Tea making: Milk first or after!!

[LONDONER]

Right then, I want to started a heated debate!!

So I make my tea by letting putting a tea bag then boiling water leaving it for a minute or two and then I put a drip of milk in it.

So people think for have to put the milk first which I think is totally stupid!

So what do you think?

To understand why milk is put in tea at all, one has to know a little history.

When tea was introduced in the the UK, it was imported from China and consequently, incredibly expensive, as was the porcelain cups that it was drnk from.  Porcelain was not only expensive but also very delicate, so much so that it could crack if subjected to sudden heat.  To prevent damage to the cups, milk was added first to enable the tea to cool a little.  The milk had nothing to do with how the tea tasted.  Nowdays people still add milk to their tea without actuall knowing why.  What we drink from is made of much hardier stuff than the original Chinese porcelain.

Personally, I drink lapsang suchong tea and it would never enter my mind to add mlk.