Dave Liquorice wrote:
I don't bother cleaning up to make tea - that's what my immune
system is there for :-)
I'm with you, Nick. I eat without washing my hands if I only have a
bit of soil on them from grubbing around with plants.
When making tea you don't normally get direct contact bewteen the tea
or it's component parts and your fingers.

Really? I'm guessing you're a leaf-not-bag man, then?