Tea stains

About 18 months ago I was going on about funny tasting tea and tea stains. See reference 1, a reference which I tracked down on this occasion using my monthly backups. Sometimes Windows folder search plus Word document search actually does better than the mighty google.

While in the interval since that going on, the funny tastes have largely vanished, perhaps because of more careful cup hygiene, we did experience very bad staining in Bognor, when using the mugs and kettle provided in our hotel room.

Stains which start life as brown films which slide around the sides of the mug in a rather unsightly way while one is drinking the tea and which then dry on when one has finished. The odd thing was that serious elbow grease, even when coupled with soap and hot water, failed to remove them, which is not the case when we are at home. Elbow grease, or more precisely thumb grease, even when coupled with soap and hot water, failed to remove them, which is not the case when we are at home. BH thought that the difference might be the absence of milk - with my preferring tea without milk to tea with milk-pot milk.

Pot does not seem quite the right word here, but it is the word used by Amazon to describe those above, very much the sort of thing you get in hotels.

Something to keep an eye on.

Reference 1: http://psmv2.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/kitchen-life.html.