Tea... an important issue

It does seem a lot, yeah. Maybe I need to cross out "good value".

I have only bought loose leaf tea so didn't have the more stark "per cup" cost in mind.

So now I've had a look at a few other places and £20-£30 per 100 artisanal / hipster tea bags seems to be quite typical. Some places are more, e.g. £40/hundred bags here:

https://jingtea.com/format/tea-bags/ceylon-breakfast-tea-bags

These were given away in petrol stations years ago. They must have held a pint and I would return from my regular 40 mile ride and fill one up with Tetleys.

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We have an afternoon ritual some time after five pm or when I have finished turbo session. I make a pot of loose leaf tea and will take a mug to my wife in her office. It was Xmas 2020 I gave her the tea pot and started buying proper tea. It takes a fraction longer to make than tea bags but is so so worthwhile. Tend to buy two 500g bags of different black teas from here every few months

I remember those!!

I’ve got a minestrone one at work - fits a tin o soup perfectly, which is guess is blindingly obvious now I think about it.

I can vouch for these being an excellent bagged Assam/Ceylon: https://www.tea-and-coffee.com/assam-tea-bags

They only do packs of 50 minutes though which is a bit of a pain but still coming in around a fifth the price of the others. When I had money to throw around at ‘fancy’ tea, they were what I used to buy. Seem quite good value at the moment.

oops, just ordered some tea from loose leaf tea company following the recommendation upthread but wife saw it and disapproved of the company's ethical credentials, which were not up to standard. I have to admit to being bored and, having seen some gestures in the way of ethical concerns, put my mind to rest so I could continue to indulge my tea shopping spree.

someone from the company will be here now to refute the suggestion they are not doing enough

This is where I order my tea from, what are the concerns?

well, you can opt for plastic free packaging but on the whole the tea is not organic, it’s not at a company wide level at least fair trade certificated, in fact there is nothing to suggest it has any serious ethical credentials

tea is not organic

The link between ethical & organic is tenuous at best, I'd suggest - In the UK, for example (I know precious little about other countries), various "organic" certifications have been entirely co-opted, to the extent of being nothing more than labels for marketing.

To be honest I order from here for the plastic free packaging. If anyone has any other plastic free recommendations I'm all ears.

Yes, I personally am a slight organic skeptic in certain cases, but as a household we are committed to all the signs of ethical consumption so it's a factor.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0004f22

TK Max sometimes have unusual and exotic teas at reasonable prices - also interesting coffee !

Our kettle broke.

It was one of these, which are now, apparently, no longer available:

What buy now? We like the look of the old kettle, but don't want to pay £100 for a water boiler.

bought one of these to replace my £100 kettle that got dropped on the floor and broke:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/223792292251?epid=7011381647&hash=item341b0f619b:g:wKEAAOSw-q9hqLC4

I have one of these.
Christmas present from my FiL so was free but am sure they are closer to a £100 kettle than not.

Also, if I dropped it on the floor, I would be replacing the floor before the kettle.

I have the Alessi kettle (electric version). Looks great and boils well, but weirdly now spits. It never used to do that. No significant furring. I am mystified.

Ta.

Just to make it more awkward - it's a 1L kettle we're after, it would appear.

Just saw this, which may not be the cheapest, but it's also not as much as I expected dualit to be

Kitchen appliance thread, surely >>>>

I can collect if anyone is interested.

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Someone brought a Mariage Frères Earl Grey Imperial into work about a year ago and every earl grey I've drunk since then seems lacking.
That was the first fancy tea I ever had and I wish I hadn't drunk it. I would rather live in ignorance.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yr22qq5q8o
Typhoo on the brink.

Unsurprising considering how shit it is.