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I wish they had reported the brands :/
This. How does one tell whether this affects a particular brand or not?
I buy tea loose-leaf at the asian grocery store and steep it in a glass coffee press to filter out the leaves. Yay super cheap and no microplastics!
Plastic tea bags aside, I was shocked to learn that many paper tea bags still use plastic glue [1], which can contaminate compost. [1] https://www.countryliving.com/uk/create/food-and-drink/news/...
Modern tea paraphernalia is stupid. Like those fancy woven strings that act like wicks and dribble tea down the side. It's hard to even find normal tea anymore. I ask for tea and people ask "what flavor." And I'm like "tea flavor." My Bangladeshi mom uses Lipton tea bags and a bit of milk. Should be good enough for everybody.
Plastic tea bags aside, I was shocked to learn that many paper tea bags still use plastic glue [1], which can contaminate compost. [1] https://www.countryliving.com/uk/create/food-and-drink/news/...
I guess diffusers/loose tea it is. I just hate how annoying they are to clean with some of the finer black teas.
I wish they had reported the brands :/
Those fancy bags are called "sachets" in the tea world
Modern tea paraphernalia is stupid. Like those fancy woven strings that act like wicks and dribble tea down the side. It's hard to even find normal tea anymore. I ask for tea and people ask "what flavor." And I'm like "tea flavor." My Bangladeshi mom uses Lipton tea bags and a bit of milk. Should be good enough for everybody.
Plastic tea bags aside, I was shocked to learn that many paper tea bags still use plastic glue [1], which can contaminate compost. [1] https://www.countryliving.com/uk/create/food-and-drink/news/...
I guess diffusers/loose tea it is. I just hate how annoying they are to clean with some of the finer black teas.
Modern tea paraphernalia is stupid. Like those fancy woven strings that act like wicks and dribble tea down the side. It's hard to even find normal tea anymore. I ask for tea and people ask "what flavor." And I'm like "tea flavor." My Bangladeshi mom uses Lipton tea bags and a bit of milk. Should be good enough for everybody.
In case you're not, that's a frankly silly take. The sachets TFA talks about are not generally used for fancy "hipster" tea but rather the super mainstream commercial "tea-flavoured tea" and industrial herbal teas you like so much. Unless you consider Lipton to be fancy niche tea artisans: http://img.webme.com/pic/m/megisti/ethel-lipton-all.jpg
Beyond that the "standard" tea you seem to enjoy is probably "English breakfast tea" and you can probably still find it extremely easily in any tea shop in the world, alongside Earl Grey and a few other classics.
Loose tea is often cheaper and of better quality in my experience. If you brew tea a lot using a reusable strainer seems like a much better choice. I'm also entirely convinced that these plastic pyramid-shaped bags are pure marketing. Then again, I find Lipton tea absolutely terrible regardless of the shape of the bag.
