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

@Nith

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

There was an excellent TV programme comparing the two that I watched a couple of months ago. I think it was on channel 5, and who knows, may still be available.

I won't tell you who won. I don't believe in spoilers.

@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.

Bit of a con if you need 2 bags for one cup of strong tea. Cant imagine Yorkshire folk would be happy with that. I have M&S and often get 2 cups out of one bag and its strong enough to grow hairs on your chest

Switch to another brand. "that'll learn em"
PG tips and Typhoo are good in the south with hard water.

@SchadenfreudePersonified

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).

I have a PGTips Wallace and Gromit one.

I have a PGTips Wallace and Gromit one.

You can get a PG Tips caddy here, just not with the monkey

www.amazon.co.uk/Half-Moon-Bay-57TC01-Caddy/dp/B005GQ85VE?tag=mumsnetforu03-21

OP I love a cup of Yorkshire tea. It never rips though? Their decaf is very good too.

@TwoZeroTwoZero

You can get a PG Tips caddy here, just not with the monkey

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Thank you Two, but I'm not paying 13 quid for a monkey-free caddy!

The actual Gruffalo one was free - you bought the tea bags and the caddy came with them (a promotion, obviously, but it worked with me because I am very shallow. And tight. )

You can get the Wallace one on eBay @SchadenfreudePersonified, bit pricey though

www.ebay.co.uk/itm/265061216995

Mine have never ever ripped - what am I doing right?!!!

😂 Yea mine came free too but they don't sell them no more so I was trying to be helpful. Harumph I'll not bloody bother no bloody more!

@Ellie56

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

Tetleys is vile stuff. It goes scummy in hard water and taste horrid.

I have a fancy teapot with a second for loose tea.

Though at the moment I'm drinking Whittard's English breakfast which is really nice.

Buy their loose leaf and one of these pots

www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07FZ6V5PV/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_fabc_HAK9EV09F844FMS06KEB?psc=1&_encoding=UTF8&tag=mumsnetforu03-21

I live in Australia and it comes on a STRING here! A STRING!

Like bloody herbal tea!

[quote The6thQueen]You can get the Wallace one on eBay @SchadenfreudePersonified, bit pricey though

www.ebay.co.uk/itm/265061216995[/quote]
£24 pounds 50?

TWENTY-FOUR POUNDS FIFTY!!!!!

@TwoZeroTwoZero

😂 Yea mine came free too but they don't sell them no more so I was trying to be helpful. Harumph I'll not bloody bother no bloody more!

There's no need to get all uppity!

I said "Thank you" - and I admitted I was tight!

We have the Gruffalo tin AND a fancy Yorkshire Gold one...DH and I drink at least 5 cups of Yorkshire Gold per day, it’s a good job that caddy has strong hinges

I make tea in a teapot - but only use one bag.
I split the tea bag pairs into before I put them in the jar, but it irritates me every time. Why? Just Why? I bet they manufacture in huge sheets, why not make that final cut to a single tea bag?

I opened a new box of pyramid PG tips yesterday, not my favourite, but a huge inward smile when I pulled out a handful of SINGLE pyramid teabags from the box.

FIVE cups, Jeans?

Pfft!

Lightweights!

and I am in love with my new teapot
Tealyra Marble Teapot

It holds 600ml, perfect for two mugs!
The one I replaced was a similar shape, but only 500ml - one and a bit mugs, almost as frustrating as pairs of teabags.

And yes, you can use loose leaf too.

Aw, come on. I draw the line at the mention of PG or Typhoo, knats pee.
May your bags improve. Can't help thinking you must be a heavy handed bunch though.
Just buy a pot and be done with it, you won't regret it.
Not drumming up business or anything

@SchadenfreudePersonified, you do get a Gromit mug though....

@crystaltips98

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

Well out of date.

The reason Yorkshire tea bags tear more easily than a year or two ago is because they have removed the plastic from the bags.

Have you seen what Yorkshire Tea has done now?

toast and jam flavoured tea

biscuit flavoured tea

There is a knack to it

You need to take a handful of lined up double bags and slowly bend them/pull them and they all come apart at the same time

I can’t separate 2 bags

But I can separate a pile of bags neatly in one go

Shall I do a YouTube vid on it?!