Teabags

Hear, hear! Do they expect you to leave it in the cup?
A nice china pot contains “real” tea, with matching sugar bowl and milk jug alas a distant memory.

I put it on the table as a protest and don't go back there.

As an aside I hate seeing a pule of used tea bags on the kitchen counter. I empty them into the bin as soon as they have cooled down. DH lets them pile up but I am saying nothing about his housekeeping skills as he is doing very well looking after me at the moment.

I will not tell you what tea bags remind me of. I use tea leaves at home and drink coffee when out.

We compost our tea bags at home and have a little glass bowl by the kettle for putting them in after brewing up. My pet hate is the horrible wooden stick stirrers cafes expect me to use now. I can understand them doing away with plastic spoons but those sticks seem to have a smell and a taste. I never get enough water either when I ask for tea so often get shrink that is either too strong for me or slightly stewed depending on how long it takes to find the milk/wooden stick counter for this DIY beverage.

A DRINK. Grrr.

Marthajolly1 ... I'm wondering why you feel the need to be quite frosty when asking waitress \staff to remove your teabag...is it the waitress fault that they have to follow some silly rule of the company they work for.
I wonder how many frosty people have a go at the staff for rules they have absolutely no control of , they just have to follow them to keep their job.
Does it make you feel better at being frosty to a member of staff?
Does it make you feel powerful?
Does it make you feel happy that you may upset someone for following rules that are out of their control?
If you have to behave like a petulant child then maybe you could try to do it nicely!

You're being more than a bit frosty yourself there, Nanabilly.

Uncalled for nannabilly, one might ask why you feel the need to make such a barbed response? Hold up an entire queue or keep other people waiting as you demand to speak to the manager?

Both of my daughters waitressed during uni years and I’m sorry, complaints from customers go with the territory.

Nanabilly ... no, no and no I don't feel any of those things towards the staff. It's not their rules. But surely it's common sense to provide a means of disposing of the said teabags. And I'm not rude to any staff just annoyed.

Thankfully I too am a coffee drinker......both at home and when out..... so I do not have to dodge these tea bags issue although it is slightly a different story here at home ..........where my husband is the tea drinker.
We have a special little container for said spent tea bags which to be fair,he diligently uses...........however were I not to dispose of the collection in that container I think we may well have tea bags running out the door!!
This is an area he forgets about entirely although fair to say he usually likes to keep things clean and tidy in the kitchen!

Although I fully support the move to use less plastic, I see tough times ahead. I can't bear to touch unvarnished wood - it just sets my teeth on edge - so wooden spoons, lolly sticks and now those little stirrers are a no go zone for me. Just as well I don't take sugar!

That's an unusual aversion Maggie

I use loose tea, in a pot, with a tea strainer at home even if it's just fir me.

DH uses a tea bag for himself occasionally but has been trained to put it straight in the bin after squeezing. Luckily, the kitchen floor is brownish!
What I really hate is a cup of tea made by pouring hot water on to a tea bag and then immediately topping it up with milk - what is that all about! Do some people not understand the science?

I also hate the touch of unvarnished wood - all right to my fingers, but horrid to lips. Wooden chip forks the same.
We used to compost teabags, but since reading that the skins do not decompose I put them in the bin. I think I should return to loose tea at home

ooo errr kitty I do that!!! Mind yiou DH says I cant make tea to save my life - how rude.

I'm in your camp kitty. I use loose tea in a teapot. Teabags are wasteful and it's such a lot of trouble to cut them open to get the leaves out!

If you use loose tea where do you empty the teapot? I would think it stains the sink and the leaves go down the drain? I only drink black coffee and I used to find the grounds stained the sink so stopped using it. My husband drinks tea so we also have a little receptacle to put them on in the kitchen (which of course I have to empty) but if we're out he puts them on a serviette if there is no saucer.

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apparently tea bags contain plastic..so not very :green'

Pour the last of the tea down the drain and then up end the teapot over the compost crock on the drainer and shake so that the tea leaves join the veg trimmings and little bits of paper in the crock. The crock has a lid so that that. When full (roughly once every day or so it gets emptied on to the compost heap.

Down the sink as we have no compost facilities!

Not all teabags contain plastic. Teapigs don't for one but there are lots more now! Xx

It is a bit odd, Nina - my dad couldn't touch cotton wool, neither can DD1, so we're a weird family. Oh, Salmo, those chip forks, aaarrgh! The worst side-effect for me is that I can't eat a Magnum!

Sorry for the diversion from the OP!

Tea Leaves here too , I use a strainer , very twee one with a drip container , and the tea leaves go in the compost gatherer upper under the sink , and thence to the compost bin

I use a teapot with a filter, empty the leaves into a bit of kitchen roll and put them in the compost bucket, then wash the filter under the tap.