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Green teabags in this instance. How many times have you/do you re-use a teabag?

Am sat here drinking from a cup that has been re-filled 6 times with the same green tea bag. A bit of colour is leaching into the water so there's still life in the bag yet.


 
Posted : 04/03/2014 12:35 pm
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Jesus man!
You're not asking for a lynching, you've made the gallows, tied the noose around your neck and are just waiting for a passing breeze to encourage you off the stool!

Courageous.


 
Posted : 04/03/2014 12:53 pm
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Depends if you like tea or vaguely tea-coloured water, I prefer the former so in answer to your question "0"


 
Posted : 04/03/2014 12:55 pm
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Just twice with my Lady Grey teabags. 🙂


 
Posted : 04/03/2014 12:56 pm
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A former GF of mine back in student days used to dry out her teabags (not a euphemism) on the radiator.

We are no longer together.


 
Posted : 04/03/2014 12:57 pm
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OP, how many uses do you get from one condom? I'm sure if you put them in the wash they'll be fine.


 
Posted : 04/03/2014 1:01 pm
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Recently been doubling up with an earl grey and yorkshire tea bag so have been recycling the earl grey bag a couple of times.

:o)


 
Posted : 04/03/2014 1:02 pm
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None. Go and have a good look in the mirror.


 
Posted : 04/03/2014 1:07 pm
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iolo, do you reckon a 30c would be OK or cold?

EDIT: \/\/\/ I come for the banter, I stay for the great advice


 
Posted : 04/03/2014 1:09 pm
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Turn 'em inside and carefully warm them in the toaster (bagel setting is best) then flick off the crusty bits with a tooth brush and roll them back up.


 
Posted : 04/03/2014 1:12 pm
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OP, how many uses do you get from one condom? I'm sure if you put them in the wash they'll be fine.

Fill it up with cold water from the tap, pour it out, put on draining board. Why would you waste time and money putting it in the washing machine?!


 
Posted : 04/03/2014 1:13 pm
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0 and I make sure its not Tetleys

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/01/india-tea-firms-urged-tackle-slave-traffic-plantations


 
Posted : 04/03/2014 1:15 pm
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I'm a one use man myself but I have a v tight cousin (no euphemism intended) who walks around with a stick of root ginger in her handbag to dunk in cups of hot water. We all reckon its been the same stick for years.


 
Posted : 04/03/2014 1:24 pm
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I'll get three or four cups from a normal tea bag. But I like my tea weak and black - I live on the continent, don't you know! 😉


 
Posted : 04/03/2014 1:30 pm
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I like my tea weak and black

I like my tea weak and black too but it's no excuse for carrying on like that.


 
Posted : 04/03/2014 1:33 pm
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If you did that with a Bag of Yorkshire, I'd slap you,
Green/ herbal tea is expectable.


 
Posted : 04/03/2014 1:35 pm
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I sometimes put two bags in one mug - makes a nice strong cup without over-steeping the mark...
#decadent


 
Posted : 04/03/2014 1:44 pm
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Agreed with above sentiments, you can't re-use 'proper' tea bags, you would be asking for a slap.

Some of you have very odd fiends.


 
Posted : 04/03/2014 1:47 pm
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Some of you have very odd fiends

You have normal fiends then?

Its acceptable - just but it is poor form- to make more than you need in a pot and then use the water afterwards and re heat in the microwave

Re using is just wrong it works but only if you like weak as can be tea......I doubt it matters with green as it is tasteless IME.


 
Posted : 04/03/2014 2:20 pm
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make sure its not Tetleys
The taste does it for me, without ethical reasons!


 
Posted : 04/03/2014 2:21 pm
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ive been thinking about drying my tea bag in a dyson airblade hand drier.


 
Posted : 04/03/2014 2:36 pm
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Having run low on tea bags on a bothy trip I can confirm that one bag makes an acceptable second cup. Plus the chance for a game of paper, scissors, stone to see who gets first go.


 
Posted : 04/03/2014 2:42 pm

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