What is the better way to drink tea? A subject as aged as the industry. There are as many different answers as there are tea drinkers. All the same I plan on adding one more with this article, I aim to add a unique way that I trust you will find to be useful.
When drinking tea, I find that it makes life a lot easier to use a tea bag. Its effortless to clean, they are pre-measured, there is no need for a tea strainer or other piece of equipment, they are inexpensive, and a variety of other reasons. At the same time, there are some key disadvantages; low quality tea is found within, giving the tea a sharply bitter taste, and health benefits linked with tea are greatly reduced. This is one reason for why the tea bags are so inexpensive; second-rate tea is included.
At this point you most likely think I am writing an article to put forward drinking Loose Tea. Well, that is not completely true. Tea bags still continue to be my preferred method of preparing and drinking tea whether I am making a pot or cup. I have found, that as with most things, the solution lies somewhere in the gray. If we take the two extremes, high quality Loose Tea with no tea bag and Tea bags with low quality tea, and have them meet in the middle, we find the answer; gourmet tea bags with loose tea inside. A somewhat higher price for a significantly higher tea.
With my weapon of choice exposed, I will now disclose my plan of attack. For a cup of tea, I will first take out a Double Chamber Gourmet Tea bag and put it in an empty mug. I will then pour hot water over the tea bag. This will completely saturate the tea bag while running water through the two chambers of loose tea. After the initial pouring, I will dip the tea bag in and out of the water for a minute to continue with the movement of the water through the tea leaves or herbs (in the case of an herbal blend). When this is finished, I allow the tea bag to soak in the water for approximately another minute. During this soaking period, I wrap the string around the handle of my mug; anchored by the bead at the end of the string. This helps to prevent the string from falling into the mug, and any dripping that may occur as the water seeps up the string.
Up until now, this exercise of tea drinking is no different then any other (with the exception of the gourmet tea bag perhaps). But here is where things begin to change. After the tea bag is finished soaking for another minute or so, or whenever I feel the tea tastes how I want it to, I take the tea bag out, hold it above the cup and let excess water from the tea bag drip into the cup of tea. Then hang the tea bag on my Tea Stand (or you can put the tea bag on a plate or somewhere else) and keep it for a second, third, fourth, and even a fifth cup with the same gourmet tea bag.
The benefits behind this system of reusing the tea bags are various. First, by using a gourmet tea bag with loose tea, you will have the same ease as using a standard tea bag while drinking tea that provides higher health benefits and a smooth taste. Second, by reusing these bags, you will enter into a routine of drinking several cups of tea a day. This not only allows you to fully maximize the health benefits you will get from each bag of tea, but you will also completely hydrate your body which will greatly aide in the cleansing of toxins. Third, by taking out the tea bag, you steep the tea for less time, freeing your cup from an overly bitter taste that is often associated with green teas. Last, but certainly not least, you allow the slightly higher price of a cup of tea using a gourmet tea bag to become less as you are making up to four cups with one bag.
Over lots of years of drinking tea, with even more techniques, I have found that this is the most excellent way for me. It is not conventional, it may not be the best for you, but with my way of life that takes me around the polluted city, while trying to work, maintain a family, and a social life, any way that I can make my life simpler is a plus. And if I can make it better at the same time, then to me, it is an obvious choice.
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