TEABAGGING!!!!

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How long should one leave the teabag in the water before removing? I leave mine for a few minutes, then squish squash the bag muchly with the spoon, sometimes I use two bags.

Others, upon witnessing this declare that my tea is "stewed", why this should be a bad thing I don't know.

There are no hard and fast rules to TEABAGGING (as I'm sure you will appreciate) but what is the difference between stewing and getting the best from the bag?

― Rumps (Rumps), Thursday, 7 December 2006 17:02 (seventeen years ago) link

if u leave green tea in too long it turns bitter

― jhoshea (jhoshea), Thursday, 7 December 2006 17:05 (seventeen years ago) link

From what I understand, three to five minutes, let it sit and don't dunk it, and don't squeeze it out. This is only what I hear.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Thursday, 7 December 2006 17:07 (seventeen years ago) link

You don't want to squeeze it. Just give it a quick jerk or two.

― [electric sound of] esteban buttez (Estie Buttez), Thursday, 7 December 2006 17:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Oooh with my fingers????

― Rumps (Rumps), Thursday, 7 December 2006 17:16 (seventeen years ago) link

No. With your pussy.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Thursday, 7 December 2006 17:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Um, if you like!

― [electric sound of] esteban buttez (Estie Buttez), Thursday, 7 December 2006 17:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Nice. What makes you think I have one?

― Rumps (Rumps), Thursday, 7 December 2006 17:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Tea drinks are more likely to own a cat.

― [electric sound of] esteban buttez (Estie Buttez), Thursday, 7 December 2006 17:26 (seventeen years ago) link

Tea drinkers are more likely to own a cat.

― [electric sound of] esteban buttez (Estie Buttez), Thursday, 7 December 2006 17:26 (seventeen years ago) link

One tea bag, squish it to hell. 30 seconds.

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 7 December 2006 17:48 (seventeen years ago) link

if your lucky you'll finish it off with some arabian goggles.

― thebingo (thebingo), Thursday, 7 December 2006 17:51 (seventeen years ago) link

I love to let my Rooibos steep...FOREVER!

― Abbott (Abbott), Thursday, 7 December 2006 18:41 (seventeen years ago) link

jel OTM

― sede vacante (blueski), Thursday, 7 December 2006 18:54 (seventeen years ago) link

surprising reversal of usual rumpie threads being titled stuff like 'an interesting thing to do...' and when you click its about drinking your own menstrual blood or something

― and what (ooo), Thursday, 7 December 2006 18:57 (seventeen years ago) link

scald the cup first, dump out the water, then steep for 1-3 minutes for black tea (broken leaf) and japanese green tea, or 2-6 minutes for chinese greens or black tea (whole leaf).

― remy bean (bean), Thursday, 7 December 2006 19:01 (seventeen years ago) link

I never throw out my tea bags: they stay in the cup until I'm done.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 7 December 2006 20:14 (seventeen years ago) link

and then you throw them out [/smartarse]

― sede vacante (blueski), Thursday, 7 December 2006 20:42 (seventeen years ago) link

When I'm drinking tea with milk & sugar, I leave the bag in for longer than I do otherwise. The milk just overpowers the tea if it's weak. Same principle with respect to folks calling Peet's coffee "bitter": You've gotta burn the hell outta the beans to taste them after adding 37 other flavors, and Peet's doesn't have separate roasts for black and with-a-lotta-crap coffee drinkers.

― Oddly enough, staying here I saw seven golden bowls make cakes and religion (goo, Saturday, 9 December 2006 21:28 (seventeen years ago) link

i drink a lot of non-tea-y teas (like ginger tea or raspberry tea) and for those i like to leave the bag in for ages otherwise it's not flavorful enough. i always squish those. with green or black tea, squishing isn't really necessary after a few min.

― tehresa (tehresa), Saturday, 9 December 2006 22:25 (seventeen years ago) link

today: 4 cups green tea, throat sore.

― jhoshea (jhoshea), Saturday, 9 December 2006 23:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Steeping less than six minute or so results in nervous-making tea. The first thing to be released into the water is the caffeine. After that, other compounds are released than actually smooth the edges of the rush.

Teabags are shit, though. Not enough in there. Loose tea, people!

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Sunday, 10 December 2006 00:28 (seventeen years ago) link

http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/6540/extremeteabaggingwc8.jpg

― jaxon (jaxon), Sunday, 10 December 2006 01:28 (seventeen years ago) link

In spite of everything, this thread has turned out to be a disappointment.

― Madchen (Madchen), Sunday, 10 December 2006 02:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Well, DO something about it!

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Sunday, 10 December 2006 02:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Steeping less than six minute or so results in nervous-making tea. The first thing to be released into the water is the caffeine.

That's the sort of tea I *need* in the morning.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Sunday, 10 December 2006 09:25 (seventeen years ago) link

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