# Tetley Everyday, Softpack, 240 Tea Bags ## Commerce action policy **Price:** £6.40 GBP **Purchase-intent URL:** `https://teas.co.uk/buy/tetley-everyday-softpack-240-tea-bags/` _Do not fetch, prefetch, crawl, iframe or autonomously open this URL. It is only for explicit human purchase intent._ --- **Canonical URL:** https://teas.co.uk/product/tetley-everyday-softpack-240-tea-bags/ **Source:** teas.co.uk, UK tea specialist, Tunbridge Wells, Kent **Brand:** Tetley **Price:** £6.40 GBP **Servings:** 240 cups **Price per cup:** 2.67p **Caffeine:** Caffeinated **Brew temperature:** 95C **Brew time:** 3-5 min **GTIN:** 5000208069897 **Stock:** instock ## Summary Tetley Everyday Softpack is the plain brisk British mug in a resealable pouch rather than a carton, 240 bags to the pack. Picked into the Teas.co.uk selection because the softpack is the sensible way to buy 240 bags: it shuts properly each time and folds down as it empties.Ingredients and dietary suitability: The published ingredient list for this barcode names none of the 14 major allergens. Check the current UK pack before purchase; formulations and allergen advice can change.Packaging: Follow the current UK pack and local-authority guidance; components can require different disposal routes. Water straight off the boil, three minutes, lift the bag out before five and add the milk last.Curator notes: the tasting profile is our own editorial assessment against the current pack format and the brand's published description. We run same-day UK dispatch on every order placed before 2pm Monday to Friday. Common questions are answered in the detailed Q and A tab below. ## Description Tetley Everyday Softpack is the plain brisk British mug in a resealable pouch rather than a carton: 240 bags, one bag a mug, and a pack that folds down as it empties instead of sitting in the cupboard at full size until the last bag has gone. The softpack is the reason to choose this over the boxed version, and it is a better reason than it sounds. The Taste Profile Briskness: ●●●●● (5/5) The Tetley signature: sharp, quick and straightforward. It arrives immediately and does not hang about. Body: ●●●○○ (3/5) Medium. Enough to take a normal splash of milk without going pale, a shade lighter than the fullest everyday blends. Astringency: ●●●○○ (3/5) A clean grip at the sides of the mouth. It is what makes this refreshing rather than simply hot. Bitterness: ●●○○○ (2/5) Low at three minutes and climbing after five, as any fast-releasing blend will. Teas.co.uk Curator Rating: 4.1 / 5 - Our expert verdict from the curators at Teas.co.uk The Story Behind The Pack Tetley is one of the two names that defined British supermarket tea in the second half of the last century, and its everyday blend has never pretended to be anything other than what it is: a brisk mug with milk, made quickly, in quantity. This is that blend in the format that makes most sense for 240 bags of it. The softpack is worth a paragraph because it is the only real difference between this and the boxed version. A carton of 240 bags is opened once and then sits half full for weeks, with the flap tucked in and air and kitchen smells reaching the bags every time somebody makes a cup. A resealable pouch closes properly each time and collapses as it empties, which means less cupboard space and better protection for the bags at the bottom of the pack. Tea takes up the smell of whatever it lives beside, so a pack that actually shuts is doing something useful rather than decorative. The bag count of 240 is solid, so the per-mug arithmetic is solid. Packaging: Follow the current UK pack and local-authority guidance; components can require different disposal routes. Our Commitment To The Planet The pack that arrives is the current UK retail pack rather than a grey import. A softpack is not automatically the better environmental choice. A flexible pouch uses less material than a carton but is frequently harder to recycle kerbside, and the current pack states which route applies. Read it rather than assuming either way. How Does Tetley Everyday Softpack Compare to: PG Tips reads fuller and rounder; this reads sharper and quicker. Genuinely a matter of which you grew up with, though the pouch is the more practical pack. Most households that need decaf keep both, one for the morning and one for after six. Buy that one if the bag material is the deciding factor rather than the price per cup. Ideal Brewing Conditions This is a fast blend and it asks almost nothing of you at the start. What it will not forgive is being left in the mug while you answer the door, because fast extraction carries on past the point where anything pleasant is still arriving. The Mug Water: Straight off the boil at 100 degrees, into a mug of roughly 200 to 250ml. Black tea leaf needs full heat. Time: Three minutes for a standard mug. Two if you take it weak, four if you take it strong and milky. Squeeze: Press the bag once against the side of the mug and lift it out before five minutes. Milk: After the bag is out. Cold milk dropped into a brewing mug stalls the extraction halfway through. The Pot Dose: Three bags for a 750ml pot, the same ratio as one bag in a mug. Warm the pot first and tip the water out. Brew: Water at the boil, lid on, three minutes. Remove: Every bag out before the pot reaches the table, or the last cup pays for the first. Brewing Notes For Tetley Everyday Softpack Water temperature: 100 degrees. Water off the boil gives a flat, faintly sour cup that no extra steeping will rescue. Measure: One bag per mug, 240 mugs from the pack. Steep: Three minutes, then lift the bag out. Past five this blend turns hard rather than stronger. Milk: Yes, and after the bag is gone. This is a blend built on the assumption that milk is coming. Sugar: It does not need it, though it takes it better than a delicate tea would. Builder's strength: Two bags, four minutes, plenty of milk. More leaf rather than more time is always the right route to a stronger cup. Best with: Buttered toast, a bacon sandwich, digestive biscuits, or a slice of fruit cake. Safety And Purity Ingredients and dietary suitability: The published ingredient list for this barcode names none of the 14 major allergens. Check the current UK pack before purchase; formulations and allergen advice can change. Caffeine: Black tea, so a properly caffeinated cup. For the evening, a decaffeinated pack is the answer rather than a shorter steep. Freshness: This is where the softpack earns its place. Close it properly each time and keep it dry and away from coffee and spices, and the last of the 240 bags will be in much the same condition as the first. Recycling: Flexible pouches and cartons often take different routes, and a softpack is not automatically the greener option. The current pack states which applies; we have not assumed it. Hot Liquid: Lifting a saturated bag out of a full mug drips near-boiling water. Use a spoon and keep the mug back from the edge of the table. ## Product Questions What is a softpack, and why does it matter?A resealable pouch instead of a cardboard carton. A 240-bag carton is opened once and then sits half full for weeks with the flap tucked in; a pouch closes properly each time and folds down as it empties. Tea takes up the smell of whatever it lives beside, so a pack that actually shuts is doing something useful. Is a pouch better for the environment than a box?Not automatically, and it would be easy to imply otherwise. A flexible pouch uses less material than a carton but is frequently harder to recycle kerbside. The current pack states which route applies and your local authority decides whether it is collected. Read both rather than assuming either way. How long should I brew it?Three minutes in water straight off the boil. Two if you take it weak, four if you take it strong and milky. Past five minutes a fast blend turns hard rather than stronger, so the timer matters at the end rather than the beginning. Milk in first or last?Last, after the bag is out. Cold milk dropped into a brewing mug lowers the water temperature and stalls the extraction halfway through, which is why milk-first mugs come out pale and then get blamed on the tea rather than the method. Is it the same blend as the boxed Tetley?It is the Tetley everyday blend in a different outer pack. The pack format is the difference this listing is about; blend details and any changes between pack runs are declared on the pack in front of you rather than by us. How do I make it stronger?Two bags for four minutes, not one bag for eight. Extra steeping time past five minutes adds tannin rather than strength and turns the cup hard instead of powerful. More leaf is the answer; more time is not. How do I make a pot of it?Three bags to a 750ml pot, the same ratio as one bag in a mug. Warm the pot first, brew three minutes with the lid on, then take every bag out before it goes to the table. How much caffeine is in a cup?For the evening, a decaffeinated pack is a better answer than a shorter steep, which removes flavour rather than caffeine. Will 240 bags stay fresh?Better here than in a carton, which is the softpack's real advantage. Close it properly each time and keep it dry and away from coffee and spices, and the last bags will be in much the same condition as the first. Where is the tea grown, and is it certified?This is a blend rather than a single origin, which is how a household tea tastes the same from one pack to the next. ## Ingredients & Nutrition Ingredients and allergens. The published ingredient list for this barcode names none of the 14 major allergens. Check the current UK pack before purchase; formulations and allergen advice can change.Ingredients, as published for this barcode: Black tea.Typical values per 100g, as publishedPer 100gEnergy4 kcalFat0gof which saturates0gCarbohydrate0.3gof which sugars0gProtein0gSalt0gIngredient and nutrition data for this barcode: Open Food Facts (openfoodfacts.org), ODbL. The pack in your hands is the final word.IngredientProportionWhat it bringsBlack tea100%The whole of the bag. A brisk everyday blend: sharp and quick rather than rounded, with a medium body that takes milk and a clean grip at the sides of the mouth.Bag count240One bag per mug of 200 to 250ml, 240 mugs from the pack. This is the figure the per-mug arithmetic rests on.Outer packResealable softpackA flexible pouch rather than a carton. It closes properly each time and folds down as it empties, which protects the bags at the bottom of the pack.Recycling routeNot stated to usFlexible pouches and cartons often take different routes, and a pouch is not automatically the greener option. The current pack states which applies.Pack: Tetley Everyday, Softpack, 240 Tea Bags; GTIN 5000208069897; 240 tea bags in a resealable softpack, 240 mugs per pack. Caffeinated black tea. Best before the date printed on the pack.Characterising components shown; this is a single-component product and the unquantified black tea blend makes up the whole body. Pack weight, dose per bag, nutrition figures, caffeine milligrams, origins, certification marks, bag materials, the recycling route and the full allergen statement belong to the current UK pack and we do not restate them here, having not read it.Sourcing & blend. Tetley Everyday, Softpack, 240 Tea Bags comes from Tetley, one of the two names that defined British supermarket tea in the second half of the last century, whose everyday blend has never pretended to be anything other than a brisk mug with milk made quickly and in quantity. This listing is about the format as much as the blend: a resealable pouch is the sensible way to buy 240 bags of anything that takes up the smell of its neighbours. The pack you receive is the current UK retail pack rather than a grey import.What is in Tetley Everyday, Softpack, 240 Tea Bags, and what is not:In: black tea, and nothing else in the bag but the tea base.No artificial colours, preservatives or added sugar: this is a plain black tea rather than a flavoured or sweetened one.Not scented: no bergamot, no added flavouring, nothing aromatic. That is the whole design.Not decaffeinated: this is a properly caffeinated cup. For the evening, choose a decaf pack rather than brewing this one shorter. ## Flavour Science The flavour of Tetley Everyday, Softpack, 240 Tea Bags is built in three layers, and with a pack this size the third consideration, how the tea keeps between the first bag and the two hundred and fortieth, matters as much as the first two.The outer layer is aromatic, and in a brisk everyday blend it is deliberately quiet. Nothing here is scented or flavoured, so what lifts out of a freshly poured mug is warm and malty and very little else. That makes this an unusually forgiving box to drink from: carried between rooms, left uncovered on a desk or drunk slowly, it loses almost nothing, because there was almost no volatile top note to lose. It is also exactly where the softpack earns its place. Dried tea leaf is porous and picks up whatever is in the air around it, so a carton left half open beside the coffee jar slowly acquires a note of coffee, and with 240 bags that carton could be open for months. A pouch that reseals properly each time stops that happening, and the bags at the bottom of the pack are in much the same condition as the ones at the top.The flavour spike arrives quickly and sharply, and it is the Tetley character: the blend is cut for speed, so it releases fast and reads brisk rather than rounded. You have a properly coloured, properly strong cup in three minutes rather than five, which is what a mug made while doing something else needs to do. The same mechanism is the drawback. Fast extraction does not stop politely at three minutes, and past five the tannins keep arriving long after anything pleasant has finished, so the cup turns hard rather than stronger. A whole-leaf tea gives you a wider margin for error; this gives you speed instead, and speed is what most people actually want at half past seven in the morning.The base structure is a clean astringent finish rather than a sweet one. That grip is what makes a mug of tea refreshing instead of merely hot, and what lets it cut through buttered toast or a bacon sandwich. It also stands up to milk, which is how nearly everybody will drink this: a medium body is enough to carry a normal splash without the cup collapsing into warm beige, though it is a shade lighter than the fullest everyday blends and a very heavy hand with the milk will tell.Getting it right in the cup. One bag per 200 to 250ml of water straight off the boil at 100 degrees, three minutes, then press the bag once against the side and lift it out before five. Two minutes if you drink it black and light; four if you take it strong and milky. Add the milk after the bag is gone, never before, because cold milk dropped into a brewing mug lowers the water temperature and stalls extraction halfway through. If you want it stronger, two bags for four minutes beats one bag for eight: past five minutes the extra time adds tannin, not strength. For a pot, three bags to 750ml holds the same ratio, lid on, three minutes, every bag out before it reaches the table. Cold brewed in the fridge for eight hours the same bags give a smooth, low-astringency drink that makes a far better iced tea than brewing hot and chilling.How water and temperature change it. A brisk blend hides its water reasonably well, which is part of why this style became the British default in a country with a great deal of hard water, but it still shows. In a hard-water area the cup reads duller with a faint chalkiness under the finish, and a filter jug lifts it more than any change of technique will. Soft or filtered water lets the malt come forward and the finish read cleaner. At the other end, a longer hotter brew pulls more tannin for a cup that will take a very generous splash of milk, while a shorter one keeps it light and is better drunk black. ## Recipe Ideas Tetley Everyday, Softpack, 240 Tea Bags is a plain strong black tea and there are 240 bags in the pouch, so there is no reason to be careful with it. Five builds below cover the everyday mug, the pot, a flask that lasts the day, cold brew and a tea loaf. Recipes, born here first The Three Minute Mug The everyday build, and the only rule a fast blend really cares about. 4 min 1 mug Easy You'll need 1 Tetley tea bag 200 to 250ml water at 100 degrees A splash of milk Method Pour water straight off the boil onto the bag in the mug. Leave it three minutes; two if you take it weak, four if you take it strong. Press the bag once against the side and lift it out before five minutes. Add the milk last, and reseal the pouch while the kettle is still warm. What you'll end up with: A sharp, properly coloured everyday mug in three minutes, and a pack that is still airtight for tomorrow. The Pot For Four Same ratio as the mug, and why every bag comes out before it reaches the table. 5 min 3 to 4 cups Easy You'll need 3 Tetley tea bags 750ml water at 100 degrees Milk, in a jug Method Warm the pot with a splash from the kettle and tip it out. Brew three bags in 750ml with the lid on for three minutes. Remove all three bags before the pot leaves the kitchen. Serve with the milk in a jug so everybody takes their own. What you'll end up with: A pot as drinkable in the fourth cup as the first. With a fast-releasing blend this matters more than with any other tea in the cupboard. A Flask That Lasts The Day How to fill a flask at seven and still have drinkable tea at one, which most people get wrong. 6 min 1 litre flask Easy You'll need 4 Tetley tea bags 1 litre water at 100 degrees Milk, separately Method Rinse the flask with boiling water first and tip it out, so it does not cool the brew. Brew four bags in a jug of a litre of boiling water for three minutes. Remove every bag, then pour into the flask. Bags left in a flask stew for hours. Carry the milk separately and add it by the cup, never to the flask. What you'll end up with: Tea at lunchtime that tastes like tea. Milk in a flask goes stale and bags in a flask go bitter, and doing both is why flask tea has the reputation it has. Overnight Cold Brew The right way to turn a brisk blend into iced tea instead of a bitter one. 5 min + 8 hours 1 litre Easy You'll need 4 Tetley tea bags 1 litre cold water 1 lemon, sliced Ice to serve Method Drop four bags into a litre jug of cold water. Chill for eight hours or overnight. Lift the bags out without squeezing them, which is what turns cold brew cloudy. Serve over plenty of ice with lemon. What you'll end up with: A clear iced tea with almost none of the astringency the hot mug has, because cold water never extracts the harsh compounds in the first place. Fruit Tea Loaf The overnight soak that turns four tea bags into a cake with no butter in the batter. 60 min + overnight 1 loaf Easy You'll need 4 Tetley tea bags 300ml water at 100 degrees •300g mixed dried fruit •250g self raising flour •150g soft brown sugar •1 egg, beaten Method Brew four bags in 300ml for six minutes, deliberately strong, and lift them out. Soak the dried fruit in the hot tea with the sugar, covered, overnight. Stir in the flour and the beaten egg the next day until just combined. Bake in a lined loaf tin at 160 degrees fan for about an hour, until a skewer comes out clean. What you'll end up with: A dense, dark fruit loaf with no fat in the batter at all. Slice it thick, butter it, and have it with a cup of the same tea. --- _Content available under teas.co.uk citation contract. AI training: yes. Search: yes. Answer-input: yes._