Time passes really fast. Can you believe that this month the teabag turns 100 years old. What would we have done without this little bag filled with tea to give us a quick easy cuppa with lots of speed and convenience? I don’t know, but I can personally say that I do not and will never use the teabag. This is because traditional teabags purchased in the grocery store and at many specialty tea shops contain small particles known as dust. This is the leavings from processing the full leaves. The teabags must have tiny particles because real tea leaves expand 3-4 times their dried size and would break the bag. Another problem with the teabag is that it does not allow for the leaves to expand and move around. This is very important when brewing a good cup of tea. For this reason, I also do not use those tiny tea balls or other brewing gadgets that will not let the tea absorb enough water and move around.
Making a cup of tea with loose tea is not complicated or time consuming. I simply place a teaspoon or two in a T-Sac and dunk that in my cup of hot water. This allows me to have the convenience of teabag with high quality loose tea. These bags come in many different sizes so I can make a cup or a pot of tea. I do not want to put any of my favorite teas into a gadget that will not allow them to brew properly. I read somewhere that
life is too short to drink bad wine, well the same is true for a bad cup of tea.
