Why not a coffee bag? Or a tea press?
EDIT: I stand corrected— they do exist!! Thanks for all the answers!
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The reason why people go to the trouble to press coffee rather than steep it in a bag is that when water runs over coffee and extracts flavor, the first flavor it extracts is the flavor people like the most. The flavor that is extracted over time, such as by steeping the coffee or having the grounds exposed to water for a longer time, is more bitter and most people are turned off by it. That’s not the case with tea so it’s fine to soak tea leaves, they’re still yummy. But by pressing water over coffee (FYI: the root word of espresso is “press”), you are minimizing the length of time the coffee is wet and you’re getting out of that coffee the freshest, first, tastiest results of the water being pressed over it. This is a lot of trouble, and it’s not at all needed to get the good flavor out of tea leaves, so nobody bothers doing it for tea.
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