Matcha Green Tea

Artisan Matcha by Hekisui


Premium Organic Matcha 2009


Kyoto Imperial Matcha


Japanese Bamboo Matcha Tea Scoop


Matcha Tea Whisk (carved from Bamboo)


Hagiseiji Matcha Bowl "Frost On A Meadow"

Tea bags are a fairly common piece of equipment in most kitchens. After all, most people drink their tea using a tea bag rather than loose leaf. They're fairly inexpensive, they're easy to use, and they're much easier to keep in check or carry around than a whole container of loose leaf tea. There are many different reasons why people would want to use a tea bag. They're functional and easy to carry around for one, but what are tea bags anyway, and how did we get them?

Tea bags tend to be made from porous paper or sometimes from silk. They contain small amounts of tea. Because they're porous in nature, the essence of the tea can flow out from them when they're doused with hot water. Tea bags help keep the tea that you're brewing in one place, rather than letting it float around the pot. They're a great idea for people who don't drink tea often, or who don't have equipment such as a tea strainer. Tea bags often have a string with a tag attached to them. This can be used to dunk the tea bag in the cup, or to tie it around the handle of the cup to make sure it doesn't fall in. It also helps facilitate the removal of the tea bag, which would otherwise have to be done with a spoon.

Tea bags have been around for quite some time. In fact, the first tea bags were actually used as a way for storing tea, and were made from silk muslin. There are patents for these sorts of tea bags that have been in existence for over a century. Tea bags are therefore not a particularly new invention, although they've certainly become more popular in recent years because of their ease of use. The original tea bags were actually simply intended as a way to store and carry around tea in measured amounts. Customers were supposed to remove the tea from the tea bags before brewing their tea. However, many of them simply put the entire bag in their tea cups, and brewed their tea this way. It was such an effective approach that it's continued to this day.

Some people argue that the taste of tea brewed from tea bags is not as good as the tea that's made from fresh tea leaves. These people argue that tea should be properly brewed using proper equipment and for the appropriate amount of time. The use of tea bags has resulted in people changing the way that they brew tea, so changes in taste are in part to do with this. Rather than brewing the tea for several minutes, many people now drunk their tea bag a few times until the water changes color slightly. This obviously results in a weaker and significantly different tasting cup of tea from one that has been brewed in a tea pot for several minutes.

However, despite their criticisms, tea bags are extremely popular items. They are functional and useful, and can be found across many different cultures for these reasons.

Premium green and black teas with added Matcha makes this a pleasing morning tea. The caffeine in the green and black teas provides a welcome, not jittery, start to the day. The addition of Matcha, the heathful green tea used in the Japanese tea ceremony, also adds to the antioxidants in this tea.