What the fuck? I thought the bags were made of paper or cloth??
this post was submitted on 10 Jan 2025
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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?
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!
I have a tea strainer thing like this(this particular image is a Walmart one apparently). I also have one of the sturdy, in cup ones, which I like for tea where it doesn't get bitter from oversteeping (such as Redbush)
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
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).
Tea shops? We don't have those here.
Time to open a tea shop
Sounds awesome where do I start?
You and some friends could start a tea shop worker owned cooperative in your area. How far you want to take that (turn your back yard into a shop if you live in a suburb, or rent a space in downtown) is up to you, but if you think your area has demand for a tea shop, there are some great guides on how to start a worker owned coop! :D
Thanks, don't really have friends around here, but I will still look into this.
Time to get friends by selling tea!
I get that plastics are amazing stuff and all, but maaaaybe tea bags don't need to be plastic.
Use loose leaf tea!