Consumers should reheat their cold cups of tea and coffee, a leading Government watchdog has said, in bid to cut back on the £12 billion of wasted food and drink thrown away every year.

telegraph.co.uk

Ewwwww


Coffee is just about acceptable reheated, but tea warmed up in a microwave? Wrong.

why?

Because it tastes like crap.

it's never bothered me too much, but then again, I don't drink tea very often and it all tastes the same to me. :)

No worse than cold tea, everytime I've sipped cold tea by accident I've spat it back in the cup in disgust :/

^^ This



Any tea that isn't a freshly made cup is not nice IMO

I like my tea and I'm happy to reheat in a microwave. And proud.

Ditto ML!

How do the government actually know this? Do they watch us drink our tea or go through our bins? I really don't get how they would know what and how much we're wasting. I've never wasted a good cuppa, that's for sure.

Generally anything reheated in a microwave is shite.

More to the point is there any way the government can actually police the 'reheated tea offenders'?

I can safely say I've never thrown out a cup of tea. Why would you?

Because it's gone cold?

Well I don't drink either but if I did I couldn't see myself re-heating tea :-S

Only Satan herself would reheat a cup of tea in the microwave.

When the street I live in was built there'd have been fires burning all day. Lots and lots of fires burning lots and lots of fuel. Now if I want a cup of tea I can put the exact amount of water in a kettle and use only the amount of power needed to boil it, with very little waste. Humans are very clever. Just ask Esther Boserup.............

"OK, so the population is reaching the point when the food supply is reaching exhaustion. Malthus says, the extra people have to die. Boserup says that you just have to upgrade the productivity of the food supply. Under pressure of numbers, with more mouths to feed, people put more labour and more intense effort into feeding themselves, and find ways to get more food production out of the land. They cultivate the land more intensively, they add extra manure, extra fertiliser, extra water and improve their crops. They invent their way out of the Malthusian crisis. Indeed, the Malthusian trap may even drive the development of technology. As Chairman Mau maintained, each mouth comes with a pair of hands."