Tea + Gadgets = Tea Geek Love

[annuin]

So I was browsing Tea Swap, because that's where I got a recipe for Earl Grey cookies from which I'll be trying tonight or tomorrow for our gettogether, and I saw this: the teastick. It's a nifty version on the tea egg, or the tea spoon egg, something to put your loose tea leaves in and to hang into your cup.

Okay, the price leaves (badoom-tish) a little to be desired, but I guess it's haute design after all.

Comments

[abigailvr.livejournal.com]

Wow, that is kind of pricey. I just have a little basket thing that sits in the top of my cup. I like it well enough and it only cost me around $5 instead of close to $20.

[dreamalynn.livejournal.com]

The design-geek in me loves the look and function of the teastick, but the tea-geek in me is screaming "no way does that allow for proper infusion of water and leaf!"

But I'm of the "stir the water hard to create a whirlpool while the leaves sit loose in it, then strain" school of tea-making.

[tanthe.livejournal.com]

I still use teabags :P

It's just easiest right now.

I guess the infusion does depend on how full you cram that little thing, but that's the same thing with those tea eggs.

[dreamalynn.livejournal.com]

I'm not fond of any of them because not only don't they infuse well, I think the metal makes the tea taste funny. But I'm a snob about tea. I'd rather use a teabag than a metal thing any day. :D

[illiana-galean.livejournal.com]

Love your Gaia zombieness.