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

I don’t drink Yorkshire tea so I don’t have the same pain about tea bags, but I do have a 4 year old that quotes ‘do it for yorkshire’ in a big shouty voice as he’s seen it on the advert every time we have a cup of pg!

Ooh, I'm also a batch tearer, it feels so satisfying...

@Dahlietta

Yorkshire tea is overrated anyway.

Very true. One of the consumer programmes swapped YT for Sainsburys basics and they preferred it

I think most bagged tea tastes like shite. I think I may have been converted by a few of you to loose tea.

Can't I tempt you over to the M&S Gold side then? Lovely strong tea, really nice flavour & tear very easily!
I'm hard to please with tea but I love it.

@BiteyShark

Oh god I thought it was just me. I tried tearing them in batches to save time. As you can imagine that went badly 😆

I love Rington's tea also. I have also smugly tried to do this with the same result

M&S tea is lovely.
English Breakfast wakes me up

I have never had this happen and I'm a YT devotee. Or rather a devo-tea.

This has made me realise that I actually DO have a talent and I should hire myself out to all you useless teabag tearers for many pounds.

*pictures retiring to cottage by the sea on her six-figure teabag tearing salary ...

@TopTabby

Can't I tempt you over to the M&S Gold side then? Lovely strong tea, really nice flavour & tear very easily! I'm hard to please with tea but I love it.

NEVER! Be gone with you Tabby!

I find pulling teabags apart works better than tearing.

@NoseOfJericho

Not just the having to be careful when you tear them, but the randomness of the quality is annoying.

I often find I have a box of Yorkshire Gold that is the quality of the Red stuff, or has no depth of flavour.

I tear my bags carefully when I open the box and then decant them into a tin, saves being given a cup of loose bits if someone else makes it.

@NoseOfJericho I really thought you carefully emptied the t bags contents into a tin. I was thinking wtf doesn’t she know about loose leaf tea?

Loose leaf tea is so much nicer than bags. Unfortunately only practical for first 2 huge mugs of the day for me.

Taylors understand the Yorkshire character. They do it deliberately so the tykes have something to grumble about first thing in the morning.
"Ee bah gum, mi fookin tea bag's busted again"

@jcyclops

Taylors understand the Yorkshire character. They do it deliberately so the tykes have something to grumble about first thing in the morning. "Ee bah gum, mi fookin tea bag's busted again"

I just spat out my brew!

Tear them into two?!?

Nay, two is a single brew. Tearing down the centre only happens south of Watford Gap as the taste is just too strong for southern palates.

@NoMackerelInSwindon

Tear them into two?!?

Nay, two is a single brew. Tearing down the centre only happens south of Watford Gap as the taste is just too strong for southern palates.

Midlands based here, clearly this has been my mistake!

Clearly mumsnet is also trying to tell me something...

Yes! They seem to tear more easily

I agree i love yorkshire tea but we always have a few wasted teabags and mess. Wish they'd turn to already teared or string

DH likes Yorkshire, but I've overridden him and bought PG tips on the basis that they are separate T bags and compostable.

This has happened to me today m.

There's a very simple solution here. Open the box, take out all of the tea bags and use scissors to separate them.

Then sweep them all up into a pile and chuck them in the bin as tea is vile

Use loose leaf tea in a teapot instead. Much easier and nicer. Yorkshire tea, btw, is horrible: far too bitter. I prefer Teapigs tea. I live in Yorkshire, too

Have literally just cleared up the leaves from the counter before I sat down with MN and wasted two tea bags and thought the same thing.
Maybe it's to boost sales?

I have the Yorkshire Tea Gruffolo Tea-Caddy

I also have this!

It should be obligatory that EVERY tea manufacturer produces AT LEAST one branded tea caddy in their lifetime.

I would collect them - I'd love a PG Tips "Munki" one, and a Punjana one (perhaps with elephants running round it).