I've really gone a little overboard with 2 oz of this, 4 oz of that and need an inexpensive source for storage. I'm a little afraid of glass - we have a bright kitchen and that's the tea area, as well. Any suggestions are appreciated. Thanks in advance. Shen
I recyle Chinese and Indian tea tins for storage. My everyday teas are
100g dark plastic containers with large lid to hold previous content while adding new. They line up nicely on a walk-in pantry door rack giving access to about 50 different teas. My storage is an amalgamation of decades. My favorite are teas that you occasionally find in clay containers. Off the shelf clay storage is inexpensive at Mexican ware shops. A kitchen store will have a variety of containers.Jim
Check out Ten Ren's website. I think the small tin cans are like $4 and it's worth it to get 5-6 to store your teas.
Alternatively you can > I've really gone a little overboard with 2 oz of this, 4 oz of that and
The problem is that only the medium sized (16 oz????) tins have an inner cover. The ones from the medium tins will fit the small ones, but the small ones don't come with it.
The inner cover goes a long way toward keeping tea fresh. More than I expected.
The same tins that Ten Ren sells are also available from Upton's. I don't know how different the price is.
--scott
I will say, though, that I went to Ten Ren in Rockville, MD. this past weekend and got an attempt at high-pressure sales. It wasn't over the top, but I did not want to buy osmanthus tea, nor did I want to buy $45 worth of ginseng, and I spent more time than I had expected trying to explain that I was there for only one quarter pound of oriental beauty tea, nothing else. A couple folks here have mentioned high pressure sales at Ten Ren, and I had never experienced it before in many years of shopping there, but I now have seen it.
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