Best long-handled tea strainers according to redditors
We found 46 Reddit comments discussing the best long-handled tea strainers. We ranked the 19 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
We found 46 Reddit comments discussing the best long-handled tea strainers. We ranked the 19 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
There is also a Nessie tea infuser if you like drinking tea. :)
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I got a dual pair of bookends for ~$1.50. Nothing special about them, but they look nice.
Completely acceptable HDMI cord, $1.09. I bought two. Works fine, don't need to spend a fortune on a working HDMI
Small stretch of paracord, 10 ft, for $4.49. Got mine for camping
USB extender cord, 6 ft, usually used for extending a printer cable, $1.69
useless shit
Small tea bag holder thing that looks like a swan... I paid like a dollar and addressed it to a buddy just to screw with him
A big, red vuvuzela. I bought third-party for like two bucks
Pink lips car decal
Edit: eh, screw formatting
I remember someone posting a while ago about a tea strainer/infused that's shaped like a ball!
Edit: found an example on [Amazon](HIC Loose Tea Leaf Strainer and Herbal Infuser, 18/8 Stainless Steel, Mesh Tea Ball, 3-Inch https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000XEDUNM/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_PMaEybHKGTR1X) !
Rooibos has very fine needles, it's very easy to have bits slip past if you don't use a fine mesh screen.
I don't have an IngenuiTEA, but they probably have a very fine mesh filter. Many tea infusers have a mesh that's less fine, and could easily let some odd bits slip through. (Stuff like this for example.)
Conventional teabags also have plastic in them, which a lot of people don't know: https://www.greenchildmagazine.com/plastic-in-tea-bags/ So not sure how you would recycle them.
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Maybe you could try bulk area tea or tea that you can buy in metal tins.
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Stainless steel tea infusers;
https://www.amazon.com/HIC-Infuser-Stainless-Mulling-Spices/dp/B000I1ZZ24/ref=sr_1_13?keywords=stainless+steel+tea+strainer+for+loose+tea&qid=1558316465&s=gateway&sr=8-13
These are similar to the ones I use: https://www.amazon.com/Fu-Store-Stainless-Strainers-Strainer/dp/B014KJ5WLI/ref=sr_1_9?keywords=stainless+steel+tea+strainer+for+loose+tea&qid=1558316500&s=gateway&sr=8-9
They are Alessi tea infusers being used as salt and pepper shakers
http://www.amazon.com/Alessi-90043-Tea-Infusers/dp/B000YOQCDG
Or tea infusers used as salt and pepper shakers in Enterprise.
There are cheap metal teafilters which you can get on amazon..Get yourself some loose tea and brew it up - my favourite for cold weather is rooibos creme caramel
Steeping tea is enjoyable to me. At minimum, you'll need a device for heating the water (kettle, either electric or stovetop), a container for steeping (teapot), a filter to catch the leaves (can be part of teapot or separate), and a cup for drinking.
I use these:
The process is simple.
You can alternatively place the leaves in the strainer and stick it inside the teapot to steep. That's slightly simpler, but it doesn't allow the leaves to fully expand.
Some teapots are also designed to ease the steeping process further, like Adagio's Ingenuitea, which I own and yet don't use as much. You place the leaves inside, steep, and then the tea flows out from the filtered mesh bottom, directly into a cup.
Once you've developed tea as a hobby and have certain regional or style preferences, such as Japanese sencha (green tea) or Chinese oolongs, you can invest in steeping equipment specific to those, such as kyusu or tetsubin and Zisha teapots or gaiwan. These are by no means required, but they can heighten the experience, especially if you decide to prepare the tea in the culturally traditional manner; see Japanese and Chinese tea ceremonies.
When she’s older, you should give her this: tea Nessie
I've always used something like this, though I usually pay like one tenth of this price, even though things are usually much more expensive in my country than in the US ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
They aren't actually salt and pepper shakers - they're tea infusers. You can buy them on Amazon here, but I hope you've got the budget for them: http://www.amazon.com/Alessi-90043-Tea-Infusers/dp/B000YOQCDG
I think everyone answered the too-many grains, etc, here pretty well.
As for straining... I got tired really quick with straining grains. So I stuck them in one of these and just pull it out and put it into the next batch.
https://www.amazon.com/HIC-Infuser-Stainless-6-Inches-1-5-Inches/dp/B000I1ZZ24
Its worked great for months and months. Takes me about a minute to process my kefir on a good day. I dump it into the next mason jar, transfer this over, dump in milk, stir with it.
Hmmm. I swear by my ForLife infuser, but here's a few that I've thought about buying from Amazon (I haven't personally used any of these but they have decent reviews).
Stainless Steel Ball. I think this one would be the best for you. Fine holes so relatively low tea leaf leakage.
A Stir Steeper. Seems like an interesting design, but I worry that the leaves won't spread much.
A floating infuser. More of a cutesy design, probably not a great pick.
tea infuser our friend got us
the one we bought
thingy. Because our coffee maker is broken at work and I've been downing tea. I have a vanilla, caramel, and earl grey tea that I LOVE at home but it's only loose leaf so I need one of these thingies for the office.
I hope you are having a marvelous day, thank you for the contest :)
You can always get cheap steepers from amazon. :) I have this and this. They are both a little small, so the teas can't fully expand, though. My personal favorite is something like this because it has tiny holes that stop anything from escaping, and still plenty of room for larger tea leaves to fully expand.
So, the easiest way to make it is to just dump some in some almost boiling water. The downside, obviously, is that you have loose leaves in the water, which is (IMO) not the most appealing tea.
If you want to keep the leaves out of the tea, then you need a strainer. I use (this one)[http://www.amazon.com/HIC-Snap-Mesh-Ball-Infuser/dp/B000I1ZZ24/] cause it's cheap, easy to get the tea into, and easy to clean.
A lot of people like the (pourover kine)[http://www.amazon.com/OXO-Good-Grips-3-Inch-Strainer/dp/B001713L84/], but I like my tea stronger than most, so I like to let the leaves spend more time in the hot water than the pourover method does, and the scissor type strainer I use gives me the most flexible.
If you've got it in a bag, this is the most thorough video I've seen on the subject.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syAjix4QgNc
Otherwise, if you're using a strainer, all the same rules basically apply, you just use the strainer instead of the bag.
<$10 - Heart shaped tea infuser. I have this, it's pretty sweet.
$10-$20 - Community S4, obviously (it's better on second+ watchings)
$$ - 3ds + poke skin
Reminds me of this Loch Ness Monster tea infuser. I bought a couple of them a few months ago when I was on a tea craze. Now I want these Pikmin ones.
Edit: Found them on Amazon!
I have something similar called a "manna-tea" or something like that, it's a piece of crap.
I think that ball infusers are better https://www.amazon.co.uk/Stainless-Leaves-Infuser-Squeeze-Strainer/dp/B00GA6U3MI
what kind of tea infuser/teaspoon is that?
edit Never mind, I found it Jokari Total Tea Infuser
It appears to be the Total Tea Infuser made by Jokari
This green contraption?
This (but I paid less) not the best, but it gets the job done...
[Tea infuser ](jokari healthy steps total tea infuser https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003Y3B8T2/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_d2NgAbXX11FMZ)
This simple spoon design is my favorite for a singe serving. It makes it easy to scoop up the tea and it's easy to clean. I was lucky enough to get it as a party favor from a friend's bridal shower.
Is this the item?
Helen’s Asian Kitchen Tea Strainer, Natural Bamboo, 3-Inches x 2.25-Inches https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000UT456G/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_TyrPAbJQ4Z4EM
Grinding pastels isn't hard work. I used a tea strainer like one of these: http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B000NLLGN6/ref=mp_s_a_1_75?qid=1415292671&amp;sr=1-75&amp;pi=SL75 I went through half of a stick in a minute
I have this set and I have found it to work very well. Durable sturdy mesh that is easy to wash, fits over any cup I own, and let's me make 1-2 cups of tea at a time very easily. It's one of those items that is so simple in construction it would be difficult to damage, yet does its job very well.
Thank you for this! I just purchase a lot of loos leaf samples for the first time (Agiago, verdant, yezi). I guess I should hold off on most of the types until I get a programmable kettle? I have an electric one now. I have a steeper like one http://amzn.com/B000I1ZZ24
Anything you'd suggest as a first timer?
There are also flat tea strainers that are much more convenient to carry around, they are the metal kind that you can lay on top of the cup and pour the tea through.
Like this one
There's also one with a longer handle
I tend to like these ones with the longer handle that will also rest on top of a cup.
I tried the bigger tea balls, but they were always a pain and never really seemed to work out.
What about something like this??
HIC Mesh Snap Ball Loose Leaf Tea Infuser, 18/8 Stainless Steel, 6-Inches x 1.5-Inches https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000I1ZZ24/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_Py0eAbQFYKGRJ
What a fun contest!
Edit: after almost an hour of hunting down this list, I forgot to include the raffle phrase! Happy happy cake day! :) Hope it was a good one!
This pretty tea infuse is a wonderful shade of green.
Twinnings make a [loose leaf] (http://shop.twinings.co.uk/shop/twinings-tea/black-teas/earl-grey.html) version of this and it is far, FAR superior. It makes the bags taste like the bottom of a blocked urinal.
I go through 2 boxes a week. All you need is [a tea strainer] (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Kitchen-Craft-LeXpress-Strainer-Stainless/dp/B0001IWW9I/ref=sr_1_4/276-0232788-4216919?s=kitchen&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1408827014&amp;sr=1-4) and a [tea pot] (http://www.colourbox.com/preview/3386760-597296-glass-teapot-and-cup-with-blooming-flower-green-tea-on-yellow-background.jpg). just pop the tea in the pot... add hot water and leave 3-5 minutes. then strain through the aforementioned sieve. HTH. Any questions just pop me a line.