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Post by PG on Mar 16, 2023 15:32:52 GMT
No not the "should tea be in a china cup" debate, but more how you use whatever receptacle you've decided upon.
Me - I have my first coffee about 7am most mornings. When I have another, if I make it, I'll rinse out the mug and re-use it. Unless Mrs PG makes it, in which case I get a clean mug.
Mrs PG - has to have a clean mug for every cup of coffee she makes for herself or anybody. Views any other approach as unthinkable.
Which camp do you fall into? Is it a man v woman thing?
It's not really an issue I suppose. Until if you have visitors and they stay for a couple of cups of coffee, by the time they leave the dishwasher is stuffed full of mugs and we've run out......
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Post by michael on Mar 16, 2023 15:39:38 GMT
Mrs PG is correct.
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Post by johnc on Mar 16, 2023 16:16:29 GMT
I have a cup (normally just hot water) at about 6am which I rinse out and give a quick brush before I put it on the draining board. When I get back at night I use the same mug for probably 2 mugs of tea in the evening with a rinse and brush in between and back on the draining board for the next morning. When I can see the tea or coffee stains and they don't come off easily, it goes in the dishwasher.
At work I have one mug which I rinse and fill all day long.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 16, 2023 16:21:01 GMT
I am in the 'rinse and reuse' camp, frankly neither of my two dishwashers need more work and a dishwasher just piles on the electric bill.
Some hardened tea officianado's will not wash off the tannin staines, a bit like some wok users merely rinsing the wok out.
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Post by clunes on Mar 16, 2023 16:44:34 GMT
Definitely rinse and re-use throughout most of the day unless it's been left long enough for the stains to have 'welded' on
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Post by bryan on Mar 16, 2023 19:25:48 GMT
Massive cup (bowl) of Coffee first think, then a fresh mug of tea which is reused for the rest of the day, same with pints of squash
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Post by LandieMark on Mar 16, 2023 20:14:50 GMT
I am quite happy to reuse a mug.
I have a proper percolated coffee using a stove top thing in a fresh mug and make up a flask for work with instant. The flask takes 3 mugs worth and I obviously reuse the travel mug I take to work.
Don't see an issue with that.
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Post by cbeaks1 on Mar 16, 2023 20:55:09 GMT
I don’t even rinse.
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Post by ChrisM on Mar 16, 2023 21:07:05 GMT
First cup of the day is with breakfast, tea not coffee. Usually about 7am weekdays, a little later at weekends. Usually followed by a second cup, then wash everything up. I can't stand dirty crockery and cutlery lying around. If I'm cooking, I wash up as I go. At work, morning and afternoon teabreaks involve making a fresh tea, drinking it and immediately washing my cup out. I try to dry with paper towels/kitchen paper to avoid the germs from other people's wiping up
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Post by Blarno on Mar 16, 2023 22:04:55 GMT
I have a couple of mugs that I use during the day when I'm at home. If I've had a cup of tea in it, I'll throw a coffee in it afterwards without rinsing, but will rinse it if vice versa.
First brew is always tea and then I make a coffee to go for the drive to work.
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Post by Big Blue on Mar 16, 2023 23:34:31 GMT
Same tea mug all day. W2.1 always puts it in the dishwasher if we’re both at home and I retrieve it to wash out in the sink. She will have a new cup with each sip if she could.
Coffee: double espresso cup in the morning; single espresso glass in the late afternoon.
I still have the office mug I used in the first practice I worked at in 1988. A mirrored Epcot Centre affair I bought in FL in ‘87. That’s probably only been washed 100 times.
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Post by Boxer6 on Mar 17, 2023 7:11:20 GMT
The mug I use at home (coffee only) gets through 2 mugs-worth most mornings, the first around 6:45 when I get back from walking Lacey, which I usually drink perusing here/Cardle/email, and the second as I get ready for work. Herself tends to wash it at some point during the day - we got rid of our dishwasher last year, almost as soon as the energy prices started going up. (NOT my idea!!)
My work one is rinsed out at the end of the working day, and properly washed on a Friday afternoon; coffee breaks for us are very much "when you can" affair, due to the nature of our work.
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Mar 17, 2023 8:27:25 GMT
I've worked on enough building sites, often with very dubious welfare facilities, not to be too precious about mug cleanliness. I do take my tea mug home once a fortnight or so just to run it through the dishwasher and remove the stain build up.
I once lost my favourite mug only to find one of the general labourers had filled it with black paint and was touching up the paint on the anti-terrorist barriers were were installing around the Houses of Parliament. It took a few runs through the dishwasher and a bit of elbow grease to get that serviceable again.
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Post by Andy C on Mar 17, 2023 8:37:44 GMT
I sometimes have one at home in a normal mug before work, or if not I fill my caffeine and machine mug and take it in the van
always tea (Yorkshire gold, twinnings or Aldi/lidl English breakfast) as I don’t like coffee
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Mar 17, 2023 8:52:50 GMT
I sometimes have one at home in a normal mug before work, or if not I fill my caffeine and machine mug and take it in the van always tea (Yorkshire gold, twinnings or Aldi/lidl English breakfast) as I don’t like coffee My neither, can't stand these foreign drinks. |
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Post by Ben on Mar 17, 2023 11:26:43 GMT
I'll just get mine from Starbucks.
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Mar 17, 2023 11:31:44 GMT
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Post by Big Blue on Mar 17, 2023 11:42:40 GMT
I once lost my favourite mug only to find one of the general labourers had filled it with black paint and was touching up the paint on the anti-terrorist barriers were were installing around the Houses of Parliament. It took a few runs through the dishwasher and a bit of elbow grease to get that serviceable again. I had to run a grievance procedure based on one team member using the mug of another in the office. They almost came to fists about it! |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2023 12:11:23 GMT
I couls never get excited over people who drank from my mugs, I had several in the 'coffee room' at a time. What boiled my skivvies was the doctors who would bark at the nearest staff member "PEN" steal the one in any pocket and then 'lose' it.
"What am I supposed to do, I need a pen to write notes"? Being told that I was not their stationary supplier almost led to fistycuffs too.
Ahhh. human interactions, are they not wonderful?
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Post by PG on Mar 17, 2023 12:17:39 GMT
I had to run a grievance procedure based on one team member using the mug of another in the office. They almost came to fists about it! Never had that but teaspoons always seem to be an issue in offices. No matter how many you buy for the office kitchen you can never find one in the kitchen. And the staff come and moan at you as finance head that there are no teaspoons. So you get more. Which disappear. And repeat.... I did once have to issue a general warning to everyone in an office that leaving used teabags in the kitchen sink was unacceptable. |
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Mar 17, 2023 12:19:04 GMT
I once lost my favourite mug only to find one of the general labourers had filled it with black paint and was touching up the paint on the anti-terrorist barriers were were installing around the Houses of Parliament. It took a few runs through the dishwasher and a bit of elbow grease to get that serviceable again. I had to run a grievance procedure based on one team member using the mug of another in the office. They almost came to fists about it! The mug is one of those "Keep Calm and Carry On" ones so it would have been a bit ironic to kick off. |
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Post by bryan on Mar 17, 2023 13:36:35 GMT
Many years ago our office had a tea club (£1 a week) which included biscuits - it was a memorable event when a deeply religious young chap (he tithed to his church) stood on his desk and announced to the room that the recently bought chocolate biscuits were too decadent to spend the tea club money on and they should be plain! I can't remember how it was resolved - it also used to cause much mirth when a visitor used someones mug ( as they were always much cleaner/less furry than the general mugs)
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Post by Tim on Mar 17, 2023 16:42:54 GMT
First cup of coffee when I get up.
The next cup is around 9 a.m. whether I'm WFH or in the office.
Cup doesn't get washed or rinsed during the day no matter of its a cup of tea following several coffees.
At the end of the day the cup goes in the dishwasher - both at home or at work.
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Mar 17, 2023 17:22:11 GMT
Many years ago our office had a tea club (£1 a week) which included biscuits - it was a memorable event when a deeply religious young chap (he tithed to his church) stood on his desk and announced to the room that the recently bought chocolate biscuits were too decadent to spend the tea club money on and they should be plain! I can't remember how it was resolved - it also used to cause much mirth when a visitor used someones mug ( as they were always much cleaner/less furry than the general mugs) Sounds very Monty Python; “flagellation or chocolate hob nob? Flagellation? Good, see Doris’ tea trolley on the left..” A Twix is not the twin pillars of Satan. |
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Post by LandieMark on Mar 17, 2023 17:26:08 GMT
Reminds me of this.
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Post by Martin on Mar 17, 2023 17:28:48 GMT
Big mug of tea when I wake up, only one of the day usually. If I’m at home I’ll have a couple of coffees from the B2C machine, quick rinse of the glass is fine.
If I’m in the office I’ll have a couple of coffees, happy if the mug is reused.
A few years ago I had a mug with photos of my kids on and it kept going missing….someone had been using it. Which is more than a bit weird.
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Post by rodge on Mar 17, 2023 21:01:50 GMT
Big mug of tea in the morning.
Then coffee or tea at work- depending where I am in the building.
If I’m at home, I will reuse a cup for about 3 cups before changing it.
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Post by ChrisM on Mar 17, 2023 21:27:36 GMT
Work cup, was a present from elder daughter for Christmas a few years back (she got me 2, this one is similar and lives at home)  |
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Post by racingteatray on Mar 19, 2023 21:23:07 GMT
I’d have no issue washing and reusing - going to public school tends to knock any prissy habits out of you. I rarely do though, as one cup of coffee in the morning has always sufficed, and likewise one cup of tea in the afternoon.
And I tend to prefer a small mug in the morning for my cappuccino and a rather larger mug in the afternoon for my tea, which mitigates against using the same one.
That said I will absolutely keep the same water glass all day, just refilling as required.
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Post by alf on Mar 20, 2023 17:24:37 GMT
Generally if WFH I'll have a tea mug (for about 2-3 black and a similar number of green or fruit teas) and re-use it all day. Ditto a coffee mug which gets 2-3 uses. Then washed in the evening (by me - dishwashers not ideal for tea stains). Water glasses stay on the go for days on end  Given how much washing up the kids generate, I don't need to create more for fun... |
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