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Originally Posted by Stitchawl
Unfortunately, the public has been handed the 'fast food' of teas and coffees and we've accepted it for the convenience of it all, forgetting that a fast food hamburger doesn't taste nearly as good as one made at home. We have been willing to 'put up with' the loss of flavor for the ease of use.
Commercial tea bags are easy to buy and easy to use. But to make them, the leaves must be very small and very dry. That means loss of flavor. But using loose leaf tea can be a pain in the neck, so we've put up with that loss of flavor for ease of use. Well, if we take 20 minutes and fill 50 tea bags with loose leaf tea, we get back all the full flavored goodness as well as the convenience of tea bags! There is no reason to suffer with off the shelf tea bags! Even Celestial Seasonings can be bought loose, and I'll bet dollars to donuts the taste is 100% better!
Stitchawl
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People seem to think that brewing loose leaf teas takes a ton of extra time but it doesn't. Put in infuser basket, open tin, scoop in tea leaves, add hot water. Heck, you can make your own loose leaf tea bags and save yourself the 10 seconds it takes to put in the infuser basket, open the tin, and scoop the leaves.
I think tea is intimidating because there are so many types and people don't know how to brew it properly. The number of folks who I have made Green tea for who loved the flavor and where surprised when I told them to use 175 degree water and not boiling and to steep it for a minute and not five is massive.
I started the day with a fruit smoothy.