I was wondering if it was O.K. to use teabags more than once.

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Emil Harrison wrote:

I was wondering if it was O.K. to use teabags more than once.

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You can, but you tend to get a weaker, more bitter brew.
I'd sure not try more than twice and use double the amount the second
time...

Tea is not expensive. Why would you want to?

No cluons were harmed when Emil Harrison wrote:
I was wondering if it was O.K. to use teabags more than once.

What were you going to use it *for*?

Brewing tea: sure, although the second cup might be a bit weaker

Cooking: once you've emptied the leaves into your casserole, they are
nigh unrecoverable, so probably not.

Wrestling: as long as you don't mind tea leaves all over the ring,
sure.

Howard Stern: it is an old wives tale that applying a tea poultice
will remove toxins. nothing can filter stern.

Kibology: who would want a teabag after the kibologists have finished
with it? those people are perverts.


Mark Edwards
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Proof of Sanity Forged Upon Request

Emil Harrison wrote:
I was wondering if it was O.K. to use teabags more than once.
Don't be a douche.
On second thought, it might be fun to be a douche.

"Emil Harrison" wrote in message
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I was wondering if it was O.K. to use teabags more than once.

It's illegal in all states except Oklahoma and New Jersey.

Mark Edwards wrote:
No cluons were harmed when Emil Harrison wrote:
I was wondering if it was O.K. to use teabags more than once.


Forget teabags. Use loose leaf and a decent infuser. I prefer the
basket style infusers to the crappy teaballs that hang on a chain.

What were you going to use it *for*?

Brewing tea: sure, although the second cup might be a bit weaker


Sometimes the second cup is a bit more nuanced...with a more
discernable character. Sometimes I prefer the second cup to the first,
especially when drinker certain pu-ehr varieties.

Mark Edwards wrote:
No cluons were harmed when Emil Harrison wrote:
I was wondering if it was O.K. to use teabags more than once.


Forget teabags. Use loose leaf and a decent infuser. I prefer the
basket style infusers to the crappy teaballs that hang on a chain.

What were you going to use it *for*?

Brewing tea: sure, although the second cup might be a bit weaker


Sometimes the second cup is a bit more nuanced...with a more
discernable character. Sometimes I prefer the second cup to the first,
especially when drinking certain pu-ehr varieties.

"Emil Harrison" wrote in message
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I was wondering if it was O.K. to use teabags more than once.
If you like weak tea.

Emil Harrison wrote:
I was wondering if it was O.K. to use teabags more than once.

It won't kill you. The worst that can happen is that you'll get weak
tea.

In the case of black teas, much of the lighter flavour constituents come
out in the first cup. When you make a second cup, the stuff loses the
flowery and fruity scents, and you have to steep it for longer to get
as much flavour, making it more tannic.

In the case of green and oolong teas, some of them actually improve
with repeated steeps.

For the most part, if you use loose tea you can get away with more steeps
than if you use a bag, because there is better flow around the leaves.
--scott
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"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

On Mon, 14 Aug 2006 11:09:35 -0000, Mark Edwards
wrote:

No cluons were harmed when Emil Harrison wrote:
I was wondering if it was O.K. to use teabags more than once.

What were you going to use it *for*?

Also, what was it used for the first time?

BW

"Emil Harrison" wrote

I was wondering if it was O.K. to use teabags more than once.

It depends on what you are using them for. Either way,
You're Allowed.

--oTTo--

(Scott Dorsey) writes:

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For the most part, if you use loose tea you can get away with more steeps
than if you use a bag, because there is better flow around the leaves.

I think the reason is more likely to be the way bag tea is typically
chopped extremely fine, so more of what's soluble in the chopped
leaves will exit the bags in the first steep.

/Lew
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Lew Perin /
http://www.panix.com/~perin/babelcarp.html

I do it all the time. My daughter and I like Stash's Peppermint tea and we
like a strength that is just right for 2 cups of tea. I brew hers then
throw the tea bag into my cup. Like the other posters though if I wasn't
having 2 cups right away I wouldn't keep it in the frig for later though.
Just throw it away and use another.

Lynne

"Emil Harrison" wrote in message
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I was wondering if it was O.K. to use teabags more than once.

Emil Harrison wrote:
I was wondering if it was O.K. to use teabags more than once.


No, it's not OK.

what for?

why kibologies and Howard Stern? dun' anderstand. :-)

philj

by the way, I asked Internet Oracle; stay tuned.

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