ylop
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Mrs Ylop has a problem. She has a pathological requirement for tea, and is quite particular about it.
I asked her if there was anything she would change after a recent two week cruise. Apparently the flask gives a metallic taste to the tea. Any normal human would live with this - but see the opening para! If she was normal she probably wouldn’t put up with me - so clearly I need to find a better tea solution.
The aim is to have a flask that comes up to the cockpit so she can service her addiction without needing to go below in any kind of swell.
We use a stainless steel flask, I think if you keep tea in them ready made they all do this thing where their metal taints the tea. One solution would be just to put water in the flask but then you are faffing in the cockpit with teabags and milk etc.
Has anyone found a steel flask that doesn’t do this - perhaps some sort of Teflon lining inside the s/s?
Or presumably historically, people managed with glass flasks - we have other glass on board (but not in cockpit underway) so perhaps I’m being paranoid not having a glass flask? Are the jug style flasks (usually found in offices) a better idea because they won’t tend to roll around so much?
Other suggestions to keep tea officianados happy at sea?
I asked her if there was anything she would change after a recent two week cruise. Apparently the flask gives a metallic taste to the tea. Any normal human would live with this - but see the opening para! If she was normal she probably wouldn’t put up with me - so clearly I need to find a better tea solution.
The aim is to have a flask that comes up to the cockpit so she can service her addiction without needing to go below in any kind of swell.
We use a stainless steel flask, I think if you keep tea in them ready made they all do this thing where their metal taints the tea. One solution would be just to put water in the flask but then you are faffing in the cockpit with teabags and milk etc.
Has anyone found a steel flask that doesn’t do this - perhaps some sort of Teflon lining inside the s/s?
Or presumably historically, people managed with glass flasks - we have other glass on board (but not in cockpit underway) so perhaps I’m being paranoid not having a glass flask? Are the jug style flasks (usually found in offices) a better idea because they won’t tend to roll around so much?
Other suggestions to keep tea officianados happy at sea?