Use loose leaf tea!
What the fuck? I thought the bags were made of paper or cloth??
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
Tea shops? We don’t have those here.
How do I use loose leaf? also, where do I get loose leaf?
I have gotten some nice blends from Adagio
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).
I get that plastics are amazing stuff and all, but maaaaybe tea bags don’t need to be plastic.
