Are these dregs or what?

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Made some tea using a drip style coffee maker by placing tea bag where coffee would normally go, namely on the standard fibrous (paper) coffee filter. After the tea has been on the warmer for a while, it develops dregs. Actually it's not so much dregs as particles that sometimes sink to the bottom and sometimes float and stick to the side of the carafe. The tea also develops an oil slick on top. It makes for some nasty looking stuff which sticks to the sides of my cup as well. I fail to understand how these dregs got through the coffee filter in the first place. I pour it back through the filter, but it then drips slowly, as if the filter were clogged. Any clues as to what is happening here? It has happened with 3 different kinds of tea (all in bags).



Best Answer

Regarding the oil film, this is called 'tea scum' and it's completely safe.

The filter gets clogged because the tea particles are small and fill up the spaces in the filter. Then it gets in touch with water and expand. At this point, the filer will get clogged.

There's generally no reason to use a coffee filter as the tea bag itself functions as a filter.




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Dregs sentence example
  • Our final visit was to a particularly dingy part of the dregs of the city. ...
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  • He will consume the cup to the bitter dregs .


  • Is dregs singular or plural?

    The noun dregs is plural only. The plural form of dregs is also dregs.

    Is dregs a noun or verb?

    noun. dregs, the sediment of liquids; lees; grounds. Usually dregs. the least valuable part of anything: the dregs of society.

    What do you mean by dregs?

    Definition of dreg 1 : sediment contained in a liquid or precipitated (see precipitate entry 1 sense 3a) from it : lees \u2014usually used in plural coffee dregs at the bottom of the cup. 2 : the most undesirable part \u2014usually used in plural the dregs of society.



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