Tea bag shape Introduction
Tea bag is made in triangle pyramid shape, square, rectangular, double chamber, conical, round in shape by packing machine, making machine.
The most common tea bag shapes are square, pyramid, and double chamber, and less common are conical and round. Triangular and conical tea bags produce soup faster, and square, double-sac and round tea bags are slower.
1. What is tea bag?
Tea bag is a kind of finished tea, which means that the ground tea leaves are put into a small bag made of filter paper or non-woven fabric, and connected with a thread with a label, which can be brewed after brewing. Conveniently remove the residual bag from the tea soup and discard. The advantage of teabags is that they can be prepared with different flavors from a variety of tea leaves. Teabags produced in the UK are generally blended with tea leaves sourced from around the world. Teabags are gradually popularized in hotels, banquets, office buildings and other occasions because they conform to the fast and convenient consumption habits of modern people.
2. What is the best shape for a tea bag?
Three-dimensional pyramid shaped are more popular with unique feature.
3. What is the advantage of three-dimensional triangular tea bag over ordinary tea bags?
The pyramid tea bag shared some advantages as below:
3.1 The tea bag made into a three-dimensional triangle is to allow the tea leaves to fully stretch in the three-dimensional space, fully expressing the taste and aroma.
3.2 Two tea bags with the same volume, the three-dimensional tea bag has a larger surface area to embrace hot water. The surface area of the traditional tea bag in contact with water is about 1/2 of the total area, and the surface area of the three-dimensional triangular cone tea bag in contact with water is 3/4 of the total area.
The tea release efficiency increases with the area of the tea bag in contact with water. The part of the traditional tea bag that cannot touch the hot water leads to idle tea leaves, but the three-dimensional triangular tea bag has no such concerns.
3.3 The brewing methods of various teas are different, and some teas cannot be brewed for a long time. But this is a matter of time. From the perspective of tea bags, triangular tea bags are better than traditional bags. First, sort out the tea leaves. The second is that the blades cannot be stretched like the bag shape.
3.4 Keep the shape of the tea leaves, the tea leaves will not be broken; the triangular contact area is large, making it easier to brew tea. In order to preserve the tea prototype and emphasize the difference between it and broken tea, a zongzi-shaped tea bag is specially designed. In other words, even if there is no difference in taste and efficiency, the commercial value is obvious.
5. Tea bag evolution: Silk tea bag - heat-sealed paper tea bags - pyramid tea bag
Tea bags are also in a process of continuous improvement from discovery to popularity in the world. Compared with previous teabags, teabags are more interesting and convenient in appearance and use. The material of teabags There are many improvements and enrichments in tea, shape and tea types.
First of all, the material of the small tea bag was improved from silk at the beginning to gauze cloth woven from silk floss later. Until 1930, there was another leap in the development of tea bags in terms of materials - American William Hermansson obtained the patent right for heat-sealed paper tea bags. This design process is still in use today.
The shape of teabags is also constantly improving in design. Surveys have shown that the shape of tea bags is an important factor in attracting consumers. As a result, the tea bags on the market have developed from the initial small bag shape to rectangle, square, and circle. Later, the Germans invented the double-chamber tea bag. The bottom surface of this tea bag is "W"-shaped, and it can be opened after entering the water. The brewing efficiency is high, and it also makes tea making more interesting.
However, these paper bag-shaped designs are all for tea powder, not the original leaves of tea. In 2013, Lipton Company of the United Kingdom introduced a triangular three-dimensional design on the shape of tea bags. The pyramid-shaped tea bags allow the tea fragrance to dissolve faster and more completely, giving the tea leaves room to stretch to the greatest extent. The three-dimensional triangular bag usually puts the original leaves, which makes the tea drinkers return to the original, and the Chinese pay attention to this. In terms of the material of the bag, it is made of corn fiber, which is healthier, more environmentally friendly, and easy to degrade. This kind of tea bag is the future direction, called "Zongjiao Bao".
Not only that, but the variety of tea in the bag has also become more and more diverse. From the initial black tea, green tea, scented tea and other major categories, it has developed into a variety of teas on the market today: health care tea, hangover tea, and eye-catching tea that contain Chinese medicine ingredients, slimming tea and beauty tea that attract women's attention , Wait, it has almost reached the point of "only unexpected, nothing impossible to buy".
6. Types of tea bags: Single chamber tea bag - Double chamber tea bag - Diamond tea bag - Pyramid tea bag.
The original tea bags were in the shape of a simple square single chamber. Put this type of tea bag in water, the tea leaves will be concentrated in the tea bag, and the brewing speed is very slow. However, due to its simple form and relatively crude machinery for packaging, it is still used by most businesses.
With the popularity of flower and fruit tea, ordinary tea bags cannot accommodate the expansion of fruit and petals due to their small space, and diamond tea bags began to appear on the market.
As the name suggests, the diamond tea bag looks like a diamond, with a regular tetrahedral structure, and is packaged with food-grade nylon. This kind of tea bag is exquisite and transparent in appearance, and has a large space inside the bag, which is conducive to the distribution of fragrance and can also watch the shape changes of tea leaves. It will be the mainstream trend of tea bags in the future. However, the processing cost of diamond tea bags is relatively high, and few factories can produce them.
In addition, there are some shaped tea bags. A few exaggerated tweaks to the diamond tea bag. Although this kind of tea bag has a novel and interesting shape, the processing is extremely complicated, and few brands use it.
7. Improvement of tea bags
The appearance of tea bags is not to reduce or improve the quality of tea, but for the convenience of carrying and brewing, and more for convenience. For tea drinkers who are away from home, tea bags also have their advantages.
Traditional tea bags have lower requirements on the appearance of tea leaves, and generally speaking, the raw materials used are not satisfactory, which is bound to compromise the taste of tea lovers.
However, after innovative research and improvement, tea bags of strip-shaped famous teas have appeared on the market. The packaging is made of plant corn fiber paper imported from Japan, which is environmentally friendly, hygienic and safe. After brewing, the tea leaves stretch out piece by piece, and the tea bag is filled with tea leaves, full of vitality.
8. Characteristics of teabags
Compared with the traditional way of drinking tea, tea in bag has the characteristics of "quantitative, hygienic, convenient and fast". my country is a big producer of tea. As the concepts of natural, green and healthy tea drinks are deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, young people also like to drink tea and keep healthy. There are a lot of opportunities in the domestic teabag market, and many companies have begun to enter the field of teabags. , by focusing on the brand concept of youth, fashion and modernity, more and more young people understand and like teabags.