Make Your Own Tea Bags

The tea bags are essentially an invention of the 20th century, although they have not taken off significantly up Tetley tea company in the United Kingdom, has popularized the paper bag in the 1950s. The teabag gradually changed the way the tea was drunk in the United Kingdom, tea drinking became an instant - to put the bag in the cup, add boiling water, a couple of moves, with the bag, add milk and thirty seconds after the kettle boils - one cup of Nice.

Or is it? It is refreshing, but rather is about all he is is simply a drink. Millions of people are unaware of the true potential of tea, a potential that is lost when you use a tea bag business. For starters, the taste, then there is the smell. Even green tea from tea bags have a neutral trade, bland, even the taste and aroma. It is even suggested that the contents of the bags are commercial Fannings' or waste processing tea leaves of high quality. Compare the taste and smell of green tea using loose leaves and a tea bag - poles apart. The truth is that tea from tea bags commercial tastes almost the same, whatever it is, black, white, green ...

The problem is that the tea in bags is powdered, or otherwise, it is constant up into very small pieces. It should be. The teabag is a small space so that water can not circulate in particular, so that the flavors and aromas are extracted effectively. Whenever something is very finely ground, it presents a large surface to air and it oxidizes quickly. Even oxidize antioxidants! In other words, it is outdated by the time you taste it! So you are a loser - the taste is bad and all the goodness that tea contains will be greatly reduced too. With loose leaf teas, the leaves are left whole, so that the oxidation process is much slower than the air does not reach the center of the sheet. Thus, loose leaf teas are fresh, preserving their flavor and aroma longer and also keep their chemicals beneficial for longer.

So why most people drink the tea of inferior quality? Habit? Convenience? Price? Can not be bothered by the "FAFF" to the tea leaves? The answer is probably yes to all these. It could be that it fits with the hectic pace of modern life. We want things fast. In the east, the tea ceremony takes time to the extreme, but at least they recognize that drinking tea involves all the senses. Watching the leaves unfold in the bottom of the cup, feeling the smell, then the stronger and more distinctive flavors, including issues of health are well documented.

If you do not try to loose tea, you certainly will not miss it, the question is, can you open your mind (and taste buds and nose) to experience the world of real tea?