cream in tea

Only if it's really dreadful tea.

/Lew

Use milk in tea- not cream. Cream is too heavy and destroys the delicate flavor. Cream gets used in coffee, not tea.

Better yet, learn which teas you can enjoy without milk or sugar. It's healthier that way.

My brother's wife took an especially long time to deliver her baby, and so while biding my time in the waiting room, I drank up my supply of tea from a thermos brought from home. Lipton tea bags water from the hospital cafeteria were my only option. Some of those thimble-size, single-serve half-and-halfs with the paper lids were available for the taking, so I pocketed some of those too. Turns out, milk tea prepared with Lipton and half-and-half was surprisingly satisfying -- so much so that I carried around a little stash of these things throughout my visit. Highly recommended for drinking during the severe midwest winters.

--crymad

Absolutely NEVER! ! ! I've never met a cup, pot, or pitcher of tea, hot or iced that couldn't use a dose of 100 % REAL PURE CANE SUGAR!

Healthy > /dev/null

If I die from what ever I am going to die happy. Bring on the SUGAR!

I don't care for green tea at all, so thats not a problem.

The japanese tea(s) I only run into when going to those "hibachi" style restaurants, and its drinkable without sugar, but not my most desired way to drink tea.

Perhaps not- but if you are drinking tea in Japanese restaurants, there's a good chance you're drinking green tea. All green tea isn't green in color. At didsfferent times of the year, I drink different kinds of tea. I prefer greens in the spring and midwinter. Chinese blacks I can drink all year round, but they have to be hot and milky in winter.

If tea is healthy, and milk is healthy, how can the combination of the two be unhealthy? I use normal milk (3.5% fat) for strong Assams to take the bitter edge and leave the pungency. I once heard that milk precipitates the tannic acid, may be a myth. Oolongs and greens are always pure.

JB

Not that I think milky tea will kill you, but the way you reached your conclusion seems a bit shaky. Think, for example, of binary chemical weapons:

/Lew

LOL, I feel that way about honey. Not any honey, but nice, fresh, local locust honey OR *tupelo* honey from Florida, very, very mild (especially the locust (black locust tree) honey and perfect for tea. Just a drop or two, I have yet to find a tea it doesn't compliment.

Catrin

Cream very seldom. In fact, only if I have to, like with traditional Eastfresean tea ;-).

With milk of course. If it tastes nice, I do it. So, always with Assam, sometimes with Keemun ... and with all those grocery store stuff (PG Tips, which I kinda like from time to time, don't know why), as well as all barely drinkable teas. [...]

Well, personally, I do not belive in health any longer ;-)

Dieter

Honey is a fine substitute, but my concept of tea, well, probably could be called tea flavored sugar. Definitely more than a couple of drops to make it sweet enough for me.

I like my tea sweet, just like I like "Sweet" Iced Tea. Its called sweet for a reason, and since thats the way I've always had it, thats the way I make it and expect it to taste. Hot tea doesn't have to be as sweet as the "Sweet Iced Tea" but its going to have a good dose of sugar in it.

Hey- whatever works for you. Chacun au son gout.

You should keep your milk fresher.

You wouldn't smear sugar on the lips of a woman you kiss, why put it in tea?

Alex.

How does the milk react with the catechins and polyphenols in the tea? The evidence either way is weak at the moment. All that is known for sure is that pure tea is a healthy drink that has been shown to prevent disease.

I do like milk and sugar in some kinds of tea, such as Indian tea blends, but on the whole I think tea is better off without it. If a tea has so little character that it must be doctored up to drink, there's something wrong with it.

What is Assam and Keemum- I assume you live in Germany?

Here in the US tea is often "black pekoe". Some of it is drinkable- Lipton hot is not bad stuff, but Red Rose is not a good hot tea brand (it tastes sourish and stale), although it's popular in the South US for iced tea with sugar and lemon. Twinings and Bigalo English teas are sometimes available too. I have found Jackson English tea to be good and it is available at some stores. For black tea I like Earl Grey and Irish Breakfast, occasionally I like Lapsong Soochong.

And also green tea is becomming more popular. You can buy it in stores, but the quality is not as great as what one can get from specialty stores or online. I usually preffer Longjing or a cheap Ceylon green. Most of my tea drinking is green tea.

Whole leaf tea is the best way to make the stuff, but hasn't caught on in supermarkets in the US yet. We have more whole bean coffees, but the same hasn't happened for tea yet.

Milk is fattening in quantities and it isn't always healthy. Mad Cow Diseaese can conceivably be passed through milk.