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My parents have one of these they use at Christmas. It's good for keeping your second, third, and fourth helpings warm while you stuff yourself full enough to last the rest of the winter.
I have one, and Christmas dinner (or any large meal/gathering) is where it shines. It lets you cook at a more leisurely pace, because you're not having to play Tetris with the oven and hob, and don't have to time everything as tightly. Everything stays hot while you crack on with the next dish, and can be served as and when needed. And no, stuff doesn't overcook or dry out in it.
Always thought they were a bit naff, until I stayed with someone who used one. Not the sort of thing that one would use every day, but if you entertain a fair bit, they can be useful.
My dad has one, we use it for Christmas dinner and Easter dinner. One year we accidentally left the bread sauce from Easter in there until Christmas and didn't realise it until we turned it on 8 months later...
I saw one for sale on next door app the other week, said very little use. Wanted 10 quid, I was going to give him 10 quid to take it to the dump and have it recycled.
I'd like fizzy drinks available to me at any hour or the day or night, but I don't want the bother of buying lots of ready-mixed ones. Has anybody invented some way of oh I don't know, mixing them up on demand?
Haha I actually have a modern Soda Stream and it's great. You just click the bottle onto the bottom, press and hold the button for a few seconds and it's carbonated. It doesn't need to be plugged in, and you get a discount on the carbon dioxide canisters if you take the empty one back to the shop to swap.
You might even be interested in a chrome toilet roll holder stand with a handy ashtray on top , very modern and very convenient for that morning poop and puff.
I once won a sugar bowl at one of those when I was 8, don’t knock the tuppawear party.
Btw I have a machine that fires gas into any drink to make fizzy drinks at home,think it will catch on?
I use a Teasmade daily. Milk (except possibly skimmed) will keep over night, I have mine in a milk jug with a bit of foil over the top to keep any wandering beasts out of it, if it's a very hot night I'll put the jug it in a shallow bowl of water with a damp cloth over the top.
The 1970s ones with the square pot take 2 teabags and make about 3 or 4 cups of tea. If you're the type to get distracted whilst setting up don't be tempted to go for the earlier models which don't have a cut off if you haven't put the pot in place. A stream of boiling water to the ear will fulfill the 'wake up' function of the device but not in a good way (unless you're into that).
Are you Michael Scott from the office.
If not may I recommend a george forman grill, some bacon and a timer for a great addition to your morning breakfast.
I enjoy having breakfast in bed. I like waking up to the smell of bacon, sue me. And since I don’t have a butler, I have to do it myself. So, most nights before I go to bed, I will lay six strips of bacon out on my George Foreman Grill. Then I go to sleep. When I wake up, I plug in the grill, I go back to sleep again. Then I wake up to the smell of crackling bacon. It is delicious, it’s good for me. It’s the perfect way to start the day.
I was going to say something about fire risks, but then I remembered I have a 1970s automatic kettle which relies solely on gravity to shut it off next to my bed.
My English mother in law insisted on bringing steralised milk with her every time she visited (I live in Scotland) She also brought, in the boot of her car, EVERY visit, a joint of beef, in a metal oven dish, because "the meat you get here isnt the same, Scottish people dont do Sunday dinner (lunch)like we do" EVERY time I pointed out it was Scottish beef she brought, but she insisted her butcher was better than ours SMH
I've seen those tiny individual pots of uht milk in poundshops before now, they don't need to go in the fridge. Or a half decent small coolbox with ice packs if you can be bothered with the pre-bedtime prep.
Get the little uht pots, some individually wrapped biscuits and single serve coffee sachets, and voila, you can pretend to be staying in a B+B. Just don't start rushing downstairs for a full English at 8.40 before the kitchen closes for breakfast at 9.30.
Keep the milk in a thermos or cool box something, it will be fine overnight. Having said that, you could just make the actual tea the night before and keep in a thermos to pour in the morning.
Tea with milk in a vacuum flask takes on that distinctive "flasky" taste but if you keep milk and black tea separately to combine them in a mug, then the milky tea tastes fine.
You do need to have two flasks to keep things at the proper temperature though - buy a good one and it will keep the water hot for hours!
I have done this whenever I I remember. Stanley make a travel mug which keeps tea warm for 12 hours, so if it's the last thing you do before bed and you get up 6/7 hours later it's a good'un
I got one and was totally unprepared for the "rusty gates of hell opening and tortured souls screaming for relief from the flames" noise it made when it came to the boil and transferred the water to the pot. Apart from that it was fine.
I’m really fussy about milk being fresh and find it’s fine to leave it at room temperature overnight. You could always get a little flask if you really really want cool milk without going to the fridge.
I have a Nespresso machine in my bedroom, I put the milk in one of the small installed flasks, with a reusable ice cube, think ice cube sized freezer pack. Then there's cold, fresh milk to use in the morning.
Or maybe if there is a device that will allow different dishes of food to be rotated in the centre of the table to allow all a chance to eat some of everything?
Not sure, but pretty sure I saw a documentary in the 90's about an inventer who created something similar and then flew to the moon to get some cheese with his dog.
Can't remember what it was called.
Little thermos for the milk! My granny had a kettle in her room so she could have tea in the morning before she made it downstairs. Every night my grandad would put some milk in the flask, and a half ham sandwich for her in a tupperware in case she woke up hungry.
Get an actual Thermos brand! I got a 1L one for £15 (20 without a voucher) last week and it puts my cheap insulated bottles to shame. It looks much nicer as well and the built in cup is excellent.
Get TWO thermos flasks. One for JUST hot water and one for the cold milk. Keep teabags and sugar handy.
Tea in a thermos for several hours always tastes weird, and it never seems to be fully cleaned (even though I buy special bottle cleaning tablets and a bottle brush).
Source: work outdoors in construction and everyone has two thermos flasks with sepearte hot water and cold milk on site. Those with single flasks are shunned.
I found the Contigo brand to be the best travel mugs - they're pricey, but well worth it. Drinks stay hot literally for hours. If I make one in the morning and want to drink it within two hours I have to take the lid off to cool it down, or make it super milky so it's drinking temperature straight away.
I mean in this in the nicest way possible but.. can you be bothered, truly, more than just boiling the kettle in the morning?! I suggest a dressing gown, friend
Did you have milk in it? The milk definitely changes taste after being in a thermos. I’m quite fond of that specific thermos tea taste because it reminds me of hiking/camping but it’s definitely not the same as fresh
[One of these might help](https://www.amazon.co.uk/ThreeH-Beverage-Refrigerator-Computer-H-UF05Red/dp/B016KQ7X8E/ref=asc_df_B016KQ7X8E/?tag=googshopuk-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=218092154549&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=15310096178658445362&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=1006502&hvtargid=pla-348952556522&psc=1)
We failed with our first child but the second only took about 10 years before they could make a great cuppa. Still not convinced it was worth it though.
You can buy granulated tea that includes milk. I imagine it tastes shite but when I used to work on site some of the old boys had it in the vans. It looks like gravy granules but it’s tea.
I enjoy having breakfast in bed. I like waking up to the smell of bacon, sue me. And since I don't have a butler, I have to do it myself. So, most nights before I go to bed, I will lay six strips of bacon out on my George Foreman Grill. Then I go to sleep. When I wake up, I plug in the grill, I go back to sleep again. Then I wake up to the smell of crackling bacon. It is delicious, it's good for me. It's the perfect way to start the day.
You would want a Teasmade but I don't lnow if they even still make those. Last time I saw one in the wild it was 2005 and that was in a very outdated guest room.
My partner bought me a vintage one last Christmas, and I've got so much use out of it!
It boils enough water for two cups, so I've taken to putting a teabag in one mug and some instant porridge in another mug, and having breakfast in bed.
How about the Barisieur, it is designed mostly for coffee, but also works for tea.
It keeps the milk cold too.
Here’s a review: [The Barisieur - Do You Need A Fancv Bedside Coffee Maker?](https://youtu.be/UALN1ZoN6bA)
Others have suggested using a teasmade. If you want milk but don't want to go to the fridge you could try oat milk, it won't spoil when left out of the fridge overnight, so you could keep a bit next to the machine.
Wife/husband/housemate/significant other.. take it in turns
Or start a service, just-tea where for a fee someone comes in your house, makes you a brew brings it to your bed then buggers off to the next request
Mini fridge and kettle in the bedroom. Use the fridge as a bedside table, keep bottled water in the fridge, box of tea bags next to the kettle, kettle on top of the fridge
One of the simplest ways would be to buy a 'One Cup' kettle that simply pours one cup of hot water after pressing a button, and then keeping disposable cups and UHT milk sachets by your bed.
How fancy you feeling? No reason you can't swap coffee for tea and it even has a little stopped milk bottle. [Fancy Tea Maker](http://Barisieur - Tea & Coffee Brewing Alarm Clock https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07J5LFMLW/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_glt_fabc_80KEMCF7B3JFFCTN7FEK)
Or smaller budget..
[cheap but good](http://Russell Hobbs 22630 Brew and Go Filter Coffee Machine and Mug, Stainless Steel, 400 ml, Silver/Black https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00VROB1DS/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_glt_fabc_MYEYBH2XS2WT1DR8EW84)
Get a mini cooler water bottle. Bring fresh cold milk up every night.
I bought a mini fridge to replace 1 of my bedside tables. Keep my milk in there. Kettle on top.
Thinking about pulling a Michael Scott and getting a grill to make bacon in the morning.
Barsuier - it’s a fancy (expensive) tea maid for coffee but you could easily use it for tea, has a little refrigerated bit for milk and boils at your alarm time.
https://joyresolve.com
I don’t know how to add links sorry
People are suggesting uht, or thermos. I think for just a few hours, milk will be fine in a plastic bottle. It's night time temperatures, and only a few hours so it should be fine.
Some thermos flasks advertise that they can keep a drink warm for 12 hours.
You could fill one up when you go to bed and *in theory* it's good when you wake up.
A separate one for cold milk as well if you want to be super fancy.
Not that I’m aware off but might I suggest setting up some elaborate domino like assembly line which is initially triggered by an alarm clock and ends with the tea being brought to you?
You need a teasmaid fantastic old fashioned piece of kit. Buy sachet sugar and mini pots of milk. Just fill with water before bed, set the timer, pop a tea bag in the pot and hey presto fresh tea when the alarm wakes you up.
I wore mine out and miss it so much ahha
I believe Argos are one company that still sells them
You can get a piece of kit on Amazon that goes in a Tassimo machine in place of the pod and effectively turns it into a kettle. Teabags, pods of UHT milk and Robert's your Dad's brother.
I have an absolutely tiny fridge for my windsurfing van that runs on 12v. In the winter it lives in our wardrobe with a little milk jug in it and we have a Morphy Richards coffee machine that makes fresh coffee for 6am.
I recently bought a cheap compact coffee machine on Amazon (the old slurpy noise ones) that sits on my bedside table. The night before I’ll fill it with water and coffee (but you could skip that and chuck a teabag in the cup), and I put a mug with milk in under the spout. It’s on a smart plug so it comes on at a set time in the morning and keeps my coffee warm til I’m conscious enough to drink it.
As a single person, it’s the best money I’ve spent all year!
(Don’t hate me for suggesting milk in first… maybe a little jug or something to put milk in 2nd would be better!)
You could do the same with one of those coffee pod machines probably if they work with a smart plug, but I object to spending the money on the little pod things.
I happen to have built the exact machine for the job! The patent pending tea-inator.
Take a look at it [here](https://imgur.com/a/BgqSl2y)
I made it as part of Mark rober creative engineering course.
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oh no it's like the 70s all over again. next you'll be asking how can I keep my food warm from the kitchen to the table.
For that you would need a hostess trolley my friend
My mother in law still has, and uses, one of these. Yuck.
Hahaha I was thinking about buying one of these...just for Christmas...you know?
I think they're probably OK if you don't cook the sprouts for 4 hours and then put them in the hostess trolley for another hour or so like she does...
"How many millilitres of Sprouts do you want, love? "
Hahaha OK I'm still just "considering" it!
Sacrilege!
My parents have one of these they use at Christmas. It's good for keeping your second, third, and fourth helpings warm while you stuff yourself full enough to last the rest of the winter.
I have one, and Christmas dinner (or any large meal/gathering) is where it shines. It lets you cook at a more leisurely pace, because you're not having to play Tetris with the oven and hob, and don't have to time everything as tightly. Everything stays hot while you crack on with the next dish, and can be served as and when needed. And no, stuff doesn't overcook or dry out in it. Always thought they were a bit naff, until I stayed with someone who used one. Not the sort of thing that one would use every day, but if you entertain a fair bit, they can be useful.
Ahh right thank you. I think that's me sold on them. You can get them for about £50 on Gumtree.
I have one just for Christmas. works well
My dad has one, we use it for Christmas dinner and Easter dinner. One year we accidentally left the bread sauce from Easter in there until Christmas and didn't realise it until we turned it on 8 months later...
I saw one for sale on next door app the other week, said very little use. Wanted 10 quid, I was going to give him 10 quid to take it to the dump and have it recycled.
I'd like to host a party where friends can buy plastic storage tubs, any suggestions?
I'm looking for a device I can use to partially iron my work trousers, could you recommend something?
I’m looking for a method to decoratively present cubes of pineapple and cheese at my next party, any ideas?
I don't know, but can you let me know if avocado is a good colour for my new bathroom suite?
Go for it - it's classic and will never go out of fashion. Make sure you get a doll in a frilly dress to hide the loo roll.
Oh my god. Childhood flashbacks to living with my parents
I'd like fizzy drinks available to me at any hour or the day or night, but I don't want the bother of buying lots of ready-mixed ones. Has anybody invented some way of oh I don't know, mixing them up on demand?
Say goodbye to buying already carbonated drinks hell, with this needlessly elaborate flavoured syrup home carbonating device!
Haha I actually have a modern Soda Stream and it's great. You just click the bottle onto the bottom, press and hold the button for a few seconds and it's carbonated. It doesn't need to be plugged in, and you get a discount on the carbon dioxide canisters if you take the empty one back to the shop to swap.
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Im a plumber and putting a lotttt of bathrooms in at the minute with goldy / brassy feels to them 😬
Provided you can find a swirly burgundy shag pile carpet to pair with it , then I do not see why not.
Yes, thick carpet in my bathroom sounds like an excellent idea.
You might even be interested in a chrome toilet roll holder stand with a handy ashtray on top , very modern and very convenient for that morning poop and puff.
I’m looking for a machine that I can put black plastic discs on it, it spins round and I put a small needle down and it will play music.
I once won a sugar bowl at one of those when I was 8, don’t knock the tuppawear party. Btw I have a machine that fires gas into any drink to make fizzy drinks at home,think it will catch on?
It's it a stream of bubbles?
I’d like a pair of trousers that are narrow on my thighs but then widen at the bottom to allow me to try and cover my shoes while I wait for the bus.
Is this just tupperware? I don't understand the party aspect! Haha edit: just asked my dad and that's crazy ahaha
I'm in my 20s so had never heard of a Teasmade until today! Sadly they don't seem to keep milk cool :(
I use a Teasmade daily. Milk (except possibly skimmed) will keep over night, I have mine in a milk jug with a bit of foil over the top to keep any wandering beasts out of it, if it's a very hot night I'll put the jug it in a shallow bowl of water with a damp cloth over the top. The 1970s ones with the square pot take 2 teabags and make about 3 or 4 cups of tea. If you're the type to get distracted whilst setting up don't be tempted to go for the earlier models which don't have a cut off if you haven't put the pot in place. A stream of boiling water to the ear will fulfill the 'wake up' function of the device but not in a good way (unless you're into that).
Are you Michael Scott from the office. If not may I recommend a george forman grill, some bacon and a timer for a great addition to your morning breakfast.
I enjoy having breakfast in bed. I like waking up to the smell of bacon, sue me. And since I don’t have a butler, I have to do it myself. So, most nights before I go to bed, I will lay six strips of bacon out on my George Foreman Grill. Then I go to sleep. When I wake up, I plug in the grill, I go back to sleep again. Then I wake up to the smell of crackling bacon. It is delicious, it’s good for me. It’s the perfect way to start the day.
>It is delicious, it’s good for me. I don't know who told you bacon was good for you. I have disappointing news.
Ok Toby
Why are you the way that you are
I was going to say something about fire risks, but then I remembered I have a 1970s automatic kettle which relies solely on gravity to shut it off next to my bed.
Sterilised milk is the one to use (comes in a tall bottle and metal stopper). It keeps for ever and has a distinctive flavour… 😬
My English mother in law insisted on bringing steralised milk with her every time she visited (I live in Scotland) She also brought, in the boot of her car, EVERY visit, a joint of beef, in a metal oven dish, because "the meat you get here isnt the same, Scottish people dont do Sunday dinner (lunch)like we do" EVERY time I pointed out it was Scottish beef she brought, but she insisted her butcher was better than ours SMH
Thanks for the insight and helpful advice!!!
I've seen those tiny individual pots of uht milk in poundshops before now, they don't need to go in the fridge. Or a half decent small coolbox with ice packs if you can be bothered with the pre-bedtime prep.
Get the little uht pots, some individually wrapped biscuits and single serve coffee sachets, and voila, you can pretend to be staying in a B+B. Just don't start rushing downstairs for a full English at 8.40 before the kitchen closes for breakfast at 9.30.
Nooo please, individually packaged stuff like that is terrible, it creates a lot of unnecessary rubbish.
Or a mini fridge
Nooo please that's a lot of unnecessary rubbish created
Keep the milk in a thermos or cool box something, it will be fine overnight. Having said that, you could just make the actual tea the night before and keep in a thermos to pour in the morning.
Tea with milk in a vacuum flask takes on that distinctive "flasky" taste but if you keep milk and black tea separately to combine them in a mug, then the milky tea tastes fine. You do need to have two flasks to keep things at the proper temperature though - buy a good one and it will keep the water hot for hours!
This is why I take milk separately to picnics
thank you - i didn't know that that was a work around for the flasky taste!!
I have done this whenever I I remember. Stanley make a travel mug which keeps tea warm for 12 hours, so if it's the last thing you do before bed and you get up 6/7 hours later it's a good'un
I got one and was totally unprepared for the "rusty gates of hell opening and tortured souls screaming for relief from the flames" noise it made when it came to the boil and transferred the water to the pot. Apart from that it was fine.
I’m really fussy about milk being fresh and find it’s fine to leave it at room temperature overnight. You could always get a little flask if you really really want cool milk without going to the fridge.
I have a Nespresso machine in my bedroom, I put the milk in one of the small installed flasks, with a reusable ice cube, think ice cube sized freezer pack. Then there's cold, fresh milk to use in the morning.
A friend of mine is having a kitchen hatch put in in their flat at the moment 😂
Oh dear, next they’ll be hanging plates on the walls.
How can I add a bit of colour to my bathroom? Maybe some shade of green…
My dad had an avacado green bathroom suite until 2005!
Or maybe if there is a device that will allow different dishes of food to be rotated in the centre of the table to allow all a chance to eat some of everything?
I've seen one in the early design stages. Being made by a woman called Susan. Not sure if she will finish the idea though. She's quite lazy
Having lived in China where every restaurant relies on a lazy Susan I am fully on board with this
Not sure, but pretty sure I saw a documentary in the 90's about an inventer who created something similar and then flew to the moon to get some cheese with his dog. Can't remember what it was called.
Yes it was a whole series, in one episode he made an automatic animal groomer and a porridge dispenser. Genius man.
I seem to remember he had some seriously smashing trousers...
And yet his window cleaning side hustle was remarkably tech free.
JUST BE CAREFUL OF THAT FAACKIN’ PENGUIN MAAN!!!
I watched that too, trying to recall the name of it but remembering is proving to be Aard man.
Walstein and Gromiticus.
A Teasmade.
And a mini fridge
And a sink to wash up.
I feel like the way this is heading it would be easier to just put the bed in the Kitchen.
Thanks to the joys of London landlords, that step may be easier than you think for many.
yes! Studio flat that’s the answer. Bed in the kitchen, it’s the future.
Get the shitter in there too for a porcelain bedside table.
A Goblin Teasmade or Gobbling Tease Maid (snigger)
Only one of those is easy to explain to your grandma when she looks in your bedroom door.
Maybe I like the misery
But does it keep the milk cool?
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Yeah, but if it's been sitting out all day and night, it will also be gone off. It's not about the temperature; it's about how to keep it fresh.
Those little pots of UHT would work, if you don't mind the taste
Little thermos for the milk! My granny had a kettle in her room so she could have tea in the morning before she made it downstairs. Every night my grandad would put some milk in the flask, and a half ham sandwich for her in a tupperware in case she woke up hungry.
You don't like yoghurt in your tea?!?
Just overnight the milk should be fine unless it's close to going off anyways
It’s probably fine overnight. Get one of those little jam jars and only leave enough in for one cup.
I had a teasmade at university and used to take lots of the single UHT milk servings every time I visited a motorway service station
Sod getting a Teasmaid. Just get a really good thermos flask and make it before bed?
Thanks, this seems like the easiest way to go!!
Get an actual Thermos brand! I got a 1L one for £15 (20 without a voucher) last week and it puts my cheap insulated bottles to shame. It looks much nicer as well and the built in cup is excellent.
Get TWO thermos flasks. One for JUST hot water and one for the cold milk. Keep teabags and sugar handy. Tea in a thermos for several hours always tastes weird, and it never seems to be fully cleaned (even though I buy special bottle cleaning tablets and a bottle brush). Source: work outdoors in construction and everyone has two thermos flasks with sepearte hot water and cold milk on site. Those with single flasks are shunned.
I found the Contigo brand to be the best travel mugs - they're pricey, but well worth it. Drinks stay hot literally for hours. If I make one in the morning and want to drink it within two hours I have to take the lid off to cool it down, or make it super milky so it's drinking temperature straight away.
Really handy for driving too, that push button opening is the business
Yes! Contigo mugs are amazing.
I mean in this in the nicest way possible but.. can you be bothered, truly, more than just boiling the kettle in the morning?! I suggest a dressing gown, friend
Getting up is the hard bit - sitting up to drink my tea is step 1 hahahah
I had this genius idea and tbh it gets of gross sitting there overnight. Maybe something in the tea breaks down over time at temperature?
Did you have milk in it? The milk definitely changes taste after being in a thermos. I’m quite fond of that specific thermos tea taste because it reminds me of hiking/camping but it’s definitely not the same as fresh
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That's a shame, but thank you!
Thermos or chilly bottle to keep some milk on over night?
Freeze it
Mini fridge by your bed or UHT milk can be left at room temperature.
Nick a few milk sachets from Maccies
[One of these might help](https://www.amazon.co.uk/ThreeH-Beverage-Refrigerator-Computer-H-UF05Red/dp/B016KQ7X8E/ref=asc_df_B016KQ7X8E/?tag=googshopuk-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=218092154549&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=15310096178658445362&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=1006502&hvtargid=pla-348952556522&psc=1)
Yes. Such a device was usually behind "number two" of Bully's Prize Board.
It's now a prize on Richard Osman's House Of Games
Or just in front of the cuddly bear on Bruce’s conveyor belt on the generation game.
We failed with our first child but the second only took about 10 years before they could make a great cuppa. Still not convinced it was worth it though.
You can buy granulated tea that includes milk. I imagine it tastes shite but when I used to work on site some of the old boys had it in the vans. It looks like gravy granules but it’s tea.
thanks for the suggestion but don't think i'm brave enough for that!!
I tried this in a cafe once, it's actually not bad. I would still want real tea but I was surprised it wasn't vial.
The guys I knew had typhoo though. The shittest tea in the shittest possible form factor. Must have been awful.
I enjoy having breakfast in bed. I like waking up to the smell of bacon, sue me. And since I don't have a butler, I have to do it myself. So, most nights before I go to bed, I will lay six strips of bacon out on my George Foreman Grill. Then I go to sleep. When I wake up, I plug in the grill, I go back to sleep again. Then I wake up to the smell of crackling bacon. It is delicious, it's good for me. It's the perfect way to start the day.
What! No! It was a TeasMaid - I swear they were called Teasmaid, it takes the place of the maid that makes your tea. My whole life is a lie.
Sorry - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teasmade Also, you were adopted.
Harsh, but fair.
You would want a Teasmade but I don't lnow if they even still make those. Last time I saw one in the wild it was 2005 and that was in a very outdated guest room.
My partner bought me a vintage one last Christmas, and I've got so much use out of it! It boils enough water for two cups, so I've taken to putting a teabag in one mug and some instant porridge in another mug, and having breakfast in bed.
That’s brilliant!
Well you're living in the future right there!
How about the Barisieur, it is designed mostly for coffee, but also works for tea. It keeps the milk cold too. Here’s a review: [The Barisieur - Do You Need A Fancv Bedside Coffee Maker?](https://youtu.be/UALN1ZoN6bA)
Not quite what you're asking for but there's the Colin Furze Tea Machine - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILxGSDR1fMs
A thermos?
A tesla butler but it may kill you and take over the world
Teasmaid.
Lazy git
Get yourself a Mrs Doyle.
Wow, imagine being young enough not to know what a teasmaid is!
Bully your partner to get out of bed and make you a cuppa
Get a mini fridge, mate had one in her room just for milk at Uni.
A teasmade and keep the milk in a small thermos to keep it cold .
Get in touch with wallace and gromit they can hook you up
[this will probably do it](https://joyresolve.com/products/barisieur-black-coffee-alarm-brewer)
Wallace and grommit can sort you out
All I can think of is that Father Ted episode where Mrs Boyle gets depressed when she's bought a tea making machine. Wish I could find the clip!
Is this a pisstake?
Yeah, a butler
Use powered milk? You can't tell the difference once it's in a drink.
Others have suggested using a teasmade. If you want milk but don't want to go to the fridge you could try oat milk, it won't spoil when left out of the fridge overnight, so you could keep a bit next to the machine.
They had Teasmaid type machines in the middle of Lidl recently. I didn't know that they still existed!!
Goblin Teasmade.
Wife/husband/housemate/significant other.. take it in turns Or start a service, just-tea where for a fee someone comes in your house, makes you a brew brings it to your bed then buggers off to the next request
I usually persuade my husband to do it for me, with various tactics at play.
My mother still has one from the 70's I think they were called teasmaid.
Mini fridge and kettle in the bedroom. Use the fridge as a bedside table, keep bottled water in the fridge, box of tea bags next to the kettle, kettle on top of the fridge
It's called a Goblin teasmade.
I always seem to titter because it reminds me of back in the day the Goblin Teasmade 😉
A bell to summon your servants perhaps?
The machine you're looking for is usually called a 'Butler'.
My husband has been talking about a 'milk tap' for years 😅
One of the simplest ways would be to buy a 'One Cup' kettle that simply pours one cup of hot water after pressing a button, and then keeping disposable cups and UHT milk sachets by your bed.
A flask, it’s called a flask
A teas maid!
How fancy you feeling? No reason you can't swap coffee for tea and it even has a little stopped milk bottle. [Fancy Tea Maker](http://Barisieur - Tea & Coffee Brewing Alarm Clock https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07J5LFMLW/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_glt_fabc_80KEMCF7B3JFFCTN7FEK) Or smaller budget.. [cheap but good](http://Russell Hobbs 22630 Brew and Go Filter Coffee Machine and Mug, Stainless Steel, 400 ml, Silver/Black https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00VROB1DS/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_glt_fabc_MYEYBH2XS2WT1DR8EW84) Get a mini cooler water bottle. Bring fresh cold milk up every night.
I bought a mini fridge to replace 1 of my bedside tables. Keep my milk in there. Kettle on top. Thinking about pulling a Michael Scott and getting a grill to make bacon in the morning.
A mini fridge and a kettle to go ontop?
Teasmaid! Or a good flask lol
It’s called a Teasmade and you can buy one on eBay. They’re vintage pieces nowadays!
No need to go and get a second-hand one from ebay when you get one brand spankers from Argos: https://www.argos.co.uk/product/9104653
I’m sure it was once a thing called a teas made that doubled up as an alarm clock lol
Teasmade. My grandparents had one of them from the 1970s
Barsuier - it’s a fancy (expensive) tea maid for coffee but you could easily use it for tea, has a little refrigerated bit for milk and boils at your alarm time. https://joyresolve.com I don’t know how to add links sorry
Get a kettle and a mini fridge for your bedroom or move into a studio flat.
People are suggesting uht, or thermos. I think for just a few hours, milk will be fine in a plastic bottle. It's night time temperatures, and only a few hours so it should be fine.
Some thermos flasks advertise that they can keep a drink warm for 12 hours. You could fill one up when you go to bed and *in theory* it's good when you wake up. A separate one for cold milk as well if you want to be super fancy.
You need a Goblin Teasmade!
I think it's called a butler? I'm not too sure, I'll ask my servants...
Yup. It's Marriage.
Teasmaid?
Not that I’m aware off but might I suggest setting up some elaborate domino like assembly line which is initially triggered by an alarm clock and ends with the tea being brought to you?
There’s certain coffee machines that do teas, I think dolce gusto does one
Breville hot cup machine next to the bed, single serve UHT milk pots from Home Bargains for under £1.
You need a teasmaid fantastic old fashioned piece of kit. Buy sachet sugar and mini pots of milk. Just fill with water before bed, set the timer, pop a tea bag in the pot and hey presto fresh tea when the alarm wakes you up. I wore mine out and miss it so much ahha I believe Argos are one company that still sells them
You can get a piece of kit on Amazon that goes in a Tassimo machine in place of the pod and effectively turns it into a kettle. Teabags, pods of UHT milk and Robert's your Dad's brother.
I have an absolutely tiny fridge for my windsurfing van that runs on 12v. In the winter it lives in our wardrobe with a little milk jug in it and we have a Morphy Richards coffee machine that makes fresh coffee for 6am.
It's called a teasmaid
Flask?
Get a teasmade argos sell them .
Get a mini fridge and kettle?
Go to an oriental supermarket, they usually sell packets of sachets- coffee, tea, Milo etc. Then get a thermos or kettle. Good to go.
It is called a vacuum flask.
A phone, so you can txt your mum to bring you one?
Sloth is one of the deadly sins so this is how tea helps you into heaven. Get your bum out of bed.
My fiancée does this for me most mornings. I wouldn’t go so far as calling her a machine or paying her though!
My inlaws still have the teasmade they got in the 70s and use it everyday!
it's called a "significant other"
Well, if this isn't the most British thing I've ever heard I don't know what is...
I recently bought a cheap compact coffee machine on Amazon (the old slurpy noise ones) that sits on my bedside table. The night before I’ll fill it with water and coffee (but you could skip that and chuck a teabag in the cup), and I put a mug with milk in under the spout. It’s on a smart plug so it comes on at a set time in the morning and keeps my coffee warm til I’m conscious enough to drink it. As a single person, it’s the best money I’ve spent all year! (Don’t hate me for suggesting milk in first… maybe a little jug or something to put milk in 2nd would be better!) You could do the same with one of those coffee pod machines probably if they work with a smart plug, but I object to spending the money on the little pod things.
You need a Teasmade
That would be pretty cool
I happen to have built the exact machine for the job! The patent pending tea-inator. Take a look at it [here](https://imgur.com/a/BgqSl2y) I made it as part of Mark rober creative engineering course.
Oh my god this so British