Hey vegans! (1 Viewer)

[wageslave]

I'm thinking of cutting down on dairy or maybe giving it up if it goes ok.

I can drink black coffee, put apple juice in my museli .... but what do ya put in tea? Black tea just isn't good enough. I remember trying soy milk years ago and it was pretty manky. But maybe there's nicer stuff around now?

 

[paul-]

Rice dream is/was my favourite milk alternative...its pricey but it tastes amazing.
Dont know wether or not it curdles in tea though,was never a fan,but it most likely says it on the pack anway.

 

[niallmc]

I'm thinking of cutting down on dairy or maybe giving it up if it goes ok.

I can drink black coffee, put apple juice in my museli .... but what do ya put in tea? Black tea just isn't good enough. I remember trying soy milk years ago and it was pretty manky. But maybe there's nicer stuff around now?

try it again and see if it's a good enough substitute for giving up cows milk. sweetened types are best, maybe you didn't try that. i put cold water in my tea/coffee

 

[Manta Ray]

Rice dream is/was my favourite milk alternative...its pricey but it tastes amazing.
Dont know wether or not it curdles in tea though

it doesn't curdle, but it's far too weak fo rtea, you have to use loads and it goes all cold, it's not any good. I'd suggest making weak-ish tea, and using some sweetener and lemon, thats a nice way to drink it. Or drink peppermint tea instead. it's nicer anyway!

 

[bohs punks]

provamel sweetened and tesco sweetened are the business in tea

 

[Rachel666]

the sweetened stuff is full of odd chemicals. The best soya milks are white wave and tesco organic "fair trade". Both taste lovely in tea and the white wave has added calcium. You should look at the ingredients on the Alpro. It's evil and manky. I only use the little rice milk cartons when I'm having tea in a cafe.

 

[Manta Ray]

yeah, you can use soya in tea, it's quite nice, but to get it right you have to put the milk in first, and slowly add the not quite boiling water stirring it as you pour. it won't curdle that way.

 

[CITY BABY]

tesco sweetened is jah best joke milk 94p -the business, whats the price of real milk at the mo anyway

 

[nooleen]

it was probably granose you tried before, that stuff's rotten. tesco value sweetened as conor said or holland & barrett's (corporate we-love-nature's-goodness shop, grafton street) sweetened is the next cheapest and just as nice, 1.54 i think. i've never known soya milk to curdle in tea but does in coffee. white coffee's for puffs anyway.

 

[nofunchee]

tesco sweetened is jah best

http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=71189&search_text=tesco

...and tesco is english. was 800 years not enough?

 

[contrariwise]

you should try and acquire a taste for black tea, it will make things easier if you are offered a cuppa in a non vegan household or you are on the road or there just aint any milk in the gaf..... 2 cent.....

 

[oh shit]

plus it's nicer

 

[CITY BABY]

you should try and acquire a taste for black tea

fuck sake clodagh, I thought we were mates!

 

[nofunchee]

you should try and acquire a taste for black tea, it will make things easier if you are offered a cuppa in a non vegan household or you are on the road or there just aint any milk in the gaf..... 2 cent.....

stop trying to ease your way back into the scene. come back with a *bang* (and a crust-mullet).

 

[Manta Ray]

i've never known soya milk to curdle in tea but does in coffee.

it does curdle in tea. isn't it just the heat that makes it curdle anyway?

 

[frona]

it does curdle in tea. isn't it just the heat that makes it curdle anyway?

Nah, it doesn't. And coffee with milk (soya or otherwise) is an abomination anyway.
Going vegan is easy peasy. There may be some things you miss the odd time but tea with milk isn't one of them.

 

[La La]

tea with milk - cow or soy, is just wrong.
black all the way, with a sprinke of sugar.

yummmmmmmmmmmmmm

 

[glen]

Tea is piss

 

[oh shit]

it does curdle in tea. isn't it just the heat that makes it curdle anyway?

yes. it boils on contact with the hot water. doesn't matter if it's tea or coffee (how could that possibly make a difference, jesus).

to avoid curdling, pour the milk in first. that way it doesn't boil.

"what we need more of is science" - mc hawking

 

[nooleen]

it bloody doesn't curdle in tea, not in my tea anyway. if it does you're doing something really wrong, or else you're just unlucky. and as for science, the boiling point of soya milk is higher than that of water which is slightly below boiling by the time it hits the cup anyway, so it couldn't boil on contact. and how could pouring the water directly from a boiling kettle onto milk in the cup make it less likely to boil than pouring the milk onto water which has already been cooled slightly by contact with the cup? hah?
it's the acidity of coffee that makes soya milk curdle, that's the difference between coffee and tea.

what we need more of is science is right..