In Riastrad
No, man, just no.
A coffee pot is an interesting and hard to explain thing. It's a bit like tea in that you strain the water through the grounds and don't actually consume thr grounds, but the way to make it is... odd.
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The Paedofinder General
For real coffee you use a cafetiere
◊ however back to tea:
I really wouldn't be able to have tea through boiling water on a hob, and if you are doing lots you use a teapot. :)
Edit:
Also a link to the UK Tea Council
full of fun facts and stuff about tea from an appropriately British point of view.
edited 13th Feb '11 9:33:56 AM by IanExMachina
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I live in the Deep South. Sweet iced tea is almost always in my refridgerator. Boil a pot of water, add Red Diamond tea bags, steep from four to eight hours, and add lots of sugar (2 1/3 cups for a gallon of tea).
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I am a budding connoisseur of Chinese tea. Because that stuff is good.
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An infusion of rooibos and jasmine green, or something with rosebuds. Preferably with honey. On-the-go, strongly-brewed oolong with milk and brown sugar is always nice.
For the most part, though, I just drink large quantities of green tea.
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Another video for the Tea Drinkers :)
Some Chap Hop with Professor Elemental titled "Cup of Brown Joy"
Long time tea drinker...from a family of coffee swillers. Just never got into the taste of coffee. Once I got beyond Lipton's (which was about it for available tea in my small town in my youth), I discovered the joys of taking it without mounds of sugar.
I like buying sets of variety teas (a couple of the tea shops around Minneapolis will sell small packets of miscellaneous loose leaf a dozen for five dollars or so) so that I don't get tired of just one tea type.
I have an assortment of work-related coffee cups and travel mugs; I used to have a very nice Japanese beer advertising mug but it got disappeared after a particularly badly-ending temp job.
There is a nice shop in Brisbane that I used to walk past... The window has hundreds of varieties of tea.
I never went in, though.
Be not afraid...
Macinatrix Insana
I recently tried Hojicha (roasted green tea) for the first time. It was really good, and if you ever get the chance to try it, you should.
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Oh My
Hojicha? That sounds amazing...D:
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Sneering Imperialist
I love tea. It is my fuel, my lifeblood, my elixir. However if it is not English Breakfast or Assam tea, it can gtfo.
Preferring coffee is practically treason.
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I'm usually not a big fan of black tea, but I recently tried Assam, and it has a very unique flavor. A bit stronger than what I'm used to, but I think I like it.
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I drink tea strong enough to shine metal.
"Coffee! Coffeecoffeecoffee! Coffee! Not as strong as Meth-amphetamine, but it lets you keep your teeth!"
Oh My
I do too! :D
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I love tea, I prefer Lapsang Souchong, it has a delicious smokey flavour unlike any other tea. But in a pinch I'll drink any tea :-)
Twinings for preference they've been doing good tea for ages!
edited 31st Mar '11 2:36:56 AM by Tadeous
Sneering Imperialist
Any other Britons here find themselves taking a big box of PG Tips and an electric kettle with them if they're going to a savage land of coffee-drinkers like America? 
we have tea too you know...
I seem to remember a certain revolution being more or less ignited due to the stuff.
edited 31st Mar '11 11:23:59 AM by Lanceleoghauni
"Coffee! Coffeecoffeecoffee! Coffee! Not as strong as Meth-amphetamine, but it lets you keep your teeth!"
In Riastrad
There's tea in America.
Laughably small amounts, but still.
My name is Cu Chulainn. Beside the raging sea I am left to moan. Sorrow I am, for I brought down my only son.I don't know where you live, but Here in New England Tea is relatively commonplace.
"Coffee! Coffeecoffeecoffee! Coffee! Not as strong as Meth-amphetamine, but it lets you keep your teeth!"
Macinatrix Insana
Yeah. We New Englanders can't live without tea. Hell, even the General Store in my nowhere town has a whole section of the stuff. Good, expensive teas too, not the stuff you get at a supermarket.
Life is like a game of Mahjong. Sometimes you need to take risks if you want to come out ahead.and even our supermarkets tend to have decent stuff. Not great stuff, but not just *shudder* liptons.
"Coffee! Coffeecoffeecoffee! Coffee! Not as strong as Meth-amphetamine, but it lets you keep your teeth!"
Macinatrix Insana
Yeah. One of the supermarkets I went to even had imported Twinings tea from Britain, so I got to compare it to American Twinings. My English friend was right, British Twinings is soooo much better.
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There's buckets of tea here in Pennsylvania...
...but it's usually iced. And around here sometimes people mix lemonade into it.
It's actually pretty good.
o_O you use INSTANT coffee?!
Filthy Heathen. Drip/French Press/Espresso is the only way to go, however, as this is the TEA Thread i give you THIS!
BEHOLD!
"Coffee! Coffeecoffeecoffee! Coffee! Not as strong as Meth-amphetamine, but it lets you keep your teeth!"