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- digglerst, on 10/12/2007, -15/+574no no no, not THAT kind of tea bag... get your head out of the gutter
- toppgun, on 10/12/2007, -10/+137when I read the title I thought it was a halo 3 announcement
- jstohler, on 10/12/2007, -27/+140There's another kind?
- sishgupta, on 10/12/2007, -2/+65loose leaf FTW!
No one who is serious in any way about tea would use tea bags! - zjbird, on 10/12/2007, -15/+76HAHAHAHA im simply digging this because of the title!
- teadrinker, on 10/12/2007, -2/+61Or for about $60 you can get a reusable 1L glass teapot with a strainer. And for about the same $10 you can get half a pound of good (maybe not gourmet) quality loose leaf tea to be used to make tea. Thus resulting in about the same quality tea for about 1/8 the price.
I can go through 14 teabags in a day / day and a half. Just living it up to my name. - cdmarcus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+48Yes. Regular teabags don't produce very good tea because the "leaves" are usually pretty much dust from the tea manufacturing process. Also, they can't expand to their full size because of the constraints of the tea bag. The advantage of this is that it's full-leaf tea, as convenient as a tea bag, and as good as loose.
- JohnChapin, on 10/12/2007, -3/+42Ha! That reminds me of a conversation with my friend Ian when we were at a bar... It was around Halloween and we were talking about trick-or-treaters. He said, "Yeah, I remember one Halloween we ran out of candy and had to start giving tea bags to the kids."
You... y... What?! - toppgun, on 10/12/2007, -0/+27real men eat the leaves raw without any water
- PackerX, on 10/12/2007, -2/+24"Generally practiced in multiplayer FPSs."
Um... you know that it originated in the real world, right? - pinab, on 10/12/2007, -1/+23the lipton one is also nylon, so it won't biodegrade
- the7dwarfs, on 10/12/2007, -9/+30Seems like they are over complicating things if you ask me.
- Pottersquash, on 10/12/2007, -7/+24whats the over/under on off-color jokes for this thread? 200?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17In Soviet Russia, Tea Bags You! :D
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17Why use tea bags at all?
My Chinese friend at work tells me that most Chinese just put the leaves loose into the cup, and just stop drinking when they get very close to the bottom. Loose leaf tastes better and you have less paper going into landfills. - bobba, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15Buy a teapot.
The end. - BillyLK, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14Your name is Teadrinker? Jesus, how long have you been waiting for this thread to come along?
- jrieth50, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14Speaking of "adver-blogging" - 'so i was at this awesome store named _______ that appeals to the online/hip/cool demographic. Being as hip and cool as I am, I'm currently in on the new rising trend in America, tea drinking. I think product ________ is a good choice, but listen my friend... After being just absolutely floored by the sheer beauty of the package that product ___________ came in I couldn't help myself but pay any price necessary to sample the product. Money well spent! (Insert detailed but simple product description here) + (reason why this product is superior to afforementioned lesser product) and finally recap with (price) (quantity) (location to run out and buy product.)
(Note: I too love tea, but for crying out loud, just buy tea leaves and get a damn diffuser and be done with it. Then you can write a great blog on TEA, and not manufactured tea PRODUCTS.) - tidu, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15I saw this title on my RSS Feed and just laughed. I actually couldn't determine whether it was about tea bags, or you know, tea bags. You never know around these parts of the internets
- admirabumblebee, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13I recently stopped (completely) drinking sugary drinks and converted to tea, which I enjoy very much and go through over 1-2L a day by myself..
Id like to learn more about better tea brewing and the like, any suggestions? - ThisIsBob, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12Bring water to just boiling.. Stop. Pour into ceramic or glass. Add tea leaves. Steep 3-4 minutes. Stir. Pour through strainer. Drink.
Cost = 0. You already have the stuff you need. - calebrown, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12Real men drink loose leaf - http://www.adagio.com/
- zm634, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14Yeah, the damn hippies.
- elk1, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14next up on digg reinventing the pressed ham
- bergur1, on 10/12/2007, -16/+26http://teabagpwned.ytmnd.com/
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=teabag - eggstylin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Using paper will always be inferior to just steeping the tea leaves in water. You're basically filtering out flavor that could have been in your tea. Honestly, how hard is it to just filter them out after the 2 to 5 minutes they have to be in the water. How much is a strainer? 99 cents?
- Rsulliv1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9If you use the balls (pun?), make sure they're the larger ones. Full tea leaves will expand 30%-40% while steeping. So the smaller infuser balls have the same troubles as tea bags.
Google "agony of tea" and you'll see how the unfurling of the leaves is what drinking tea is all about. - DevilDunkard, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9You can buy a French Press for about 10 bucks ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_press ) that will do the same thing with regular tea bags or loose tea leaves. Still it is cool from a package design standpoint.
- PATSCRU, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8@sishgupta,
dugg up just for 'looseleaf FTW' i'm glad to see i'm not the only militant tea head around these parts... - michaelb1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8I just started using one of those metal contraption that you put tea in and drop in the kettle.
seems to work pretty well. - masterkang, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8shown to other chinese friends...
come on, have americans heard of REUSABLE, not wasting, tea pots?
Then, you can just put the leaves INTO the teapot, thus functioning the same way as a strangely complex origami structure coffeefiltre/tea leaf holder...
tea bags are for lipton, earl gray whatever ness
get some daisies, stuff em into the pot.
fin - shawnz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6dielawn: i thought you normally fix things when they break, not reinvent them...
- crisrose, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6What a waste of resources. Can't people just buy teapots??
- simplenation, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6nice story
- Archaeolojae, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6It's mostly the stuff they sweep off the floor at the end of the day and stick in tea bags and sell to Americans as they laugh that we actually drink it. Seriously though, it's typically the lower quality leaves that they just chop up and stash into tea bags where no one will ever see them or know what they looked like. The dust and fannings do have some advantages such as a quicker steeping time and produce a stronger brew since there is more surface area exposed. You have much more options with loose leaf tea: different qualities, leaf sizes, regions and even specific estates. If you want to drink tea dust, I suggest matcha which is used in the Japanese tea ceremony.
- Archaeolojae, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Yes they do sell empty tea bags, but they're just as lousy as a tea ball. They both constrict the leaves. You're better off getting a tea pot. You really aren't supposed to wash a tea pot. You just need to rinse it out and let it air dry. Washing it leaves a soapy residue and makes your tea taste like soap. So there's really not much maintenance.
- reparsed, on 10/12/2007, -0/+51) Loose tea
2) Bodum french press - rspeed, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Does anyone know if they sell just the empty bags?
Yes, I'm too lazy to wash a tea ball. - eggstylin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Check out Adagio teas. Awesome site - great intro package where you basically get a strainer for free. www.adagio.com
- thehans, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I think some teas get too bitter if you leave the leafs in there too long.
- relsseigk, on 05/13/2008, -0/+4www.tealuxe.com
merchandise -> filters and strainers.
Similar items have been available for years. This product is not even close to being digg worthy. The title however... - profOblivion, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4[deleted because I'm a moron.]
- drlha, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6sishgupta: Its all about convience. I love tea, but there's a time an a place for putting in the effort to make a pot of tea, over the convience of using a tea bag. You know, sometimes you want gourmet food, and sometimes you want a burger. As long as you get your tea bags from somewhere other than America or Continental Europe, you'll get a decent cuppa out of a teabag too.
- Soapdish, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Steeping times as recommended by my local teashop are in general:
Black: 2-3 minutes
Roibos: 7-10 minutes
Green or white: 1-2 minutes
Green and White teas should not use boiling hot water, as that will scorch the tea. The water should be at about 180F for them (just steaming).
I use a tea strainer that fits in my cup, so I don't have to make a full pot for myself. When I use the Jasmine Pheonix Pearls, I don't even need the strainer.
It takes about 5 minutes for me to make a cup of green tea. - Archaeolojae, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Wow that is expensive. For that kind of money I can buy 1/4 lb. of high quality loose leaf tea and brew about 35 cups of tea.
- bdpf, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Weak tea is for old ladies.
Boil it, soak it, stew it.
A strong dark brew is as good as your black hart coffee. - herrshuster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I'm going to guess....just guess
that you didn't RTFA - helinism, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Haha how to be a pretentious idiot and make your friends giggle all for $9.99
- wageslaven, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Total trash.
Metal ball, ball-on-tongues or reusable tea 'sock' with loose tea.
The metal tin waste packaging tells me all i need to know about the target market for this product: more money than brains, couldnt care less about anyone beside themselves.
does *TEA* need to be shipped with the intent of making all that fracking garbage?
*this product sucks* - andycr512, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Biggles, meet real tea. Real tea, meet biggles.
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