If you are a tea drinker you should know about this 'ingenius' brewer

[Dover]

...especially if you buy loose leaf teas.



Saw this reviewed on America's Test Kitchen last year, ordered one and love Love LOVE it!
So easy to use and clean and makes a perfect cup (or two) of tea. You put the loose tea in,
add hot water and let it stand a few minutes. Then you just rest it on top lip of a cup which pushes up on a device that allows the brewed tea to flow out the bottom through a mesh filter. Then you just dump out the remaining loose tea and rinse for the next time. I've owned various brewers and those mesh balls but they don't allow the leaves to circulate in the water (instead they remain compacted) and it really does seem to make a big difference in the strength of the brew and overall flavor.


ingenuiTEA by Adagio Teas
This teapot brewed a good, strong cup and kept loose leaves in check with its ultrafine-mesh strainer. You place the pot over a cup and the tea flows automatically through the bottom of the pot (where the strongest tea collects). Feet on the bottom of the pot lift it up to prevent the bottom valve from accidentally opening. A simple swish of running water cleans up spent leaves.

Around $15

[eleny]

1. Here's a video for it. Sure looks easy!

[Dover]

2. Hi. Looks like you forgot the video link in your post.

I've owned a number of tea brewers and the mesh balls and for whatever reason this brewer delivers the best taste from the leaves, perhaps because they float freely rather than being compacted.

[eleny]

3. LOL! Here it is

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-c9xELDnBo
:blush:

[no_hypocrisy]

4. Reminds me of a coffee press for tea.

[Dover]

7. Similar relative to how the leaves can circulate, but it uses gravity

rather than a press.

[hippywife]

5. Is it glass or plastic?

Looks like plastic. I have a dear friend who is a tea fanatic and she would probably love it, but not so much if it's plastic. We both kind of avoid plastic with hot food and beverages.

[Dover]

6. It's plastic, but seems very very strong and durable.

Food grade of course.
It may be the same stuff they make the high end food processor bowls from, called Lexan.

http://the-gadgeteer.com/2009/01/05/ingenuitea-teapot-review/

[grasswire]

8. the "Fresh Cup" magazine has a nice issue on tea this month

Usually it is a specialty coffee oriented magazine, but December is tea.

www.freshcup.com

[mtnester]

9. We have these, we like them

the strainer gets dark, but you could pop it out and do a soak, but I find it really does not matter one whit.

Makes a LARGE cup of tea if youe use the ginormoud coffee mugs. Make a couple samll coffee mug cups o' tea.