Yorkshire Tea - Biscuit Blend

[Vacumatic]

OK, changed my mind and have become a confirmed Yorkshire Gold tea drinker. I rarely drink coffee now, maybe a cup or less a day.

Bob

Their website is pleasantly old fashioned

Www.yorkshiretea.co.uk

 

[R181]

Stocked up today on Yorkshire Gold as the local Safeways grocery store had boxes of 80 at $3.00 of the regular price.

Bob

 

[Vacumatic]

Yorkshire Gold is around £5 for 80 here, regular Yorkshire Red is about £6 for 240.

You will be buying a kettle and tea pot next! The classic Brown Betty perhaps.

 

[Vacumatic]

Going back to the original post, I wouldn't buy the biscuit flavoured tea again, amusing to try but nothing more.

 

[R181]

Yorkshire Gold is around £5 for 80 here, regular Yorkshire Red is about £6 for 240.

You will be buying a kettle and tea pot next! The classic Brown Betty perhaps.

The regular price for the Gold is about the same here when you do the currency conversion. They discounted about 1.80 GBP here on sale.

We have tea pots and a couple of tea eggs as my in-laws were of UK descent. Coffee drinking has always predominated in Canada though.

Bob

 

[Rufusdog]

Coffee drinking has always predominated in Canada though.

Bob

And it’s predominantly Tim’s (Tim Hortons) coffee and usually a double, double, ie 2 X milk, 2 X sugar. Yuk, reminds me of builder’s tea. I’ve never taken to Tim’s coffee, with or without milk and sugar. Ironically, their steeped tea is very good. I believe Tims has opened a few outlets in the UK.

 

[JamieM]

A Coffee Cafetiere works better than a teapot for loose tea. I have used one for years, after brewing just slowly plunge the filter keeping all the tea leaf in the bottom, easy to empty and wash out.

 

[R181]

A Coffee Cafetiere works better than a teapot for loose tea. I have used one for years, after brewing just slowly plunge the filter keeping all the tea leaf in the bottom, easy to empty and wash out.

Had to look up "Coffee Cafetiere" and found I know those as a French Press. I have one of those and may give it a try for tea.

Bob

 

[Rufusdog]

A Coffee Cafetiere works better than a teapot for loose tea. I have used one for years, after brewing just slowly plunge the filter keeping all the tea leaf in the bottom, easy to empty and wash out.

I must give it a try. Do you allow the tea to steep for 3-5 minutes (depending on the type of tea) or a shorter time before plunging?

 

[JamieM]

I must give it a try. Do you allow the tea to steep for 3-5 minutes (depending on the type of tea) or a shorter time before plunging?

Personally I usually go for about 2 minutes brewing that's after I stir the loose leaf, I then press the Cafetiere down till it meets the top of the water, give it two minutes then press down fully and pour the tea, it's perfect for the job used one for years. PS The same rules apply measurement-wise, one for the cup one for the pot, so for me, I usually make a cup for my wife and myself so 3 teaspoons of loose tea is perfect.

 

[JamieM]

 

[Vacumatic]

Had to look up "Coffee Cafetiere" and found I know those as a French Press. I have one of those and may give it a try for tea.

Bob

I think the word cafetière is fairly new in UK common English useage.

There used to be a chain of small restaurants, I.e. Hundreds, of small diners on
U.K. Roads called Little Chefs, they sold coffee in a cafetière and it was pretty good, I don't remember the word in pre Little Chef days but of course in common use in France so perhaps it was down to most of our coffee being either filter coffee, percolated or from an Italian espresso machine. I still have my old coffee percolator and it makes a great cup of coffee.

The idea of a cafetière to make tea from loose tea sounds good but being a traditionalist I like the round teapot and a small sieve over the cup for loose tea.

 

[Rufusdog]

Glass of tea?