Personalized Tea Bags Offer Quality And Convenience For Tea Drinkers At Home, In The Office And While Traveling
Loose leaf tea is all about quality but it is often not as convenient to use as tea bags particularly at the office or when traveling.
For those tea drinkers who enjoy the finest loose leaf teas however, there is now a way to easily prepare their own bagged tea without sacrificing quality and the enjoyment associated with brewing quality tea.
There is no doubt that tea bags are convenient; they were after all invented for the American Tea Market and America is the cornerstone of convenience.
In order to prepare bagged tea however, the CTC (“crush, tear, curl,”)method of processing is used primarily for lower-quality leaves. CTC processing is done by machine; its name is actually fairly descriptive.
The machines rapidly compress withered tea leaves, forcing out most of their sap; they then tear the leaves and curl them tightly into balls that look something like instant coffee crystals. The leaves are then “fired,” or dehydrated.
Most tea connoisseurs are not very interested in CTC tea, since this...