Single Tea Bag Reviews: My Test Piggies Have Spoken
My Single Tea Bag with Tagua Nut Tag inspectors have spoken.
Great feedback guys. Now I was hoping all of you would write me telling me how your lives have been forever changed; you are making more money, your teeth and eyes are shinier, your neighbors no longer scurry away when they see you coming etc. etc. But I guess I will settle for…they brew tea without exploding. There is definitely some tweaking that needs to take place.
Allie’s Review:
I’ve been using the tea bag you sent and LOVING it!
I thought it might leave a lingering taste in the tea, but it didn’t seem to at all. I think my metal grabby tea spoon thingy actually alters the taste of the tea more. It’s easy to clean out — actually easier than the metal steeper, because the tea doesn’t get stuck in the holes at all. I just rinse it and hang it out. It gets doused with boiling water every time it’s used, so I figure that keeps it clean and sanitary. Some tea got caught in the corners, but it wasn’t hard to get it loose.
The weight works nicely and is so attractive.
The first time I used it, there were a few threads that found their way into my tea (from the fabric, not sewing thread), but hey, extra fiber! And it didn’t happen with following uses.
I drink tea that has fairly large leaves. I’m not sure if a finer tea would fall through, but if it would, it would on my metal steeper as well. I’m guessing if you drink fine tea you’re used to a little silt at the bottom of the cup.
1) The mesh fabric can fray along the seam. I have ways of dealing with such disobedient threads…don’t you worry.
2) Excellent point about gunpowder teas seeping through. (For you non tea drinkers…gun powder is not actually made from ammunition.) As a big leaf gal myself, I forgot about that. I will definitely put a note explaining that in the description on Etsy. But like you mentioned…the holes are finer than a tea ball…so….
Joilie’s Review:
I like it a lot. The only possible room for improvement I can see is that it sometimes comes open when I don’t want it to. Maybe I’m not cinching or tying the top tight enough? I love the shell/bead thingy!
Excellent observation. I originally intended for it to be tied by looping the nut through the string but thought that might be a pain to do and undo. However, that would totally prevent the escaping of the tea. I could either go with the original tying idea and include a handy-dandy diagram…or maybe a bead. If I put a bead on the 2 strings together it could be slid up and act like cinch. I will have to think about this one. It would have to be a natural material and not take away from the simplicity of the design and not actually poison my customers. I find 9 out of 10 tea drinkers DON’T enjoy being poisoned. I do my research.
Arduous Review:
My tea is steeping as we speak! I never made it over to the health food store, so this morning, I just ripped open 6 Lipton Ice Tea Bags and dumped the contents into my Orgie Bag.
All seems well. No gunpowder tea leaks yet
My only suggestion would be to make it a bit smaller. Even though I’m brewing a whole pot, I don’t really need the bag to be pillow sized ;-). You could probably halve the size and still have plenty of room.
I like that the strings are long and thin. They hang out the top of the lid, which keeps the bag from sinking AND I can still snap the lid shut over them. This is nice because I make my sun tea on the back porch and prefer to keep mosquitos from breeding in it.
All in all, a Keeper! Just need to find me some loose tea for next time!
Thanks, Orgie!
I was envisioning the giant vat-like sun tea jar of my youth with like 400 Lipton tea knockoff tags crammed out the side. You mean everyone doesn’t make tea by the barrel?
Thanks so much for letting me give this a try! So fun to be a tester! And it’s a great product!
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Thank goodness! Does this mean that you’ll be selling these little beauties soon? I really really want to get some. How about two different sizes of tea bags - individual and one for the vat of sun tea?
That’s the plan. Burban had a different bag entirely. She was just a little tardy with her HW. Good thing she is cute.
Hopefully I will have some tea bags up around mid August.
Orgie, thanks so much for sending me the bag!! I really appreciate it, and oh so pretty!!
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Hi there! This is the second time I have stumbled on to this page about your great fabric tea bags. I would love to purchase some of these when they become available, if you can add me to the waiting list (if there is one!). My husband and I both drink more tea than anything else and go through our big Pampered Chef pitched in a day or 2. I finally found the big Lipton tea bags at Sam’s club but still hate wasting all the paper. We usually put a bag or two in the pitcher with some hot water, slosh it around, and let it sit for a few minutes before filling it the rest of the way with cold water. We leave the tea bags in the bottom until we make the next batch. I’m not sure how a fabric bag would work this way but I would like to try it! Please keep me updated - I think it is great what you’re doing with all these reusable products.
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