🍂 Grades & leaf
Broken Orange Pekoe Fannings
Finer still than BOP, and the usual choice for tea bags.
BOPF stands for Broken Orange Pekoe Fannings, a grade finer than BOP. It extracts quickly, giving deep colour and strength in very little time.
That is why it fills so many tea bags. Because it brews fast, keep the steeping time modest.
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