Milk first or last in your tea?!

Milk first or last in your tea?

Tinschn asked the question: How come that British people drink their tea with milk? It made me wonder how people put the milk in.

13 minutes ago
When taking milk with tea, some add the tea to the milk rather than the other way around when using chilled milk; this avoids scalding the milk, leading to a better emulsion and nicer taste. In Britain and some Commonwealth countries, the order in which the milk and the tea enter the cup is often considered an indicator of social class. Persons of working class background are supposedly more likely to add the milk first and pour the tea in afterward, whereas persons of middle and upper class backgrounds are more likely to pour the tea in first and then add milk. This is ostensibly a continuing practice from a time when porcelain (the only ceramic which could withstand boiling water) was only within the purchasing range of the rich - the less wealthy had access only to poor quality earthenware, which would crack unless milk was added first in order to lower the temperature of the tea as it was poured in.

10 minutes ago
The above text was from the web pages whose link is below:

http://www.reference.com/search?q=tea...

Apparently, according to the way I drink my tea, I am working class! I drink my tea with the milk in first. I prefer the taste. :-P

I put the milk in last because I can always tell by the colour of the tea if it is going to taste nice. I just pour it straight out from the plastic milk carton. Normally semi skimmed, a 4 pint one.

If it's too dark, then I'll taste too strong. If it's too light it'll taste too weak or too milky.

For me it has to to be of average strength, but with a little more milk in than usual. That for me would be perfect, in a mug with a nice picture or pattern on it.

Just going to put the kettle on!