To squeeze or not to squeeze, that is the question.
Speaking of squeezing or not, do teabags measure up to the loose leaf taste-wise? I’m curious cuz I dont drink the bags but sometimes there’s some good lookin ones I want to try..I just ass-umed that they were weaker/ less tasty?
Sometimes weaker, but flatter would be a better word to describe it. The only time I drink prebagged tea is if that’s all they serve when I go out to eat our I see a unique flavor that I just can’t find in loose leaf. If I the portability/ease of a tea bag I use empty ones and fill them w/ my favorite loose leaf teas. I love bringing a bag of chocolate chai or maple sugar to steep in my coffee during Bible study on Sunday mornings before church.
I’ve been pretty pleased with the premium pyramid bags (or sachets) from retailers like Lupicia and Harney & Sons. It’s a good combination of portability and flavor.
Yes I squeeze my teabags, mostly so they’re not a sloppy, wet mess when I take them out.
I also dunk my teabags/tea balls/tea strainer so that I can get as much water flowing through the leaves as I can to maximize the flavour.
Something I just thought of (drinking a bagged tea from you actually, rabbysmom), does the water trapped in an unsqueezed bag make additional infusions bitter? Or weaker because the liquid inside it continues to steep, sucking the flavor out? Just a thought.
One time I tried to squeeze my tea bag by pushing it against the side of the cup, I knocked the entire thing over……..hot tea everywhere……..madness!
I’ve squeezed so hard once that I ripped my tea bag…tea leaves in my tea. No Bueno
I don’t dunk, but I squeeze— I am constantly studying or doing homework and want to minimize the possibility of drippage. When using a metal tea strainer, though, I wiggle it gently over the cup to get out any excess water.
I never squeeze the bag, just because I don’t want to get my hands wet. But I do kind of smack the bag against the side of the cup to reduce dripping on the way to the compost bin.
I don’t squeeze. I don’t really dunk either. I do sort of swirl the bag around without lifting it out of the cup sometimes. It makes a pretty trail of darker water that can be interesting to watch through a glass cup.
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