Food Gadgets: Teastick

by Nick Vagnoni (Subscribe to Nick Vagnoni's posts)
Posted Oct 2nd 2005 4:37PM
Filed under: Teas, Food Gadgets

“This is what happens when designers and connoisseurs meet for tea,” or so I’m told by Gamila, makers of the Teastick.

Basically, the mesh portion slides back, allowing you to scoop your tea, seal it up, and then steep it. Not a bad little deal if you don’t already have some sort of tea infuser. One drawback, it seems, would be that the infusing chamber is sort of small, and it might not allow some teas to “unfurl” properly. If you’re brewing something like gunpowder or dragon pearls, you might not get the full brewing experience. Again, I haven’t tried the Teastick, so I can’t say for sure.

I can imagine it would make an elegant service in a restaurant or tea shop though.

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10-02-2005 @ 7:45PM

laughingrat said...

Hmm...I'm gonna go so far as to say it would be a poor choice for any whole-leaf tea, even ones that aren't tightly-rolled. Good tea really needs some room to infuse! It is pretty though.

10-03-2005 @ 9:49AM

Paula Helm Murray said...

Since i'm with Alton Brown on 'no one-function kitchen wonders' (aside from a fire extinguisher) this would rate a 0 in my house. Plus if I'm using nice tea (I usually use lipton tea bags for a daily infusion of tea-caffeine) I would rather let it infuse in water with no restriction, and strain into the cup. Whatever....

10-04-2005 @ 7:33AM

Jimmy said...

Got 3 of them the other day. Work great. Not for every tea, but good for what they do.

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