What makes someone want to brew loose leaf tea as opposed to brewing a tea bag?

Tea bags are convenient. There is no pot, no purong, no straining, you just pop the bag into a cup of hot water and wait a couple of minutes.

Convenient is about it for tea bags. All the other advantages belong to loose tea, including cost. Plus, you can get large stainless steel strainers to put a lot of loose tea in, and get most of the advantages of both.


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Loose tea tends to be of a higher quality (also pricier to boot) than bagged tea. The loose tea also tends to be fresher (but not last as long) as well.


Probably not the case. It's more the cut of the leaves of tea are different in bag form than in loose.

Loose Tea, Tea Bags, Sachets, Etc.
Good basic article explaining the difference between loose tea, tea bags, and sachets.

Those metal things get stuck in a kitchen drawer of other metal things. They are a pain to fish out, they need to be filled and they need to be washed aftwards.

The humble tea bag, on the other hand, sits patiently in a neat box on a pantry shelf with its brothers waiting for me to put it into a cup of hot water. It is quick, easy, clean and it gives me a cup of tea that makes me happy.



(BTW, googling for an image of "teabag" leads to some interesting results)

thanks for your time!

Basically , the stainless steel strainer is very similar to tea bag?

Many thanks, I try to learn more about this

Interesting description ， I learned it partly，hah.

The quality of loose leaf tea is much, much better.

And the left overs goes into tea bags？

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Yes, but much much larger. This allows the water much more room to swirl around the tea leaves and so get more benefit out of the tea. Plus, once the tea is steeped, the strainer is removed from the cup, the old tea is shaken out of the strainer easily and with a real quick rinse under the faucet, the strainer is clean and ready to use again. Takes seconds.

thanks for your time!