How to Make a Perfect Welsh Cup of Tea (Paned o De)

Panad o de! A cup of tea! The ultimate drink. A perfect blend of caffeine for a boost, the most delicious flavour known to human kind, and it's a nice colour as well.
You may think you know how to make the perfect cup of tea, but let me tell you: the way you see it done in this video is categorically the only correct and legally acceptable procedure.
A YouTube, nay, a global first; this video will walk you through to dos, don'ts, and whatisgoingons of making a panad da: a nice cup of tea.

Or something like that anyway. It's been a long week.

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[apcolleen]

Rosie Jones, a British comedian with cerebral palsy, joked on a panel show that she doesn't stir her tea because by the time she can manage to get it to her mouth she's already shaken it up enough.

[mbuhtz]

I love this. More silly videos sprinkled amongst the well-researched history would not go amiss ❤

[cartoonkitteh]

I'd like to pay my respects to the tea that was sacrificed to show off the heinous crime of squeezing the teabag. o7

[historiansrevolt]

My lovely husband always says that tea solves everything up to death. I hope your tea helped your week!

[loraleitourtillottwiehr]

As an American who grew up with microwaved tea from bags - this is all spot on. (obviously) I'm now an avid tea drinker and it really does taste better from a kettle and steeped for 5+ minutes (I do 8). I also use one scoop per cup plus one for the pot, but I have a massive pot for my large family. Thanks for a fun little video Jimmy, please don't feel guilty for not doing something more academic.

[canucknancy]

Mmmm tea. The best way to get through a low point in the day.

[jenniferstone]

Finally, someone else who warms the pot before the brew! The perfect video after a tiresome week.

[maryf]

American here! I have an electric kettle and a pretty flowered teapot. I have a nice collection of English and Irish teas for daytime, and herbal teas like chamomile and peppermint for evening. My Mom drank tea every day, and now my brothers and I carry on the tradition.

[ladyliberty]

I have an auntie in Scotland who makes tea in a wonderful way- it’s a spiritual experience!!
I appreciate your taking it seriously, as it should be☕️

[WindriderLirian]

Jimmy. You are the spiritual successor to Douglas Adams and his treatise on tea-making.
It is an honour and a privilege to have watched this.

[MrsBifflechips]

Tea doesn't fix all ills, but it sure can help make them seem more manageable. Thank you for the video, and hope your future weeks are better.
I've got a 1.15L Sadler in which I make my daily lapsang souchong and it does have a "disgusting" coat of tea residue. I keep the leaves in until I'm done drinking it. No milk, no lemon. I also play chicken with how much I fill the tea pot, and occasionally get tea floods on my white desk. These then dry into some very neat patterns and make my desk look more exciting.
I also have a whistling kettle - if I had one that beeped politely, I wouldn't ever get tea made. I need my kettle to scream at me until I take care of it.
But a lot of people think lapsang souchong is stinky, so when the office was a thing, I had to have it in a travel mug with a good seal or people would complain.

[renatanovato]

what i love the most about the internet is to find ppl who enjoy the same things, like the swirling of the milk poured in a tea cup!❤

[jackiejames]

Jimmy, sorry you had a bad week. You are not the only one who needed a funny video. Thanks for giving me something to smile. Remember, we all love you.

[kristinamanion]

My daily tea is darjeeling. I apparently commit a crime, though, as I only steep it for 4 min and drink it with a touch of honey and no milk. I'm just not classy enough.
I also have microwaved water for tea, though in my defense, it was in the middle of the night during residency. Let's just say this was not the most questionable decision made during that time of my life😊

Seriously, though, this video lightened my day. Thank you.❤

[experimentallytheoretical]

Fun (nerdy) fact! Those whirly whirlies are an excellent example of turbulence, are technically vortices, and they come in clockwise/anticlockwise pairs (because consevation of angular momentum)

[luzies]

As a German who lived in Liverpool for a while, I had to laugh for five minutes straight. What an absolute banger of a video, well done

[eireanncarter]

The whirly milk cloud is so pretty when you've brewed it nice and dark. This was the right level of silly to help my headache. Thank you very much.

[charlierees]

man I've been feeling so crap today and for some reason this made me so happy!

[MMacNicol]

I broke three teapots by not knowing to "hot the pot", prewarming it with hot water. 
They were old brown ware, which (it turns out) has small air bubbles or different minerals in pockets in the clay and just throwing boiling water in it causes heat differences between the base as it sits on the counter and the body. They would start a high pitched whistle or whine and then a perfectly circular crack formed all the way around the base and tea went everywhere when I lifted the body off the base. Ignorance is NOT bliss!
Porcelain pots are now common and borosilicate glass ones, neither of which suffer the same thermal shock. But I still miss those pretty, well designed pots whose spouts never dripped!

Fun video!

[Alex-Sews]

I know people who microwave their water for tea. I don't drink their tea. I love them but they are wrong. My house has very very limited counter space so we don't have enough for an electric kettle. We boil it in a steel kettle on the stovetop. I hope that is acceptable, for Americans. May the coming weeks be so much better for you, Jimmy. With many a good a panad da, delicious biscuits, and excellent happenings in your life.