The only way to drink Earl Grey unbesmirched by the suggestion of instant coffee is if Ellis were to make his own tea. Should Penelope stop making Ellis’s tea with the same spoon? We use Google reCaptcha to protect our website and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.Īfter newsletter promotion The jury of Guardian readers For more information see our Privacy Policy. Privacy Notice: Newsletters may contain info about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties. That’s the only way we can prove if Ellis really tastes the difference. He can then try and guess which one it is. I’ll make him multiple cups of tea, with only one that has been stirred with a coffee-stained spoon. I think I will do a taste test for Ellis. I had a colleague who used to make teas and coffees for the office and would lick the spoon in between stirring, so at least I’m not doing that.
I would love for Ellis to drink more coffee, then we wouldn’t have this debate. This debate is the extent of our marital problems but it does come up often now, as we are making more teas and coffees for each other since we both started hybrid working after lockdown. We met in 2009 and have been married for seven years. Washing the spoon off under the tap is an extra step, and if I don’t believe he can taste it, why bother? Ellis also drinks Earl Grey, which has a strong flavour anyway. I think it’s fine: the instant coffee residue is washed off the spoon before it is used to take the teabag out. Since Ellis has pointed out his teaspoon issue, I do wash the coffee granules off the spoon by swirling it around my own mug before placing the spoon in Ellis’s mug, but Ellis says that’s not real cleaning. I work in the kitchen so I do make Ellis slightly more cups than he makes me, although we do generally share all housework and chores evenly. I do wash the coffee granules off the spoon by swirling it around my own mug before placing the spoon in Ellis’s mug I think the only reason Ellis has an issue with this now is because he has seen me reusing it – but if he hadn’t seen it, I don’t believe he would know. I don’t want to have 1,500 teaspoons that have only been used once all over the house, so I reuse the same spoon. I don’t believe you can taste the difference. We have one teaspoon by the kettle which is used for both tea and coffee, and I will admit that I use the same spoon for both. I don’t think the way I make Ellis’s tea is a big issue at all. Washing the spoon under the tap is an extra step. I don’t have a tea support group I can talk to about this issue, so I hope the readers will agree with me. A conflict-free solution might involve us both just having coffee from the cafetiere, but I can’t drink that all day. Penelope is more house proud than me but less “on it’” when it comes to being tidy in general. We have been living together for a decade but I only really noticed the spoon thing during lockdown, and now I can’t unsee it. This whole thing is a lockdown hangover, because we are both home more now – and often work from home at the same time. The solution is for Penelope to rinse the teaspoon after making her coffee, but she says this is too much effort. It’s a frivolous problem, but it affects my tea each day. We agree that space is scarce so we don’t want to use lots of different teaspoons. I will walk innocently into the kitchen and see this teaspoon lying down in wait, like a trap. I’ve asked Penelope to toss the spoon in the sink or take a new one out for me after she makes a coffee, but she never does. I see tea as a weaker and more delicate drink than instant coffee, so it’s not fair to mix the flavours
Even I get the teaspoons mixed up sometimes because the teaspoon we use stays on the cork mat beside the kettle all day. Penelope says I can’t possibly taste the coffee, but of course I can. I see tea as a weaker and more delicate drink than instant coffee, so it’s not fair to mix the flavours, especially this way round. After she squeezes the teabag against the side of the cup and stirs it with the spoon, my tea tastes like instant coffee. She swirls the coffee around in her cup and then takes my teabag out with the same spoon, with coffee granules stuck on the end. We make drinks for each other when working from home, but Penelope uses the same teaspoon she makes her instant coffee with for my tea. My wife, Penelope, drinks mainly coffee while I drink mainly tea.
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