Re: [CH] Bags

Klaus Schwienhorst (kschwien@tcd.ie)
Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:13:08 -0000

For similar purposes, I have been using a stainless steel "tea-egg" 
as they call it in Germany. It's ideal for infusing spices such as 
cinnamon bark that can be nasty in a finished dish. Wonder if this 
would work for chilis, too...

Klaus

> >  I need a source for small (cotton?) bags. Like the bags used for
> >  tobacco
> >in old-fashioned
> >"roll-your-own" cigarettes. I need something like this for chiles to
> >drop into my soups, stews, whisky, etc., to infuse the flavor of
> >chiles. Ideas please. Thanky, Tom in Paris, TX
> 
> Tom-  What I use are those large tea bags, "family size" I believe. 
> Just empty them out, fill with peppers or other spices and restaple. 
> Works pretty well.
> 
> Steve
> 
> 


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