Ph.D.). One of my classmates took me to his parent's home for Sunday cream tea. Always, always use a brown betty teapot................Cheers.................

Tea Making Golden Rules: 1. always use a good quality tea 2. always use freshly drawn water 3. remember to warm the teapot before 4. measure the right quantity of tea for amount of water in the pot 5. the water must reach boiling point, pot to the kettle not kettle to the pot 6. let the tea brew for 5 to 10 min. before serving

One of the best vids I have ever seen on RU-vid. Many thanks!

-twitch- the eyebrows. XD I love how they put science in the making of tea. Don't mess with the British and their tea.

I really wish you'd let loose more films to the world, not just the UK! ShortsTV used to run them over here in America, and I developed a liking for several of them, such as "John Atkins Saves Up," "The Saving of Bill Blewitt" and others directly related to the Post Office and its functions. (These two about the Post Office Savings Bank stick in my head particularly, but there were others.)

When I was in the RAF we had gallons of tea from the NAAFI (and beer at night) :)

My dear tea l love you

Always start my day with a big mug of Tea Its the one thing that gets me out of bed. Its more refreshing than Coffee. Im English and all kids are brought up with Tea drinking from an early age , but in recent years younger generations seem to shun it. Its full of anti oxidants which are very good to have. Even now evert single house has a kettle. Its basically obligatory.

In a Swedish equivalent to Costa (Swedes are one of the world's biggest coffee drinkers.) I asked for a cup of tea and which one had run out? English Breakfast tea ! Needless to say, I did not accept the offer of various fruit teas! I use tea bags for convenience but always in a pot with a tea cosy, and the milk always goes in to the cup first. I think I would give up food before I gave up tea !

Proof, once and for all, that one should always pre-milk the cups! It doesn't scald the milk that way.

The BBC was the only broadcaster at the time, so the Queens English was used. The same case as in British films of the period? The accent is that of a public school, Eaton, Oxford, Cambridge. Even today in the British Armed Forces you get officers with this accent, which was a surprise too me when I joined because I didn't think people still spoke in this way.

Reminds me of Harry Enfield's Mr Cholmney Warner sketches :) Great vid!! :)

They should've also included how to reuse tea leaves or a tea bag several times over due to wartime rationing..

My electric tea kettle that shuts off as soon as it comes to a boil, ceramic teapot (very few people have them here in America they insist on showing me tea kettles when I ask for a teapot), milk no sugar for me though. And none of that nasty Lipton for me, British tea only. Right now I have Red Rose. Although Luzianne makes delicious tea, both iced and hot.

4:31 - where's the queue? it's anarchy when tea is involved!

I had an aunt who would hang used tea bags on a line and re-use them once dry. I do miss the old kettles that had to be put on the stove and the whistle would blow once it had come to the boil.

Thumbs up if you are drinking a tea right now!

2:13 - That chap looks as if he’s on his 108th cup of tea ☕️ for the day.

Tea helped to see Britons through war. While tea rationing was not implemented during World War I, it was enforced during World War II. Strict rationing from July 1940 allowed the purchase of only 2 ounces of tea per week per person, a program that continued at various levels until 1952.

The is NOTHING you can’t achieve without a good cuppa tea ❤️

Amazing! I think I may have made the mistake of using stale water, or possibly over-boiled water.

the music sounds like a Laurel & Hardy two reeler

'empire tea bureau'... now i remember where i worked in my last life...

Wtf did I just watch? It was bizarrely captivating.

I like to make tea with loose leaves and an infuser, but lately I've been using bags==Bewley's Irish Tra mostly. I put 3 bags in a 6-cup pot for four minutes and that works well. Loose tea is a bit more unpredictable. If I follow some suggestions and infuse for five minutes, the result is a bit beyond my taste. I add milk, but never use honey or sugar.

In the US there is but one method, open lipton teabag. "Teabag" a cup of hot water with a gyrating motion for a few minutes... move it around in there, don't be scared.... Add cream and sugar to make less offensive.

"Charrwahllaaa ,Teeeeeeaaaaa" Move your self move your self,at the double,mark time,halt,pour tea,about turn and double away quick time double march,double,double, double,move your self lad. lol.

All our tanks are equipped with tea making equipment. In WWII we had whole ships for making tea.

thats a giant tea bag!

I've had like 6 cups of tea today and I'm loving it.

In America...im a red rose tea girl myself. The most natural preparation of the regular teas...except organic of course.

This was the era before the teabag became common in Britain.

Interesting video for 1941. The British will obsess about tea in the face of Armageddon. "Oh delicious tea dear. I ended up storing my tea next to the burning Stuka wreck and it got simply ruined!"

01:05 I like how in the midst of war, with conscription underway for military, industrial, farming and mining, that HMG can still appoint a man as “Tea Instructor” to ensure canteens employed correct tea-storage & brewing procedure. Probably came with an instruction book, a logbook, and a two page checklist to be completed in triplicate (with copies to all relevant parts of the canteen) per cup. And there’d be ‘Tea Instructors and Tealadies Union’, run by a communist and they’d receive excellent pay. What a government that was. Enormous in size and reach with near-unlimited power to do literally anything from appoint tea instructors to try you without a jury, take your home from under you or send you overseas to fight yet got the country through and then just…struck down its war powers, shrank its size and got back to normal day-to-day politics again at the end. Remarkable.

2019: Lipton powdered instant tea

There's another name to go in the jar of band names: Empire Tea Bureau.

@TheHonestGypo - Are you serious?! I don't have my own teapot (student budget), but I don't use anything but loose leaves for tea! If you want to know where to find nice leaves, go to Steepster for recommendations.

Tea for Industry! Montreal tea should be steeped until thick, "The spoon should stand up in the cup". Then add milk. Thanks for the video, best.

The put-on, overblown RP accents ( :52 ) are cracking me up. LOL No one actually speaks that way. I've a feeling the producers raided a cut-rate drama school for participants without much regard for ability.

Great tip, I'll be sure to store my giant industrial sized crate of tea off the ground

How did Igor, Dracula's henchman, learn so much about tea?

For a cup of tea always put milk in first. If you add milk to hot tea it is scalded and the proteins are denatured 🧐

my sons favorite video

there is a literal world war on with literal Adolph Hitler HOLD MY TEA

8:03 Unibrow Man: "One of the most important parts of the urn to clean is the tap" (lady repeatedly inserts pipe cleaner into the tap) Crow: "Should we be seeing this?" Tom Servo" Oh, YES! Do it! Faster" Unibrow: "Remember--a dirty tap means dirty tea" Joel: "And a dirty mind." Crow: Not that there's anything wrong with that." Unibrow: "When not in use, urns should be stored with their lids up" Tom Servo: "I'll bet the women don't think so."

2:07 (eyelid flickering) this is a sign of trust from werewolf scientist man......

A cuppa brown joy, as Professor Elemental (Paul Alborogh) says. What's not to love about good tea?!

Still excellent advice. My gosh there are so many tea making vids out there completely wrong.

British by birth,English by the Grace of Almighty God, it is when you look at old film reels like this that it makes me dam proud to have served my country in the British Army,where a cup of tea makes every day a lot easier, rain,hail,sleet,snow,310 in the shade, to -10,a good old Cuppa made the day, and true what they say,when the Brown stuff hits the fan,stick the kettle on make a brew then worry about it later. Short back and sides,British Army Discipline,putties,and a mug of tea won the British Empire.( All of you out there who served you know exactly what i mean ) I am trying to keep a straight face whilst writing this,(ha ha ha ha ha)Bullshit baffles brains as my old SGT Major used to say, do not put three shovels up against a wall and ask a "Rupert" to take his pick, (To all the rest of the world,a "Rupert" is an Officer) and never under any circumstances give a compass or a map to an officer,that is what Corporals and SGT's are for, they will blaze a trail into battle,and take care of the Officers later on,(wake them up in the Officers Mess) "it is okay Sir,you go back to sleep we will inform you should there be anything worth troubling you for" Black Adder comes to mind, and Army rations pack,tea bags the size of an envelope......... that is tea.

Asks no questions tell no lies And i keep a nice Lemon Crumble under the counter for the middle class.

I say Old Chap! This is truly a frightfully delightful video! My gratitude to you Old Bean!

I can't believe she used the hot water tap! A big no no when I was growing up in Manchester.

I miss the days You Tube was in black & white. Life seemed simpler back then.

~Such an interesting video about quali-tea! 🍵

2:06 WHY DID HE WINK LIKE THAT IT FREAKED ME OUT

I need a coffee to watch this mash up ....

That guy looks like Dr. Frankenstien - "It's ALIVE"!

Tea maker guy looks like eagor Dracula's assistant

"Lovely!"

Hanging the tea bag out to dry! Excessively British.

I don't remember wearing a monocle while watching this. 🧐

jolly good show old chap!

Block sized down to thread sizes. Maybe smaller.

I once had an insipid cup of tea. Shocking.

"Tea for urns and mazel tovs is made ...." L'chaim.

As I sit here watching this, dipping my Scottish shortbread into my cup of tea I made in my microwave..... ;)

Host: "How do you take your tea?" Brit: "Very seriously."

Those are some impressive eye brows.

"Dull in color and insipid in taste" is my new favorite insult.

"Tea is not a manufactured article which can be made, bottled up, and served at will." Tell that to America lol

'Dad! Granny's been run over by a steam roller!' 'Oh dear... best we put the kettle on...'

You know your day has been saved when the tea truck drives through the flames of a burning building and parks up next to you

Glad to see that the actor who played Nosferatu still was active in the business so many years later 😂😂

It's no wonder the Germans lost.

Rule number seven: Always use proper BBC Received Pronunciation when preparing your tea. We didn't import this from the far reaches of the Empire to have our teapots talked to in Scouse.

The tea instructor hadn't quite transitioned into Mr Hyde at this point, but he was well on his way.

The Nazi's never stood a chance with this bunch :)

The way he fondles those tea leaves is making me uncomfortable

Twinings supplied tea for Red-Cross prisoner-of-war packages, for the Women's Voluntary Service, and for many YMCA wartime canteens. Despite the fact much of London was being bombed, tea was still served. Following the bombing of the Twinings teashop on The Strand, employees had tables set back up within hours to serve tea. From a letter dated September 16, 1940 by an Air Raid Post worker in London: The worst thing to be brave about is the tea ration. Everything else can be managed.

For those watching who don't understand what this is really about......try to imagine how dark those days were. Almost everything that had made life before the war good or pleasant had been swept away.....food was rationed or in short supply..people were cold and scared..and at night the bombers came. Often night after night. Invasion still seems imminent and death was all around. And fear. Those clipped cheery voices and the focus on a nice cup of tea....was what we meant by "keep calm and carry on" . Do you understand now?

Brilliant. Should be mandatory viewing for any place that serves tea by putting a teabag and milk into a cup of warm water the same time. Death's too good of 'em.

I remember hearing a story about Americans in ww2 would be confused on the western front when us Brits would stop fighting and make some tea before fighting again 😂