How to Steep Tea Bags In terms of convenience, you can’t beat packaged tea bags. There are so many tea bag options out there from big names like Lipton to specialty brands ( Rishi is a Wisconsin ...

When cold winter temps have you feeling chilly on the inside, it’s a cup of hot tea to the rescue. But is learning how to steep tea really as simple as dropping a bag in hot water? With these ...

Leave that tea bag in for too little time and you run the risk of a cup that tastes more like water than tea. More steep time means more flavor, yes—but it is possible to oversteep black, green ...

Oolong tea: Perhaps the most versatile and diverse on this list, oolong (also from Camellia sinensis) can be oxidized anywhere from 8-80%.Due to this extremely wide range, oolongs can taste sweet ...

Don’t throw that tea bag away just yet. Getty / Roman Larin / EyeEm Brewing a cup of tea is one of life's simple pleasures. But did you know that your little tea bag can do so much more than ...

The researchers found that steeping a cup of black tea for five minutes could remove 15 percent of lead from the water, which is helpful, but there is “no safe level” of lead exposure ...