Change your ways! Save money and have interesting mental adventures. Avoid ossification of the parts, especially the one in the head.
Cugel
Change your ways! Save money and have interesting mental adventures. Avoid ossification of the parts, especially the one in the head.
All troo ..... but ..... some things are improved by a touch of technology, the tea in a bag being one of them ..... if you buy the right ones. "Wot right ones", you ask, with a raised eyebrow? Those from a proper tea shop that contain various real tea leaves rather than dust; and which don't come with their own weight in packaging.simonineaston wrote: ↑6 Dec 2022, 8:23amIn some ways, the teabag represents a watershed. Before they came into common use, we were used to making food from scratch, buying ingredients and preparing dishes ourselves. The benefits to us as consumers are clear: we stayed in control of the preparation and enjoyed the unadulterated product.Loose tea, brewed in a proper teapot for me please.
Not bought a teabag... maybe never ever ever.
Then the food processing industry came along and saw an opportunity. Now they control the product and the process and so profit from that control. As consumers we're sold a commodity that tastes like tea, not of tea. We've lost the ability to enjoy the tea experience (well, most of us have - people like Mick who are preapred to take the time and trouble to do it properly haven't). The industry sell us this loss by fooling us with advertising.
What started with teabags, continues to spread, like mould through a barrel of apples, across the whole food industry. They sell us stuff that tastes like food, we roll over to have tummies tickled and they pocket the difference. More fool us.
You modernist trendies miss the po(in)t . It's the ceremony of the tea drinking that I like. Shoving a bag in a cup just doesn't cut itCugel wrote: ↑6 Dec 2022, 8:58amAll troo ..... but ..... some things are improved by a touch of technology, the tea in a bag being one of them ..... if you buy the right ones. "Wot right ones", you ask, with a raised eyebrow? Those from a proper tea shop that contain various real tea leaves rather than dust; and which don't come with their own weight in packaging.simonineaston wrote: ↑6 Dec 2022, 8:23amIn some ways, the teabag represents a watershed. Before they came into common use, we were used to making food from scratch, buying ingredients and preparing dishes ourselves. The benefits to us as consumers are clear: we stayed in control of the preparation and enjoyed the unadulterated product.Loose tea, brewed in a proper teapot for me please.
Not bought a teabag... maybe never ever ever.
Then the food processing industry came along and saw an opportunity. Now they control the product and the process and so profit from that control. As consumers we're sold a commodity that tastes like tea, not of tea. We've lost the ability to enjoy the tea experience (well, most of us have - people like Mick who are preapred to take the time and trouble to do it properly haven't). The industry sell us this loss by fooling us with advertising.
What started with teabags, continues to spread, like mould through a barrel of apples, across the whole food industry. They sell us stuff that tastes like food, we roll over to have tummies tickled and they pocket the difference. More fool us.
Less hot water wasted than with a tea pot; the ability for a group to drink different teas at the same tea party; a handy bit of compost for the garden instead of blocking the drain with mugglies from the rinsed teapot.
Cugel, probably a Progressive now.
Older readers, or those with a liking for the Swallows And Amazons series will be nodding wisely and saying, "That's just a hay box." and they'll be right of course.Wonderbag is a stand-alone, non-electric insulated bag designed to reduce the amount of fuel required in the cooking of food in developing countries. (or any other place, I suppose)
If only the production of hot air about EU regulations could be ceased, imagine the savings!
Blimey - that's an old chestnut! Haven't heard that one for nigh on a decade... this from a 2014 Sky News web page:The EU tried to ban coffee machines that kept things hot...
My emboldening - but of course the fab. thing is now we can make our own coffee machines that can stay on forever and keep our coffee perfectly stewed all day long!New rules designed to make domestic appliances more efficient came in on January 1. Last year, they were interpreted in some parts of the media as a death sentence for the humble coffee machine. Not so, says the European Commission – it's just that any coffee machine made after 1 January 2015 must have an energy efficiency option allowing the hotplate or element to go into standby after a certain period. Older machines are unaffected.
French tea is rubbish, even those marked up as English Breakfast Tea. Very weak brews.
I have sat in many meetings with the Chinese who always arrive with green tea and vacuum flasks. Tea is drunk throughout meetings. As there is no kettle in evidence I can only assume flasks happened because of lack of power points? However, its a very 'green' practice that I approve of.simonineaston wrote: ↑6 Dec 2022, 9:08am To change tack a bit, I was in discussion with Guardian readers earlier, on the subject of fuel efficiency, when a couple from SA offered the notion of a Wonderbag, of which I had never heard, so here for you, dear reader, is that thing.Older readers, or those with a liking for the Swallows And Amazons series will be nodding wisely and saying, "That's just a hay box." and they'll be right of course.Wonderbag is a stand-alone, non-electric insulated bag designed to reduce the amount of fuel required in the cooking of food in developing countries. (or any other place, I suppose)
Poof! I can make a ritual out of anything. I learnt the attitude from two collies, who like things done in the way they like things done on all occasions they're done.francovendee wrote: ↑6 Dec 2022, 9:05amYou modernist trendies miss the po(in)t . It's the ceremony of the tea drinking that I like. Shoving a bag in a cup just doesn't cut itCugel wrote: ↑6 Dec 2022, 8:58amAll troo ..... but ..... some things are improved by a touch of technology, the tea in a bag being one of them ..... if you buy the right ones. "Wot right ones", you ask, with a raised eyebrow? Those from a proper tea shop that contain various real tea leaves rather than dust; and which don't come with their own weight in packaging.simonineaston wrote: ↑6 Dec 2022, 8:23am In some ways, the teabag represents a watershed. Before they came into common use, we were used to making food from scratch, buying ingredients and preparing dishes ourselves. The benefits to us as consumers are clear: we stayed in control of the preparation and enjoyed the unadulterated product.
Then the food processing industry came along and saw an opportunity. Now they control the product and the process and so profit from that control. As consumers we're sold a commodity that tastes like tea, not of tea. We've lost the ability to enjoy the tea experience (well, most of us have - people like Mick who are preapred to take the time and trouble to do it properly haven't). The industry sell us this loss by fooling us with advertising.
What started with teabags, continues to spread, like mould through a barrel of apples, across the whole food industry. They sell us stuff that tastes like food, we roll over to have tummies tickled and they pocket the difference. More fool us.
Less hot water wasted than with a tea pot; the ability for a group to drink different teas at the same tea party; a handy bit of compost for the garden instead of blocking the drain with mugglies from the rinsed teapot.
Cugel, probably a Progressive now.
Well .... I confess to having a tea infuser (a small metal cage with teeny holes/a mesh, on a chain) into which goes the more exotic tea leaves, at odd times when there's danger of a coffee-jag coming on.Pendodave wrote: ↑6 Dec 2022, 9:13am The huge and fascinating range of loose leaf tea just isn't available in a bag.
Just have a teapot that matches your consumption to avoid waste.
One with a removable basket facilitates leaf disposal.
There are few enough pleasures in life. Proper tea is an easy, cheap and non-dangerous one!
Them EUers just want to constrain our many freedumbs to self-harm, not to mention to harm others! The dastards! Don't they realise how important it is to so many of the teeny Ingurlanders to be allowed full self-indulgence, self-neglect, self-everything and down the banks with any softies in the way! It's a fundamental right of all right-thinking right wings, who should never be nannied or stopped from playing chicken in every way imaginable (and several not imaginable).roubaixtuesday wrote: ↑6 Dec 2022, 9:19amIf only the production of hot air about EU regulations could be ceased, imagine the savings!
Shocking though, that regulations give consumers guarantees on the efficiency of appliances, and suppliers a level playing field to prevent a race to the bottom on efficiency. And this helping to keep the lights on and reduce dependence on Russian gas too! Awful.