hey guys welcome to planning with crystal so today we're going to be unboxing the Twinings tea advent
calendar it's a 25 day calendar it contains 24 bags of tea and an extra special treat behind me
you might well see the tea picks 24 days of tea picks advent calendar of course it only
contains 24 and tea bags although actually it's my 25 anyway so I got 24 doors so if you kind of
want a comparison between it so I'll let you know what I think kind of one box that's Rhine in swamp
so the Twinings tea calendar is 25 pounds although at the moment they've got it on special offers 16
pounds 66 which makes it really really good deal that's over on the Twinings website so going up
for every day we're going to talk about the teas inside and you can let me know in the comments
if this is a calendar that you'd go for and if you inside my conjuring boxing's check out my
channel I've done a ridiculous number of hundred box and pelham of obsessed with other columns
at the moment so if you like watching those kinds of videos definitely check them out so day number
what you can just see here that they are little kind of fold down windows you almost can't see
where the doors are they're just these little and gold boxes that kind of signify that so Dana
what one you just pop your finger through and down like that and they are all loose leaf tea
box which is got the kind of the extra special version of what twines do rather than standards
standards Twinings they are the ones with the loose leaf so this is day number one they're
all individually wrapped so which I love because I'm thinking about taking to work and it's nice
to have some freshly wrap for that so this is a full English breakfast blend loose leaf pyramid
you can buy these individually on these Twinings website a third about 50 P the quite a pricey one
and I think for like a box of 15 it's about six pounds or so they're an expensive tea on their own
so that's a great dateable one and I'm actually drinking Twinings English breakfast tea at the
moment which is that just the standard English it's not the loose-leaf but it's my favorite I
love this tea so yeah it cuts drink tea when you're opening see I think oh and haven't you
day number two so for day number two we've got the Earl so an Earl Grey a loose leaf tea I love
a no gray I love this kind of come on day number three here and this is the mighty and it's an
Assam tea which is a black tea and a sum is one of the ingredients and make up a standard English
breakfast you have salon you have a summer think something else in that so if you like an English
breakfast you'll probably appreciate this it's a nice full-bodied strong black tea which you
can have us it without without look day number four the first three days were black tea this
is actually a herbal tea this is thoroughly minted infusion I love a mint tea especially
after like heavy meal which obviously got a lot of those coming up around Christmas week nights
out things like that and then Christmas meals and stuff so this is perfect and I do really
really like a minty definitely think it's an acquired taste I kind of think you have to get
used to it unless you love it instantly but I haven't tried this particular thoroughly mint
infusion I've just had the standard Twinings mint tea and that's very nice day number five another
herbal tea this one is citrus ginger twist flavor infusion and I love ginger tea and I'm
sure I like the kind of citrus slant on that it says bring the tea bag for two to three minutes
to allow the spice and citrus flavors to seep out chat love sip savor day number six up here
so now we're on to something slightly different so it's a Bollywood chai latte it says fill Yoko by
about a third with hot water room for at least three minutes top it with hot milk and a pinch
of sugar if you like it sweeter so something a little bit different China say day number seven
so now we've got a green tea this one is called Jasmine bloom green tea so it's green tea with
it jasmine kind of lumps on it I don't really like jasmine tea so I'll probably give this to
somebody who I know really appreciates that flavor dana brain just over here another kind of herbal
infusion and for dana rate we've got the pure chamomile infusion so chamomile of course is
something that's wonderful for when you're just trying to relax especially great before bed to
kind of help you nod off so if you've got all those kind of Christmas stresses on your mind
chamomile is a good place to start day number nine this is another green tea this one is called apple
and elderflower flavored green tea so of course this is more of a fruity version of green tea
green tea as we know very very good for you not look like teaism but brinkley it has kind of a
different mix of antioxidants and yeah I like to get a little bit of green tea in some other
kind of drinking schedule it says brew the tea bag for one to two minutes to allow the orchard
flavors of the gentle green tea in views and I like elderflower so I definitely think I like
this one of course with green tea you do have to be careful with the temperature because you don't
want to burn the leaves day number ten up here so we've now got an interesting one called red
wash caramel velvet flavor infusion so I think this might be like a rebus place-based tea not
the biggest fan of rooibos but it is caffeine free so something nice to drink and evening
and I'm intrigued by this caramel velvet kind of mention in the name I'll definitely try and
see what I think so it says bring the tea about four to three minutes for a rich amber drink feel
free to add a splash milk day number eleven day number eleven we've got another green tea so this
is a simply at Sencha green tea so it's kind of a more pure green tea that you can drink and it
says bring the tea back at once two minutes for the water to swirl through the green tea bringing
out the sweet flavor d number 12 I'm gonna sell 12 it's another green tea you can see the green
teas are all in these little green and bulbs it's a Moroccan mint with rose flavored green tea it
says for it to work for once two minutes for the dainty fragrance of mint to come to life mints and
Rose are bit interesting combination day number 13 another blue back so this is passion fruit
flavor a lot so as I said salon is a black tea usually makes up English breakfast type teas and
with passion fruit in so it's going to be a kind of fruity black tea which surprisingly tends to
work quite well together the first time I tried like a fruit with black sails like what else is
gonna taste like like a mash-up of a fruit tea and a black tea it doesn't it just kind of cuts
through the black and see quite nicely so yeah it's a fruit for three to five minutes for the
sweet flavor passion fruit to infuse through the black tea leaves day number fourteen blue bag and
this is the Earl's we've had this once before I think every tea bag you've seen will appear
twice looking at the back of the box so if you open one and are really like that see then you'll
get to probably try it again if you don't like it then that kind of sucks cuz you're gonna see if I
can at some point day number 15 here I think the thing that's a if you don't like the particular
tea there'll be someone else friends or family they'll come around and they might well appreciate
it so then we've got another of the full English which like I said is the kind of extra-special
English breakfast tea I know I'm gonna love this one I hope I don't I don't see much because like
I said there are a lot more expensive than my standard day away and tea which is just what
wine in standard English breakfast day 16 here this is the relay mince it okay I don't know if
I've stopped showing you this but it is actually designed like the original Twinings and tea shop
in London which is tu-16 The Strand and has been since like I think the 1800s when it first started
and it's just a gorgeous little tea shop even if you aren't gonna buy anything it's just a lovely
place to kind of have a look in it's a really strange building because it's just like really
really narrow and really quite long and if you go towards the back of the shop there's kind of I can
almost a little mini tea museum where you can look at some artifacts from and like Twinings and kind
of tea through the years it's quite an interest in things a look at if you're interested in tea
does like a tea tasting stand and you can go to master classes there which you also have to book
but it's a pretty cool place if you're into tea and you're into kind of british british history
and definitely check out the Twinings tea shop if you're there in london it's not far from kind of
common garden and stuff over on the Strand bit off topic let's get back to kind of open the
doors day number 17 citrus and ginger twist 18 and we've got the passion fruit flavoured and so on
date of 19 simply Sencha green tea day number 20 the Jasmine bloom green tea Danish once you want
pure chamomile did over 22 Moroccan mint multiple-day number 23 Apple and elderflower
green sugar day number 24 Christmas Eve MIT a SAP something perfect to kind of kick up Christmas
Eve when you've got to wrap all those last-minute presents baby so now we're up to day number 25 up
here at the top which is by far the largest of the wind so this is something a little bit different
can you just see if there's that little box in here oh it's not but it stimulates it so it's a
little Twinings tea rest and it's this gorgeous silver color and it's even got the like okay
dip in it so it's perfect to kind of rest your spoon on and of course it will be very needed
if you are a tea drinker which you're gonna be if your box calendar I really like that I like
the touch of having something on day 25 I like that it's something that you can keep you can
continue to use throughout the year it's not just something that gets thrown away with the rest of
the calendar sort of feeling like that about this calendar and I kind of didn't love the repetition
too much but I think that's probably because they've chosen to do the loose leaf teas and they
don't do all of that ease in loosely form so they were probably a little bit restricted as hominin
they could include in that sense so that's why I couldn't there's two of each of the teabags love
love love it like I said the fact that there's this here on day number 25 and as I said I'll
kind of give you my thought in comparison with the sea fix one so if you've not watched me unbox it
definitely check it out and I'll go through every kind of window and you'll see but in terms of a
kind of direct comparison the tea fix one is more expensive especially if you gals with the Twinings
one for sixteen pounds this like I said retails on about eight pounds just or to get all the t's
as well for essentially any pound if you get on a 16 pound deal it also comes down to of course what
you prefer do you prefer t pigs or onions which of the t's do you do you kind of prefer I tend
to go more for Twinings for every day and T pigs just every now and again for something special
because they are that a little bit more expensive if you are concerned about the kind of impacts
on the environment t pigs would be a better option because everything about the commander
is recyclable the t banks biodegradable whereas that isn't necessarily going to be the case with
the Twinings ones so if that's something you need to think about them that might make your decision
a little bit easier but hopefully by seeing Twinings calendar and checking out the t pigs
and boxing separately you might have a better idea which of these t calendars might suit you if you
decide to go for a tea calendar it's definitely let me know in the comments I've also unboxed two
coffee advent calendars if that's more your kind of thing thank you so much for watching bye guys