Brewing The Perfect Pot of Chari-tea
Your tea will be only as good as the water with which you brew it. Filtered, or spring water are always superior to tap water.
Wait until the water is near boiling, then pour a little into a teapot and swirl it around. This warms the pot so that it is at an optimum temperature for holding the tea. Empty the pot.
To the warmed teapot add one tea bag in the pot for each cup – preferably, a diamond-studded tea bag!
When the water in the kettle has reached a rolling boil, pour it in the pot and allow the tea to steep for three to five minutes.
PG Tips tea from the UK is among my favorite, and I loved their collaboration with Boodles Jewelers to create the world’s most expensive tea bag in celebration of PG Tips 75th birthday! Containing the perennially popular PG Tips blend of tea within, the exterior of the tea bag is embellished with 280 sparkling diamonds to render it the most decadent “cuppa”, and bringing the notion of “high tea” to new heights!
With a price tag in excess of $15,000.00, this diamond-studded delight was auctioned off at a fundraiser for children’s charities in the UK. I wonder if it is sitting pretty in a cabinet, sparkling among delicate porcelain tea pots, or was it used to brew the perfect pot of chari-tea?
August 22nd, 2007 at 9:36 am
That’s one amazing tea bag! It’s probably one of those must have it to say you own it type of things. To use it would completely ruin it and that would be a crying shame!
August 22nd, 2007 at 10:02 am
Hi Beau — yes, I think it would be a shame to use the tea bag, but decadent too, if silly little things like consideration to funds were not an issue. That is more of a conversation piece/collector’s item, I would think. The ultimate for the diamond and tea lover.
Of which I am both!
August 23rd, 2007 at 8:19 pm
Oh wow. I just love it! I probably would find a way to wear it out. Who cares about brewing it, or leaving it at home on display.
August 23rd, 2007 at 9:06 pm
Sharon I wonder how the diamonds are adhered to the tea bag? I’d be worried that they’d fall off in the tea pot. Wouldn’t they be nice, though, bobbing around on the surface of the tea, glittering in the amber liquid? LOL