How Do You Drink Loose Leaf Tea?
If you want to experience a higher grade of tea, you should look into brewing loose leaf teas. They come in many varieties, including fine organic loose leaf teas, from local growers. You can also get spiced loose leaf teas, or teas with flowers. However, unless you want to do a little fortune telling by reading your tea leaves, you may not want peices of tea leaf floating in your cup. Fortuneately you can use tea infusers, or tea strainers of various kinds to keep your loose leaf tea clear. Most people use a tea infuser, or tea ball, to make their loose leaf teas. This is a ball or spoon that contains a small amount of the tea, and you put it in your cup and pour tea over it. Holes in the infuser allow water to pass through and steep the tea. Tea infusers have a lot of advantages. They are convenient. You can make one cup at a time, as with tea bags. However, loose leaf teas tend to swell a lot, so you can’t put a lot of tea in an infuser. If you try, the tea infuser will become so pa