Yorkshire Tea's 5 steps to perfect tea

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00:00Today, I'm going to be following Yorkshire Tea's five steps to making the perfect cup of tea.

00:05Hi, I'm Holly Alton and I'm a food and drink writer for National World.

00:09I'm known for not making the most excellent cup of tea, so I'm going to give this a go

00:13and see if I can actually make a great cup of tea following their steps.

00:17First of all, treat your water kindly.

00:20And what that means is you should run the tap a little before popping it into your kettle

00:24and only boil it once.

00:26And that is so that the water has enough oxygen.

00:30Oxygen adds flavour, according to Yorkshire Tea.

00:37Step number two, add tea and then water.

00:40So what you have to do here is pop the teabag and then the hot water and stir briefly.

00:45Step number three, wait patiently.

00:48So rather than taking your teabag out of the cup straight away,

00:52Yorkshire Tea recommends that you wait around four to five minutes before taking it out.

00:57Step number four, give it a squeeze.

01:01Yorkshire Tea recommends that you gently squeeze your teabag on the inside of the cup,

01:05but only once, as smashing it too much can cause the tea to taste bitter.

01:10Number five, customise your brew.

01:13This is the part where you can add your milk, sugar, honey, anything you want to your tea.

01:18It's now time to taste the tea and see if, by following Yorkshire Tea's rules for making the perfect cuppa, actually work.

01:32Yes, I can definitely taste the difference.

01:34It's stronger, and I think that might be because of the waiting four or five minutes to let it brew.

01:40However, I did notice that you're only supposed to squeeze the teabag once on the side.

01:44In force of habit, I did squeeze it more than once, so I can taste a little bit bitterness, so that does make sense.

01:53However, I will definitely say that you should be following these rules to make the perfect cuppa,

01:57because it does taste a lot better than my usual brew.