For eretria!!!

[heliona]

dduane just posted this link, and I thought of you, eretria! It's awesome. Why hasn't someone thought of this before? (Or maybe they have and I just haven't discovered it!)

The tea stick

Comments

[nimoloth.livejournal.com]

I like my tong-things, which are sprung and have a spherical infuser bit on the end.

[eretria.livejournal.com]

But that is TOO SMALL. Don't kill your tea with something as tiny as that!!!!!!

[nimoloth.livejournal.com]

It's not too bad! It's about 5 or 6cm diameter.

[nimoloth.livejournal.com]

And I don't have a pot for one, which would be really a bit too pretentious for uni, and that's saying something, given that jakeybob has a porcelain used teabag holder.

[heliona.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've seen those before. This tea stick thing just looks groovy! *g*

[eretria.livejournal.com]

Yes, very pretty. It just really depends on how much space the leaves have in it - the one reason I keep preaching to people not to use tea eggs or most infusers is that most of the time, they're too small. Tea-leaves need room to expand while steeping and infusing in order to bring out their full flavour.

[heliona.livejournal.com]

This is true. Obviously the best thing is to make your tea in a pot, and then use a cute little sieve to sift the leaves out when you pour your tea. I always think it's a waste of time to use a teapot when there's only one of you, though, because you'd have to drink four cups of tea in quick succession to not waste them. Although I suppose you could get a small, one cup teapot.

[murron.livejournal.com]

It looks nifty. Can you synchronise it with an ipod?

;p

[eretria.livejournal.com]

*bangs head on desk*

Why did I ever tell you about that thing????

[murron.livejournal.com]

Because you know I'm too well mannered to bring it up at random, inappropriate moments?

[heliona.livejournal.com]

See, that's my point. It looks</i< awesome! *g*

[jenjemeer.livejournal.com]

that is genius! genius i say! for the tea drinking scientist on the go ;D

[heliona.livejournal.com]

That's what I thought. I'm not sure how big it is, though. As eretria said, you need some space for your tea leaves to move around and infuse properly. But it looks groovy, doesn't it?!