How do i get into tea?

Some bus stops in my city have anti-sip ads.

I don't really have anything against people who use teabags as I used them for a bit and still have some leftover, but for loose leaf you can jist get one of those over the cup infuser teapots and it's pretty much just as easy as a teabag.

what if there the new marijuana and cures cancer

>literally nothing wrong
>being the kind of mongoloid that believes the stuff in bags is the same as the loose variery

if they bagged the stuff they nomally sell loose, no one here would care about your infusion format.

you irredeemable imbecile

It's only fine if you're either: really busy, not that into tea, simply cannot buy loose leaf. I used to buy loose leaf, but since I moved away from the city where I grew up, I simply cannot buy the shit anymore in my new town.

If you positively must have the "convenience" of hucking your tea in the compost after only a single steeping then fillable bags exist.

Read about it
Buy a sampler pack and a finum brew basket

reddit.com/r/tea/wiki/faq

>unabashedly linking to reddit
>shilling some plastic bullshit

Get out.

Yea, because this thread has been so fucking helpful so far

green tea, lemon, honey

>attempting to be helpful to an obvious shitposter

Fucking leave already.

Nah, I'm good

It would have to be a really big cup!

>implying Reddit isn't great for niche interests

It's the big sub-reddits that are shit, the more niche and precise the sub-reddit, the better it is. I love maps, I draw maps for a living, so sub-reddits like the cartography sub-reddit are incredible for me, but that is a very, very niche interest.

>tea
>niche interest
Two whole wars were fought over it.
The city of Hong Kong was founded over it.

It's the single most popular beverage on the face of the earth.

But not many actually know much about it. Same with coffee. Sure, everyone hammers down Keurig, Starbucks, and their office garbage, but 99% don't know shit about making legitimately good coffee.

Brits are supposed to be "tea people", but all they actually do is argue about which bagged shit Yorkshire or PG Tips is better and when (not if) the cream goes in

Buy tea at the supermarket and drink it? Earl Grey is nice.

What flavour of Monster do you recommend? I drink the original green one because it's addictive and it's my source of sugar.

Cartography sounds interesting. Any primers you can link me?

Frankly I learned it all on the job. I somehow ended up from engineering drafting to drawing maps of industrial sites (like mines and refineries), I'd be the worst person to ask, and frankly the kind of maps I draw for a living are the least interesting kind.

Here is the way I got into tea

>drink "tea"
>some horrid Tetley swill or something
>this shit is awful
>why would anyone ever drink tea?
>proceed to not drink tea for 15 years
>try one of those Arizona sugar waters with a bit of green tea, ginseng, and honey in it
>hey this isn't too bad
>drink those from time to time since its big and only $1
>relative gives me some Davids tea flavored shit
>WOW this is even better than Arizona and doesn't even have much sugar
>start going to Davids tea drinking all their flavored garbage
>save up those membership points
>can now cash them in for 100 grams of any tea
>could get my favorite shitty flavored tea that is like $8.50 per 100g
>or could do the smart thing and see what this $20 per 100g unflavored tea is since price don't matter
>get some Nepal Black
>tastes good
>tastes really good
>them subtle hints of chocolate and honey
>so this is the power of real tea
>$20 is way too much
>find a small tea shop
>get a couple Chinese and Taiwanese teas
>even better for half the cost
>now spread the gospel of proper tea to all my Arizona drinking brethren

Why would you drink a leaf? I recommend Soylent™.

t. soyboy

1) Fill a bathtube with hot water
2) Add tea bags
3) Get in.

You can also cold-brew the tea.

1. Heat water
2. Put the tea in the water
3. Remove tea from water
4. Ingest

>Convenience
Man up

Much more likely to cause it.

When in doubt
Pinkie out

I stained my tub doing this once.

I've owned a finum brew basket for many years. It works well for conveniently brewing tea. No, I didn't buy it because of reddit. It's hardly the only option for brewing a single serving of tea but it has very fine mesh and works better than a lot of solid metal strainers.

It's also good for niche porn, the kind of stuff that's lucky to be able to support one thread a month around here.

What a cute girl ^_^

pretty much any of the non sugar ones with the textured cans are good
ultra white, ultra violet, sunrise

Ride a bike to work while you're at it.

My friend who drinks probably 3 to 4 NOS's a day and 5-6 additional diet pepsi's a day just had an abdominal aortic aneurysm at 19

lemon zinger

>girl

Don't post in this thread again

>grow up a poorfag
>single mom only ever bought American "cheese" slices
>see fancy, interesting looking cheeses everywhere but don't know where to start or what to get
>"hey guise, how do I into chee--"
>"IF YOU ALREADY LIKED CHEESE YOU'D ALREADY BE EATING DANISH CAVE AGED BLEU CHEESE WITH EVERY MEAL"

You're retarded

>tfw arizona tea is fucking overpriced to hell in russia
I fucking hate it.

>food analogies

Fuck off /v/

Buy a kettle, pot, teas of your choice, and a cute skirt to wear while drinking it.

Thinking of ordering 3oz of something from Adagio because free shipping, was considering maybe getting an oolong, but I'm not sure what I should get.

He's right though.

Arizona tea tastes like stale piss and the after taste is horrible.

Dragon pearls and tiguanyin are god-tier. Organic Assam is also quite good. Or...if you really want an adventure, try compost tea. Specifically, tea encased in guano.

Anyone ever buy this brand? How is it? Seems too cheap to be good.

I've bought the Irish breakfast. It was good.

How many steeps can you get out of loose leaf. I use reusable tea balls for my loose leaf, but usually steep only once per fill

I used to only steep once, but honestly the second steep is just as good as the first, so I normally do at least two now. Third steep I usually find getting a bit weak, but still good enough to warrant it if I am drinking a lot of tea one day.

Depends on the strength of the tea and the method of steeping.

English steeping I can usually get about 4 steeps out of a strong tea, while Gonfu you're supposed to get 5-8 steeps in a single sitting

God, I wish that were me.

That fucking HAS to be some congenital condition. Jesus Christ, only 19.

i had a spontaneous minor brain aneurysm
i have never done drugs
i dont drink
i havent ever been seriously hurt
im 19 too
sometimes shit just happens

The gunpowder is good. Seems they mostly do stuff that's hard to fuck up, so it's not a bad deal.

>be chilean or british
>profit

NERD ALERT!

make your own ice tea uwu