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teabags work by - the waters soaks the tea leaves flavour up into it and the actually bag keeps the leaves from leaving the bag - by squeezing the teabag u get the flavour ofthe leaves without the leaves :)

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A teabag is a container, usually paper, but in some cases cloth, that holds loose leave tea. The tea bag is placed in a container (cup or pot) and boiling water is poured over it. The teabag is water permeable, so the boiling water saturates the tea leaves. The steeping process (letting it sit) allows the flavours, and colour to be leached out of the leaves and into the water making an infusion or tea. When the tea has steeped the desired time, the bag is removed from the container. At this point the teabag does what it was designed to do, it keeps all the vegetable matter of the tea leaves out of the infusion, thus making the consumption of the tea much pleasanter.

Before the advent of teabags, tea was made by putting a measured amount of loose-leaf tea into a container (a tea pot) and boiling water was poured over it. Once the tea had steeped the desired length of time the tea was poured out, through a strainer into a cup.

The use of teabags came about because after the premium grades of loose leaf tea had been packaged up for sale, there were lots of small bits and pieces left over. Most of the tea in a teabag would fall through a strainer. To make tea a bit more economical and reduce the waste of "usable" tea, a water permeable container (the teabag) was needed. Hence the invention of the teabag.

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The tea leaves in teabags are treated in such a way that minute particles of the leaves are freed enough to diffuse throughout water. Most of these particles still have some connection which must be overcome by heat, which is why you need to use hot water for most teabags.

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q=how does the tea bag dissolve?

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11y ago

Put it in a cup of hot water and let it sit there until the water is darker. That's how you make tea.

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8y ago

The loose tea inside the teabag escapes and, though some may settle in the bottom of the cup, some will float and spoil the tea drinking experience.

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12y ago

Thin paper.

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