We have seen a couple of interesting mugs in the past, but the design of this one really strikes a chord with me because I drink quite a bit of tea. This tea bag mug is designed with a pocket built right into it for your tea bag - a convenience when you prefer to use a sturdier mug for hot drinks in the evenings, rather than a cup and saucer. If you're not into tea, or brew yours with loose-leaf tea instead of bagged, you can put the pocket to use in other ways. It can be used to hold packets of sugar or sweeteners when serving to guests and can even hold a small cookie or two. But ultimately, this is a nice, large mug for a tea-lover and probably a must-have for those who really love Lipton or other bagged teas.
A mug with a pocket
by Nicole Weston, Posted Dec 27th 2006 @ 7:02AM
Filed Under: Food Gadgets, Drink Recipes
Tags: coffee, cup, cups, Gadgets, mug, mugs, saucer, tea, tea bag, teas
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12-27-2006 @10:30AM Nicole said... Nicole this is such a great idea! I like to drink Sleepytime tea at night and always end up searching for a place to put the teabag! I like the idea of using it for a cookie also :-) Great find!
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12-27-2006 @12:36PM Sheryl said... Cool, but... does it come in a left-handed version? Because all I can picture when I try to imagine drinking out of that, is a wet teabag in my lap. :)
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12-27-2006 @10:46AM Mrs. W said... I agree with Sheryl, I think I wouldn't like the wet lap. I don't like tea that I have attempted to brew in an individual cup or mug. By the time it is to the right strength, it is cooled off so much it must be re-heated and then it becomes bitter and no amount of milk can redeem it. I really don't like thick pottery, any way. Thank you, but I think I'll stick with my brown betty style pots, and my bone china cups ("with the hand painted periwinkles").
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12-27-2006 @11:18AM Foodie Bride said... Ha! Santa left me a pretty little decorative tea-bag holder in my stocking this year. For the last 48 hours, I thought it was the best thing in the world. I see now that I might be wrong!
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12-28-2006 @2:40AM Alyx said... Wouldn't the inside of the slot be rather difficult to clean? It reminds me of those mugs you can buy that have a built-in slot on the base for holding biscuits.
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12-27-2006 @1:00PM Robyn said... cool, this looks handy. every time i make tea, i end up having to make about four trips to the kitchen! this will eliminate at least one of those trips...
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12-28-2006 @2:11PM Kate said... Mrs. W has the right idea. Thick mugs drain heat away from your tea, and thin, bone china cups, retain the heat. Tea both deserves and is enhanced by a very thin cup, not a thick one -- and wouldn't you dump the bag into your face/chin/lap as soon as you tilted this mug?
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12-27-2006 @8:19PM Kate said... Mrs. W has the right idea. Thick mugs drain heat away from your tea, and thin, bone china cups, retain the heat. Tea both deserves and is enhanced by a very thin cup, not a thick one -- and wouldn't you dump the bag into your face/chin/lap as soon as you tilted this mug?
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12-31-2006 @1:26PM zanngo said... Omigod! My mom had a set of four of those when I was a kid in the early 70's! Cool to see those back again, if only for nostalgia's sake. I suppose there's a reason they disappeared, though, because I don't remember seeing one in over twenty years. My mom had two painted exactly like the example here, and two with brown stripes...
Oh, and Mrs. W, I like the little shout-out to Hyacinth! :)
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