Making tea

Edit to clarify both cups of tea are at work. One mid-morning, one mid-afternoon.

Oh go on, be a devil, use two teabags and hang the expense

I'd use 2 teabags.
If using only one I'd make 2 cups worth and store, without milk, in a flask. I think reheating or using wet cold bag would affect the taste.

RosiesMaw

Oh go on, be a devil, use two teabags and *hang the expense*

Hear, hear. The tea I drink (and I have up to 4 largecups a day) is, asa friend put it “not so much weak as helpless”🤣, but I use a new teabag each time. The tea tastes stewed if reused.

haha RosieMaw! That's what I've been doing, but wondered if I was throwing money away, and if it was normal to make tea to reheat!

You must have a great deal of time on your hands if you give this so much thought!
Tea should always be made as fresh as possible so saving it in a flask or reusing the teabag later is really not going to do the flavour any justice.
How about making two cups of tea out of one bag and offering the second cup to a colleague?

I would definitely push the boat out and use two tea bags. I only enjoy freshly brewed tea.

Just use two teabags? This is what I've been doing, but it seems a waste.

How can a lovely fresh cup of tea ever be a waste?

CanadianGran

haha RosieMaw! That's what I've been doing, but wondered if I was throwing money away, and if it was normal to make tea to reheat!

I’ve heard of economy drives but trying to “stretch” one teabag to two cups at different times of the day makes Mr Micawber look like a spendthrift.
Never ever attempt to repeat tea or coffee, fresh is the only way.

you can buy one cup tea bags.
if you are working, surely you can afford to use 2 new tea bags a day.
it sounds like an offence to tea-drinking to do what you are proposing, except if living in penury.
but i believe you live in Canada ?

Tea making - is it really the British secret weapon?
When I was on an exchange to France years ago I remember my host “mum” stressing about getting tea just right. She would heat the water in a saucepan and sought reassurance that she was on the right track when she asked “and of course you don’t let the water boil do you?”

Well as I get very thirsty I would just have a larger cup to fully use each tea bag. But a new tea bag each time.

I often reuse a tea bag, but only within a couple of hours, whilst it is still wet. The second cup actually tastes better- and I am very fussy about my cups of tea. I wouldn’t do so at work though. Who knows what has happened to it between brews.
Flask tea doesn’t taste very nice unless it has no milk in it, and reheating a cup of tea with milk isn’t great either.
Or just do the normal thing and use a fresh tea bag each time.

I don't use teabags. I don't like strong tea and one teabag would be wasted on me. I know just how much leaf tea I need in my small breakfast teapot, which makes it much more economical than a teabag.

Not living in poverty, just seems a waste! Perhaps I should find some loose tea and get a small pot, instead of just using my mug.

I use my teabags twice, always have .
Yes , I am that miserly!
I make a cup of tea in a mug in the morning, lift out the teabag and place it in a different mug for use later.
It's fine, no worries.

CanadianGran

Not living in poverty, just seems a waste! Perhaps I should find some loose tea and get a small pot, instead of just using my mug.

Why not get some loose tea and use a tea infuser so you only use the exact amount you want for a cup?

henetha

I use my teabags twice, always have .
Yes , I am that miserly!
I make a cup of tea in a mug in the morning, lift out the teabag and place it in a different mug for use later.
It's fine, no worries.

I do this.
Not sure I would at work.

No I wouldn't do it at work. But I'm retired so it's just me.

Throw caution to the wind, go mad and use a new tea bag each time. I like weak tea, but can remember an Irish comedian saying he liked his tea so strong, ‘you could trot a donkey on it’.

I don’t believe it ( as someone once said). Do people really do this? Tea is a beautiful beverage, I drink at least six cups a day, there is an exact length of time for an infusion to give the best flavour, dunking it again would give that rough tannin taste. As I don’t drink coffee, tea is what keeps me going. I have a cup beside me now, it is nearly always made in a teapot with loose tea. Some people are wine buffs but it is tea that satisfies my palate!

Beast to use two tea bags …....... but I do agree it seems wasteful and reusing a wet tea bag does work , I know because have done it !

I think the best tea is made from loose tea...
I'd use 2 bags. Hang the expense!

Best !!!