Use loose leaf tea!
What the fuck? I thought the bags were made of paper or cloth??
Some are but there are nylon teabags and pyramid teabags made with plastic, and apparently even paper teabags often use glues made of plastic. These days you have to specifically seek out a brand that explicitly says they have no plastic in their bags or just buy loose leaf.
Using loose leaves is so easy and tea shops have so many great fruit combinations with their teas I don’t understand why so many people still use the bland tea bags
How do I use loose leaf? also, where do I get loose leaf?
I have gotten some nice blends from Adagio
You can buy a tea sieve, a little metal thingy where you put the tea leaves in. You can also just dump the leaves in a pot make tea and filter them out with a fine metal sieve. Most often where you get the loose leaves thou also get the tools. Look for tea shops. Or check online on tea specialised pages of your country.
thank you, I’ll see if I can find it in my city!
You might run into a lot of Boba shops in your quest for local loose leaf, assuming you’re in the US.
I’d recommend checking shopping malls in your area first, I’ve had the best luck with that. There’s one in our area that will even let you make your own blend by request! They keep big bins in the back.
Other places to check might include:
- Local specialty coffee shops, funnily enough
- Flower shops! I’ve found surprisingly quality teas that went over really well when bundled in a gift basket for galentine’s day :)
e: Also, anime conventions and/or comic-cons! We went to one on a whim and found some of the most fun and flavorful DND-themed blends at a stand from Dryad Teas in the merch area. A most pleasant surprise to be sure!
There are cups that come with their own ceramic sieve, but you can also use the chinese method of using a small dish to decant the tea…or use the grampa method if you can stand hot tea and can drink it before it oversteeps :D
Tea shops? We don’t have those here.
There isn’t a tea shop within >100 miles (160km) of me, so there is that. There is a café where you can buy tea at the gift shop.
I don’t know where you are but if you have access to an “in-bulk” store (Bulk Barn here in Canada) they can have a limited selection of loose leaf tea - but at a huge discount over tea shops.
I use it for bulk hibiscus tea (tea in the cold months - Jamaica in the hot ones).
I get that plastics are amazing stuff and all, but maaaaybe tea bags don’t need to be plastic.
