Or, buy loose leaf and use a strainer - steel if you think you can’t tell the difference (like me), or ceramic if you think you can. It’s more economical, too.
I don’t have easy access to loose-leaf tea, unfortunately.
Also, this is not specifically directed at you but it’s on my mind lately: loose-leaf tea is more effort than tea bags. This is not a big deal for healthy people but please don’t shame chronically ill people for using tea bags.
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I don’t have easy access to loose-leaf tea, unfortunately.
As in, you can’t easily buy it, or that it’s literally hard for you to access?
My wife likes Earl Gray, but it’s caffeine sensitive, and she’s very picky about taste. So she gets hers via mail order; if the issue is sourcing, then the web is your friend.
Also, this is not specifically directed at you but it’s on my mind lately: loose-leaf tea is more effort than tea bags.
This is interesting. Sincerely: how? I’m walking through the process in my head, and it seems to me it’d be harder getting the little bags out of their packaging and manipulating them.
Our process is:
Pop the lid on the tea container (must be similar in difficulty to getting into a box of canister of bags, right?)
Scoop a scoop with a spoon into e.g. a Teavana tea maker (or the million similar products). I can see how manipulating a spoon can be a challenge itself, but is it harder than digging around in a container for a tea bag?
Pouring water’s the same process, either way
When it’s steeped, put it on the cup and it dispenses itself. Again, fussing around with a tea bag to pull it out of a cup seems like it’d require more fine motor control and be more challenging
I’m sincerely curious since I’m ignorant about the details of how tea bags would be easier, and I’d like to learn. Every person has different obstacles, and I know you don’t speak for everyone; also, this is just curiosity on my part, so if you’re not interested in explaining, no problem.
For chronically ill tea lovers (myself included), there are also a variety of options! Cut open the tea bag and pour into a strainer, buy a teapot with integrated strainer (they’re all over thrift stores if money is an issue), buy reusable tea bags and fill them on a free day, buy tea brands that use safe tea bags, or skip the strainer and enjoy your tea with the dregs in. I also have a twist open tea strainer which is easier on my hands than the ones with a spring in them. But if all else fails, continue to drink and enjoy whatever tea works for you!
The integrated tea cups are some of my favorites. I have a beautiful one where you dump in the tea and just lift the integrated strainer out when it’s done.
This is important. Tea bags can be made from a variety of materials, in Europe that’s usually plant matter. So literally keep calm and drink tea.
I’ve never even seen polymer based tea bags.
Where would they sell that crap? Lemme guess?
Or, buy loose leaf and use a strainer - steel if you think you can’t tell the difference (like me), or ceramic if you think you can. It’s more economical, too.
I don’t have easy access to loose-leaf tea, unfortunately.
Also, this is not specifically directed at you but it’s on my mind lately: loose-leaf tea is more effort than tea bags. This is not a big deal for healthy people but please don’t shame chronically ill people for using tea bags.
(This comment was eaten on my first attempt, sorry if it shows up twice)
As in, you can’t easily buy it, or that it’s literally hard for you to access?
My wife likes Earl Gray, but it’s caffeine sensitive, and she’s very picky about taste. So she gets hers via mail order; if the issue is sourcing, then the web is your friend.
This is interesting. Sincerely: how? I’m walking through the process in my head, and it seems to me it’d be harder getting the little bags out of their packaging and manipulating them.
Our process is:
I’m sincerely curious since I’m ignorant about the details of how tea bags would be easier, and I’d like to learn. Every person has different obstacles, and I know you don’t speak for everyone; also, this is just curiosity on my part, so if you’re not interested in explaining, no problem.
For chronically ill tea lovers (myself included), there are also a variety of options! Cut open the tea bag and pour into a strainer, buy a teapot with integrated strainer (they’re all over thrift stores if money is an issue), buy reusable tea bags and fill them on a free day, buy tea brands that use safe tea bags, or skip the strainer and enjoy your tea with the dregs in. I also have a twist open tea strainer which is easier on my hands than the ones with a spring in them. But if all else fails, continue to drink and enjoy whatever tea works for you!
The integrated tea cups are some of my favorites. I have a beautiful one where you dump in the tea and just lift the integrated strainer out when it’s done.