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Water first or milk first? Experts explain only one way to make tea is the right way
Published 09:47 23 Feb 2016 GMT
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We all have our ways of making tea - some of us put milk in the mug first before adding the boiling water, and others add it at the end.
That's all well and good, but it turns out all you milk first chancers are objectively wrong. We hate to break it to you like this. Time Out have spoken to experts Sebastian Michaelis (a Tetley tea blender who once had his tastebuds insured for £1m) and Postcard Teas owner Tim d'Offay, and the pair have laid down the law.
Putting the tea in first allows you to better control the strength of the brew, d'Offay explains, while Michaelis is much less forgiving with his advice.
Milk first means "You will reduce the water temperature and inhibit brewing," he says.
No punches pulled.
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