Tea bag
The first precursor of the tea bag was created by Thomas Sullivan, a tea importer in New York who packed tea samples in small gauze bags and sent them to his customers in 1908. These gauze bags were a smashing success.
- From the tea infuser to the tea bag
- Experimentation
- The double-chamber bag
From the tea infuser to the tea bag
n Germany, TEEKANNE GmbH & Co. KG learned of this predecessor of the tea bag.
It created the so-called “tea bomb” to supply soldiers with tea during World War I. It was a practical solution, but the gauze affected the flavour of the tea.
Experimentation
At the end of the 1920s, TEEKANNE experimented with a solution that had been developed in the USA:
single-chamber tea bags made by gluing pieces of special parchment together. These products were better because the paper that was used had no effect on the taste, but the after-taste of the glue still bothered the fine palates of spoiled tea drinkers.
The double-chamber bag
In 1949, TEEKANNE introduced the double-chamber tea bag.
It was made by folding high-quality filter paper, and used no glue! The tea is placed in two chambers. This allows the water to come into optimal contact with the tea from all sides, fully releasing its flavour. This introduced a new era of tea drinking, because TEEKANNE’s invention revolutionised how tea was consumed.
Tea in bags began taking the world by storm and allowed TEEKANNE to attain international prominence, with its name closely associated with the invention of the double-chamber bag.
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