Are you a stirrer or a stewer?

[platinumsage]

This is one of those things people insist is true and very noticeable. Then I totally ignore them, pour boiling water on a tea bag, give it a good squishing with a spoon, pull the teabag out and add milk, telling them 'yeah, yeah, I did it exactly how you told me'. They always say 'mmm, lovely cup of tea' without ever realising it doesn't matter at all how you make a cup of tea as long as the strength-milk balance is right.

I tell my mum she makes lovely cups of tea but they’re always vile. She puts soya milk in, then teabag, then hot water.

 

[Guineveretoo]

Only heathens drink tea!

Coffee, black without sugar.

I don't know how long ago I wrote the post to which you are responding, but I no longer drink black tea at all, and my teapots are gathering dust in a cupboard. I now only drink fruit tea.

Not only that, but I have become a heathen, it would seem, since I always make said fruit tea in a mug! (The difference/justification is that fruit tea bags brew/stew differently, so I just leave the teabag in the mug until I have finished drinking the tea. The bit that offends with black tea drinkers using mugs is that they dig out the tea bag while there is still lots of use in it, and leave it lying around, often until it gets mouldy)

 

[Pickman's model]

tea bags release fuck loads of nanoplastics https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.9b02540 so i just use loose tea.

 

[Sasaferrato]

tea bags release fuck loads of nanoplastics https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.9b02540 so i just use loose tea.

'We show that steeping a single plastic teabag at brewing temperature (95 °C) releases approximately 11.6 billion microplastics and 3.1 billion nanoplastics into a single cup of the beverage. '

I'm not doubting their research, but those figures are astonishing.

25 Plastic Free Tea Bags In 2023 For A Greener Environment

Plastic free tea bags usually use a bioplastic that is created from maize or corn starch. Check out the list of top 22 to enjoy a perfect green cup!

www.greencompostables.com

Mrs Sas is a tea drinker, and buys what ever is on offer when she needs them. I'll give her the list. That is billions of particles of plastic a day passing through your body before becoming an environmental pollutant.

 

[Pickman's model]

'We show that steeping a single plastic teabag at brewing temperature (95 °C) releases approximately 11.6 billion microplastics and 3.1 billion nanoplastics into a single cup of the beverage. '

I'm not doubting their research, but those figures are astonishing.

25 Plastic Free Tea Bags In 2023 For A Greener Environment

Plastic free tea bags usually use a bioplastic that is created from maize or corn starch. Check out the list of top 22 to enjoy a perfect green cup!

www.greencompostables.com

Mrs Sas is a tea drinker, and buys what ever is on offer when she needs them. I'll give her the list. That is billions of particles of plastic a day passing through your body before becoming an environmental pollutant.

let's hope they're all passing out of your body rather than taking up residence.

 

[Sasaferrato]

let's hope they're all passing out of your body rather than taking up residence.

That's the thing, isn't it, you simply don't know.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Liked purely for the bit about sugar, otherwise you’re all sorts of wrong.

What don't you like. Three minutes brewing? Not getting any scum?

 

[andysays]

'We show that steeping a single plastic teabag at brewing temperature (95 °C) releases approximately 11.6 billion microplastics and 3.1 billion nanoplastics into a single cup of the beverage. '

I'm not doubting their research, but those figures are astonishing.

25 Plastic Free Tea Bags In 2023 For A Greener Environment

Plastic free tea bags usually use a bioplastic that is created from maize or corn starch. Check out the list of top 22 to enjoy a perfect green cup!

www.greencompostables.com

Mrs Sas is a tea drinker, and buys what ever is on offer when she needs them. I'll give her the list. That is billions of particles of plastic a day passing through your body before becoming an environmental pollutant.

I'm a confirmed coffee drinker but my wife drinks tea, so I will pass that list on to her.

I've definitely found that many tea bags don't seem to break down in my compost heap, but it's a bit of a pain having to tear the bag open to put the used tea leaves in the compost bin and then throw the empty bag in the rubbish.

 

[Shellee]

I like Clipper teabags, no scum that I’ve seen despite much mashing, no plastic and not bleached so you don’t taste the teabag, or maybe the sugar is covering that up?

 

[Shellee]

yuck. no sugar - it overpowers the lovely flavour of the tea.

Nah, a ‘nice cup of tea’ as made by my granny that got them through the Blitz and was a cure for everything from shock to a broken heart always has two sugars.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Tea without sugar is bogging. Since giving up sugar in drinks have had to give up tea. Don't miss it at all.

 

[Sasaferrato]

What don't you like. Three minutes brewing? Not getting any scum?

I mentioned the scum on tea to Mrs Sas, she reckons it's a hard water problem.

 

[Badgers]

Tea without sugar is bogging. Since giving up sugar in drinks have had to give up tea. Don't miss it at all.

Yup ^

I only have sweetener now but rarely drink tea at all.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

I mentioned the scum on tea to Mrs Sas, she reckons it's a hard water problem.

If you let tea stew or just leave it without drinking or touching it for too long you can get that darker brown stuff on top. Not really scum, but I don't get that either because I only leave it for 3 minutes. London has hard water right?

 

[platinumsage]

The "scum" is actually a healthful complex of polyphenols and calcium carbonate. It arises due to a combination of hard water and well-brewed tea and is nothing to be scared of.

 

[krtek a houby]

Stew and stir once just at the end before serving.

Bit like posting on urban

 

[platinumsage]

Nah, a ‘nice cup of tea’ as made by my granny that got them through the Blitz and was a cure for everything from shock to a broken heart always has two sugars.

Yes I'm sure a couple of spoonfuls of sugar were in order when everyone was calorie-deficient and spending the next few hours digging Anderson shelters or running around with stretchers.

In normal times it's just puerile. Like having Nutella on your toast.

 

[Shellee]

Yes I'm sure a couple of spoonfuls of sugar were in order when everyone was calorie-deficient and spending the next few hours digging Anderson shelters or running around with stretchers.

In normal times it's just puerile. Like having Nutella on your toast.

Aah, now about that Nutella……

 

[Sasaferrato]

If you let tea stew or just leave it without drinking or touching it for too long you can get that darker brown stuff on top. Not really scum, but I don't get that either because I only leave it for 3 minutes. London has hard water right?

I'm not sure if what comes out of London's taps could be described as water under the Sale of Goods Act. But yes, it is a hard water area.

 

[Saul Goodman]

I can't drink tea at most people's houses, because most people make it like piss water. If you insist on using tea bags, at least have the decency to mash fuck out of it so I get something that resembles tea, not anaemic piss.

 

[Spymaster]

Mrs Sas is a tea drinker, and buys what ever is on offer when she needs them. I'll give her the list. That is billions of particles of plastic a day passing through your body before becoming an environmental pollutant.

A billion bits of pretty much fuck all is still pretty much fuck all.

 

[danny la rouge]

Tea takes 4 and a half minutes to brew. Less than that and you haven't got tea, you've got hot water. Don't stir or squash, that makes it bitter. No need for milk or sugar. It's tea.

 

[Sasaferrato]

A billion bits of pretty much fuck all is still pretty much fuck all.

No one had a problem with phthalates... until they did.

Phthalates Factsheet | National Biomonitoring Program | CDC

CDC’s Division of Laboratory Sciences coordinates the National Biomonitoring Program (NBP) which offers an assessment of nutritional status and the exposure of the U.S. population to environmental chemicals and toxic substances.

www.cdc.gov

 

[danny la rouge]

No one had a problem with phthalates... until they did.

I'd have trouble saying it.

 

[Orang Utan]

A billion bits of pretty much fuck all is still pretty much fuck all.

unless they’ve built up in a turtle’s guts so much that they starve to death as they cannot eat

 

[Spymaster]

unless they’ve built up in a turtle’s guts so much that they starve to death as they cannot eat

Not the point. It's a meaningless number. "A BILLION! Wow! That's a big scary number. Teabags are the devil".

 

[Orang Utan]

was the bump of this thread prompted by this article today?

Tired of tea scum? How to banish it for ever – and make the perfect cuppa

Scientists have discovered what causes the waxy residue on the surface of your tea, with possible solutions ranging from a drop of lemon juice to moving house

www.theguardian.com

Haven't bothered reading it as that feature is perhaps the smuggest of them all in a newspaper famed for its smuggery

 

[Saul Goodman]

unless they’ve built up in a turtle’s guts so much that they starve to death as they cannot eat

Maybe it'll teach 'em to stop eating plastic.

 

[krtek a houby]

Maybe it'll teach 'em to stop eating plastic.

Putting you down as a "stirrer" then

 

[Aladdin]

Brew
Leaves
In a pot.