Kitchen Garden Forum

There is a article in todays Daily Mail. Asda are to start selling tea bags made of nylon.
After saying how much better they will be for flavour etc. there is no mention that they will be compostable.

Does that mean another item to be added to the landfill sites that takes years to rot down?

I for one will go back to leaf tea if it does.

Beryl.

Your right Beryl, can't see how nylon which is essentially a plastic will rot down, now how about a reloadable tea bag that you could put in the dishwasher? A bit fiddly I guess?

Compo ( I eat teabags!!!)[/b]

Compo wrote:Your right Beryl, can't see how nylon which is essentially a plastic will rot down, now how about a reloadable tea bag that you could put in the dishwasher? A bit fiddly I guess?

Compo ( I eat teabags!!!)[/b]

There is such a thing!

Imagine two little sieves, crossed with a pair of scissors. Open scissors handles, put your loose tea in lower sieve, close scissor handle, insert into boiling water filled receptacle.

A good old fashioned tea strainer I think Compo.
I draw the line at 'washing' tea bags.

Beryl.

Now I do seem to remember something on the market once. A ball with holes in on a chain to dunk in mug/cup hot water.

Beryl.

Ive just taken delivery of another polytunnel from first tunnels and along with the destructions & free book on polytunnel growing came Novembers copy of K.G. More bizarre was one P.G. tips tea bag.."Black Tea/Te'Negro" I assumme its tea to drink without milk? anyone know for sure?...S.T.

peter, the two little seives thingy was/is commonly used to make herbal teas from dried herbs.

Re the double spoon for tea making, how about this one


http://www.cookscorner.net/Tea/TeaAccessories2.html

There is lots more if you look around the web, such as this piece of a conversation.


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Because my desk is often cluttered, and time is usually short, I rely on good tea bags, and the hot water from the coffee machine in the break room, and lots of fresh ice (I'm one of those iced tea people). But when I have a little more luxury of time, I use loose tea and one of those spring-loaded spoons made of fine mesh screen. I tried the tea stick, but I find that it seems to clog easily and the brew is weak. Probably just my technique. I also have something that's a clear plastic travel cup with a stainless mesh insert that holds enough tea for a cup, but it's not big enough for most of my morning or afternoon tea breaks.
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Allan

Hi Richard,
About 50 years ago I bought this gadget with two sieve spoons with a scissor action and a clamp to keep the two spoons together and it went by the fantastic name of 'Assam Tea Diffuser' but I bet it was exactly the same as your 'Herbal.' I expect that if I searched a bit I would find this item as I am not given to throwing things away!
JB.

I usually drink loose tea and have several diffusers and a tea stick but I find teabags much easier on the allotment. One thing is for sure, if they use nylon tea bags I will NEVER buy another one and will encourage everyone I know to boycott them too.

The double spoon for making tea is also really useful for shaking icing sugar over cakes or mince pies as you don't get it all over as you would with a big sieve.

You can get the metal mesh devices from places like Whittards. I've got both the one that looks like a pair of scissors and ones that are like two halves of a ball, held together by clips.

Both work well,


Colin

I buy most of my tea from Whittards

http://www.whittard.co.uk/ProductList.a ... uage=en-GB

We've got one of these little tea balls and usually only use it when making Chinese tea. However, if the manufacturers start forcing nylon teabags onto us I can see it coming into full time use because I won't use a teabag which won't bio-degrade.

We're so old-fashioned - a teapot, a teaspoon and a tea strainer. What more gadgets do we need. Makes much better tea as well.

Alan