You help yourself to tea and make nothing for me

[venta]

The trouble with reality is that you have to be capable of making your first cup of tea of the morning before you've had your first cup of tea of the morning.

A colleague maintains that coffee (he's talking instant) is at least easier to make, because you don't have to worry about taking the teabag out. I reckon this is wrong: with coffee you have to measure or judge the quantity of instant granules, which is much more difficult than counting up to one (as you would with a teabag).

All this is taking place in the work environment, where one is not easily able to bother with niceties like teapots or looseleaf tea.

Comments

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

You could get a Teasmade (if they still exist), that'd sort you out. No idea if it makes decent tea or not, but the principle is sound. Set its timer the previous night so it comes ready just at your morning arrival time.

I have the same morning beverage routine as mister_jack above. And the same failure rate -- many's the time when I've been surprised at how unwatery, uncoffeey, unground etc the product that emerges is.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Sadly, being of the delicately-stomached persuasion, I just can't drink tea or coffefe on an empty stomach in the morning :( Accordingly my entry into the world is usually with a mug of hot-water-and-lemon-juice (frequently prepared very kindly for me by ChrisC).

The cup of sensible, proper tea happens when I've got to work.

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

Mm, I meant at work, on your desk. Unless you think your colleagues would nick the freshly-brewed tea just before you got in…

[mister-jack.livejournal.com]

I eat breakfast while the coffee brews thus solving the empty stomach problem.

[exspelunca.livejournal.com]

Teasmades do still exist, and cheaper versions, which is how I have my first cup of tea before I even get out of bed. Great!