Anyone use loose tea?

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Last weekend it was like a reality nightmare - I'd run out of teabags!!! This week there was no chance of that happening, I got swmbo to buy some teabags and milk.

Crawled out of my pit this morning, eyes half shut, mouth dry, head all fuzzy and made for the kettle. Filled the kettle, got it boiling, opened the new box of teabags only to find LOOSE TEA!!! NOOOOOOOOO!!!!1

All is not lost. I live is a fully furnished flat, fully furnished by a little old lady so apart from all the doilies and flowery crockery that we keep stashed out of view in the mysterious cupboard of ming we actually have a tea strainer. I was saved. And actually it's not a bad cuppa, apart form the extra tea scum floating on the top that teabags must filter out.

So does anyone else use loose leaf tea and why? I would say a teabag makes a slightly superior more convenient cup of tea, but I will see this bogof (typical isn't it :D ) box of loose tea through.
 
My Nan does, or did the last time I was at her house which was a few years back. It makes a lovely cup of tea! Although your strainer must be a bit dodgy/crap if you had bits of tea leaf floating in your cup.
 
Jonny69 said:
I would say a teabag makes a slightly superior more convenient cup of tea, but I will see this bogof (typical isn't it :D ) box of loose tea through.
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Not a tea drinker myself but the rest of the family are. Also been to enough tea shops in India to understand a little bit about quality and basically the stuff used in tea bags is the crap left over. If you go into a Indian tea shop even the poorest street woman will not buy tea bags and instead buy the leaf tea. The reason you think a tea bag is more convenient is because you need to allow tea leafs to mash and bigger the leaf = better the quality = long it requires in the pot.
 
Loose tea is the only tea worth drinking... not that dust and grit that they put in "tea bags" :p The same goes for coffee really.

Get yourself a good tea pot with a central strainer and it's not a hassle to do at all :)
 
wyrdo said:
My Nan does, or did the last time I was at her house which was a few years back. It makes a lovely cup of tea! Although your strainer must be a bit dodgy/crap if you had bits of tea leaf floating in your cup.
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It's pretty manky :D

Not so much bits of tea, just scum on the top that's usually from all the tea dust in teabags. Interesting what's been said about the size of the bits of tea. Sainsburys red label (don't forget I thought they were teabags) in loose tea is the same cut as what's in the bags, all chopped up. What a bunch of clowns.
 
I've always used loose tea. Why? Because my mum used to when i lived at home. I cant drink a brew using teabags, the flavor just isn't the same for me. I don't find it a hassle either. Teaspoon of tea leafs, hot water and a bit of milk, job done. Just don't forget to leave a bit in the bottom of the cup.
 
Yeah not big on tea myself but got a friend whose dad owns a tea plantation in Darjeeling and he basically says the same: the stuff they put in bags is the crap that people who drink loose tea won't drink.

Same with coffee: most instants are actually made either from husks rather than from the actual beans themselves, or, if you're really unlucky, from beans that got over/under-roasted, or have gone off during transport.

AthlonTom said:
If Jack Bauer drank tea - it'd be loose tea.

But he doesn't drink.
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Tea is for weak people: Jack Bauer squezes the juice out of a panther's adrenaline gland and sucks the taurine out of a bull's testicles (wrestling down the bull and panther to do so, obviously), and mixes them up in a nice little thermos every morning before he goes to work. How else does he manage to pull off all those 24-hr shifts?
 
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