Tea-bags: the need for legislation.

Thats not Irish! Giving the tea a good stew in the oven at the side of the hob is what all my grandmothers generation in Yorkshire used to do. Probably did the same across the wrong side of the hills in Lancashire too.

Irish indeed!

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Disposal.

The crew who, while beating hard to windward, can with well practiced flick catapault one unerringly from the teaspoon by the sink directly through the hatch and over the side, neither leaving a trail of brown splodges across the cockpit, nor fallout when the bottom reef is next shaken out, has no further need of testing: a Yachtmaster certificate is a mere formality.

I could score a perfect 10 while out in the Atlantic, but now I'm back in the English Channel they miss as often as go in. Perhaps that's because the English Channel is a smaller target.

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There you are, you see, another advantage of leaf tea. Given a good straight piping run, they'll wash straight down the sink.

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I was waiting for this post<s>

The Irish have it,,,the best and only way to make tea.

I have (with the help of my father, he used to be a BR train driver) discovered the best way of making "real" tea.

The Irish and BR platelayers know the secret to making tea that can quell even the most mutinous of crews<s>.

1. Have a 1 gallon tea pot (preferably copper, but Ali will do)

2. Have available the following ingredients,

1/4 pound of PG tips tea, the loose kind, definately not bags.
1 tin of Fussels condendsed milk
2lb sugar.

Method:

Add all the ingredients to the pot and fill with water.
Bring to the boil, then simmer for 5-6 mins.
(I would add at this point, that if you are doing this in the morning it is important to add 2 eggs for each crew member because the eggs all come out "brown")

The resulting mixture will keep the crew going in the most horendous weather conditions.

You wll know if you have the right kinda tea because the spoon will stand to attention whilst stirring.


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Those Yorkshiremen and Lancashire men Birdseye refers to are probably the descendants of Irish Navigators. I expect your Dad would have recommended egg and bacon fried on the stoker's shovel too?

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Stoker\'s shovel

Well, my Dad did!

In the 1920's my father, an impoverished research student at Cambridge, used to earn some cash in his vacations by delivering fishing boats being sold out of the fleet from Lowestoft (he had a fishing Master's certificate). Once, they delivered a steam drifter to Portugal for the sardine trade. He said that during the handover and acceptance trials the fireman just put some freshly caught sardines on his shovel, and these were the best fish that he ever tasted!

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And never never ever wash the inside of the teapot, this is where all the flavour is. I caught my (Dutch) M-i-L about to do this, took me a week to recover

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Mamma mia! Now we on the Continent know why your seas are brown: you're sailing in dilute tea, whereas our bee-utiful Med is the colour of... well of wine! cheers! You may keep your tea! All we need is a corkscrew (which reminds me a quote I read of Afghanistan but could easily apply to the sea): "I misplaced my corkscrew in the wilds of Afghanistan and for a week had to survive on food and water".

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At least the voluntary organisations take a responsible view of this important matter.

The first step a skipper must take on welcoming either a YM examiner or an RNLI SeaCheck inspector on board is to demonstrate both that he carries a supply of tea bags and that he is practised in their use.

In fact many skippers (myself included) regard this as so important that all new crew are treated to a practical demonstration immediately on coming aboard - even before covering other items of the safety check.

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Re: Rubbish!

My son showed me a very dodgy trick that he learned in Oz! It consisted of biting the ends off a Penguin (Biscuit) and then consuming his Tea through the biscuit.. at speed. Which then of course collapses and dissapears in the mouth. Obviously his cultural exchange is paying dividends!!

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Jaffa cakes

Definitely cakes, apparently some legal case a few years back established this, cakes are zero VAT rated!

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I'm not sure legislation would save those poor unfortunates who make the fatal mistake of making tea too weak - these are faced with The Husband pulling the longest warp slowly from the cockpit locker whilst muttering darkly to himself words such as "haul" and "keel" and not necessarily in that order...

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Re: And the best tea bag is..

Yorkshire Tea? I'm surprised you should say this. I thought you would have been promoting one of my SWMBO's favourites - Peppermint Tea !

(I think its bloody awful myself!)

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Teabag disposal direct from galley to wake can be taken too far. I once crewed on a delivery where the skipper's delight was to flick a teabag from the galley directly into the whirling blades of the wind generator. A successful strike deluged the helmsperson in used leaves and soggy paper, and the state of the cockpit after 700 miles had to be seen to be believed.

- N

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Re: And the best tea bag is..

Global warming worse than feared. Tea estates in Yorkshire.

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I was apt to think something similar about Peterb's advice that loose tea could simply be emptied down the sink. On a hard beat, falling off a wave tends to result in an abrupt blow- back up our sink drain, blasting the most recent offerings over everything adjacent.

Never thought of aiming at the generator. That's what I like about this forum, always a chance to pick up new ideas! /forums/images/icons/laugh.gif
 
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