Rosie Jones, a British comedian with cerebral palsy, joked on a panel show that she doesn't stir her tea because by the time she can manage to get it to her mouth she's already shaken it up enough.
As the child of a Welsh mother who put milky tea in our baby bottles, I can scarcely recall a day without it. Tea makes the morning faceable, the bad bearable, and resets my status to ‘human’ after questionable choices. But it’s also the reason I have a cupboard solely dedicated to tea. My partner learned of it early on, and accepted it without question. That is how I knew our relationship would work.
Tea is a medium through which low-key domestic magic is worked, I am convinced. There’s this mad Scot who lives down in Texas and is, with his American wife, resurrecting a 20th century-built castle, the footage of the project being posted on YT. He closes every video with this; “where there is tea there is hope, and where there is hope, anything is possible”. This man is going to bring a folly of a building back to life through the sheer power of strong cups of Yorkshire Gold. It’s an astonishingly beautiful thing to watch.
As an American who grew up with microwaved tea from bags - this is all spot on. (obviously) I'm now an avid tea drinker and it really does taste better from a kettle and steeped for 5+ minutes (I do 8). I also use one scoop per cup plus one for the pot, but I have a massive pot for my large family. Thanks for a fun little video Jimmy, please don't feel guilty for not doing something more academic.
Was coming to comment just this! Properly boiling hot water in particular makes a world of difference! My mom now asks me to make her tea because I do it better lol
YOU MICROWAVED YOUR TEA!??!?!? i honestly thought that microwaving water to boil it was a joke, right? cuz I'm canadine! I'm two steps from the US border and no one ever microwaved water here (except for KD but shuu) it was always either a regular or electric kettle
I’m American and have never microwaved water for tea - but I have used a microwave to heat up water inside a maruchan “cup of noodle.” If I couldn’t boil it, I didn’t have it. Boiling water in a microwave just never occurred to me…and we had to live in motels sometimes as a kid and would make grilled cheese with aluminum foil and an iron. We do squeeze the teabag though because we aren’t fancy wasters of flavor.
My sister was in an awful car accident...totalled the car. We got a call from my aunt who lived nearby to tell us. She said everything was fine. We knew she was lying because my Irish born and raised aunty (we're American) mentioned she was just making ANOTHER port of tea. It was a 3 pot accident!
😄 First aid kit in a crisis. Shall I make tea? There was a cartoon series 'Bob and Margret' and one of my favorites was there had been a nuclear attack and Margret suggested they needed to make tea to which Bob heartily agreed.😄
@@kerriemckinstry-jett8625lol yes I agree with you! It's kinda like tea is like an emotional regulator if you need to rev yourself up to take on a task - have a cup of tea. If things are a bit low a cup of tea will help you with that. If you just want to relax with friends tea is perfect too
Fun (nerdy) fact! Those whirly whirlies are an excellent example of turbulence, are technically vortices, and they come in clockwise/anticlockwise pairs (because consevation of angular momentum)
Jimmy, sorry you had a bad week. You are not the only one who needed a funny video. Thanks for giving me something to smile. Remember, we all love you.
Tea doesn't fix all ills, but it sure can help make them seem more manageable. Thank you for the video, and hope your future weeks are better. I've got a 1.15L Sadler in which I make my daily lapsang souchong and it does have a "disgusting" coat of tea residue. I keep the leaves in until I'm done drinking it. No milk, no lemon. I also play chicken with how much I fill the tea pot, and occasionally get tea floods on my white desk. These then dry into some very neat patterns and make my desk look more exciting. I also have a whistling kettle - if I had one that beeped politely, I wouldn't ever get tea made. I need my kettle to scream at me until I take care of it. But a lot of people think lapsang souchong is stinky, so when the office was a thing, I had to have it in a travel mug with a good seal or people would complain.
@@catherinerw1 Glad to hear from a fellow lapsang enjoyer! The tea store I used to order from stopped carrying lapsang souchong for a while. They since started again, but I haven't gone back because I'm still mad, even after 8 years. I found a new dealer very quickly, but my world has not been the same since. I don't like to have to think about the possibility of not having my daily lapsang souchong.
I know people who microwave their water for tea. I don't drink their tea. I love them but they are wrong. My house has very very limited counter space so we don't have enough for an electric kettle. We boil it in a steel kettle on the stovetop. I hope that is acceptable, for Americans. May the coming weeks be so much better for you, Jimmy. With many a good a panad da, delicious biscuits, and excellent happenings in your life.
I - a British person - use a whistling kettle on the hob. The difference between the microwave and both of these other options is that if you actually get water to boil in microwave it is not going to stay in the thing you are boiling it in. So most microwaved tea water isn't boiling.
My daily tea is darjeeling. I apparently commit a crime, though, as I only steep it for 4 min and drink it with a touch of honey and no milk. I'm just not classy enough. I also have microwaved water for tea, though in my defense, it was in the middle of the night during residency. Let's just say this was not the most questionable decision made during that time of my life😊 Seriously, though, this video lightened my day. Thank you.❤
I also drink darjeeling, and steep for an even shorter time. So maybe it's actually a darjeeling thing, and not just my stomach thing. Maybe darjeeling is so robust that this shorter time is quite enough.
I think someone's tea ritual is their own.... I am a kettle 5 minute girl ... But you need to do you. And congratulations on surviving residency .... Completely understandable .... My sister chose to try sky diving which is far tamer than nuking water for tea. Residency is mad ....
I wouldn’t put milk in Darjeeling either. The flavour is far too delicate and it brews too light to be able to take milk that well. It’s a wonderful tea-I like it in the afternoon.
I'm with you on the Tim Tams, but a good shortbread will also do nicely to dunk in my unadulterated tea. And though I am quite fond of Twinnings and Tetley, my preferred black tea is Mildura (a good Aussie grown brand)🤔😉
Arise, Sir Jimmy! You deserve the honour for this service to the rest of the world. I agree on the amount of milk required. Just enough to bounce up from the bottom to meet itself.
As a Cornishman who lived in England during my university days, I can doubley confirm that the water is rotten there. One of the best things about coming back home for the summer and winter holidays was having tap water that tasted nice.
I broke three teapots by not knowing to "hot the pot", prewarming it with hot water. They were old brown ware, which (it turns out) has small air bubbles or different minerals in pockets in the clay and just throwing boiling water in it causes heat differences between the base as it sits on the counter and the body. They would start a high pitched whistle or whine and then a perfectly circular crack formed all the way around the base and tea went everywhere when I lifted the body off the base. Ignorance is NOT bliss! Porcelain pots are now common and borosilicate glass ones, neither of which suffer the same thermal shock. But I still miss those pretty, well designed pots whose spouts never dripped! Fun video!
Condolences on your teapots! I don't often preheat my big brown betty but I always fill it completely, so far so good, though it almost always makes little tinking noises whether I preheat or not.
American here! I have an electric kettle and a pretty flowered teapot. I have a nice collection of English and Irish teas for daytime, and herbal teas like chamomile and peppermint for evening. My Mom drank tea every day, and now my brothers and I carry on the tradition.
this wonderful. I always hit the side of the cup after a nice stir. I grew up with welsh aunties as my mam was an immigrant. I didn't know the teaspoon thing was welsh. when i do it many people throughout the years asked me why and my only answer would be my fierce welsh aunties told me i had to! so you answered a life long question for me!! Thank You xoxoxo
Solidarity for the difficult and disappointing week you've had. For what it's worth, this silly video helped me to recenter myself after a challenging week of my own. Thank you for posting it.
I live in the Ouachita mountains of Southwest Arkansas. I make tea exactly like you do exect I use Arkansas spring water instead of Welsh water. I take one sugar and a splash of milk. My grandmother taught me to make proper tea when I was young and if I make it any other way she would roll over in her grave and haunt me for rest of my life.
Honestly! As someone originally hewn from the very chalk of the South Downs, I still consider it witchcraft to put water straight into the kettle now I'm living up north without spending time in Filter Jug Purgatory™ Nothing worse than wanting a cuppa and seeing someone hasn't refilled the water jug
@@Sally4th_ I live in probably the worst city in Texas for hard water, and same. No Welsh bottled water here (I don’t think?) but the tap water is ALWAYS filtered if I’m drinking it in any capacity.
@@amberadams9310respect. I'm in PHX which has some of the hardest water in the country. I'm so used to it that soft water tastes and feels off. You should see the inside of my electric kettle. There isn't enough citric acid in the world...
Kind sir! Thank you for this delight :) I'm a coffee man by habit, but once in a while I confess I raid my wife's side of the cupboard for a nice cup of tea. Regarding water, here in the mountain states of the USA my tap water is so heavily mineralized it borders on non-potable. Take THAT, English water! Also, Walker's Shortbread (Scottish ancestry, gotta represent) Peace and love! Kenny
I was chuckling the whole way through this. In fact it was probably the most amusing thing I’ve seen all day. Thanks for this, you are now officially my most classy content creator! 😂
Whilst digestives are my go to, a nice sjokoladekule (Norwegian chocolate ball) is nice on really dismal days. Equal amounts of rolled oats and sugar, about half again as much butter as sugar, about a quarter as much cocoa as sugar, and just enough tea (ok, honestly in Norway coffee) to slacken the mixture. One ball should way about 30 grams. So sorry your week has been crap, but so glad you're willing to share rather than keep it to yourself. Glad I deg, Eric
Greetings from Colorado, USA! My grandfather was born in Ystradgynlais. Many years ago, I worked in Swindon for six months and I learned to love tea with milk and one sugar. American teas are awful so I am thankful for the internet because I can get many different teas from the UK.
I haven't even got past the commercial yet and this is already my favorite video. I love learning everyone's brewing methods! And it came out right as I was drinking a cup, too. Only reusable metal tea infusers for me. Even the loose tea I buy is in 100% biodegradable bags. I feel like tea is such an easy thing to be sustainable with. Ginger cookies. I love ginger. Butter cookies are a close second. Your tea preparation kinda reminds me of Frisian tea with the clouds, btw.
@@TheWelshViking in-cup infusers are what you want, the ball ones (or any novelty shaped ones) don't leave enough room for the leaves to do their thing.
I've got a teapot with a built-in infuser..... It's fantastic, but needs to be at least 3/4s full to work, which means I have to drink a couple of (UK) pints of tea (Oh dear.....What a pity :-) )
@@caitbarry9617 Yes! The big spacious cylinder in cup infuser with the super tiny mesh holes is what I have. It has so much room to let the leaves expand and really releases the flavor in those oolong teas. The only thing better at finding the flavors is gongfu brewing, but that's for days when I'm not being lazy. I remember when I first bought one ..I still thought stainless steel meant it wouldn't get tea stained. Lol, silly me.
Giggled my way through this one. My Scottish grandmother gave the same tea-making instructions, confirmed by Lord Wedgwood when he came for a porcelain trunk show at the department store where I worked. And milk no sugar is best.
I think the most important thing about tea is its reminder to stop and take a 5 minute break every now and again. Also favourite biscuit has got to be a Chocolate bourbon
That Mari Lwyd looks so cute! My tea pot is made of glass - so I strictly speaking don't need to rinse it with hot/boiling water, but I usually do, anyway.
Completely agree with the dark choc digestive and the occasional hobnob; I found if I was feeling very fancy in the shop I would go for the dark chocolate bahlsen leibniz biscuits too. Hope your tea sustains you for the week :)
@@grannyweatherwax8005 I've found It's more likely to happen with thicker liquids, It's only ever happened to me when reheating coffee with milk already in. I think its a lot harder to do it to pure water.
@@grannyweatherwax8005 I've done it a couple of times. Know your microwave and how long it takes to get to the boil, and either go just under, or use a much bigger container and go way over.
@@Kingstallington having done it a couple times it seems to me like the fewer nucleation points you have in the container you're microwaving, the more likely you are to superheat something, if you've got tea reasidue already on your mug or the inside is a rough surface, it's less likely to happen than in a pristine pyrex measuring cup... also, I find regular boilovers happen way worse if there's any milk in somehting than if it's just water, I suspect something to do with the surface tension. The thicker liquids like sauces can end up with superheated areas, so stopping and stirring it a few times is the best way to avoid boilovers and splatters... though there are a few things that are just naturally splattery and you'll want to cover them (canned ravioli, clam chowder, baked beans and pea soup all seem to make a mess no matter how often I stir).
Now THIS is truly Useful Information! I must acquire a teapot immediately, if not sooner! I became a coffee person about 30 years ago, but I now grow chamomile on my deck. That lovely apple smell is heaven, and home grown is a delight with a blop of honey before bed. Earl Grey on a rainy PNW afternoon, with a cozy mystery, is lovely. I have a few metal things to put loose tea in so it can steep in the cup, but I have never had a proper pot. Must find one...
Hey Jimmy, I love your commitment and passion to the important ritual that is Western Tea drinking. Might I recommend you try adding milk to your cup before you pour your tea? I find that this helps make the tea taste less bitter, more rich and even slightly naturally sweet. There is science behind this! Something about the milk heating too quickly when added after the tea, and denaturing the proteins. All I know is that my friends agree that I make the best cup of tea. And this is my secret. Love from Australia! I was also wondering if you have any comments on closed vs open cultural practices from Wales. Mari Luid seems scary/lovely and I appreciate her. I don't know very much about Welsh traditions other than what I've heard you speak about (and my memory isn't always good). Thank you!
What a lovely palate-cleanser for a difficult retail weekend. Thank-you. One of my friends tells me it's: "one for the pot, two for a guest, and three for trouble."
Oh my goodness, all my life I’ve been making a perfect Welsh cup of tea without knowing it. And without a single drop of Welsh heritage! I’m happy that you addressed several of my pet peeves - heating water in the microwave, not brewing long enough, and a couple others. But seriously, I loved the humor. Please do feel free to make an occasional “silly” post like this, it was great fun to watch!
I was cured of the microwave tea curse some years ago, and watching this reminded me I haven't had my cup today. Thanks! (I brew 4-8 minutes, varying wildly by my mood, milk only if I forget about it for more than 6 minutes. I've done as long as 13 before because I got sidetracked by a different video. It was a very nice Irish man who taught me to use milk and smooth the "I forgor" bitterness out of it, some eleven years ago.) Short "silly" videos like this are just a delight after a busy day at work. Hope your week smooths out.
This was delightful! I’m in America, where the majority of people drink coffee over tea, but I drink tea and I love it. This was an excellent education on how to properly do it!
Thank you Jimmy! Tragically for a Brit, I am unable to drink tea as it gives me migraines, but this video brought me much joy, after a trying week. I can now go forth in the world confident in the knowledge of how to make tea for others, as not drinking it, I have always been slightly concerned that for an untold number of years I may have been imposing crap tea on my nearest and dearest. Thank you for your service, surely a knighthood beckons.
My Mum's Scots, and she taught me how to make tea properly. She (and I) agree with your procedure. Chocolate digestives are definitely the best, though I haven't seen them around much where I live.
It took less than a month of living with folks in West Yorkshire to go from a no milk person all my life to a milk person, primarily because the tea bags in the UK are designed to be stronger than the ones in the US (I think). Now I have my glorious chai--the single best tea I've ever had, in a bag or out--milk free, but I could code switch at any time!
This is the video I needed today. Rainy 69 degrees F in the Colorado Rocky Mountains. No sleep last night and I am recovering from a concussion. I feel better just having watched, but I brewed along with you AND used a favorite old cup and saucer. Be well and happy.
I can confirm, Mari Lwyd haunts people who make crap tea. She will manifest in your pantry, drink all your beer, and eat all of your biscuits and your cheese, and it's really hard to make her leave.
I enjoyed this greatly! And honestly, this may be the only youtube video I have ever seen that has made me think "oh, I wish my grandmother was still alive, because if i could have convinced her to watch it, she'd have loved it!" She kind of hated watching any sort of video, but she greatly enjoyed the brief time she spent in Wales, and this is almost *exactly* how she made tea, right down to your grannie's adage!
I am an American, and during my college internship I was taught to brew a proper cup of tea by an Englishman, so I learned to be Mother, and what biscuits are tea-worthy. Fun fact we also served to an Australian in the department! I have to say, I prefer the simplicity of no Mother. Just the tea, please, people are often such a hassle. Except for you, Jimmy. I'd take yes with you and yours any day; you're good people.
I'm lucky, living in Brum, I get my lovely soft water from a flooded village in Wales' Elan Valley. I like to imagine that I can taste Percy Bysshe Shelley's tears from the subaquatic ruins of Cwm Elan. I'll try steeping my tea bags, rather than gooshing it with a spoon, and see if I like it. All the best, Jimmy. This is a lovely, relaxing video.
I confess, I'm a bag-squeezer, but only after it has steeped for 5-7 minutes, and only to keep the discarded bag from dripping on the table over saucer's edge. Also, for the record, my usual is Earl Grey, milk, sugar, but I'm also a Texan, so barbarity is normal, lol
I am very sensitive to caffeinated teas, and prefer herbal teas. I always steep for 15 minutes, but otherwise follow you instructions. I live on the Pacific coast, in a state with excellent water. Teas is my favorite drink. Enjoy!
As an American I am glad to know I make a decent cup of tea (minus the Welsh water) lol This was great, just what I needed after a stressful week myself, I'd take that cup with a gingersnap or coconut shortbread
I needed that cup of warm, cozy niceness. Cheers to less rough times. This might help me to drink coffeinated beverages at night to calm down :) Thank you!
I was going to make a pot of tea to go along with this video and then realized that I had already packed my kettle, teapots, and tea cups! Moving sucks 😭 I do hope that things start looking up for you soon! {hugs}
You are so right about the water! Moving from Scotland to England has been hugely detrimental to my tea enjoyment 😢. I’m I big fan of a custard cream myself 😊
Just made a pot of tea (chocolate & cranberry black loose leaf) to take my RUclips break. What a pleasant surprise! Have now sent your video to all my friends who argue with me over how to make tea.
Thank you! this was a lovely break, and the reminder I need to get off my American arse and get out the teapot. And knit a new cozy to fit it. Favorite biscuits: shortbread!
I have never been a tea (or coffee) drinker. However both parents do drink tea, and one bestie is a self-confessed tea snob. They would be hard pressed to find fault in this. Thank you for your efforts to enlighten the masses on this time honoured tradition.
Favourite biscuit: custard cream. Having a Welsh butter toffee waffle to rest over the cup is also fantastic, so I suppose there's a tie there. A slice of carrot cake on the side is also a great addition, though I do have a very sweet tooth so having both at once is not recommended for the faint of heart.
I love this! A correct and proper cup of tea is my comfort food! I am an American who uses a kettle and loves a full 5 minute brew. In fact I have left tea to steep for a few hours because I forgot and I liked that too! I like it strong!
Ah, another person with a tea cupboard! My respect for you has increased. Though personally I tend to gravitate more towards oolong than black - black tea is my second favorite though.
No objections whatsoever! This felt charming, like something Lindybeige would make. Whatever went sideways for you, I hope time will make things right. In the meantime, nothing can help a man keep his sanity quite like a cup of tea - I stand by that.
I have saved this to my Favorites, and shared it with my family, and will rewatch periodically, and cherish it to the end of time for the jewel that it is! Edit to add: If I'm going to have biscuits with my tea (I usually don't), I want Carr's Ginger Lemon Cremes, despite the fact that they're perishingly difficult to come by on this side of the Atlantic.
I think the dutch stroopwafel is vaguely known online but my favorite thing to have with tea it's the stroopwafel's sibling, the stroopkoek. Nice and chewy syrup between crumbly crispy biscuits!
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Rosie Jones, a British comedian with cerebral palsy, joked on a panel show that she doesn't stir her tea because by the time she can manage to get it to her mouth she's already shaken it up enough.
I f'n love her, she's fantastic
I love Rosie Jones 😂 she's a genius ❤
Lol 😂 great since of humor
As the child of a Welsh mother who put milky tea in our baby bottles, I can scarcely recall a day without it. Tea makes the morning faceable, the bad bearable, and resets my status to ‘human’ after questionable choices. But it’s also the reason I have a cupboard solely dedicated to tea. My partner learned of it early on, and accepted it without question. That is how I knew our relationship would work.
Tea is a medium through which low-key domestic magic is worked, I am convinced. There’s this mad Scot who lives down in Texas and is, with his American wife, resurrecting a 20th century-built castle, the footage of the project being posted on YT. He closes every video with this; “where there is tea there is hope, and where there is hope, anything is possible”. This man is going to bring a folly of a building back to life through the sheer power of strong cups of Yorkshire Gold. It’s an astonishingly beautiful thing to watch.
@@crow-jane I love his videos!
So true!
I love this. More silly videos sprinkled amongst the well-researched history would not go amiss ❤
As an American who grew up with microwaved tea from bags - this is all spot on. (obviously) I'm now an avid tea drinker and it really does taste better from a kettle and steeped for 5+ minutes (I do 8). I also use one scoop per cup plus one for the pot, but I have a massive pot for my large family. Thanks for a fun little video Jimmy, please don't feel guilty for not doing something more academic.
Loralei, welcome to the Ranks of the Righteous!
Was coming to comment just this! Properly boiling hot water in particular makes a world of difference! My mom now asks me to make her tea because I do it better lol
YOU MICROWAVED YOUR TEA!??!?!?
i honestly thought that microwaving water to boil it was a joke, right? cuz I'm canadine! I'm two steps from the US border and no one ever microwaved water here (except for KD but shuu) it was always either a regular or electric kettle
It’s like with coffee. It is better boiled as well- percolated coffee aka cowboy coffee. 😅
I’m American and have never microwaved water for tea - but I have used a microwave to heat up water inside a maruchan “cup of noodle.” If I couldn’t boil it, I didn’t have it. Boiling water in a microwave just never occurred to me…and we had to live in motels sometimes as a kid and would make grilled cheese with aluminum foil and an iron. We do squeeze the teabag though because we aren’t fancy wasters of flavor.
I'd like to pay my respects to the tea that was sacrificed to show off the heinous crime of squeezing the teabag. o7
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My lovely husband always says that tea solves everything up to death. I hope your tea helped your week!
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My sister was in an awful car accident...totalled the car. We got a call from my aunt who lived nearby to tell us. She said everything was fine. We knew she was lying because my Irish born and raised aunty (we're American) mentioned she was just making ANOTHER port of tea.
It was a 3 pot accident!
😄 First aid kit in a crisis. Shall I make tea? There was a cartoon series 'Bob and Margret' and one of my favorites was there had been a nuclear attack and Margret suggested they needed to make tea to which Bob heartily agreed.😄
@@heatherh3457 I miss "Bob and Margret!" It played here in the States on Comedy Central in the 1990s. Absolutely loved it! I remember that episode. 😄
Finally, someone else who warms the pot before the brew! The perfect video after a tiresome week.
Mmmm tea. The best way to get through a low point in the day.
I believe you’re right!
I disagree... Tea is the best way to get through any point of the day! 😊
@@kerriemckinstry-jett8625lol yes I agree with you!
It's kinda like tea is like an emotional regulator if you need to rev yourself up to take on a task - have a cup of tea. If things are a bit low a cup of tea will help you with that. If you just want to relax with friends tea is perfect too
Almost... it's missing a shot of Tullemore Dew...
@@CollinMcLean a friend of mine once added the last thimble of a 20yo Lhagawullin to his coffee😂 (pls excuse my spelling)
Fun (nerdy) fact! Those whirly whirlies are an excellent example of turbulence, are technically vortices, and they come in clockwise/anticlockwise pairs (because consevation of angular momentum)
Vortices of milk in our tea
Promising goodness for me and thee
Jimmy, sorry you had a bad week. You are not the only one who needed a funny video. Thanks for giving me something to smile. Remember, we all love you.
Tea doesn't fix all ills, but it sure can help make them seem more manageable. Thank you for the video, and hope your future weeks are better.
I've got a 1.15L Sadler in which I make my daily lapsang souchong and it does have a "disgusting" coat of tea residue. I keep the leaves in until I'm done drinking it. No milk, no lemon. I also play chicken with how much I fill the tea pot, and occasionally get tea floods on my white desk. These then dry into some very neat patterns and make my desk look more exciting.
I also have a whistling kettle - if I had one that beeped politely, I wouldn't ever get tea made. I need my kettle to scream at me until I take care of it.
But a lot of people think lapsang souchong is stinky, so when the office was a thing, I had to have it in a travel mug with a good seal or people would complain.
I like Lapsang :)
There was much disturbance in the Force when Twinings stopped doing Lapsang! (for Force read the Spectator...)
@@catherinerw1 Glad to hear from a fellow lapsang enjoyer!
The tea store I used to order from stopped carrying lapsang souchong for a while. They since started again, but I haven't gone back because I'm still mad, even after 8 years. I found a new dealer very quickly, but my world has not been the same since. I don't like to have to think about the possibility of not having my daily lapsang souchong.
I have an auntie in Scotland who makes tea in a wonderful way- it’s a spiritual experience!!
I appreciate your taking it seriously, as it should be☕️
Jimmy. You are the spiritual successor to Douglas Adams and his treatise on tea-making.
It is an honour and a privilege to have watched this.
I know people who microwave their water for tea. I don't drink their tea. I love them but they are wrong. My house has very very limited counter space so we don't have enough for an electric kettle. We boil it in a steel kettle on the stovetop. I hope that is acceptable, for Americans. May the coming weeks be so much better for you, Jimmy. With many a good a panad da, delicious biscuits, and excellent happenings in your life.
I - a British person - use a whistling kettle on the hob. The difference between the microwave and both of these other options is that if you actually get water to boil in microwave it is not going to stay in the thing you are boiling it in. So most microwaved tea water isn't boiling.
My daily tea is darjeeling. I apparently commit a crime, though, as I only steep it for 4 min and drink it with a touch of honey and no milk. I'm just not classy enough.
I also have microwaved water for tea, though in my defense, it was in the middle of the night during residency. Let's just say this was not the most questionable decision made during that time of my life😊
Seriously, though, this video lightened my day. Thank you.❤
I also drink darjeeling, and steep for an even shorter time.
So maybe it's actually a darjeeling thing, and not just my stomach thing. Maybe darjeeling is so robust that this shorter time is quite enough.
I think someone's tea ritual is their own.... I am a kettle 5 minute girl ... But you need to do you. And congratulations on surviving residency .... Completely understandable .... My sister chose to try sky diving which is far tamer than nuking water for tea. Residency is mad ....
I wouldn’t put milk in Darjeeling either. The flavour is far too delicate and it brews too light to be able to take milk that well. It’s a wonderful tea-I like it in the afternoon.
@@ambrosius In my experience, there are various Darjeelings, and some can carry milk, though most do not.
I am SO, SO relieved that you survived.
This was beautiful to watch while enjoying a cup of tea brewed with Skye tap water which is indeed much superior to English water in every respect! 💜
man I've been feeling so crap today and for some reason this made me so happy!
Hope you feel better soon...
Mission accomplished then!
It's the tea. And the splendid way of preparing it!
Did you not make your own tea?
The power of tea is so great, it can make you better at one remove :-)
Yorkshire Gold tea for us here in Melbourne, decent water, with Tim Tam biscuits for a Tim Tam Slam.
I think Yorkshire tea and Welsh tea taste the same. I now fully expect to get kicked in by both peoples.
I'm with you on the Tim Tams, but a good shortbread will also do nicely to dunk in my unadulterated tea. And though I am quite fond of Twinnings and Tetley, my preferred black tea is Mildura (a good Aussie grown brand)🤔😉
The whirly milk cloud is so pretty when you've brewed it nice and dark. This was the right level of silly to help my headache. Thank you very much.
As a German who lived in Liverpool for a while, I had to laugh for five minutes straight. What an absolute banger of a video, well done
Arise, Sir Jimmy!
You deserve the honour for this service to the rest of the world.
I agree on the amount of milk required. Just enough to bounce up from the bottom to meet itself.
what i love the most about the internet is to find ppl who enjoy the same things, like the swirling of the milk poured in a tea cup!❤
As a Cornishman who lived in England during my university days, I can doubley confirm that the water is rotten there. One of the best things about coming back home for the summer and winter holidays was having tap water that tasted nice.
I broke three teapots by not knowing to "hot the pot", prewarming it with hot water.
They were old brown ware, which (it turns out) has small air bubbles or different minerals in pockets in the clay and just throwing boiling water in it causes heat differences between the base as it sits on the counter and the body. They would start a high pitched whistle or whine and then a perfectly circular crack formed all the way around the base and tea went everywhere when I lifted the body off the base. Ignorance is NOT bliss!
Porcelain pots are now common and borosilicate glass ones, neither of which suffer the same thermal shock. But I still miss those pretty, well designed pots whose spouts never dripped!
Fun video!
Condolences on your teapots! I don't often preheat my big brown betty but I always fill it completely, so far so good, though it almost always makes little tinking noises whether I preheat or not.
American here! I have an electric kettle and a pretty flowered teapot. I have a nice collection of English and Irish teas for daytime, and herbal teas like chamomile and peppermint for evening. My Mom drank tea every day, and now my brothers and I carry on the tradition.
That's proper tea! Everything else is anarchy
Anarchists drink coffee because proper tea is theft.
Anarchtea?
The Friesians: * slowly pushing up their sleeves *
this wonderful. I always hit the side of the cup after a nice stir. I grew up with welsh aunties as my mam was an immigrant. I didn't know the teaspoon thing was welsh. when i do it many people throughout the years asked me why and my only answer would be my fierce welsh aunties told me i had to! so you answered a life long question for me!! Thank You xoxoxo
Solidarity for the difficult and disappointing week you've had. For what it's worth, this silly video helped me to recenter myself after a challenging week of my own. Thank you for posting it.
I live in the Ouachita mountains of Southwest Arkansas. I make tea exactly like you do exect I use Arkansas spring water instead of Welsh water. I take one sugar and a splash of milk. My grandmother taught me to make proper tea when I was young and if I make it any other way she would roll over in her grave and haunt me for rest of my life.
Oh those taps. Yes, here in the south of England our tap water is basically liquid chalk. A filter jug is a must to make a decent cuppa here.
Honestly! As someone originally hewn from the very chalk of the South Downs, I still consider it witchcraft to put water straight into the kettle now I'm living up north without spending time in Filter Jug Purgatory™
Nothing worse than wanting a cuppa and seeing someone hasn't refilled the water jug
@@Sally4th_ I live in probably the worst city in Texas for hard water, and same. No Welsh bottled water here (I don’t think?) but the tap water is ALWAYS filtered if I’m drinking it in any capacity.
@@amberadams9310respect. I'm in PHX which has some of the hardest water in the country. I'm so used to it that soft water tastes and feels off. You should see the inside of my electric kettle. There isn't enough citric acid in the world...
I just commented re the identical experience and sentiments, before I read this!
And to think, People here pay extra for alkali water to “rebalance their systems” or some such hoo-ha
i barely made it through this video for wanting to go make my own tea. delightful and now i can surely keep mari at bay.
Kind sir! Thank you for this delight :) I'm a coffee man by habit, but once in a while I confess I raid my wife's side of the cupboard for a nice cup of tea. Regarding water, here in the mountain states of the USA my tap water is so heavily mineralized it borders on non-potable. Take THAT, English water!
Also, Walker's Shortbread (Scottish ancestry, gotta represent)
Peace and love!
Kenny
I was chuckling the whole way through this. In fact it was probably the most amusing thing I’ve seen all day. Thanks for this, you are now officially my most classy content creator! 😂
I love that you have a tea cupboard
Whilst digestives are my go to, a nice sjokoladekule (Norwegian chocolate ball) is nice on really dismal days. Equal amounts of rolled oats and sugar, about half again as much butter as sugar, about a quarter as much cocoa as sugar, and just enough tea (ok, honestly in Norway coffee) to slacken the mixture. One ball should way about 30 grams.
So sorry your week has been crap, but so glad you're willing to share rather than keep it to yourself. Glad I deg, Eric
Greetings from Colorado, USA! My grandfather was born in Ystradgynlais. Many years ago, I worked in Swindon for six months and I learned to love tea with milk and one sugar. American teas are awful so I am thankful for the internet because I can get many different teas from the UK.
In America too. I have yet to go to a restaurant and have an acceptable cup of tea. So sad.
I haven't even got past the commercial yet and this is already my favorite video. I love learning everyone's brewing methods! And it came out right as I was drinking a cup, too.
Only reusable metal tea infusers for me. Even the loose tea I buy is in 100% biodegradable bags. I feel like tea is such an easy thing to be sustainable with.
Ginger cookies. I love ginger. Butter cookies are a close second. Your tea preparation kinda reminds me of Frisian tea with the clouds, btw.
Ooh, *looks that up rn*
@@TheWelshViking in-cup infusers are what you want, the ball ones (or any novelty shaped ones) don't leave enough room for the leaves to do their thing.
I've got a teapot with a built-in infuser..... It's fantastic, but needs to be at least 3/4s full to work, which means I have to drink a couple of (UK) pints of tea (Oh dear.....What a pity :-) )
@@caitbarry9617 Yes! The big spacious cylinder in cup infuser with the super tiny mesh holes is what I have. It has so much room to let the leaves expand and really releases the flavor in those oolong teas. The only thing better at finding the flavors is gongfu brewing, but that's for days when I'm not being lazy. I remember when I first bought one ..I still thought stainless steel meant it wouldn't get tea stained. Lol, silly me.
Nothing like a great cup of tea from a lifelong tea granny!
😍 Tea with a stroopwaffle is wonderul 🇺🇲
1:36 Me, a Scouser: Oh thank the gods, we're in the clear, lads.
Giggled my way through this one. My Scottish grandmother gave the same tea-making instructions, confirmed by Lord Wedgwood when he came for a porcelain trunk show at the department store where I worked. And milk no sugar is best.
It's always time for a cup of tea (even if I'm drinking coffee 😁)
This is the first of your videos I’ve seen. It came up in my feed as I was sipping my loose leaf Earl Grey brewed in my beloved Brown Betty. Ahhh!
Hebden Tea! Nice!
I think the most important thing about tea is its reminder to stop and take a 5 minute break every now and again.
Also favourite biscuit has got to be a Chocolate bourbon
Yes, yes, yes to bourbon creams!
Ooh a classy choice!
Just how my mother taught me, one for each person and one for the pot 😄
That Mari Lwyd looks so cute!
My tea pot is made of glass - so I strictly speaking don't need to rinse it with hot/boiling water, but I usually do, anyway.
Completely agree with the dark choc digestive and the occasional hobnob; I found if I was feeling very fancy in the shop I would go for the dark chocolate bahlsen leibniz biscuits too. Hope your tea sustains you for the week :)
1:47 Not only that, You can superheat liquids in microwaves. It will look normal but as soon as you stick a spoon in it all boils at once.
That… is a very interesting fact!
Except this almost never happens yet never fails to be mentioned when people discuss tea.
@@grannyweatherwax8005 I've found It's more likely to happen with thicker liquids, It's only ever happened to me when reheating coffee with milk already in. I think its a lot harder to do it to pure water.
@@grannyweatherwax8005 I've done it a couple of times. Know your microwave and how long it takes to get to the boil, and either go just under, or use a much bigger container and go way over.
@@Kingstallington having done it a couple times it seems to me like the fewer nucleation points you have in the container you're microwaving, the more likely you are to superheat something, if you've got tea reasidue already on your mug or the inside is a rough surface, it's less likely to happen than in a pristine pyrex measuring cup... also, I find regular boilovers happen way worse if there's any milk in somehting than if it's just water, I suspect something to do with the surface tension. The thicker liquids like sauces can end up with superheated areas, so stopping and stirring it a few times is the best way to avoid boilovers and splatters... though there are a few things that are just naturally splattery and you'll want to cover them (canned ravioli, clam chowder, baked beans and pea soup all seem to make a mess no matter how often I stir).
Now THIS is truly Useful Information! I must acquire a teapot immediately, if not sooner! I became a coffee person about 30 years ago, but I now grow chamomile on my deck. That lovely apple smell is heaven, and home grown is a delight with a blop of honey before bed. Earl Grey on a rainy PNW afternoon, with a cozy mystery, is lovely. I have a few metal things to put loose tea in so it can steep in the cup, but I have never had a proper pot. Must find one...
I really want a documentary voiced over like this.
Hey Jimmy, I love your commitment and passion to the important ritual that is Western Tea drinking. Might I recommend you try adding milk to your cup before you pour your tea? I find that this helps make the tea taste less bitter, more rich and even slightly naturally sweet. There is science behind this! Something about the milk heating too quickly when added after the tea, and denaturing the proteins. All I know is that my friends agree that I make the best cup of tea. And this is my secret.
Love from Australia!
I was also wondering if you have any comments on closed vs open cultural practices from Wales. Mari Luid seems scary/lovely and I appreciate her. I don't know very much about Welsh traditions other than what I've heard you speak about (and my memory isn't always good). Thank you!
What a lovely palate-cleanser for a difficult retail weekend. Thank-you. One of my friends tells me it's: "one for the pot, two for a guest, and three for trouble."
Oh my goodness, all my life I’ve been making a perfect Welsh cup of tea without knowing it. And without a single drop of Welsh heritage! I’m happy that you addressed several of my pet peeves - heating water in the microwave, not brewing long enough, and a couple others. But seriously, I loved the humor. Please do feel free to make an occasional “silly” post like this, it was great fun to watch!
I was cured of the microwave tea curse some years ago, and watching this reminded me I haven't had my cup today. Thanks! (I brew 4-8 minutes, varying wildly by my mood, milk only if I forget about it for more than 6 minutes. I've done as long as 13 before because I got sidetracked by a different video. It was a very nice Irish man who taught me to use milk and smooth the "I forgor" bitterness out of it, some eleven years ago.)
Short "silly" videos like this are just a delight after a busy day at work. Hope your week smooths out.
This was delightful! I’m in America, where the majority of people drink coffee over tea, but I drink tea and I love it. This was an excellent education on how to properly do it!
Thank you Jimmy! Tragically for a Brit, I am unable to drink tea as it gives me migraines, but this video brought me much joy, after a trying week.
I can now go forth in the world confident in the knowledge of how to make tea for others, as not drinking it, I have always been slightly concerned that for an untold number of years I may have been imposing crap tea on my nearest and dearest.
Thank you for your service, surely a knighthood beckons.
My Mum's Scots, and she taught me how to make tea properly. She (and I) agree with your procedure. Chocolate digestives are definitely the best, though I haven't seen them around much where I live.
It took less than a month of living with folks in West Yorkshire to go from a no milk person all my life to a milk person, primarily because the tea bags in the UK are designed to be stronger than the ones in the US (I think).
Now I have my glorious chai--the single best tea I've ever had, in a bag or out--milk free, but I could code switch at any time!
As an American who prefers tea to coffee, I’m loving this video! Thanks for sharing!
This is the video I needed today. Rainy 69 degrees F in the Colorado Rocky Mountains. No sleep last night and I am recovering from a concussion. I feel better just having watched, but I brewed along with you AND used a favorite old cup and saucer. Be well and happy.
I can confirm, Mari Lwyd haunts people who make crap tea. She will manifest in your pantry, drink all your beer, and eat all of your biscuits and your cheese, and it's really hard to make her leave.
I must be Mari Lwyd
Hugs. Take care. Tea soothes the soul and sets the body right. ❤
This instructional video would have earned the approval of my Welsh mother , my Welsh grandmother, and my cousin Maryanne in the Nantlle Valley, too.
As an espresso drinker, I have respect for a tea drinkers obsession.
I enjoyed this greatly! And honestly, this may be the only youtube video I have ever seen that has made me think "oh, I wish my grandmother was still alive, because if i could have convinced her to watch it, she'd have loved it!" She kind of hated watching any sort of video, but she greatly enjoyed the brief time she spent in Wales, and this is almost *exactly* how she made tea, right down to your grannie's adage!
This is priceless. Wonderful. Thoroughly enjoyable. Thank you!
Absolute perfection.
I am an American, and during my college internship I was taught to brew a proper cup of tea by an Englishman, so I learned to be Mother, and what biscuits are tea-worthy. Fun fact we also served to an Australian in the department! I have to say, I prefer the simplicity of no Mother. Just the tea, please, people are often such a hassle. Except for you, Jimmy. I'd take yes with you and yours any day; you're good people.
I'm lucky, living in Brum, I get my lovely soft water from a flooded village in Wales' Elan Valley. I like to imagine that I can taste Percy Bysshe Shelley's tears from the subaquatic ruins of Cwm Elan. I'll try steeping my tea bags, rather than gooshing it with a spoon, and see if I like it.
All the best, Jimmy. This is a lovely, relaxing video.
pecan sandies are my favorite tea cookies
definitely going to save this one for a bad day, couldn’t stop smiling the entire time. love your stuff mr viking sir, hope you have a better week!
Love your wonderful Welsh sense of humor. Have a good week.
Diolch Julie!
Humor? Making tea is serious business!
I confess, I'm a bag-squeezer, but only after it has steeped for 5-7 minutes, and only to keep the discarded bag from dripping on the table over saucer's edge. Also, for the record, my usual is Earl Grey, milk, sugar, but I'm also a Texan, so barbarity is normal, lol
Your timing is impeccable. I just sat down with a cup of tea to watch some youtube, and this was the first thing I saw.
I am very sensitive to caffeinated teas, and prefer herbal teas. I always steep for 15 minutes, but otherwise follow you instructions. I live on the Pacific coast, in a state with excellent water. Teas is my favorite drink. Enjoy!
As an American I am glad to know I make a decent cup of tea (minus the Welsh water) lol
This was great, just what I needed after a stressful week myself, I'd take that cup with a gingersnap or coconut shortbread
I needed that cup of warm, cozy niceness. Cheers to less rough times. This might help me to drink coffeinated beverages at night to calm down :) Thank you!
I was going to make a pot of tea to go along with this video and then realized that I had already packed my kettle, teapots, and tea cups! Moving sucks 😭 I do hope that things start looking up for you soon! {hugs}
Ginger Snaps (Nuts) are my favorite cookies with tea.
BISCUIT
Thanks, loved and needed this.
As even an accursed American, I know this is THE way to a proper cup of tea. I'm not a barbarian, and drink Lipton, after all.😂
How about just heating up some Snapple tea.
@@myhandlehasbeenmishandled 🤮
Try Tetley British Blend tea and burn the Lipton.
@lapoppy4801 Kind of a fan of Twinings.
You are so right about the water! Moving from Scotland to England has been hugely detrimental to my tea enjoyment 😢. I’m I big fan of a custard cream myself 😊
Exactly the video I needed to see, Thank you Jimmy! 🏴
(Got the big sads today and you have helped immensely)
Just come back from Cardiff and missing it already ,you can't beat a Proper bake stone (welsh cake ) with a cuppa ,love your video ❤
this was more effective encouragement to have some tea than any advertisement i've come across yet
Definitely going to do this to have with breakfast tomorrow! Thanks Jimmy!
Just made a pot of tea (chocolate & cranberry black loose leaf) to take my RUclips break. What a pleasant surprise! Have now sent your video to all my friends who argue with me over how to make tea.
Thank you! this was a lovely break, and the reminder I need to get off my American arse and get out the teapot. And knit a new cozy to fit it.
Favorite biscuits: shortbread!
I have never been a tea (or coffee) drinker. However both parents do drink tea, and one bestie is a self-confessed tea snob. They would be hard pressed to find fault in this.
Thank you for your efforts to enlighten the masses on this time honoured tradition.
Favourite biscuit: custard cream. Having a Welsh butter toffee waffle to rest over the cup is also fantastic, so I suppose there's a tie there. A slice of carrot cake on the side is also a great addition, though I do have a very sweet tooth so having both at once is not recommended for the faint of heart.
Thank you. I enjoyed this video.
I love this! A correct and proper cup of tea is my comfort food! I am an American who uses a kettle and loves a full 5 minute brew. In fact I have left tea to steep for a few hours because I forgot and I liked that too! I like it strong!
Ah, another person with a tea cupboard! My respect for you has increased. Though personally I tend to gravitate more towards oolong than black - black tea is my second favorite though.
No objections whatsoever! This felt charming, like something Lindybeige would make. Whatever went sideways for you, I hope time will make things right. In the meantime, nothing can help a man keep his sanity quite like a cup of tea - I stand by that.
I cannot express how much i love this video!
I have saved this to my Favorites, and shared it with my family, and will rewatch periodically, and cherish it to the end of time for the jewel that it is! Edit to add: If I'm going to have biscuits with my tea (I usually don't), I want Carr's Ginger Lemon Cremes, despite the fact that they're perishingly difficult to come by on this side of the Atlantic.
I think the dutch stroopwafel is vaguely known online but my favorite thing to have with tea it's the stroopwafel's sibling, the stroopkoek. Nice and chewy syrup between crumbly crispy biscuits!
Yes a proper cup of tea.
Good stuff. Thank you for this.