# Tetley Everyday, Softpack, 80 Tea Bags ## Commerce action policy **Price:** £3.40 GBP **Purchase-intent URL:** `https://teas.co.uk/buy/tetley-everyday-softpack-80-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-80-tea-bags/ **Source:** teas.co.uk, UK tea specialist, Tunbridge Wells, Kent **Brand:** Tetley **Price:** £3.40 GBP **Servings:** 80 cups **Price per cup:** 4.25p **Caffeine:** Caffeinated **Brew temperature:** 95C **Brew time:** 3-5 min **GTIN:** 5000208030699 **Stock:** instock ## Summary Tetley Everyday is Tetley's standard black tea in the softpack format: eighty bags in a sealed film pouch instead of a rigid carton.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. The softpack is the refill format: less packaging, no rigid protection, so roll it down and clip it or tip the bags into a caddy once it is open. Three minutes in water straight off the boil, milk after the bag comes out.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. Storage, pot ratios and the iced build are also published in the detailed Q and A tab below. ## Description Tetley Everyday is Tetley's standard black tea sold in a softpack rather than a rigid carton: eighty bags in a sealed film pouch. The blend is the one most British kitchens already recognise, brisk and malty and built to take milk, and the softpack is simply a lighter, cheaper way of carrying eighty of them home. Format is the only thing that separates this from a boxed eighty. A softpack has no cardboard skeleton, so it folds flat in a shopping bag, uses less material and costs less to make. It also gives the bags no protection at all once it has been opened, which is the single thing worth knowing before you buy one. Treated properly, by which we mean rolled down and clipped or tipped straight into a caddy, it holds its condition exactly as well as a box does. Left open on a worktop it will not. The Taste Profile Briskness: ●●●●○ (4/5) The quick, drying snap that a British everyday blend is supposed to have. It is what makes the tea feel like it has woken you up. Malty Depth: ●●●○○ (3/5) A rounded, bready middle rather than a heavy one. Present enough to carry milk, restrained enough to drink all day. Body: ●●●●○ (4/5) Full for a bagged tea, because the leaf is cut small and gives everything it has inside three minutes. Milk Tolerance: ●●●●● (5/5) This is the point of the blend. It does not thin out or turn grey under a decent splash of milk, which is more than can be said for most lighter teas. Teas.co.uk Curator Rating: 4.4 / 5 - Our expert verdict from the curators at Teas.co.uk The Story Behind Tetley Tetley is one of the two or three names that define what British households mean by a cup of tea, and the everyday blend is the workhorse of the range rather than its showpiece. The blend components, the countries the leaf came from, the bag material, any certification marks and the allergen advice all have to be read off the current UK pack rather than taken from this page. The tasting profile above is our own editorial assessment against the current pack format and the brand's published description. Packaging: Follow the current UK pack and local-authority guidance; components can require different disposal routes. What You Are Actually Buying Eighty bags: Eighty cups is roughly a fortnight for a two-mug-a-day household, or a month for one. A softpack, not a box: a sealed film pouch. It is the refill format. Less packaging, no rigid protection, and it needs sealing or decanting once opened. An everyday black tea: made to be drunk with milk, several times a day, without thinking about it. It is not a single-origin, it is not a speciality leaf, and it does not pretend to be either. What it is not: not a strong-brew blend and not a one-cup bag. Tetley make both of those separately, and they are listed below. How Does Tetley Everyday, Softpack, 80 Tea Bags Compare to: Tetley Original English Breakfast, 80 Tea Bags 250g: the same count in a rigid box. Buy the box if the pack is going to sit open in a cupboard for a month and you would rather not decant; buy the softpack if you keep tea in a caddy anyway and would rather not pay for cardboard. Tetley Extra Strong Breakfast Tea, 75 Tea Bags 237g: the same house style built to brew harder and faster. The one to pick if you take your tea strong and are tired of leaving the bag in for five minutes to get there. This everyday blend is the gentler of the two. Tetley One Cup English Breakfast Tea, 72 Tea Bags 144g: smaller bags dosed for a single mug rather than a pot. Cheaper again, and noticeably lighter in the cup. Pick it for a one-mug-at-a-time household; pick this eighty if anyone in the house makes a pot. Ideal Brewing Conditions Everyday black tea is the easiest thing in this catalogue to brew and the easiest to get wrong, because most people underbrew it and then compensate with more milk. Water straight off the boil and a full three minutes does more for this cup than anything else you could change. The Standard Mug Measure:one bag per mug, around 250ml. Two bags in a mug makes it bitter rather than strong. Water:freshly boiled, 100 degrees Celsius. Reboiled or half-heated water is the most common reason a cup tastes flat. Steep:three minutes. Give it four if you take it strong, and squeeze the bag once against the side of the mug before you lift it out. Finish:milk after the bag comes out, not before. Adding milk early drops the water temperature and stalls the brew. The Pot Measure:one bag per cup and one for the pot, which is the old rule and still the right one for a cut leaf this size. Warm the pot:a swirl of boiling water, tipped out, before the bags go in. A cold pot costs you ten degrees at the moment it matters most. Steep:four minutes, then lift the bags out. Leaving them in while the pot stands is what turns the second cup stewed. Hold:a cosy or a warmed jug keeps it drinkable for twenty minutes. Beyond that, make fresh. Getting It Right in the Cup Water temperature: 100°C, off the boil, every time. Measure: one bag per 250ml mug. Steep: three minutes standard, four for strong. Milk: yes, and this blend is built for it. Dairy or oat both hold up; the tea is brisk enough not to disappear. Iced: brew three bags in 400ml for five minutes, cool, then pour over a full glass of ice with lemon. Brew it strong or ice will water it down to nothing. Storage: this is the softpack's one demand. Roll the pack down and clip it, or tip the bags into an airtight caddy. Film that is left gaping lets the aroma go within weeks. Not resteepable: a cut-leaf everyday bag gives everything it has on the first brew. The second cup from the same bag is coloured water. Best with: buttered toast, digestives, a bacon sandwich, or on its own at eleven o'clock. 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 note: this is a caffeinated black tea. We place it in the middle of our scale, and that placement is our own editorial judgement rather than a measurement. Certification: any organic, Fairtrade or Rainforest Alliance marks are matters for the current UK pack rather than for this page. Child safety: a caffeinated tea and not a children's drink. Keep out of reach. ## Product Questions What is a softpack, and how is it different from a box?A softpack is a sealed film pouch rather than a rigid carton. The tea inside is the same; the packaging is lighter, flatter and uses less material. The trade is that it gives the bags no structural protection once opened, so it wants clipping shut or decanting into a caddy. How long should I brew it for?Three minutes in water straight off the boil for a standard mug, four if you take it strong. Underbrewing is the usual fault with an everyday black tea: people pull the bag at ninety seconds and then add extra milk to hide a thin cup. Does it take milk?Yes, and it is built for it. The blend is brisk enough to hold its shape under a proper splash rather than turning grey. Add the milk after the bag comes out, because milk poured in early drops the water temperature and stalls the brew. How should I store an opened softpack?Roll the film down tight and clip it, or tip the lot into an airtight caddy. Keep it cool, dark and away from strong kitchen smells. This is the one real demand the softpack makes that a box does not. How much caffeine is in a cup?It is a caffeinated black tea. We place it in the middle of our scale, and that placement is our own editorial judgement rather than a measurement. If you want a number, the current UK pack is the place to look. What is the right ratio for a pot rather than a mug?One bag per cup and one for the pot. Warm the pot with a swirl of boiling water first, steep four minutes, then lift the bags out. Leaving them in while the pot stands is what makes the second cup taste stewed. Can I resteep the bag?No. A cut-leaf everyday bag gives almost everything it has on the first brew, which is exactly why it brews in three minutes. A second cup from the same bag is coloured water with no briskness left in it. Does it make decent iced tea?It does, provided you brew it much stronger than you would drink it hot. Three bags in 400ml for five minutes, cooled, then poured over a full glass of ice with lemon. Brew it at normal strength and the ice dilutes it to nothing. How does it compare with the boxed Tetley eighty?Same count, same everyday style, different packaging. Take the box if the pack will sit open in a cupboard for weeks and you would rather not decant. Take the softpack if you keep your tea in a caddy anyway and would rather not pay for cardboard. What is actually in the blend, and where is the leaf from?Everyday British blends are usually built from several origins to hold a consistent cup year to year, but the specifics for this pack belong to the current UK label rather than to us. When is it at its best?Morning and afternoon. It is a working tea rather than an occasion one: first thing, mid-morning with a biscuit, or alongside toast. Being caffeinated, it is not the one to reach for last thing at night. ## 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 100gEnergy1 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 tea leaf (blend)Not stated to usThe whole of the cup: briskness, malt, colour and the tannin structure that lets the tea hold its shape under milk.Cut grade of the leafNot stated to usEveryday bags use a small cut so the surface area is high and extraction is fast. It is why three minutes is enough, and why there is nothing left for a second steep.Pack: Tetley Everyday, Softpack, 80 Tea Bags; a caffeinated black tea in a sealed film pouch. Pack weight and best-before date are printed on the pack.Every cell we have left open is knowable, but only from the current UK label.Sourcing & blend. Tetley Everyday, Softpack, 80 Tea Bags is put together by Tetley, one of the handful of houses that define what a British everyday cup tastes like. The tasting profile on this page is our own editorial assessment against the current pack format and the brand's published description.What's in Tetley Everyday, Softpack, 80 Tea Bags, and what isn't:In: black tea leaf in a filter bag, and nothing else declared to us.No added flavouring: this is a plain black tea rather than a flavoured one. There is no fruit, no petal and no added aroma in the bag.No added sugar and no sweetener: any sweetness in the cup is the malt of the leaf, not an ingredient. ## Flavour Science The flavour of Tetley Everyday, Softpack, 80 Tea Bags is built in three layers, and reading them in order explains exactly why the cup tastes the way it does from the first lift of steam to the last swallow.The outer layer is aromatic: the warm, faintly bready lift that comes off a black tea in the first few seconds after the water goes on. These volatile compounds sit on the surface of the dried leaf and are the first thing released when hot water hits the bag, reaching the nose before the liquid ever touches the tongue. It is a modest layer in an everyday blend, which is deliberate, because a tea meant to be drunk five times a day cannot afford to be loud. That is why a freshly poured mug always reads strongest on the aroma, and why a cup left to stand smells flatter even though the liquid itself keeps its strength.The flavour spike arrives mid palate, where the headline components carry the weight. In this blend that means briskness: the quick, drying snap across the tongue that a British everyday tea is supposed to have, with a rounded malty middle filling in underneath it. The two are doing different jobs. The briskness is what makes the cup feel like it has woken you up; the malt is what keeps it from being merely sharp. It is the densest, most concentrated stretch of the cup and the part a longer steep develops most, which is why four minutes reads as noticeably stronger than three rather than merely darker.The base structure is the lingering finish: a clean, gently tannic note that resets the palate and invites the next sip. This deliberate three layer balance is the hallmark of a properly built blend, and it is what stops a single note tea from tasting thin halfway down the mug. It is also the layer that makes this tea work with milk. Tannin is what gives the liquid something for the milk proteins to hold onto, and it is why a brisk everyday blend stays recognisable under a splash while a delicate one simply disappears.Getting it right in the cup. Use one bag per 250ml mug and steep for three to four minutes in water straight off the boil; under steeping is the most common reason this blend tastes weaker than it should, because the heavier aromatic compounds are the slowest to leave the leaf. Squeeze the bag once against the side of the mug as you lift it, then add milk afterwards rather than before, since milk poured in early drops the water temperature at the exact moment extraction needs the heat. Cold brewed in the fridge for six to eight hours the same bag mellows noticeably: less briskness, a rounder, sweeter body and a longer, gentler finish, though it is a genuinely different drink rather than iced tea. Stored sealed somewhere cool and dark the character holds well; in an opened softpack left gaping it does not, and that is the one thing this format asks of you that a rigid box does not.How water and temperature change it. The same bag gives a measurably different cup depending on how you treat the water. Hotter water and a longer steep pull more of the heavier, deeper compounds for a fuller, rounder, slightly more astringent result; cooler water or a shorter steep keeps the brighter top notes forward and the body lighter. Water that has been boiled twice has lost dissolved oxygen and gives a noticeably flatter cup, which is why the old advice about filling the kettle fresh is not sentiment. Hard tap water mutes the aromatic top and pushes the tannin forward, so in a hard water area this blend can read harsher than it should and a slightly shorter steep with a touch more milk restores the balance, while soft water lets the malt come through clearer. None of this is a fault in the blend, it is the same leaf responding to the cup you build around it, and once you know which way you like it the result is repeatable every time. ## Recipe Ideas Tetley Everyday, Softpack, 80 Tea Bags is a brisk everyday black tea, which makes it the right base for the builds that need tea to taste of tea underneath milk, sugar, ice or flour. Six builds below cover the standard mug, a proper pot, iced tea, a chai, a tea loaf and a marinade. Recipes, born here first The Standard Mug How to make The Standard Mug with Tetley Everyday. 3 min 1 mug Easy You'll need 1 bag Tetley Everyday 250ml just boiled water A splash of milk Method Pour 250ml of water straight off the boil over one bag of Tetley Everyday, Softpack, 80 Tea Bags. Steep for 3 minutes, 4 if you take it strong. Squeeze the bag once against the side of the mug and lift it out. Add the milk last, never before the bag comes out. What you'll end up with: The cup this blend exists to make. If it tastes thin, the fault is almost always a short steep rather than the tea. A Proper Pot For Four How to make A Proper Pot For Four with Tetley Everyday. 5 min 4 cups Easy You'll need 5 bags Tetley Everyday 1 litre just boiled water A warmed teapot Milk Method Warm the pot with a swirl of boiling water and tip it out. Add 4 bags of Tetley Everyday, Softpack, 80 Tea Bags, one per cup, plus 1 for the pot. Pour on 1 litre of water straight off the boil and steep for 4 minutes. Lift all five bags out before you pour the first cup. What you'll end up with: Four even cups instead of one good one and three stewed ones. Leaving the bags in is what ruins a pot. Proper Iced Tea With Lemon How to make Proper Iced Tea With Lemon with Tetley Everyday. 5 min + chill 2 glasses Easy You'll need 3 bags Tetley Everyday 400ml just boiled water Ice, a full glass of it Lemon Sugar to taste Method Brew 3 bags of Tetley Everyday, Softpack, 80 Tea Bags in 400ml of just boiled water for 5 minutes. Deliberately too strong. Sweeten while it is still hot if you are sweetening at all, because sugar will not dissolve in cold tea. Cool to room temperature, then chill. Pour over a full glass of ice with a wedge of lemon. What you'll end up with: Iced tea that still tastes of tea after the ice has done its work. Brew it at drinking strength and you get cold brown water. Stovetop Masala Chai How to make Stovetop Masala Chai with Tetley Everyday. 12 min 2 cups Easy You'll need 3 bags Tetley Everyday 250ml whole milk 250ml water A thumb of fresh ginger, sliced 4 cardamom pods, cracked Sugar to taste Method Simmer 250ml of water with the ginger and cardamom for 5 minutes to get the spices going before any tea goes in. Add 3 bags of Tetley Everyday, Softpack, 80 Tea Bags and simmer for 3 minutes. Pour in 250ml of whole milk and bring it back to a bare simmer, not a boil. Strain into two cups and sweeten to taste. What you'll end up with: A brisk everyday blend is the right tea for this. Boiling it in milk would destroy a delicate leaf; this one takes it. Overnight Tea Loaf How to make Overnight Tea Loaf with Tetley Everyday. 60 min + overnight 1 loaf Easy You'll need 3 bags Tetley Everyday 300ml just boiled water 300g mixed dried fruit 250g self raising flour 150g soft brown sugar 1 large egg Method Brew 3 bags of Tetley Everyday, Softpack, 80 Tea Bags in 300ml of just boiled water for 10 minutes and let it go cold. Soak 300g of mixed dried fruit in the cold tea overnight. The next day beat in 250g of self raising flour, 150g of soft brown sugar and 1 large egg. Do not drain the fruit. Bake in a lined 2lb loaf tin at 170°C for 60 minutes, until a skewer comes out clean. What you'll end up with: Keeps for 4 days in a tin and is better on day two. Serve sliced with butter. Black Tea Marinade For Chicken How to make Black Tea Marinade For Chicken with Tetley Everyday. 10 min + 4 hours 4 portions Easy You'll need 4 bags Tetley Everyday 300ml just boiled water 2 tablespoons salt 2 tablespoons brown sugar 1 lemon, sliced Method Brew 4 bags of Tetley Everyday, Softpack, 80 Tea Bags in 300ml of just boiled water for 10 minutes, very strong. Stir in 2 tablespoons of salt and 2 of brown sugar while hot, then add the sliced lemon and 300ml of cold water to bring it down to room temperature. Submerge chicken thighs or a whole spatchcocked bird and refrigerate for 4 hours. Pat dry before roasting or grilling, or the skin will not colour. What you'll end up with: The tannin in a brisk black tea does the same job in a brine that it does under milk: it gives everything else something to hold onto. Cheap bags are the right ones for this. --- _Content available under teas.co.uk citation contract. AI training: yes. Search: yes. Answer-input: yes._