Really, what’s the most ecofriendly, cost-effective, best way to make tea? I have always just used tea bags but they seem to create a lot of waste, especially the kind that come individually wrapped in plastic.
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You could buy one of those little infusers and some loose leaf tea.
Or you get one of these, which looks pretty neat.
There's this one, too. It goes inside your cup.
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We use teabags. The whole teabag, including the paper tag, goes in the compost bin. I guess we will have tiny, rusty staples in our compost soil in years to come. The cardboard box the teabags come in goes to recycling and the cellophane the box is wrapped in (unnecessarily) goes in soft plastics recycling which our local supermarkets collect.
In in a pot, with two tea cosies.
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Originally posted by Sits View PostWe use teabags. The whole teabag, including the paper tag, goes in the compost bin. I guess we will have tiny, rusty staples in our compost soil in years to come. The cardboard box the teabags come in goes to recycling and the cellophane the box is wrapped in (unnecessarily) goes in soft plastics recycling which our local supermarkets collect.
In in a pot, with two tea cosies.
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Hot Pepsi it’s an initiative the two major Aussie supermarkets launched, initially for their own plastic bags. This was only after they had been heavily criticised for continuing to give away the bags. It was subsequently expanded to allow any similar soft plastics. The next scandal was when an investigative program revealed that some truckloads of this waste were in fact going to landfill. That revealed, we have to keep faith that this is being done properly and use the big hoppers outside the shops. It’s only now we realise how much soft plastic we get through, and our “general” wheelie bin is a lot emptier these days. Australia now has a wider recycling crisis since China, Malaysia and others stopped accepting our too-dirty recycling exports. And the domestic industry is feebly insufficient.
Femme Folle yes, they should.
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I sometimes put them in the garbage disposal. Not sure that’s any better. That might just be putting microplastic in the water. Damn.
I’ll look to get into the loose leaf lifestyle.
Sits Supermarkets here collect their own plastic bags, but they might just be putting them in a landfill and I don’t think they collect little bits of plastic like wrappers.
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Originally posted by ad hoc View PostAt home my parents always just put loose tea in the pot with boiling water. We never used an infuser or even a strainer. You just needed to not drink from the last few millimetres of the cup. It was never an issue.
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Yeah, my gran would just throw the loose tea into the pot.
I use Barry's tea bags, which are just square tea bags with no string or labels. But maybe they have plastic in the bags, I don't now. They appear to be paper, but I can't be sure.
As for pouring the milk into a cup first or the brewed tea from the pot. It makes feck all difference. I suppose milk first is handy because it doesn't require stirring.Last edited by anton pulisov; 07-09-2019, 11:18.
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And yet nobody posts the classic Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall method?
" Now, to make my tea, I need two good-sized mugs. I boil the kettle. The hot water goes into one mug first, stays for a few seconds so the mug is heated, then goes into the second mug. The tea bag goes into the first, hot, mug, boiling water is poured in, to within a couple of millimetres of the top, and the two mugs, one containing brewing tea, and the other containing hot water, are left to stand. After about five minutes, the mug of brewed tea is placed in the sink, where some new hot water (freshly re-boiled) from the kettle, is sloshed into it, so it overflows by about half a mug. This is to stop the well-brewed tea being too strong. The full-to-overflowing mug is now tilted a little bit, so it spills out enough tea to allow room for some milk.
Remember the second mug, full of the hot (now not so hot, but still quite hot) water that was used to warm the first mug? That is now emptied. The tea bag is fished out from the first ‘brewing’ mug, and placed in the bottom of the empty ‘warm’ mug, where a small splash of milk is poured over it. The effect of the hot tea bag, and still-warm mug, is to take the chill off the milk – and impregnate it with a mild tea flavour. To encourage both these objectives, the mug is picked up and swirled, put down for a few seconds, picked up and swirled again, and left to stand for a short while longer. The tea-coloured, warm milk is now poured from tea-bag mug to brew mug, which is given a stir.
The resulting colour is observed. A little more milk may be necessary, in which case it will go via the still-warm tea bag mug, into the brew mug. When the colour is exactly right, I will stir in exactly one rounded teaspoonful of golden caster sugar. The tea, which at this point is still far too hot to drink, will now be left to stand for at least five minutes, before a sip is attempted.
And when you come into the living room with tea for your guests, it turns out they all died several years previously."
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Originally posted by Sits View PostWe use teabags. The whole teabag, including the paper tag, goes in the compost bin. I guess we will have tiny, rusty staples in our compost soil in years to come. The cardboard box the teabags come in goes to recycling and the cellophane the box is wrapped in (unnecessarily) goes in soft plastics recycling which our local supermarkets collect.
In in a pot, with two tea cosies.
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