Bastarding Yorkshire tea

[The6thQueen]

I love a good cuppa - but why can’t YT pre tear the tea bags - for the millionth time dry tea is all over my counter

I know IANBU

Why are people drinking Yorkshire Tea when Barry's Gold exists?

@ArcheryAnnie

Get yourself one of these, OP - it's a game changer. You can have loose leaf without washing a bloody teapot, or having one of those teeny little tea balls on a chain. Easy to fill, easy to empty - after use just tip them into the bin, or the compost bucket. And Yorkshire Tea do loose leaf!

game changer

Thanks @ArcheryAnnie, will look into that

Just use Tetleys teabags. They are individual so no tearing required.

Not to mention the new eco friendly pg tips bags. Every single one has split. If I want loose leaf tea I’ll use a pot. And a strainer.

I mainly drink loose leaf tea nowadays and discovered M&S extra strong tea which is fantastic and the teabags are good too. Makes a lovely strong, malty cuppa, and the bags are decently perforated

YANBU. I've switched to PG Tips for this very reason. Their bags are separate, easy to use, and you can get at least 3 cups out of one bag if the pot brews properly.

@OhWhatFuckeryIsThisNow

Not to mention the new eco friendly pg tips bags. Every single one has split. If I want loose leaf tea I’ll use a pot. And a strainer.

Oh noooo! We must have bought older ones as ours don't say they're eco-friendly.

They are perforated and do tear!

This is Tetley propaganda. The OP is clearly a plant.

I use a tea strainer. I'll confess that I hate it sometimes because other members of the household throw any small amounts of leftover tea down the sink which discolours it and they don't wipe round so it looks a mess. Added to which, they're not good at removing the remaining tealeaves from the pot (I filter them through a disreputable sieve that I line with used, non-plasticised kitchen paper - same with coffee grounds).

@jaffar

They are perforated and do tear!

This is Tetley propaganda. The OP is clearly a plant.

@jaffar these are my YT Gold

No perforation and they don’t fucking tear 😢

@peak2021

It seems to be a recent thing.

Never used to have Yorkshire tea when young, one of the few benefits of climate change.

Good one! (I prefer Assam myself)

You need to send an email to customer services with the details from the bottom on the box, so that it can be followed up in the factory.

There are meant to be perforations.

Speaking as a complete outsider of course...

I've just bought a teapot that is like a coffee plunger, once I have used up all my teabags I'm going over to loose tea. Have you thought of snipping the bags with scissors?

Not only are the teabags useless, it's also rank.
They need to start making decent tea not that excuse for a decent drink.

It's a lottery. Running a sweepstake on what sort of a box you get this time. I've had the ones that need scissors, but the box I'm on now the pairs are almost completely separated, only held together by the tiniest corner. I fist bump myself when I open a new box and find it's one of those.

I have a similar gripe about Aldi sour dough baguettes, they used to be packaged so that you could tear one off and the other remained sealed, now they're not and being on my own it's a pain.

OP this is madness. Yours clearly have more tea in too. What has the world come to.

We use the loose leaf Yorkshire tea instead. Our teapot has a separate diffuser type thing in it so keeps the leaves contained.
I reckon it tastes better than tea bags too.

I have had this problem. I take them out of the box, separate then put in a tin. If you grab each side and pull the lot they rip. I’ve found a better way is to put my hands on the top on each side, then ease apart like that. it seems to be a gentler way of doing it and they’re less prone to tearing.

They (like some other brands) also use microplastic in the bags so your tea is laced with this stuff. Change to PG tips. No tear dilemas and better for environment

@itsthatdorkagain

PGTips are far nicer

Lockdown must have addled your brain, so I’ll let you off

I bought their loose leaf tea and it was utter shite - like the powder you get inside a tea bag. Never buying it again.

I think they changed the bags a few years ago to be more eco friendly and they had problems. We emailed them and they replaced the boxes.
They did recognise it and will reimburse you if you contact them.

@jaffar

They are perforated and do tear!

This is Tetley propaganda. The OP is clearly a plant.

Yep. I just received my 400 bag catering pack this morning. Batches of 2 bags with perforated line as ever down the middle.

@ArcheryAnnie

Get yourself one of these, OP - it's a game changer. You can have loose leaf without washing a bloody teapot, or having one of those teeny little tea balls on a chain. Easy to fill, easy to empty - after use just tip them into the bin, or the compost bucket. And Yorkshire Tea do loose leaf!

game changer

^ this