How do you take your workshop tea?

[Welderpaul]

No one has tea in our place, oddly out of 9 blokes everyone has coffee, strong, milk and two sugars. Makes brewing easy.
We like nice coffee so buy expensive stuff - 3 brews a day, regular as clockwork.

 

[CRB]

B****r VE not VM, God knows where that came from.

Oh, well. We may all be in Norfolk in the Spring for another Meet. ?Might call in?

 

[CRB]

No one has tea in our place, oddly out of 9 blokes everyone has coffee, strong, milk and two sugars. Makes brewing easy.
We like nice coffee so buy expensive stuff - 3 brews a day, regular as clockwork.

Bet you are. Caffeine colonics.

 

[DrDeAtH]

No one has tea in our place, oddly out of 9 blokes everyone has coffee, strong, milk and two sugars. Makes brewing easy.
We like nice coffee so buy expensive stuff - 3 brews a day, regular as clockwork.

Are you all Americans?

 

[Welderpaul]

Are you all Americans?

No, just work long hours!

 

[julianf]

when i used to work for the clubs, id brew up a pint glass of black tea, wrap it in cling, sling it in my rucksack, and pull it out when i got there.
travelling time was minimal, so no point bothering with thermos, but it was nice to have a hot drink on the job.


im not as keen on tea bags - too much tea (for me) for a single mug

 

[spaffmonkey]

Agree young people can't make tea. If someone under 30 is making me tea I tell them to leave the bag in.

You don't need to be over 30 to make decent tea
I'm 27 and have always drunk tea and never had complaints.

I have my tea on the strong side with a small splash of milk, with 2 sugars in first cup of the day and 1 in the rest of the days.

 

[julianf]

I make the worst coffee.

(or at least that's my intention... ; )

 

[DrDeAtH]

I make the worst coffee.

(or at least that's my intention... ; )

I know your game..... Kettle avoidance..

 

[julianf]

I know your game..... Kettle avoidance..

You know how some people treat vegetarians, or those who dont drink, with some sort of suspicion or mistrust?

Tea is a good, honest drink.

Coffee... You have to wonder about coffee drinkers.

; )

 

[Rig Pig]

I drink tea with plenty of milk and no suger, as many cups as possible a day!

 

[MattF]

Coffee, (preference), or tea, both are the same: a drab of milk and no sugar, if I'm making them myself. I'll honestly drink them however they come though. I've had customers lather milk and sugar in them over the years, so I just drink what's handed to me these days. As long as it's wet, it passes muster.

 

[knoba]

...30 to 40 cups a day for me. I have work breaks instead of tea breaks!

 

[lchris21]

aye but is it a mixture or an emulsion???

 

[eSCHEn]

aye but is it a mixture or an emulsion???

Big words and a cheeky smile don't get away from the fact that putting the milk in first is just savagery.

 

[daleyd]

Coffee for me as well, one sugar not too much milk.

In my gun bay workshop on hms Lancaster we used to have a filter coffee machine that everyone used to come up for a brew throughout the day, as long as the weather wasn't too rough (we were up in the pointy end).

I work from home a fair bit now and used to have a bean to cup coffee maker, but it packed up a while back once our extension is done with a decent sized kitchen that'll be my first investment!

 

[Hitch]

Coffee for me, as it comes from the machine.
Despite the buttons having tea, chocolate, soup... We just fill it with coffee. All white with one, no other options.
Easier from a machine, no arguments about whose turn to boil the kettle.
Normally have one first thing then 2/3 during the day at the bench.

 

[daleyd]

Coffee for me, as it comes from the machine.
Despite the buttons having tea, chocolate, soup... We just fill it with coffee. All white with one, no other options.
Easier from a machine, no arguments about whose turn to boil the kettle.
Normally have one first thing then 2/3 during the day at the bench.

I worked in Italy a few years ago and the coffee vending machine there served the best espresso I had ever had, it was top restaurant quality (apparently this isn't unusual for factories in Italy) The workers there reckoned if the coffee machine was taken away they would just walk out.

 

[Hitch]

Bit different to ours then
Ours is about the worst!

 

[daleyd]

Bit different to ours then
Ours is about the worst!

Ha ha yeah, I don't think I've ever had anything other than "average" from any vending machine in this country, more usually "bleeding awful". When you drink enough of it though, you strangely get used to it!