I’m on a weekend vacation and forgot to bring my tea and the international grocery didn’t have it, so I settled for Darjeeling. I can barely notice the difference. It’s so subtle that it might as well just be a different tea brand.

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    3 days ago

    Loose is usually higher in quality (depending on brand). The tea bags are usually just dust and basically production trash.
    Good quality tea can also be brewed multiple times. And there you can make the price good again.
    Say 12g cost 20€. Brewing 4g one time equals 5€ per cup.
    If you brew the same 4g 5 times it reduces to 1€ per cup.
    Some teas can be brewed up to 6 or 7 times but I had only luck with <5 times.

    I am not saying tea bags are shit but they arent good either. A local testing company in Germany also tested a high amount of heavy metals in tea like lead.
    Loose tea isnt immune to that but may be less suscepticle to it due to less machine handling.