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Hey, it's always National Tea Month is my house.
This is a good opportunity to update everyone on my tea infuser search. I've switched from store bought tea bags to loose tea, and my first purchase was this Tovolo tea infuser. It works great (and looks funky, a nice bonus). I also bought the Melitta tea filters, which are something I didn't even know existed until recently. My local supermarkets didn't have them, but I found them at Borders. They're like big tea bags, but you can put as much loose tea in as you want, and they make a fine cup of tea (I wanted to say "fine cup of Joe" there, but that's coffee - does tea have a slang term that's a name too?).
Tell me in the comments how you make your tea (tea bag, infuser, etc) and what brands of tea you always come back to. For me, it's been Twinings.
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1-23-2008 @10:34AM Littlevegan said... When I was home for Christmas I found a great portable tea infuser at Whole Foods. It is fantastic! I can drink my loose tea at work! Excellent purchase, well worth the 10 dollars.
Happy Drinking
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1-18-2008 @2:02PM steve said... I use similar bags to the Melitta ones, but I can't seem to recall the name. I like them better than infusers because they keep the little bits of tea out much better.
For tea...my favorite bagged tea is Yogi Tea (http://www.yogitea.com), with Green Tea Kombucha Decaf being my favorite flavor. My favorite loose leaf tea is Tay Tea (http://www.taytea.com), especially Duchess' First Love, which has bits of caramel in it.
I like Twinnings too, mostly the Darjeeling.
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1-18-2008 @2:40PM Sophie said... Twinings for me too - I like tea made with two thirds Darjeeling, one third Earl Grey.
Where I am (England) the slang term for a cup of tea is just 'a cuppa'.
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1-18-2008 @2:44PM David said... I like the Bee House line of pots, because they pour without dribbling. The steeping baskets are on the small side, unfortunately. For a large steeping basket, I really like the Finum Tea Control basket, though I'd had mixed results with stopping the steeping using the sweep. However, the sweep makes it very easy to circulate the water gently during steeping.
I guess I've moved on to category II tea snobbery; not only do I not like tea bags, I don't like commercial brands of loose leaf anymore. I suggest finding a local tea shop that carries a good selection, and getting to know the owner--they can make great recommendations. One of my favorite online resources is TheTeaTable.com.
I'll buy Twining's Darjeeling or Ceylon in a pinch, but they don't compare to what you can get at a good local shop.
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1-18-2008 @2:48PM LordJezo said... http://www.uptontea.com
Upton Tea Imports.
The only tea site you will ever need. I subscribe to their quarterly catalog and order from them constantly. They offer a bigger selection than anyone could ever go through in a lifetime.
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1-18-2008 @3:35PM Red Icculus said... I am not much of a tea drinker, but when it is cold out, I love Yogi Egyptian Licorice tea. It tastes like hot water and a few seconds later you get a brown sugar taste all the way down your throat. It is affectionately known as "Magic Tea" at my house.
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1-18-2008 @3:21PM steve said... Also, if you subscribe to Republic of Tea's catalogs, they send you a free sample bag with every month's catalog. (http://www.republicoftea.com).
Also @ David:
Tay Tea, which I mentioned above is a local tea place is upstate NY. The very nice woman there hand blends all the teas with local organic ingredients.
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1-18-2008 @3:29PM anonymoose said... I love the stuff from this place called T, especially their Mad Hatter's Teaparty and Eros black tea blends. http://www.tealeaves.com
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1-18-2008 @8:04PM RobynT said... I drink cheap tea: Celestial Seasonings, Bigelow, and I just got some Stash... also this genmaicha from Costco... not sure what the brand is. I also like Harney and Sons but don't buy it much.
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1-21-2008 @10:43AM erika-nicole said... i love green tea any brand without honey or sugar especially when it's good.
1-18-2008 @10:59PM David said... I just this week ran out of bags at my office and decided to switch to loose tea rather than only drink it at home on the weekends.
I picked up an IngenuiTea pot and I really like it - the tea floats freely in the water and there's no chance for dripping really. It will be great when I take in some multi-steep tea.
As for the tea, I have four tea shops I frequent and have more options than I can possibly drink. I expect some of them are branded, but as they get scooped out of large cans I haven't bothered to find out. Some of them are blended at the shops and some are purchased directly from farmers in china.
Sites of some of the stores:
http://www.perennialtearoom.com/
http://seattleteacup.com/
http://worldspice.com/
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1-19-2008 @4:30PM JennT said... Rishi (rishi-tea.com) makes my favorite teas. Their blends are great, but their pure organic and free trade loose teas are exquisite.
I brew my tea in Adagio's IngenuiTea. The tea leaves float freely and are filtered through the bottom when the tea is finished.
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1-18-2008 @11:15PM Tama said... I have a set of hand painted tea infuser mugs and usually buy my loose leaf tea from the asian supermarket or from the health food store. I love these mugs because they're perfect for single servings. My current favorite loose leafs include darjeeling and rooibos.
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1-19-2008 @12:28PM Christie said... When I can easily get my hands on it, I adore Harrod's of London Tea. But my everyday stuff comes from http://www.adagio.com and http://dragonwater.com
And while I used to use various infusers - I am a total convert to the paper tea filters like the ones you've mentioned above. I just ran out of my first pack of 100 and have decided there is no way I'm going back to infusers.
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