A few years ago, I worked at the UK subsidiary of an American company. I was invited across the water to run a training course for them. On the first day of my week-long stay, I was taken for lunch at a nearby smart café. Whilst the people I was with asked for their usual cup of terrible American coffee (not the actual words used), I asked for tea. I received the same brewing kit shown in the video and although I had no way of ascertaining the water temperature, all I can say is that it was very warm. I tried my best with the American teabag (not even Liptons) but it was terrible and said as much to my host. He called the waitress over and explained the problem. However, because they used the café on a daily basis, they had a good relationship with the waitress. As a result, I was asked to go into the kitchen to show them how to make a cup of tea. They only had coffee pots but with three bags in it and by boiling the water in a kettle, I quite quickly showed them an acceptable method. I pushed my luck and asked for a china mug and a jug of milk and was pleasantly surprised when they obliged. I let the tea brew for 5 minutes or so, put the milk in the mug and poured the tea. It was a halfway decent cup. Every day after that, my tea was always good.
@stache1625
3 жыл бұрын
real event that happened
@rayjennings3637
3 жыл бұрын
@@stache1625 The water they used came from a non-electric kettle that was boiled once and then kept on a hot plate. Heaven knows how long it had been on the plate but a couple of minutes on the gas hob and it was back up to boiling. The coffee came from a proper Italian Espresso machine. I did suggest that they could get a proper electric kettle for future use when they had Brits in again. Don't know if they did get one.
@stache1625
3 жыл бұрын
yes
@lordtraust
3 жыл бұрын
@@rayjennings3637 The American's don't really have electric kettles due to voltage of their power systems not being high enough to heat the water, some places/homes do have higher wattage outlets now days but it's still extremely rare to find kettles.
@Vesdus
3 жыл бұрын
@@lordtraust Uh, no... Nearly every plug in a house in North America can host an electric kettle if it's wired properly. There's only one outlet in my home that can't power both my electric kettle and something else (toaster, lamp, etc) at the same time and that's because the outlet isn't wired correctly.
@AndrewDixonMusic
4 жыл бұрын
Dave Gorman: The master of telling an interesting story with a killer punchline.
@NeatNit
3 жыл бұрын
I didn't get the punchline. :( What is it a reference to?
@matthewchampion8214
3 жыл бұрын
@@NeatNit It's not a reference to anything. Is English your first language? I only ask because the punchline is literally just a funny analogy; not a play on words or anything.
@NeatNit
3 жыл бұрын
@@matthewchampion8214 I did get the analogy, but the amount of laughter and clapping seems disproportionate if that's all it is.
@lennymice2261
3 жыл бұрын
That punchline was brilliant.
@RonRuble
3 жыл бұрын
I loved it! Laughed all through the vid, but fell on the floor laughing at the punchline.
@HORRIOR1
4 жыл бұрын
If you think getting a good cup of tea is difficult, try getting a good cup of cocoa. Never in my life have I gotten a proper cup of cocoa outside of my own house. Stop making cocoa into hot water and then adding milk to it! Hot chocolate is not meant to be chocolate tea!
@TheHutchy01
4 жыл бұрын
Weirdly the best place I've found for hot chocolate is the cafe of most castles and stately homes
@leopold7562
3 жыл бұрын
@HORRIOR Well, technically it is chocolate tea, if you say it fast enough. Chocolatetea. Chocolatey.
@burgersnchips
3 жыл бұрын
Or they use the milk frother to heat up the milk, and it goes frothy. Hot chocolate is not a chocolate latte.
@HORRIOR1
3 жыл бұрын
@@burgersnchips True, but it is still a preferable alternative to to chocolate tea.
@ebonyrose7236
3 жыл бұрын
@@burgersnchips I thought chocolate late was better😳 I work in a cafe do people not want I bit of froth?!
@ultrademigod
3 жыл бұрын
The irony is that coffee shop workers always seem to put my green tea teabag in the cup of 90+ degree water, even though green tea requires temperatures of 75-85, to avoid it becoming overly bitter. Even though I have asked them not to every single time.
@nickalvarez3635
3 жыл бұрын
I used to run pubs and restaurants and you can make good tea without kettles using the sort of coffee machine Gorman shows. Kettles aren't practical because you are often producing upteen cups of beverages and no one has time to hang about. I had a wall mounted boiler that could produce about 5ltrs of boiling water (not hot, boiling) so you could do 40 cups of tea back to back. Now, specifically for green teas which we would have a range of (peppermint, lemongrass, ginger etc) you could get warm water out of the sink in a steel jug and we had thermometers that clip to the side of the jug with a dial display and heat it using the steam wand from the coffee machine until it was the appropriate temperature.
@neelubird
3 жыл бұрын
This is so true. In the 90s I could find pretty good cups of tea in normal cafes on the high street but in the noughties, it all changed and I wondered why so many cups tasted rubbish. Now I know- thanks for solving the mystery Dave.
@TheHutchy01
4 жыл бұрын
Those sticks are quite good for basing paints for miniatures
@SirNightmareFuel
3 жыл бұрын
Ayy thanks for the miniature painting advice. Didn't expect to find it here :D
@hydorah
4 жыл бұрын
100% Agreed - and in a nation renowned for tea consumption it's extra ludicrous. As other commenters do if we go on hols or meet friends for coffee we take a stash of tea bags! Not only do these places not make tea properly they also usually have wanky teas on offer anyway
@TheWeepingDalek
3 жыл бұрын
whats wanky about them. tea originated in china. so English breakfast tea is more wanky they chia tea.
@PossessedGaming07
3 жыл бұрын
@@TheWeepingDalek who mentioned china... haha.
@jmurray1110
2 жыл бұрын
@@TheWeepingDalek the taste probably
@AntTonyLOLKID
3 жыл бұрын
Funniest thing is that tea is free in many Chinese/Vietnamese restaurants
@annother3350
3 жыл бұрын
The Financial Times staff walked out when their canteen put up tea from 1p per cup to 2p in the 80s...
@pjani14
3 жыл бұрын
Boomers really didn't (and many still don't) know they were born.
@annother3350
3 жыл бұрын
@@pjani14 I'm not sure that's fair. They had it much tougher than we do today. There was war rationing until 1955 -- that's why Boomers and their parents watched EVERY PENNY!! Most boomers in the UK came from literally nothing and worked for a pittance....
@watfordjc
4 жыл бұрын
You can now buy a box of Starbucks instant coffee. It costs about £500/kilogram because you only get 8 teaspoons of coffee in the box.
@houssemmezzine6286
3 жыл бұрын
I am from Morocco, and the only tea I drink is moroccan mint tea. Boiiling water (literally to the point when it is physically boiling) is an important part of making it. I never knew the scientific reason why, but now I know. thank you.
@tomboys588
4 жыл бұрын
I worked with someone who did need training how to use a kettle. He said he just had a machine at home to make his tea.
@wykerbv
3 жыл бұрын
Was it his mum?
@SirNightmareFuel
3 жыл бұрын
@@wykerbv OOOOHHH BUUURN (which is probably what happened when he tried to boil water)
@1911marmonwasp
2 жыл бұрын
A few years ago I worked with somebody in a warehouse who didn't know how to operate a pallet truck!
@gorkemgulan
4 жыл бұрын
The reason I have a 12v kettle in my car 🚙 💪🏼
@josephlongfellow1244
4 жыл бұрын
just carry tea bags and a reusable cup. most places will give you hot water for free. Then at least your low quality cup of tea is also cheap.
@themadplotter
4 жыл бұрын
thats the sort of skinflintish behaviour that leads to cyclists getting knocked over
@annother3350
3 жыл бұрын
Cyclists getting knocked over is usually karma
@josephlongfellow1244
3 жыл бұрын
wow this escalated quickly
@ErwinPommel
3 жыл бұрын
@@josephlongfellow1244 If you call "across the span of 5 months" quickly.
@josephlongfellow1244
3 жыл бұрын
@@ErwinPommel i mean going from making tea to cyclists deserving death, but take it literally i suppose
@kevinbennett7615
11 ай бұрын
My wife and I moved to USA a while ago. If we stay at a hotel here in America, my wife has a travel kettle, two proper mugs and a supply of PG Tips teabags. Milk can be obtained anywhere. It makes such a difference to the start of the day.
@ThunderHowlbradford
3 жыл бұрын
Epic analogy at the end
@jkraemo
16 күн бұрын
You dont ever put boiling water on actual tea, like tea from the tea plant you know. It also makes tea bitter, for green/black/white tea etc, you should have your water around 80°C depending on your specific tea. Only herb/fruit etc should get boiling water
@mogmason6920
3 жыл бұрын
“Asking for chips and being given a potato” Sadly, deconstructed food is now a thing!
@gorkemgulan
4 жыл бұрын
The puncline is the killer and graphs are his thinggg
@stephenadams8712
3 жыл бұрын
Most places now use a separate water boiler for tea
@MrSilnev
3 жыл бұрын
And people mocked James May when he made the same complaint on Graham Norton some 5-6 years ago.
@Ayeshteni
4 жыл бұрын
And what about Bovril?
@ultrademigod
3 жыл бұрын
Yeah that's still as disgusting as it ever was :P
@Ayeshteni
3 жыл бұрын
@@ultrademigod drink of the Gods.
@mhorlor
3 жыл бұрын
@davegorman British standard BS6003 / ISO3103 - it should therefore be illegal to make tea in any other way... kinda
@CJT3X
3 жыл бұрын
At least the green siren does it in the right order, though the price is probably still too high 🤷🏼♀️
@NinjaChrisSillyHistory169
4 жыл бұрын
I prefer a good cup of coffee anyway...Not a big fan of tea but i have seen a friend have to mash a tea bag to try and make something that looks a tiny bit like tea...Great show as usual by Dave Gorman, and very informative
@NASH78
4 жыл бұрын
Prejudice against a drink made from hot milk and cocoa powder, will not be tolerated! 😉 #HotChocolateRacist
@jackbadley4890
4 жыл бұрын
what about bovril?!
@lafamillecarrington
8 ай бұрын
Sadly teabags contain nothing that produces a delicious cup of tea.
@themadplotter
4 жыл бұрын
Whats wrong with a proper thermos?
@starchington
2 жыл бұрын
He’s right. Modern life is goodish
@subinmdr
4 жыл бұрын
Thats why we need aerosol tea sprays.
@icisne7315
3 жыл бұрын
I would hate this so so much... I love tea. I may be from the states but I do love Tea. where it's a reasonable price but is always cold for some odd reason.
@jasonsmith902
3 жыл бұрын
Don't use tap water
@LednacekZ
3 жыл бұрын
nobody is forcing you to buy it. and by the way, most of the teas are not made with boiling water.
@stephenv167
3 жыл бұрын
mashing the tea bag causes it to release the bitter chemicals...
@xSonicspeedx
3 жыл бұрын
I was thinking the same thing. I literally buy my tea in loose leaf form and make my own tea bags to avoid this. I'm glad someone else said it.
@xander1052
4 жыл бұрын
Tea should be brewed in a tea pot
@jmurray1110
2 жыл бұрын
I mean you can but it’s a waste of time for the first 3 cups when the kettle works perfectly effectively
@Lord_Skeptic
2 жыл бұрын
Not tea or as we scientists call It piss
@some_haqr
3 жыл бұрын
Was highly disappointed not to see OXO drinks on the graph.
@annother3350
3 жыл бұрын
World war II finished 75 years ago...
@some_haqr
3 жыл бұрын
Your point being?
@annother3350
3 жыл бұрын
@@some_haqr Nobody has drunk that turd soup since the war!!
@some_haqr
3 жыл бұрын
@@annother3350but it's nummy lol *Goes back to eating his bread and drippin'*
“Not including Hot Chocolate” is that because it would mean comparing a hot drink with the ‘70’s vocal group?
@wozzywick
3 жыл бұрын
The Starbucks chai tea latte is really nice to be fair
@ericsiskosky2779
3 жыл бұрын
Would someone explain how the Brits can't make a good cup of coffee without a machine? American cattle herders did it on the trail over an open flame. Modern people do it in their kitchen with a $12 percolator. What's so difficult?
@peterclarke7240
3 жыл бұрын
We used to use cafetieres, but then we got invaded by starbucks-style coffee chains and now you can't order a coffee without being subjected to all the banging, bashing, crashing and gargling that accompanies one of those mechanised abominations. And they try to make you say "americano" if you order a black coffee. The more pedantic of us refuse, but it's little more than a hollow victory. We know we've lost the war.
@Vodaph0ne
4 жыл бұрын
Hang on! Why would tea be a low quality item?
@luke-alex
4 жыл бұрын
Did you watch the first half of this clip?!
@thefrozenbanana5545
4 жыл бұрын
Ayo first
@alwaysoutnumbered
Жыл бұрын
My old boss swears by putting milk/bag/sugar in first before the hot water. My dad told me that ‘working class’ people did it that way because so that it doesn’t crack the mug/cup. Porcelain was the only material able to take boiling water direct without cracking. Porcelain back then was normally for the rich. I used to wind my boss up saying it was poor man’s tea. 😂 🫖
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