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In my kitchen there is a dedicated piece of crockery, that looks like a cross between a short fat spoon and an ashtray, for storing used teabags. My wife obtained it many years ago. It lives approximately 1.5 metres from the kitchen bin. Every evening it is piled precariously high with her used teabags, which invariably topple over by bedtime. They end up in the bin. What the **** is the point of this? It must take much longer to balance the evening teabags on top of the rest than it would to put them straight in the bin. I could understand it if we kept our kettle in the garage and our kitchen bin in the loft, but this just seems absurd.
The thread title promised something a little more.....specialist.
hot tea bags cause bin fires.
They are stupid of you ask me.
I suppose you could put a used teabag on it if you're the type who gets more than one cup of tea from the same tea bag.
If they are stacking up then that's out.
Just pointless and messy.
I ****ing hate them if that helps OP. That and people who use a new teaspoon or cup for every brew. One who does all three is basically the devil. I’m looking at Mrs F whilst typing this 😀
I have one, bought for me by a pupil when she left school as a way of saying 'thanks for being there'. When she was down I gave her tea and space. So I like my the teabag holder for it's associations but not as an object. So it sits in a kitchen cupboard, unused nowadays. Sorry Jodie!
Tell her tea bags are made in part of plastic and she's killing the planet. See shift to loose leaf, which goes with other food waste not landfill.
We've got a little teapot shaped saucer, usefull for putting several teabags on at a time rather than having to go back and forth to the bin, what kind of selfish heathen only makes tea for themselves!
Rendered pointless as we got a mini food waste bin from the council which although the contents goes to our compost rather than theirs and that lives on the windowsill by the sink.
hot tea bags cause bin fires.
I properly guffawed at this 😀
Ours sits next to the compost bin. Ours too also over fills. Ours too also means I have to move the old tea bags about 5cm TO THE BIN.
🙄
Hot tea bags cause bin sweat.
I like to stack teabag then aeropress puck then teabag etc.
Stops the bin getting wet.
But i'm with funkmaster.
One mug selected at the am. Teaspoons are for wimps though. The handle of any used cutlery or use my fingers.
Not just me then I’m glad to see.
Sorry perchy, I did think I could try and go down that road a bit for you, but I couldn’t for the life of me imagine what it would involve so I gave up.
Teabag Jenga sounds great! I'm going to introduce this at work:
Everyone spends all day trying to balance a teabag onto the stack, whoever fails has to clean up the mess - I cannot see a downside.
what kind of selfish heathen only makes tea for themselves!
Same type of person that makes a group of people tea in individual cups, get a teapot, heathen
See shift to loose leaf, which goes with other food waste not landfill.
Not in Ipswich, all food waste now goes to landfill because.. not my budget. It's all our local taxes money you muppet!!
But it stops the steam from hot teabags from causing all that condensation in the food bin - it's a cooling implement, rather than storage....
No photos yet?
Anyone care to make a bold claim?
i'm in a welfare van so i'm never going to achieve greatness... Not how i drive the van anyway...
It’s a stand on which I place my oolong Formosa infusion. The best cup is always the second, and at least three are the norm from any dose. Just as well given the price!
I feel your pain.
https://singletrackmag.com/forum/topic/the-work-of-the-devil/
My inlaws are fabulous people who I have all the time in the World for, but after a week on holiday with them and the little steaming wig-wams of tea bags that they leave lying around the place I would quite happily do them in with a shovel*.
*Obviously this is not true Carol if you are reading this**.
**Which is somewhat unlikely.
But it stops the steam from hot teabags from causing all that condensation in the food bin – it’s a cooling implement, rather than storage….
This, and it saves having drips of tea all the floor between the kettle and the bin.
Tell her tea bags are made in part of plastic and she’s killing the planet. See shift to loose leaf, which goes with other food waste not landfill.
Someone said that the other day so I looked it up.
The advice from WRAP is they're still compostable as the amount of plastic is so small as to be insignificant.
Ironically the posh plant based polymer bags (tea pigs etc) aren't compostable at home as they take too high a heat to break down but can go in food waste collections.
But it stops the steam from hot teabags from causing all that condensation in the food bin – it’s a cooling implement, rather than storage….
This, and it saves having drips of tea all the floor between the kettle and the bin.
This and this and it's stops buggering the soluble food waste bags.
Fair enough. But when they have cooled PUT THEM IN THE BIN / COMPOSTER. Don't leave them piled up like mounds of Wombat shit*.
*Google it.
This, and it saves having drips of tea all the floor between the kettle and the bin.
Just put your hand under the teaspoon whilst moving the bag to the bin.
But teabags are not cubed!
Just use loose tea and compost it, or put it on your roses.
*Google it.
I did - cool!
it saves having drips of tea all the floor between the kettle and the bin.
Have you tried moving the mug next to the bin before extracting the teabag?
Do I have to think of everything around here?
When our compost caddy is full they get left in the sink. End result, stains that need bleach to remove grrr.
I ‘kin love teabag Jenga! How high can you go?? It saves dropping soggy teabags in the food bin (and causing bin-sweat) and it drives my wife nuts in a manner I find totally irrational, but very amusing. I guess some here would side with her...
these people who put hot steamy teabags in the food bin probably think the food caddy empties and cleans itself of a manky goop.
Because not putting steamy tea bags in the caddy stops the food waste getting manky.... no didn't think so.
your wife does it to spite you, it is her prerogative.
and what the flip is bin sweat?
Because not putting steamy tea bags in the caddy stops the food waste getting manky…. no didn’t think so.
Nope, but it does stop the steam and sweat from causing the compostible/soluuble bag to split so that when you pull it out of the caddy the manky food falls out of the bottom and all over the kitchen floor.
and what the flip is bin sweat?
It's what happens to binners when he can smell a Greggs
Can't stop humming Tina Turner now.
'Steamy Binbags...'
To the list of heathens I'd like to add the people that leave the teaspoon on the little shelf in the corner of the sink thereby leaving a nice teas stain.
But it stops the steam from hot teabags from causing all that condensation in the food bin
It’s the steam from our food waste that allows the fruit flies to soar like condors.
This, and it saves having drips of tea all the floor between the kettle and the bin.
You are my mother-in-law, I presume? She’s the only person I know who drips tea all around the kitchen. Even my 12 year old can make a cup without making a mess.
Can't believe this thread has got this far without anyone pointing out it's mis-titled. Shirley it's tea bag Buckaroo?
Tea bag Jenga would involve strategically removing tea bags from lower down the pile (and presumably placing them in the bin) would it not?
these people who put hot steamy teabags in the food bin probably think the food caddy empties and cleans itself of a manky goop.
I like to think of the vomit smelling fermenting mess at the bottom of the bin after a few warm days as speeding up the composting process.
Tea bag Jenga would involve strategically removing tea bags from lower down the pile (and presumably placing them in the bin) would it not?
Tea bag Jenga would involve strategically removing tea bags from lower down the pile and then placing them back on the top of the pile.
Teabag Buckaroo is my porn star name.
I don’t mind what you want to call it. I just want it to stop.
Tea bag Jenga would involve strategically removing tea bags from lower down the pile and then placing them back on the top of the pile.
True. I messed that bit up.
But it is buckaroo.
Correct etiquette is to move the now cool tea bags before placing any new ones on. It should be a one brew up in one brew up out. The problem is not moving the tea bag to bin when cooled.