Waxing lyrical you say? 
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Let it brew for 3 minutes and it will be even better, but I’m a southerner so what do I know about tea?
Update: my Senseo Barista Sublime arrived yesterday and I have used it twice since then , but I will wait until I have sampled some more of the different coffees that came with it before giving my opinion. One feature that I didn’t realise it had - and which is brilliant in my opinion - is the ability to vary the dose of water within each of the settings (ristretto, espresso & lungo), so you can make the coffee to the volume you like (within a given range) and so vary the taste-strength whilst still getting your full shot of caffeine, if that makes sense.
Before I left the UK in June for an extended stay in France, I bought a large packet of Yorkshire tea bags, just to try something different from English Breakfast. They make a reasonable cup of tea. I packed some to take to France just so I could make a cuppa on arrival.
I couldn’t believe the difference the water makes to a cup of tea. Here the water is fairly hard and probably has a different mineral profile too. Here, Yorkshire tea bags make a really nice cup of tea, to the extent that I am having probably four a day instead of just one. (By the way, I make mine by adding water the instant it has come to the boil, leave it untouched for 6 minutes, then gently squeeze the tea bag on removing it. I make my tea with milk, no sugar.
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Not arf! Our water despite going through a new filter in the jug still makes a slightly bitter cup of tea. I hope to fit a fluride removing filter to try and improve things. Your Yorkshire water, pretty soft with iron content?
So did you buy a Senseo or a Nespresso-compatible machine?
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I may have given misleading information. Regarding compatibility, this is what I found on their website:
“Toutes les capsules de café L’OR sont compatibles avec la machine à café L’OR BARISTA, que ce soit les capsules simples ou les nouvelles capsules doubles de L’OR Espresso. *D’autres dosettes de café sont également compatibles : Nespresso® Original, Illy®, Lavazza® et la plupart des capsules disponibles en supermarché” .
Edit: Just to add, I have noticed when I’ve liked a particular coffee in a cafe, it has often been from the brands Illy or Lavazza. So I’m looking forward to trying their offerings when I get through the 100+ capsules (6 or 8 different coffees) supplied with the machine.
And corrected again 
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No worries - sounds like it’s the same one I have which is Nespresso compatible… Senseo I think are the round flat pods that look like teabags as opposed to the aluminium cone-shaped Nespresso ones.
The different ranges are very confusing!
Anyway enjoy your caffeinated exploration!
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Real gold?
The best PG Tips. The makers of PG tips also own other tea brands including one other very elite one. When I worked for them staff had the free choice of all of them in the staff kitchens and the one everyone chose to drink all the time was the PG Tips Gold.
Some Lidl’s have it in a few times per year, that’s when I stock up now i no longer have access to the staff shop. Luckily if stored carefully, tea keeps forever.
UK or France??
We’re on the point of finishing the Yorkshire teabags we brought.
I’ve bought some SuperU English Breakfast bags. They’re going to be indistinguishable, right?
UK only for the Gold IME. Boxes cube shaped with about 80 bags each.
I could send you a box probably from my stash in about 2 weeks if I know ahead. There is some anxiety amongst fans as they’ve recently ish switched away from the original triangular. So I may be cautious and not stock up till I’ve tried a new packet next time I’m in the UK. The Gold goes particularly well with milk in unlike many.
Because some of us love the taste of coffee.
Well, indeed. People who buy coffee in coffee shops are being ripped off. The price of making a coffee at home is a very small fraction of what you pay there and you can use the beans you like and make it how you like.
I love tea just as much as coffee, and I too drink Yorkshire tea, twice as many cups at least as coffee per day.
Edit: Maybe you can tell I’m almost an honorary Yorkshireman , having lived there many more years than where I was born 
Also with coffee should you let a cup get cold due to an interuption you can heat it up again unlike tea. Can you get real yorkshire tea leaves rather than dust in a bag?
The one thing I’ll give Yorkshire Tea is that their marketing has been exceptional for decades sucking people in to think that it’s truly better than any other tea. I use your words back at you with tongue firmly in cheek, but I absolutely stand by the wider point; the number of people I see raving about YT as if it’s something incredible when they’ve just been won over by some excellent marketing is a testament to the YT marketing department and their ad agencies, yet when it their own ‘thing’ people don’t see it like they would if it was someone else’s. I don’t say this as a negative, it’s something we all do, it just seemed an interesting observation.
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I think you’ll find it’s grown in India or Sri Lanka. 
Unless they are now using oak leaves as an economy measure of course.
Scandalous, how very dare you suggest they are not from yorkshire 
I apologise profusely…
Veteran tea picker Ron Bigglesworth photographed here taking part in the last harvest of the year at a tea plantation in Kettlewell, North Yorkshire.
As the cold weather sets in over winter the tea plants will stop producing leaves and growth will not return until early next spring.
Ron has picked tea leaves for 50 years and the tea he has picked today could soon be in your tea bag at home!
The top quality, grade one leaves will be supplied exclusively to Yorkshire Tea with the lower quality leaves supplying other brands such as Ty-poo and PG tips.
Thanks for your service and dedication Ron!
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