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Machines
Traditionally tea leaves were brewed in a tea pot and poured into cups; milk and sugar were added to the exact taste. This tradition created many tea ceremonies and romance associated with tea. But this ceremony was time consuming. The tea bag was born as a result.
The Italians and the Germans designed the state of the art, high speed tea bagging machines to meet this need. These machines are so sophisticated tea bags are manufactured without the touch of a human for efficiency and hygiene. Some of the machines produce 2,000 tea bags per minute.
At Southern Sun Teas we operate a state of the art tea bagging facility which can produce any type of tea bag ever invented.
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Tea Bags
It was in America, with its love of labor-saving devices, that tea bags were first developed. In around 1908, Thomas Sullivan, a New York tea merchant, started to send samples of tea to his customers in small silken bags. Some assumed that these were supposed to be used in the same way as the metal infusers, by putting the entire bag into the pot, rather than emptying out the contents. It was thus by accident that the tea bag was born! Responding to the comments from his customers that the mesh on the silk was too fine, Sullivan developed sachets made of gauze - the first purpose-made tea bags. During the 1920s these were developed for commercial production, and the bags grew in popularity in the USA. Made first of all from gauze and later from paper, they came in two sizes, a larger bag for the pot, a smaller one for the cup. The features that we still recognize today were already in place - a string that hung over the side so the bag could be removed easily, with a decorated tag on the end.
But while the American population took to tea bags with enthusiasm, the British were naturally wary of such a radical change in their tea-making methods. This was not helped by horror stories told by Britons who had visited the USA, who reported being served cups of tepid water with a tea bag on the side waiting to be dunked into it (an experience which is still not as uncommon in the USA as it should be!).
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Round Tea Bags
Round tea bags are a recent innovation in tea bags. They look clean and easy to handle. Since we use only high quality tea you will find that it does not stain the tea bag.
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Tea Bags with String & Tag
This type of tea bag has been in the tea industry for many years. It is made of two chambers attached to a tag by a string. Both chambers are filled with tea to ensure a smooth and pleasant brew.
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Pillow type tea bags in a foil envelope
This tea bag is connected to a string and a tag without using a metal staple. To preserve the aroma of tea and to ensure its freshness the tea bag is packed a high quality foil envelope.
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Pillow type tea bags in a paper envelope
This tea bag is connected to a string and a tag without using a metal staple. To preserve the aroma of tea and to ensure its freshness the tea bag is packed a high quality paper envelope.
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Pillow type tea bag
This tea bag has been one of the first that was developed for tea bagging machines. Traditionally, pillow-type tea bags have been packed in loose form. We, however, have packed these bags in a foil pouch to ensure the freshness and aroma of our gourmet teas.
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Pyramid tea bags
The first tea bagging machines could only process small granules of tea. This deprived the connoisseur of tea of the taste of long leaf tea. Modern tea bag machine manufactures developed this type of tea bagging machine to ensure that you could enjoy the pleasures of long leaf tea with the convenience of tea bags.
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Spa Tea Bag
This is a 5” x 5” tea bag that can hold long leaf tea. This was invented by our in-house product development personnel. We have the only tea bagging machine of this kind in the World. Tea has been used in the spa for centuries in Asia because it helped the body to absorb antioxidants without consuming caffeine.
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