How To Make A Teabag.
Hint: it's not easy, sometimes the only option is to take things into your own hands.
Before we got T-Rex, Phil's mum painstakingly sewed various portions of tea into tiny, nylon tea bags. That's the price of success when you're trialling tea bag measurements without your own tea bag machine. Spoiler alert: it's also not how you make a tea bag.
MEET T-REX.
He guzzles and weighs whole, rolled leaves through his two Hoppers. The leaves head down the chute to T-Rex's jaws where the nylon and the tea are clamped together, soon to be cast out of the bottom chute.
Sounds pretty simple, but it's not. He took three days to set up, and when Aideen tried to turn on the whole shebang she blew the electrics for the entire building. Even now he's got a personality of his own and requires constant supervision from Kieran to avoid utter catastrophe.
It can't all be that bad. Last year, Brachiosaurus {our second machine} arrived on the same day as Malin. A baby and a second tea bag machine? Easy.
For those of you who don't know, we've got a bit of a DIY streak in us. It's gotten us into trouble before, but it goes a long way when it comes to making tea awesome. By cutting out the middleman and doing as much in-house as possible, we get to see it all.
X-RAY VISION. WELL, NOT QUITE.
Whether we do it by sourcing directly from suppliers, formulating our own blends or by moving T-Rex and Brachiosaurus into Tea HQ to make our own tea bags, we take every opportunity we can to get our hands dirty.
It might be more convenient to get somebody else to do it for you, but when you're relentlessly stubborn about doing things properly, sometimes the only option is to do it yourselves.
Look at us now, we're cramming more tea than any other tea company into our teabags, and there's still no sign of any {overly disastrous} machine failures. Boom!
