I tried this a while ago, had to chuck it out, tasted horrible.
On Yorkshire tea should it be ‘ard water
Come on and try it if you think you’re hard enough
I thought those already existed?
It’s been around for a few years now. Not really new. Didn’t like it even tho I live in ard water area.
It gives me the mental image of my tap water threatening with my knife, demanding I hand over my wallet.
What is hard water?
Would rather drink Guinness than that
What’s different about it? I mean it’s tea made from leaves I guess it’s a different blend to counteract the hard water taste. But people that have hard water are used to that taste plus for very hard water areas it’s common to use water filters to avoid scale ruining the kettle.
These are at least ten years old.
Hard Water, by Danny Dyer.
How hard?
It should be for bloody ‘ard water.
We swear by these, we have really hard water here in Cambridgeshire. The only thing is, is that it’s really tricky to get hold of, but what I have noticed is that yhe bags tear a lot more than usual..
I’m in the east, where the water is horribly hard. I’ve never tried hard water tea bags, though. They’re not that common where I live. I might find them in the bigger supermarkets, but most of the larger branches are a bit of an arse to get to from where I live.
I seem to do fine with ‘ordinary’ tea bags anyway.
This has been available for a while around here at least. Bristol has very hard water. It’s nicer than normal Yorkshire tea but isn’t my tea of choice.
Lived briefly in Southampton and these were the only way I could get a decent brew.
You might have missed out on something delicious in that Waitrose. We only ever find this product in Wales (on holiday), Menai Bridge Waitrose being one of them…Apple & Cinnamon St Dalfour jam. Pop some of that into a hot croissant and it’s like having apple pie for breakfast
I think OP means about plant based bags. First time I’ve seen that as majority are plastic
finally a tea to combat anglian water
I feel like I could trick my brain into thinking this tastes better if it wasn’t packaged with that sewage green colour.
Lookin smugly at yous from north of the border.
Stop putting viagra in your tea then
You really want to filter your water before you boil it if you’re in a hard water area. Otherwise you’ll go through kettles at a rate of knots. It’s chalky as fuck round my way so I know this from experience.
If you’re doing that, normal Yorkie tea is fine. I feel like this is more marketing guff than actual innovation.
These have been around for donkey’s
Yorkshire Tea is blended and tasted in Harrogate. Which is a notably soft water area. In order to get their tasting just right, they apparently have tanks of hard water delivered to them via their water supplier. In the tasting rooms they have separate taps labelled “hard” and “soft” so that the tasters can choose which sort of water they are tasting on a blend.
The hardness of water definitely does affect the taste of tea. Hard water makes tea denser in taste, and darker in colour. Soft water makes tea lighter and brisker. Presumably the Yorkshire Tea tasters pick out blends to ameliorate the negative effects of hard water.
Personally I have an in-house water softener system. And not a day goes by when I don’t think I made an excellent choice in installing it. I do have to keep this fact a secret from guests who, for whatever reason, believe that drinking softened water is somehow dangerous or bad tasting. It isn’t. (Although, in some rare cases softened water is not recommended for people on highly sodium restricted diets.)
Always look for the bigger solution. If you live a hard water area, get a water softener. Your tea (and coffee) and everything else in your home will be the better for it.
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Hahaah oh dear they’ll sell anything these days 😅
I tried this a while ago, had to chuck it out, tasted horrible.
On Yorkshire tea should it be ‘ard water
Come on and try it if you think you’re hard enough
I thought those already existed?
It’s been around for a few years now. Not really new. Didn’t like it even tho I live in ard water area.
It gives me the mental image of my tap water threatening with my knife, demanding I hand over my wallet.
What is hard water?
Would rather drink Guinness than that
What’s different about it? I mean it’s tea made from leaves I guess it’s a different blend to counteract the hard water taste. But people that have hard water are used to that taste plus for very hard water areas it’s common to use water filters to avoid scale ruining the kettle.
These are at least ten years old.
Hard Water, by Danny Dyer.
How hard?
It should be for bloody ‘ard water.
We swear by these, we have really hard water here in Cambridgeshire. The only thing is, is that it’s really tricky to get hold of, but what I have noticed is that yhe bags tear a lot more than usual..
I’m in the east, where the water is horribly hard. I’ve never tried hard water tea bags, though. They’re not that common where I live. I might find them in the bigger supermarkets, but most of the larger branches are a bit of an arse to get to from where I live.
I seem to do fine with ‘ordinary’ tea bags anyway.
This has been available for a while around here at least. Bristol has very hard water. It’s nicer than normal Yorkshire tea but isn’t my tea of choice.
Lived briefly in Southampton and these were the only way I could get a decent brew.
You might have missed out on something delicious in that Waitrose. We only ever find this product in Wales (on holiday), Menai Bridge Waitrose being one of them…Apple & Cinnamon St Dalfour jam. Pop some of that into a hot croissant and it’s like having apple pie for breakfast
I think OP means about plant based bags. First time I’ve seen that as majority are plastic
finally a tea to combat anglian water
I feel like I could trick my brain into thinking this tastes better if it wasn’t packaged with that sewage green colour.
Lookin smugly at yous from north of the border.
Stop putting viagra in your tea then
You really want to filter your water before you boil it if you’re in a hard water area. Otherwise you’ll go through kettles at a rate of knots. It’s chalky as fuck round my way so I know this from experience.
If you’re doing that, normal Yorkie tea is fine. I feel like this is more marketing guff than actual innovation.
These have been around for donkey’s
Yorkshire Tea is blended and tasted in Harrogate. Which is a notably soft water area. In order to get their tasting just right, they apparently have tanks of hard water delivered to them via their water supplier. In the tasting rooms they have separate taps labelled “hard” and “soft” so that the tasters can choose which sort of water they are tasting on a blend.
The hardness of water definitely does affect the taste of tea. Hard water makes tea denser in taste, and darker in colour. Soft water makes tea lighter and brisker. Presumably the Yorkshire Tea tasters pick out blends to ameliorate the negative effects of hard water.
Personally I have an in-house water softener system. And not a day goes by when I don’t think I made an excellent choice in installing it. I do have to keep this fact a secret from guests who, for whatever reason, believe that drinking softened water is somehow dangerous or bad tasting. It isn’t. (Although, in some rare cases softened water is not recommended for people on highly sodium restricted diets.)
Always look for the bigger solution. If you live a hard water area, get a water softener. Your tea (and coffee) and everything else in your home will be the better for it.
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