Hello, All,
I am enjoying a cup of Lichee that was brewed using a 2-cup French press purchased yesterday. The tea is delicious, and none of the loose leaves reached the cup.
It is a cinch to clean the press afterward. I may not go back to the ol' tea ball again :)
Carl / tooo many 'o's in yahoo ;p
There's a lot of discussion about loose tea leaves.
I use a regular tea pot which lets the tea leaves move around.
When I pour the tea, I have an inexpensive ($5) metal filter that sits over the cup and has holes small enough not to let larger pieces of tea leaves through. It's not even a filter really, just a piece of metal with holes in it, and a little space for liquid. Very elegant and simple, really.
After the brewing is done, leave a little water in the pot, and scoop out the tea leaves with a large spoon. The water is the trick, because you can pick up a whole bunch of tea leafs in the liquid, and then drain the liquid from the spoon and the tea leaves remain.
Rinse the tea pot out and its done.
I think the French press sounds nifty. I love my ingenuiTea though. It is very easy to use. See it work at
-elgoog
Yeah, you would do well to do away with the tea ball even if the French press wasn't working out so well for you. Get a strainer, Ekco makes a decent one that's sold for
How do you get rid of the little bits leftover? I'm using mine to make cold tea and leaf pieces lodge in the bottom and are difficult to rinse out. I've resorted to using the sprayer, but there are still pieces that won't come out and I can't figure out a way to take everything apart w/o ruining it.
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