Brief introduction of teabag

Thomas Sullivan, a tea merchant in new york, often sends tea samples to potential customers. In order to reduce the cost, he thought of a way, that is, put a little loose tea in several Suu bags. At that time, after receiving those silk bags, some customers who had never made tea often slammed them into boiling water because they were not sure about the procedure of making tea. But gradually, people found that the tea packaged in this way was convenient and easy to use, and gradually formed the habit of packaging tea in small bags. It was suggested to him that the silk package was too thin, so he changed it into cotton gauze and sold it officially. 1903, Sullivan applied for a patent for tea bags, and by 1920, tea bags were widely used in American catering industry.

The original tea bag used silk bags, which were expensive. Later, William Hermanson, a Boston businessman, invented a heat-resistant paper fiber tea bag, which was closer to modern tea bags in material. At first, these American tea bags were all single-bag-shaped. Because of their simple form and simple packaging machinery, when these tea bags are put into water, the tea leaves will be concentrated in the tea bags, and the brewing speed is very slow. Later, someone put the tea into a double tea bag folded into a W shape in the middle, and found that it could speed up the speed of making tea with hot water. 1949, the german Teepack company produced the world's first fully automatic double-bag tea packaging machine based on this concept. Since then, this kind of packaging has become popular in Europe, and some old tea merchants such as twinning and Whittard have also adopted this kind of packaging.

Before Joseph Tetley 1953 introduced teabags to Britain, teabags had been popular in the American market for decades. The original tea bags are all simple square and single bag shapes. When these tea bags are put into water, the tea leaves will be concentrated in the tea bags, and the brewing speed is very slow. However, due to its simple form and simple machinery, it is still used by most businesses.

With the popularity of flower and fruit tea, ordinary tea bags can not accommodate the expansion of fruit grains and petals because of their small space, and diamond tea bags have begun to appear in the market. As the name implies, the diamond tea bag is like a diamond, with a regular tetrahedron structure, and is packed with food-grade nylon. This kind of teabag has exquisite appearance and large space in the bag, which is beneficial to the fragrance distribution, and can also watch the morphological changes of tea leaves, which is the mainstream trend of teabags in the future. However, the processing cost of diamond tea bags is high, and few factories can produce them. So most of them are used in higher-end products. All seven talks in China used diamond tea bags.

In addition, there are some tea bags with special shapes. Make some exaggerated adjustments on the basis of diamond tea bags. Although the appearance of this kind of tea bag is novel and interesting, the processing is extremely complicated and few brands adopt it. The appearance of tea bags is not to reduce or improve the quality of tea, but to facilitate carrying and brewing, and pay more attention to convenience. Naturally, it will inevitably damage the appearance of tea. But for tea lovers who are away from home, teabags also have their advantages.

In fact, tea bags and tea leaves are just like the difference between instant noodles and handmade noodles.

In terms of drinking tea, tea leaves are still slightly better than tea bags.

People who love tea generally don't use tea bags to make tea, because it is full of tea powder, which doesn't have the beauty of fragrant heads and tea in cups.

If it is just a general thirst quenching, it is convenient to make tea with tea bags and easy to clean. If you want to make tea with milk, use tea bags, which is convenient to drink.