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Earlier in the year I was at the pool, it was a work party and it was there I was introduced to Redmire tea!!!

The trick is to have a big kettle, the type you's place onto a stove. In goes twelve tea bags (Yorkshire Gold preferably) in goes the water. Put this onto your stove and boil slowly. Once ready you just pour into cups, add milk and enjoy. The best cuppa I've had I must say, and there always plenty for another cup. Not as traditional as a Kelly, but well worth a try of you haven't yet. I use this method now sometimes, only with a smaller kettle and only three bags, but boy what a brew!!!! :wink:
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I wonder if the same effect would be achieved by popping a bag into an electric kettle before boiling?

Let's see what the missus says :chuckle:

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Hmmm, not sure about that Tony!! :hahaha:

I must stress that this WILL stain the inside of your kettle.....

....just thought I'd be clear about that.
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I often don't want to lug the kelly kettle around so I take a small gas stove and a small trangia kettle and make my tea in the way SK describes - very nice too.
True Redmire tea is meant to be made with lake water. Stories are told from the early syndicate days of there being so much daphnia (water fleas) that the boiled water became like brown soup! Yuck!
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And these days, the amount of rat urine around should be enough to put off anyone with a healthy respect for Weil's Disease from using Redmire water for making tea!

Boiling the tea in the water (rather than adding boiling water to the leaves) is, of course, the traditional way of making Indian chai (from which we get our word "char").

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Has anyone tried Yatesy's favourite tea, Broken Orange Pekoe.

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And here's the man in question making tea on the bank.

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Any seen or know about this type of kettle?
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I'd heard of one but I've never seen one Snape. It's different, I'll give it that.
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Macko wrote:Has anyone tried Yatesy's favourite tea, Broken Orange Pekoe.
I have and found it very mellow. Completeley the opposite end of the scale to something like Yorkshire Gold (My Fave!!) :thumb:
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