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  • Reusing teabags
  • sandwicheater
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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.

    sbob
    Free Member

    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.

    FuzzyWuzzy
    Full Member

    Depends if you like tea or vaguely tea-coloured water, I prefer the former so in answer to your question “0”

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    LadyGresley
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    Just twice with my Lady Grey teabags. 🙂

    Harry_the_Spider
    Full Member

    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.

    iolo
    Free Member

    OP, how many uses do you get from one condom? I’m sure if you put them in the wash they’ll be fine.

    maxray
    Free Member

    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)

    freddyg
    Free Member

    None. Go and have a good look in the mirror.

    sandwicheater
    Full Member

    iolo, do you reckon a 30c would be OK or cold?

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

    Harry_the_Spider
    Full Member

    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.

    dabble
    Free Member

    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?!

    wingnuts
    Full Member

    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.

    BeardedDave
    Free Member

    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! 😉

    lemonysam
    Free Member

    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.

    tacopowell
    Free Member

    If you did that with a Bag of Yorkshire, I’d slap you,
    Green/ herbal tea is expectable.

    brakes
    Free Member

    I sometimes put two bags in one mug – makes a nice strong cup without over-steeping the mark…
    #decadent

    sandwicheater
    Full Member

    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.

    Junkyard
    Free Member

    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.

    lilchris
    Free Member

    make sure its not Tetleys

    The taste does it for me, without ethical reasons!

    parkesie
    Free Member

    ive been thinking about drying my tea bag in a dyson airblade hand drier.

    irc
    Full Member

    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.

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