more flavourful too. My future mother inlaw is of the opposite persuasion. Not only does she use the boiling water but then she nukes the cup, insisting that all f&b must be scalding hot. I suspect that she has no tastebuds. Did you know that Tea bags are made with the detritus that was once swept off the floors of tea packing factories?! No wonder they don't make as tasty a brew. I have to say, though, I am a student of the Douglas Adams school of tea making. The ideology is based on the following mantra: "The socially correct way of pouring tea is to put the milk in after the tea. Social correctness has traditionally had nothing whatever to do with reason, logic or physics." When one pours milk into tea the milk is heated too rapidly. Pouring tea onto milk heats the milk more slowly and so doesn't affect the milk protein molecules and therefore the taste of the cup of tea. At work I'm normally very busy and don't have time for a slow-paced pot and beanie. But I can almost re-create the Douglas Adams tea this way: 1. Get two Styrofoam cups. 2. Put two tea bags in one. 3. Pour milk in the other cup which has been slightly warmed under a tap 4. Pour boiling water from the insta-boil thing on the wall over the tea. 5. Leave to steep for 30 seconds. This is essential for the boiling water to leech out