Thread: What is in your cup?
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Old 02-13-2011, 10:25 AM   #7994
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Originally Posted by maianhvk View Post
I'm a tea bag person, too. it's convenient for me. too bad you claimed that English breakfast tea from Ahmad is poor, astra, I have one box in the drawer and I want to try it tomorrow and now you made me not wanna try it anymore.
Sorry about it
We are all different, some people buy an enjoy it, so you might like Ahmad's English Breakfast. Who knows?
When you try it, please let us know what you think.

I was tea bag person 95% up till October 2010. So, I am relatively a newbie in a loose tea drinking Moreover, I understand the convenience of tea bags. Astra hides behind a pack of I still drink it on weekdays with breakfast and lunch. It is not only convenient to buy it once, save lunch time for reading, drink and forget, it also would be a waste of good tea on my part if I were to drink it with a toast in the morning or a lunch (whatever I have). I don't taste the flavour. The food smothers it anyway. Only if the tea is too bad, then I feel it.
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Originally Posted by wannabee View Post

Works for me.
Ah, you see, you have overcome the most difficult hurdle. You use something to brew your tea and you don't feel like it is a huge inconvenience. You have crossed the line. There is no way back. Which path you choose to follow after that is less important. You know the difference by now.
Look at beppe. All the tea pots, strainers, different tea types, visits and chats with the local tea pusher
I have chosen another path (an easier one, a path of least resistance). No tea pots for me. No truly traditional tea drinking. Convenience and enjoyment are the foremost things for me. As long as my new hobby doesn't alter my usual routine. So, I will never be a true Master Teaist, I will stay an apprentice Teaist forever and be happy with that
My parents would never be bothered with it.
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Back in xUSSR, we used to put a few tea spoons of Georgian black tea into a small tea pot, fill it with boiling water, then pour a little bit of the content into a cup, like 1/8 - 1/6 of the cup, fill the rest with hot water and add sugar. It sounds not too bad? Ah, but then the same small tea pot with the same tea leaves would be refilled 3-4 more times over a week? Later, when I lived on my own as a student, sometimes my tea would acquire a new flavour if I let the tea pot to stay a bit too long. If you were to open its lead, you would notice that the nature is an artist who likes green and white colours on a black background.
I am surprised I managed to do it. I tried quite a few times over the last 15 years. Never succeeded. I guess my late health issues have changed me a bit. If I don't do it now, I might never have another chance.
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Originally Posted by kindlekitten View Post
I find those too constricting

Too labour intensive to empty it and clean properly.
Tea cup/pot strainers are my line.
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Originally Posted by Poppaea View Post
Some of the tins in your photos are moneysaving boxes. Which they are anyway given the price of a good tea
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