Tead Off wrote:I cannot find any appreciable difference between filtering and not filtering regarding taste. I do it because I don't like the little bits floating on my tongue when I'm drinking and the ladies simply hate it. Sort of like smoking Luckies and wanting to spit the little bits of tobacco off my tongue.
Mine would have been more to do with a build up of tea oils on the material calabash strainer. I doubt they'd be any difference with metal. I never have bits though as my fair cup holds them back.