Loose Tea

[Rye]

Any fans of loose tea around here? About a year or two ago, I went through a serious loose tea craze after visiting a great cafe, so now I have a small collection of delicious loose teas, and a cute teapot to brew them in. I have chocolate curry masala, samurai chai mate, white apple tea, youthberry orange, and a few others. Most are from Teavana, but I do find others about.

What about you? Or do you like teabags all over your face?

[Tigmafuzz]

As soon as I read the thread title, I imagined a world full of anthropomorphic drinks with one particular cup of tea wearing a miniskirt and offering her "services" to strangers.

Or do you like teabags all over your face?

[Alpha2099]

My dad loves using loose tea.

[Shorty]

I've never tried loose tea! Samurai Chai sounds good, though. I'll take chai in any form.

[Shlup]

I'll do whatever, but my favorite tea is Mad Tea Party Blend from Disneyland, which I buy loose. I put it in my Mickey Mouse tea ball and it is lovely. It's a black tea, with peach and apricot and ginger. Other than that, I usually just grab a bag of green tea. It's A Grind has a green tea latte I love, but for some reason it gets me really wired.

[Faris]

Tea bags all over my face. I'll have loose tea if it's offered to me though.

[Rantz]

I've never been particularly discriminatory, but I do tend to find loose tea better tasting than bagged. My favourite tea is a long cut rooibos.

[Jinx]

All we drink here is loose tea, whether in hot or cold variety.

However, we just buy like Earl Grey, White Earl Grey, and Rose tea. Nothing fancy.

[Madame Adequate]

What the hell is "loose tea"?

[DK]

What the hell is "loose tea"?

I think the fact that Rye drinks it should pretty much answer that question for you.

[Alpha2099]

What the hell is "loose tea"?

Tea leaves that don't come in a bag. You put them in a tiny ball-shaped object with holes in the bottom, and you stick that in your water. I don't know if it makes the tea taste any better.

[Shlup]

Giving the leaves more room to float around is supposed to let them steep better.

[krissy]

it's tea that made terrible choices during high school

[Jiro]

If I buy teabags and just like, cut that trout open, does it suddenly become loose tea?

[rubah]

I accidentally my tea this morning. The teabag had a draw string and I drew it too hard and some of the leaves emerged o_o