Gross, accurate, but gross

Pricing may scare you at first! Just remember you only need a couple of ounces to begin with and you can get 2-3 steepings out of a single tsp of high quality leaves. So, you'll get 15-30 cups out of that two ounces.

Yeah, same idea. Little metallic strained with a chain and/or hooks onto the side of your glass. Can also find them in "spoon" form.

Yes, i am South US and southeners really like to do things the easy way, it becomes a bad habit that's hard to break. I may get into it, I'd have to get all the things though. I just found out there's a tea bar not too far from me that uses loose leaf tea too, so maybe i can try some there as well.

It lets you grip things like fish in the water.

The cover picture looks like a tray of hot dogs on 4th of july that nobody wants to eat

Its understandable. I was raised in the Southeast US and I have seen/done my share of tea sins before I was aware. lol. Really, just a kettle and a little metal steeper are all you need. Use a tsp or so of tea and don't let it steep more than 2-3 minutes. Sweeten as desired.

yeah, this is the main reason your body constricts the blood vessels, it’s adapting to the water.

Ahh..that's where rumpled foreskin comes from.

Apparently, i am a heathen who has probably been causing the tea gods severe depression because i do both of the things you said not to do. Lol I've never had loose leaf before, it always seemed like a hassle to get into, but I'm also a very lazy person.

which gives you better grip when wet.

You can assure it's freshness by actually observing it and storing it properly. Also, you can dry out leaves that have been steeped once and reuse them. And bagged tea is typically ground and grainy. Loose leaf tea allows for pieces of fruit, flowers and whole spices. (I'm talking actually pieces of star anise and all spice, etc.) Finally, traditional teas from the cultures where tea leaves are grown are almost always loose leaf (or loose powder, for matcha) and they were designed to be best experienced in that form.

Also, if you enjoy tea, eventually invest in an electric kettle. None of this heating a mug in the microwave nonsense. Or, heavens forbid, do not BOIL a bag of black tea on the stove. It makes the tea gods sad.

If you don't mind me asking, what makes loose leaf better?

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Thought that Herbal meant made of any herb

If tea leaves are steeped in water, it's a tea. Herbal teas use more than just the leaves like stems, roots, and flowers.

If it isn’t made of tea tree leaves it’s not tea, is it?)

It’s my go to man.

Highway robbery I tell ya!

A personal hero of mine, the wildly eccentric C19th clergyman and archaeologist Reverend William Buckland, once accidentally ate the mummified heart of King Louis XIV at a dinner party where it was being passed around as a curio, and declared it 'disgusting, but better than owl.'

Activist courts do suck...

How can a member of my family say something so horrible!?

Irish breakfast tea is where it's at

Yeah, I am too.

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