Will Meurer is a UI Guy at I like to have some tea in the afternoon. When steeping recently I noticed the new Ahmad tea my wonderful wife bought me had an extra convenience. Ahmad cuts a tiny slit in the paper tab. Wrap the string around your mug’s handle, pop the string into the slit, and it holds the bag in place—it doesn’t slip back into the cup and require you to dig it out with your hands.
Such a simple addition, probably doesn’t increase the production cost at all, but man is it nice.
Here’s the bag in action:
