Our recent survey on hot drinks showed that many of you are drinking tea to keep you warm this winter. We are tea addicts and have all sorts of black, rooibois and herbal teas that we drink over the course of the day.
The best of these teas are loose leaf, which can create a hassle at work. (Remember Chow's great feature on High Tea in Cubicle-Land?) Do you take a tea steeper to work, or a tea-press mug?
T-Sac Tea Filters are made out out of specially-developed chlorine free, natural unbleached paper. They come in four sizes suited for single cup to teapot servings.
We really like how these can be filled with tea and closed, so that no leaves creep out into our cup. The folded flap at the top is more secure than it appears. But the teabag also expands at the bottom, giving plenty of room for the water to move freely through the tea leaves - an improvement over many tea balls, which compress the tea so much there's no way for it to infuse properly.
Then, when the tea is fully infused, the used bags are fully biodegradable and can be composted.
We're loving our little packet of tea bags; they're letting us drink more tea in our busy work day than ever before, without the fuss of a teapot or strainer.
All four sizes are available through Amazon for about $4.95 to $6.95 for a package of 100 filters. Also check your local tea shop, which is where we found ours.
Originally posted by Faith on The Kitchn.
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This is a nice product, but it still creates waste-- the plastic packet and the teabag itself (though the teabag is compostable, which is nice)... but I just have a small "Beehouse" teapot with stainless-steel filter at my desk, which I keep refilling all day. The first two pots are nice and strong, and the subsequent pots get weaker and weaker. This lets me feed my tea addiction but keeps the caffine addiction at bay! And, no waste.
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Unless you have an ability to compost these (unlikely since we are talking about drinking tea at work), I don't see how this waste-producing product is green.
Why not use one of many available re-usable loose-leaves holders?
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