@Lady Trek2space I'm a Brit. Yes! A 'cup of cha' is indeed a joyful refreshment. I make a pot of tea for myself each afternoon; and I make it very much as they show in the video above. Call me old-fashioned, but I make a pot of tea and I drink it in a cup with a saucer, not a mug! Yes, tea-drinking is on the decline in the UK. I think that many consider it 'cool' to drink coffee. Personally, I like both tea and coffee. For me, it's coffee in the morning and tea in the afternoon.
@Lady Trek2space You're quite the card! 😀Yes, I'm definitely a coffee person in the morning. I really enjoy my coffee in the morning, but I drink very little of it later in the day. Maybe just another cup after dinner/supper. I like mugs of coffee, but I must say that I do prefer my tea in a cup. I can imagine that when you insist on a pot of tea in the afternoon when travelling abroad, people will quickly assume that you must be a Brit. 😉
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
The focus of the film on teams of canteens: refreshment supplies for military, medical, fire and emergency teams, as well as bombing victims. These were often mobile units. The emphasis is on working with larger quantities of tea and the giant urns. A different process than making tea at home.
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
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".
John King -- When I was in the Boy-scouts decades ago we were taught in First Aid training about giving a hot, sweet cup of tea as the remedy for shock, trauma and just about everything else.
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."
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.
I was talking with my Dad the other day and discovered that my great-great-grandfather worked on tea clippers travelling to and from the Far East, as well as South America and other places. I had already known that he worked on whaling ships in the Arctic, but as an enthusiastic tea-drinker and somebody interested in history in general, I found this latest piece of knowledge about my ancestor fascinating. He was from a fishing town in the North East of Scotland and had little formal education, so I very much doubt he would have spoken RP (he definitely didn't!), but I suppose it was the job of Doric-speakers like him and people from other seaports - like Liverpool for example - to fetch the tea from the far reaches of the Empire so that everyone back in Britain could drink it and the job of RP journalists to lecture people about how to drink it!
Alistair Thompson Fantastic story of your family. I love reading comments like yours that share personal experiences of family members during the war, etc. I have a great regard for that generation. The worked so hard, struggled and suffered but they all pitched in and did it together. The generations of today don't understand how to budget, mend, save and work hard with a community effort like the greatest generation had to do. My dad was born in 1930 so I enjoy hearing all of the stories about his life during that period.
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 🤓
When I was young I worked on a pott bank, they used tea chests for packaging. You could still smell the residue from the tea. I found a five pound note once in the bottom of one..
I was alarmed at him pouring boiling hot water into a beaker. No gloves, you wouldn't get away with that today. Health & Safety would have your guts for garters.
@@BX138 Some types of glass, especially older glass, will shatter from temperature shock. Like how ice cracks when you drop it in a drink. These days lab equipment is mostly made from glass that won't break like that, but in the 40s it wasn't common. The other complaint (aside from the obvious, that he holds it in such an unstable way) is that you do! not! use lab equipment for any kind of food preparation, and you always, always wear gloves. Who knows what chemical was in contact with your equipment last or how well it was cleaned? Labs are full of contaminants.
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.
This was wonderful. My Liverpudlian mom (living in the USA after marrying my American dad) would get so mad when she'd order a hot tea from a restaurant and this foamy nasty mess would be delivered to the table. It got to the point where she'd tell the waitress to be sure the water actually was at a full-boil before pouring the water over the teabag. They'd still screw up, of course. RIP, Mom. Hope the tea is better where you are now. See you soon-ish. Put the kettle on! 💖
Try loose leaf tea, in a teapot, I usually scald or warm the pot as they say in the film, then put the tea in swirl the pot about a couple of times to throw the tea against the walls of the pot and leave to allow for the leaves to partly absorb moisture from the steam of the scalded pot. The aroma before you put the boiling water in is wonderful, a very strong sweet smell that you can't get with teabags.
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.
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.
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 was still being served and acted as a morale-booster for many during the war and never a drop was wasted as leftoever tea and tea leaves were used to clean. Tea merchants banned together to help in the war effort. Continuing to serve clients, Lyons teahouse made 100 cups of tea to the pound rather than the usual 85.
I loved how he pointed at the two bits of wood under the tea chest,and then said "thus" it is a word I very rarely hear in everyday life. I was wondering if it was a shortened word for "there you see" or "there u see" Not sure if they did this back in the day though. This was absolute Gold.
Thank you so much for this - have been looking for it for ages - first saw it on UKTV, Sat. night 'Bernard Braden Show' about 50 odd years ago. What a Gem - we all howled at the niceness but then 80 odd years ago we had the blitz, Woolton Pie, British Restaurants, rationing, telegrams regretting to inform us . . . , so this calm, over-enunciated, sprightly music, production, did serve in the chin-up, we're carrying on spirit of those times.
I heard somewhere that it was at first thought to be proper to put the milk in the cup before the tea. Tea cups way back when were made of poorer materials and the heat of the tea could cause them to crack, the milk would prevent this. :)
3:32 - Always ensure kettle is held at head height before pouring the boiling water onto the tea. This will ensure that your tea will always have a faint taste of danger while also highlighting your disdain for basic Health & Safety procedures. Simple plastic surgery will clear up any horrific burns. Oh, and always warm the pot.
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.
I just finished an audio book: an army at dawn. During a tank battle in Africa, the brits stoped to take a tea break. I love the English, they properly say FU without being disrespectful. That’s why I married one
@@johnstown2451 All British tanks now have a boiling vessel, BV or bivvie, for exactly this reason, after a disastrous incident in France. www.google.com/amp/s/www.warhistoryonline.com/world-war-ii/tiger-tanks-tea-the-british-cup.html/amp
Wow this brings back memories. As a 1st year apprentice I had to fill in for the tea lady when she had the odd day off. This fellow sounds just like the Plant Manager who trained me how to prepare and serve the tea. He took his Tea extremely seriously. Did I cop some grief out in the workshop when I brought the trolley around however I managed to make friends with some of the young office girls that payed off in spades. I even got a pat on the back from the Plant Manager after he must have overheard of the conquest. The office girls didnt want to go out into the workshop and the head of the pool was a real old Witch.
oh wow, that was fantastic. I love my tea, I live in France and have embraced a lot of French things (even mustard after 8 years of living here!) BUT I need my tea in the morning. Ive even taken to pouring it from a height to get air into it...
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?
Love it! That said, I do uneasily notice that it rather jarringly switches to a bloke when, and not for a moment longer than is necessary for, teaching the actual substance...
I loved how in Upstairs Downstairs the downstairs were always having tea around that beautiful old wood table. If the news was sad they’d have a cup, if the news was joyous they’d have a cup. I wanted to pull up a chair and take tea with them. Not so much with Lady Marjorie though I liked her too.
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 😂
Omg, even though I grew up in New Zealand almost 20 years after WWII ended, we all had these tea-making conventions baked into us. We even had those tea chests! These days it is probably all coffee, but, even so, a well made cup of tea is something special if made correctly.
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.)
I only drink tea when I’m sick or depressed... I drank enough tea in 2020 to fill an Olympic size swimming pool! What a horrendous year. I lost my youngest sister in January and then my younger brother in July. I hope everyone reading this is staying safe and gets their COVID-19 vaccine as soon as they’re able. God Bless Us, everyone. ☺️
Love it! Not making urns of tea, but a pot. The 6 step process remains the same. Slight variations w/ teabags or infuser. Must have saved time to pre-sweeten tea in the urn at the canteen, but *shudder* tea was rationed during WW II!!! :(
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
Thanks for the list! But I think rule number 4 (2:45) should have explained exactly what is the right quantity of tea for the amount of water in the pot!! I’ve always had a problem with this…In the olden days people used to say put the number of teaspoons in the teapot for the number of people you’re brewing for….but in that case, how do know how much water to put in!! Just can’t get my head round this …..Any expert tea makers out there to enlighten me?😊
I grew up on Lipton tea. We had iced tea year round in Texas. My Mom used the Magic Tea Pot with ceramic infuser. She said it came free when her Mom bought McCormick tea during the depression. It was the best tea. I miss my Mom and her tea. ☺️
hello from a Brit, if you do ever make tea, leaves or a tea bag , just make sure to use boiling water , we mainly use a mug and put a tea bag in it ( in reality)
I grew up drinking Red Rose tea ("Only in Canada? Pity."). In 1991, I spent a summer in England, where I discovered Ty-Phoo. I've been drinking Ty-Phoo ever since. I even have a vintage Ty-Phoo fountain pen, a premium that was available in the 1920s-40s.
A wonderful, wonderful film. I do wonder just how likely the two ladies shown were to actually get near a tea pot or urn, and what the more seasoned users of the urn thought about such advice. If you know "Brief Encounter", i can't see the staion cafe manageress taking too kindly to that sort of advice....
@RichMatarese They stopped among other reasons (tea being one of them), was infantry support for the Tanks. In My own military career, we stopped for tea on the first day of the advance into kosovo. An MP pulled up on his motor bike and asked what we were doing. "Having a Brew" was the answer. "No" he said, "what are you doing ahead of the Para's and Tanks drinking tea?" We hurriedly turned back, but not before we had finished our tea. We had to keep the British end up you understand...
this is now my favourite youtube video. Thankyou. Subscribed. This reminds me of my grandparents and my grans tea. Lots of milk and sugar, i dont take either in my tea now :(
@@the98themperoroftheholybri33 Tea culture has many different interpretations through different countries, from matcha to yak butter tea, there's a lot of variety, America's is just kinda... mass produced, which doesn't capture the best of the tea
R.D. Dragon Hitler made one huge mistake. He went for the Russian oilfields. If he would have captured the Indian tea plantations instead, Germany would have won in a weekend.
And the tea came from the British colonies who were being held hostage against their will by the British. All the while the British were fighting the Nazis to keep the Nazis from dominating them.
Crazy people! I don't get how someone can say they don't like something like "tea" because there are millions of different blends out there. Tea has something for everyone.
It is possible they just haven't found the one they like or just aren't used to tea, though people do have different tastes. I feel like many people just know how cheap bagged tea tastes like and imagine that all tea tastes like that. But of course there would still be someone who doesn't like.
Tea also has a magic property which coffee doesn't have. It's an "adaptogen". It cools you down when you're hot, it warms you up when you're cold, it wakes you up when you're fatigued and calms you down when you're overwrought.
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 !
Finally the youtube algorithm has figured out what I really like.
Please have a hot tea bath.
@@jaydunstan1618 I like a hot tea eye rinse.
@@JamieVegas Me too and foot bath!
Same s:)
Does one fancy a cup of Empire tea?
Host: "How do you take your tea?"
Brit: "Very seriously."
Good, I have a coffee then.
Black, no sugar.
@Lady Trek2space I'm a Brit. Yes! A 'cup of cha' is indeed a joyful refreshment. I make a pot of tea for myself each afternoon; and I make it very much as they show in the video above. Call me old-fashioned, but I make a pot of tea and I drink it in a cup with a saucer, not a mug! Yes, tea-drinking is on the decline in the UK. I think that many consider it 'cool' to drink coffee. Personally, I like both tea and coffee. For me, it's coffee in the morning and tea in the afternoon.
@Lady Trek2space You're quite the card! 😀Yes, I'm definitely a coffee person in the morning. I really enjoy my coffee in the morning, but I drink very little of it later in the day. Maybe just another cup after dinner/supper. I like mugs of coffee, but I must say that I do prefer my tea in a cup. I can imagine that when you insist on a pot of tea in the afternoon when travelling abroad, people will quickly assume that you must be a Brit. 😉
@Lady Trek2space on the decline my foot.
Finally, no more infusion confusion. Just a profusion of drinkable solution.
Methinks you've found your own solution... Of THC tea, that is!
Now I'm dead set on learning to say this five times fast! 😂😂
I drink my tea in seclusion with no delusion or elocution to the solution
Yes, do not add the milk too late to the tea because we don't want it to de TEA riate
Wah waaa wah waaa ..
That's what we say in India for these
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
Mate, it was the tea that got them through all that.
very useful information
for making a cup of tea with loose tea
The focus of the film on teams of canteens: refreshment supplies for military, medical, fire and emergency teams, as well as bombing victims. These were often mobile units. The emphasis is on working with larger quantities of tea and the giant urns. A different process than making tea at home.
Thenk you Anita.
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
A nice cuppa and some drippin on toast....coooor.
That’s so nice.xx
Are you dead now?
@@zbs8334 I was going to ask 'are you still alive' but then I saw your reply ...lol
The diaries of Nella Last is where I got all of my interest in bulk tea making.
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
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".
seems reasonable
Thank goodness for the tea bag !
Tea for Brexit!
@@viddu16 hard brexit let's have a mug of tea
John King -- When I was in the Boy-scouts decades ago we were taught in First Aid training about giving a hot, sweet cup of tea as the remedy for shock, trauma and just about everything else.
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."
Only on film. Alcohol more likely in reality if available!
'Dad! Granny's been run over by a steam roller!'
'Oh dear... best we put the kettle on...'
Idiot....bring her in off the street first, you don't want the neibors talking.
the man next door has caught her eye ...
Wait! Granny's not dead yet, see if she'll join us for a cuppa and crumpets
Those are some impressive eye brows.
Laura B 😂😂😂
Laura B . Werewolf
Laura B Young Boris Karloff?
The eyebrows of a man who has dedicated his life to tea science.
Laura B the comment section never fails 😒🤣🤣🤣🤣
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.
Hahahahaha! Good one, mate.
I was talking with my Dad the other day and discovered that my great-great-grandfather worked on tea clippers travelling to and from the Far East, as well as South America and other places. I had already known that he worked on whaling ships in the Arctic, but as an enthusiastic tea-drinker and somebody interested in history in general, I found this latest piece of knowledge about my ancestor fascinating. He was from a fishing town in the North East of Scotland and had little formal education, so I very much doubt he would have spoken RP (he definitely didn't!), but I suppose it was the job of Doric-speakers like him and people from other seaports - like Liverpool for example - to fetch the tea from the far reaches of the Empire so that everyone back in Britain could drink it and the job of RP journalists to lecture people about how to drink it!
Alistair Thompson Fantastic story of your family. I love reading comments like yours that share personal experiences of family members during the war, etc. I have a great regard for that generation. The worked so hard, struggled and suffered but they all pitched in and did it together. The generations of today don't understand how to budget, mend, save and work hard with a community effort like the greatest generation had to do. My dad was born in 1930 so I enjoy hearing all of the stories about his life during that period.
LOL..."when I first too kohver my canteen".
I'm a Yank I don't make good tea. You're a Brit, you can't make good coffee, it's a good deal all around.
"Dull in color and insipid in taste" is my new favorite insult.
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 🤓
Classic comment!!! 👍👍👍😎
Right? My first reaction, too. 😬
either the water was cold or there was some kind of protective material at the bottom of the test tube :)
@@emilystockard8027 The water had steam coming off!
@@emilystockard8027 People were tougher back then. ;-)
1941: "Do not store tea near fruit or spices..." 2019: (tea aisle) Orange Tea; Lemon Tea; Mint Tea; Cinnamon Tea; Spice Tea...
Tea operative required , minimum pay on zero hours. Qualifications required - six golden rules and a cap (not dirty).
Supermarket 2019 :
shopper - wheres the tea?
shop assistant - on two pieces of wood in the electrical eyle.
Philistines have ruined tea
Different kind of tea man
@@ShubhamBhushanCC I'm kinda sure everyone you know hates you
An awesome snapshot of a people who sure as Hell were never going to give up, and my hat is off to that generation.
William Poets channels
I'm not saying a word.
@@hellooutthere8956 Why, are you German perhaps?
People nowadays just aren’t as determined to make a good cup of tea. :(
Ok boomer
"Tea is not a manufactured article which can be made, bottled up, and served at will." Tell that to America lol
Yeah, we just dump it all into the harbor haha
@@theslayterino5362 there was only ONE harbor tht it was dumped in.
Yeah but in the south iced tea is treated this way.
Or Japan and Taiwan. The unsweetened, bottled tea industry is huge in those countries.
@@hellooutthere8956 Way too much sugar for me.
When I was young I worked on a pott bank, they used tea chests for packaging. You could still smell the residue from the tea. I found a five pound note once in the bottom of one..
Glad to see that the actor who played Nosferatu still was active in the business so many years later 😂😂
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I was waiting for him to turn into a werewolf
My man kinda looked like Rudolf Hess with those eyebrows
Tea made him immortal
@@26TptCoy i thought he had already.
This is *the* most British thing I have ever witnessed, and I've been on a serious Royal Family binge for weeks
Go watch the 1934 film I found on this algorithm called Making Rabbit Pies. It is gold.
My 22yr old son was proud to announce last week that he can now make a cup of tea because of this video.
Oh how they grow up so fast. Holy hell. I was cooking omelettes and driving stick shift pickups in the Australian outback aged 8.
Who else was scared when he held up the beaker and poured boiling water into it?!
I was alarmed at him pouring boiling hot water into a beaker. No gloves, you wouldn't get away with that today. Health & Safety would have your guts for garters.
Glass melts at 2000°, I think they're safe.
@@BX138
It wasn't the glass that concerned me.
I admit, I didn't watch the whole video when I made my previous comment. But now that I have, that guy's brave!
@@BX138 Some types of glass, especially older glass, will shatter from temperature shock. Like how ice cracks when you drop it in a drink. These days lab equipment is mostly made from glass that won't break like that, but in the 40s it wasn't common.
The other complaint (aside from the obvious, that he holds it in such an unstable way) is that you do! not! use lab equipment for any kind of food preparation, and you always, always wear gloves. Who knows what chemical was in contact with your equipment last or how well it was cleaned? Labs are full of contaminants.
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.
Lovely post. Thank you. 🙏🏻
Soldiers had to be looked after, and the blitz was not all the time.
Love it
Thank you for the peek into history, and culture.
Twinings my favorite tea. Loved your post.🫖
This was wonderful. My Liverpudlian mom (living in the USA after marrying my American dad) would get so mad when she'd order a hot tea from a restaurant and this foamy nasty mess would be delivered to the table. It got to the point where she'd tell the waitress to be sure the water actually was at a full-boil before pouring the water over the teabag. They'd still screw up, of course.
RIP, Mom. Hope the tea is better where you are now. See you soon-ish. Put the kettle on! 💖
Yanks don't know how to make tea, I suppose they lost the skill when they threw it overboard at that little party they had in Boston in the 1770s.
@@johndaarteest 😂🤣😂
This is by far the best thing I have ever seen on RUclips! Thank you!
Try loose leaf tea, in a teapot, I usually scald or warm the pot as they say in the film, then put the tea in swirl the pot about a couple of times to throw the tea against the walls of the pot and leave to allow for the leaves to partly absorb moisture from the steam of the scalded pot. The aroma before you put the boiling water in is wonderful, a very strong sweet smell that you can't get with teabags.
I love the RP (Received Pronunciation) accents.
And the "jolly" music.
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.
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.
Brilliant, reminds me of my Grandmother and Saturday morning cinema. It's made my day.
How can modern coffee shops compare!
Thanks for sharing.
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 was still being served and acted as a morale-booster for many during the war and never a drop was wasted as leftoever tea and tea leaves were used to clean. Tea merchants banned together to help in the war effort. Continuing to serve clients, Lyons teahouse made 100 cups of tea to the pound rather than the usual 85.
I loved how he pointed at the two bits of wood under the tea chest,and then said "thus" it is a word I very rarely hear in everyday life. I was wondering if it was a shortened word for "there you see" or "there u see" Not sure if they did this back in the day though. This was absolute Gold.
My Aunt said “thus” often. She was born in 1928.
And 76 years later we still drink bucketloads of tea.
Naturally
Thank goodness for tea bags.
God bless the Brits. Respect. 🇺🇸❤️🇬🇧
Thanks! 🇬🇧
Yeah. Such respect. They voted for Brexit, the most self-destructive act of any nation in modern history. Good luck with that, Pommies.
Jude Irwin Quiet ye kiwi
@@judeirwin2222 prick
I love America
Thank you so much for this - have been looking for it for ages - first saw it on UKTV, Sat. night 'Bernard Braden Show' about 50 odd years ago. What a Gem - we all howled at the niceness but then 80 odd years ago we had the blitz, Woolton Pie, British Restaurants, rationing, telegrams regretting to inform us . . . , so this calm, over-enunciated, sprightly music, production, did serve in the chin-up, we're carrying on spirit of those times.
I heard somewhere that it was at first thought to be proper to put the milk in the cup before the tea. Tea cups way back when were made of poorer materials and the heat of the tea could cause them to crack, the milk would prevent this. :)
3:32 - Always ensure kettle is held at head height before pouring the boiling water onto the tea. This will ensure that your tea will always have a faint taste of danger while also highlighting your disdain for basic Health & Safety procedures. Simple plastic surgery will clear up any horrific burns. Oh, and always warm the pot.
A classic! Absolutely charming.
The tea instructor hadn't quite transitioned into Mr Hyde at this point, but he was well on his way.
Yah! Maybe he was sampling the product too much and hadn't slept in years.
🙀🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I have finally found a clue as to why South Africans say 'orf,' when they say 'off.' And this great video. Thank you, BFI!
I’m so glad YT recommended this. This was really fun. Thanks for the uploading. :)
LOL sounds like our Queen speaking! Love these old clips - good old times, long gone but never forgotten.
I like how even whilst in the grips of total war, the Brits felt the need to make a how-to guide for making tea.
but of course
priorities by dear fellow ... priorities ...
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.
The world is ending! The world is ending! Quick, quick, put the kettle on!
While we still have gas.
I just finished an audio book: an army at dawn.
During a tank battle in Africa, the brits stoped to take a tea break.
I love the English, they properly say FU without being disrespectful. That’s why I married one
@@johnstown2451 officers did the same in the Zulu wars
@@johnstown2451 All British tanks now have a boiling vessel, BV or bivvie, for exactly this reason, after a disastrous incident in France. www.google.com/amp/s/www.warhistoryonline.com/world-war-ii/tiger-tanks-tea-the-british-cup.html/amp
Yes, that's us.. Long live a good cuppa!
now i finally know why my tea has been so dull in color and insipid in taste!!
The man in the film looks like a MAD TEA SCIENTIST! 😂😂😂
Wow this brings back memories.
As a 1st year apprentice I had to fill in for the tea lady when she had the odd day off. This fellow sounds just like the Plant Manager who trained me how to prepare and serve the tea. He took his Tea extremely seriously. Did I cop some grief out in the workshop when I brought the trolley around however I managed to make friends with some of the young office girls that payed off in spades. I even got a pat on the back from the Plant Manager after he must have overheard of the conquest. The office girls didnt want to go out into the workshop and the head of the pool was a real old Witch.
oh wow, that was fantastic. I love my tea, I live in France and have embraced a lot of French things (even mustard after 8 years of living here!) BUT I need my tea in the morning. Ive even taken to pouring it from a height to get air into it...
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?
Love it!
That said, I do uneasily notice that it rather jarringly switches to a bloke when, and not for a moment longer than is necessary for, teaching the actual substance...
I loved how in Upstairs Downstairs the downstairs were always having tea around that beautiful old wood table. If the news was sad they’d have a cup, if the news was joyous they’d have a cup. I wanted to pull up a chair and take tea with them. Not so much with Lady Marjorie though I liked her too.
One of the best vids I have ever seen on RUclips. Many thanks!
windymiller7 What? You are easily pleased.lol.
1:09 She looks perfectly hypnotized by the lecture on tea leaves.
The way he fondles those tea leaves is making me uncomfortable
Very disturbing!
Wait what? How? Now that's weird of you two. I don't see how this is disturbing.
Ketsia Choisie, I can't put my finger on it either, but I felt weirded out and that was before I saw those scary brows. So, I'm #3 now.
the way he fondles the tea leaves, whilst leaning forwards and leering at the woman makes me uncomfortable.
What? I got uncomfortable as soon as they showed his face!
A very useful video and very atractive beautiful ladies, a pleasure to listen to them. A very delightful video and beautifuly narated.
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 😂
Omg, even though I grew up in New Zealand almost 20 years after WWII ended, we all had these tea-making conventions baked into us. We even had those tea chests! These days it is probably all coffee, but, even so, a well made cup of tea is something special if made correctly.
When I was in the RAF we had gallons of tea from the NAAFI (and beer at night) :)
This is the best tutorial I've seen for ages!
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.)
I was never happier as a kid than when visiting my old nan, and having strong cups of tea and pikelets....oww i was nice...proper like.
I only drink tea when I’m sick or depressed... I drank enough tea in 2020 to fill an Olympic size swimming pool! What a horrendous year. I lost my youngest sister in January and then my younger brother in July. I hope everyone reading this is staying safe and gets their COVID-19 vaccine as soon as they’re able. God Bless Us, everyone. ☺️
I'm so sorry for your loss. I hope you're doing OK x
Love it! Not making urns of tea, but a pot. The 6 step process remains the same. Slight variations w/ teabags or infuser.
Must have saved time to pre-sweeten tea in the urn at the canteen, but *shudder* tea was rationed during WW II!!! :(
-twitch- the eyebrows. XD
I love how they put science in the making of tea. Don't mess with the British and their tea.
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
Thanks for the list! But I think rule number 4 (2:45) should have explained exactly what is the right quantity of tea for the amount of water in the pot!! I’ve always had a problem with this…In the olden days people used to say put the number of teaspoons in the teapot for the number of people you’re brewing for….but in that case, how do know how much water to put in!! Just can’t get my head round this …..Any expert tea makers out there to enlighten me?😊
I grew up on Lipton tea. We had iced tea year round in Texas. My Mom used the Magic Tea Pot with ceramic infuser. She said it came free when her Mom bought McCormick tea during the depression. It was the best tea. I miss my Mom and her tea. ☺️
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? 🤔
This is fun to watch. I'm from Texas so this is so informational!
Hello Mate...the Best tea we have here in England is Yorkshire Tea.
hello from a Brit, if you do ever make tea, leaves or a tea bag , just make sure to use boiling water , we mainly use a mug and put a tea bag in it ( in reality)
I grew up drinking Red Rose tea ("Only in Canada? Pity."). In 1991, I spent a summer in England, where I discovered Ty-Phoo. I've been drinking Ty-Phoo ever since. I even have a vintage Ty-Phoo fountain pen, a premium that was available in the 1920s-40s.
Insipid tea stands on my last nerve!
Good information for someone who is working on serving afternoon tea for her family. Thank you.
Those are some pretty incredible eye brows!
A wonderful, wonderful film. I do wonder just how likely the two ladies shown were to actually get near a tea pot or urn, and what the more seasoned users of the urn thought about such advice. If you know "Brief Encounter", i can't see the staion cafe manageress taking too kindly to that sort of advice....
It's no wonder the Germans lost.
Yes indeed. Hitler never had a decent cup of tea in his life so he and his miserable country were doomed.
Where there's tea, there's hope.
The unique pleasure to see tea being prepared properly ... I was so lucky/blessed to be taught right at an early age.
2:09 how I wink at girls...works all the time. ;)
Nice profile picture.
It was a coded message.
Lmao love it.
How did I miss that the first time?
The poor lad looks like he'd seen shit in Dunkirk.
Reminds me of Harry Enfield's Mr Cholmney Warner sketches :) Great vid!! :)
@RichMatarese
They stopped among other reasons (tea being one of them), was infantry support for the Tanks.
In My own military career, we stopped for tea on the first day of the advance into kosovo. An MP pulled up on his motor bike and asked what we were doing. "Having a Brew" was the answer. "No" he said, "what are you doing ahead of the Para's and Tanks drinking tea?" We hurriedly turned back, but not before we had finished our tea. We had to keep the British end up you understand...
The tea instructor looks like he’s turning into a werewolf. Must have been a full moon.
I love my tea, a nice strong cup and loose tea is the best to use!!!
this is now my favourite youtube video. Thankyou. Subscribed. This reminds me of my grandparents and my grans tea. Lots of milk and sugar, i dont take either in my tea now :(
Pretty good advice--use fresh water, warm the pot--although sort of obvious "Always choose good quality tea."
A tea instructor is a valued member of society herein the UK.
Britain: Tea is not something that can be bottled up and sold at will, it must be prepared every time it's required
America: Hold my Arizona Tea
What Americans call tea is so far removed from tea is just dirty water
@@the98themperoroftheholybri33 Tea culture has many different interpretations through different countries, from matcha to yak butter tea, there's a lot of variety, America's is just kinda... mass produced, which doesn't capture the best of the tea
Cheers Dave!! Just had a luvverly cup of tea from my old copper kettle. - Phil Loom.
Even tea ladies talked like the queen 😂
She was just a princess back then
And even Quentin Crisp .
I love tea!
I just LOVE the English accent of the past....wish it still was in use.
I promise you, it still is!
I used to work in a posh area where a lot of the older people still spoke like this. It was difficult to understand them, especially on the phone!
They sound like the good Witch Glinda from the Wizard of Oz.
Simply marvelous dear girl .
2:13 - That chap looks as if he’s on his 108th cup of tea ☕️ for the day.
I love this! Not much has changed :)
We lived on tea, usually with two or three spoonfuls of sugar in it.
whatever you do...” do not stare at the unibrow!”
Lovely hot cup of tea with a slice of cake or a choc biscuit.👌🏻😋
make every cup a cup that cheers, lol love that!
philcald6uk . Love the happy music.
We shall defeat the Nazis... with the power of tea!
As a German tea lover I totally dig this idea.
I mean that is how the English people defeated the Romans according to Asterix, right?
Throw cup of tea at them and they are instantly dead
R.D. Dragon Hitler made one huge mistake. He went for the Russian oilfields. If he would have captured the Indian tea plantations instead, Germany would have won in a weekend.
And they did.
And the tea came from the British colonies who were being held hostage against their will by the British. All the while the British were fighting the Nazis to keep the Nazis from dominating them.
Crazy people! I don't get how someone can say they don't like something like "tea" because there are millions of different blends out there. Tea has something for everyone.
It is possible they just haven't found the one they like or just aren't used to tea, though people do have different tastes. I feel like many people just know how cheap bagged tea tastes like and imagine that all tea tastes like that.
But of course there would still be someone who doesn't like.
Why, yes. There's PG, Yorkshire and Tetley to name just three.
Tea also has a magic property which coffee doesn't have. It's an "adaptogen". It cools you down when you're hot, it warms you up when you're cold, it wakes you up when you're fatigued and calms you down when you're overwrought.
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 !
I'm reading tea leaves at Oxford so I know what i'm talking about. Tea without milk isn't tea in my opinion, unless it's herbal tea.
Is herbal tea even really tea?
😁
I prefer my tea sans milk.
@@qboxer : Technically, no. It's a tisane. Might start off as an infusion, but some stores' tasting "teas" are downright decoctions.