The High-tech Tea Bag

[4me2]

Tea drinkers are being promised a better-tasting cuppa with the launch of a new type of bag.

Until now tea bags have relied on perforations to allow water through to the leaves.

But experts at tea firm PG Tips have created a new type of bag made from a secret "webbed" material which they claim is at least 50% more permeable than the current paper-based variety.



The new tea bag

The "Freeflow" bag took four years to design and is described by its inventors as a "technical breakthrough for tea."

The new bags will go on sale at the end of the month in the pyramid shape.

The first tea bag was launched in the late 1950s by Tetley which in 1989 replaced square bags with a round design.

The British tea market is estimated to be worth £532m annually with the country getting through 150,000 tonnes of tea a year.

On average, Britons drink three cups of tea a day and more than 90% are brewed from tea bags

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Being a tea drinker myself and having suffered kraut almost waterproof tea bags for years I hope this new teabag soon becomes widespread.


Just out of interest how many of you are also TEA drinkers ?

[marcode]

exciting stuff

[4me2]

Originally posted by marcode
exciting stuff

You havent suffered Kraut waterproof tea bags where you need pliers to squeeze the tea out of them.

[ABCMan]

i use pg instant tea cos i'm a lazy twat, but usualy drink coffee (taylors hot lava java)

kids use tetley tea bags

[WTD]

Yuck you gotta use proper tea leaves to make a decent cuppa!

[lizardo]

Well I stopped drinking both tea and coffee about 6 months ago, but what with this exciting new breakthrough I may have to start drinking tea again. I'm such a sucker for anything that's got a "NEW SCIENTIFIC BREAKTHROUGH" label slapped on it! A victim of the marketing generation.

Lizardo.