I was searching around the net, and found a company that produced a disposable tea cup lid that you could pull the tea bag out of the water once the brewing is done.
Does this ring a bell for anyone? I "think" that they may be a montreal company... but I cannot remember or find them again for the life of me! TIA!
Cheers
Mike
Sorry I can't help with your exact product wish, but similar things cn be done quite easily with any lid. For ones that have the fold back opening that "snap" onto the little nub you can just pull up some string and snap it closed on the string to hold it up out of the water.
Similarly you can take the lid off pull the teabag up as far to the rim as possible, and snap the lid back on the string holding it up and away.
My personal method is to ask for two cups. Let the tea brew, then put the teabag in the bottom of the unused cup and put it under the cup with the liquid. This way the cup isn't so hot to hold and it keeps the tea from oxidizing totally in the air so I can have them add extra hot water to the second cup when I'm done with the first and reverse the cups to again have the same thing.
I have seen places with the lids you are speaking about, but no idea who makes them or where to buy.
HTH,
- Dominic
I did manage to find the company again, and for anyone who is interested, the company is Mighty Leaf Tea in Canada. Unfortunately it seems they only sell the lid wholesale, so buying a few for use around home does not seem likely :(
So ask them if they sell to any company in your area... and if they do, go over there and ask them if they'd sell you a box.
--scott
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Or, failing that, if you want to play dirty, tell them you are considering buying seventeen gross of them, but first you need a couple samples to show. (Think I'm kidding?) Michael
We did talk to them to see if we could buy a limited quantity, but their response was that they would only sell them to resellers, because the lids were branded, and they did not want branded lids used with (their words) "inferior teas".
Michael: that is a good suggestion, I think I will seek out a local reseller and see if I can order through them.
Thanks!
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"Inferior teas"? Sounds like I missed a good part of the story. Michael
I dunno if good is the right description :) When I talked to their wholesale rep, and mentioned that I did not want to sell their tea, just buy the dome lids, he explained that they only sold the lids to shops that sold their teas as well, and that they did not want to sell the lids to shops that may use them with "inferior teas" (his exact words!). I think he was afraid that their name, since it is stamped on the lids, would be associated with a poor quality tea that it was being used with.
My personal feeling is that, I have never seen a dome "to go" lid with a resovoir for a tea bag, and if indeed it works as they say it does (they would not even send a sample) then I think that they could do a tonne of business with the growth of tea bars and Starbuck style tea houses. But, I am not their marketing or sales manager so *sigh* I guess that we will not see them in wide use anytime soon, because I cannot find that they have a great deal of retailers of their product available.
;) Mike
I can understand where they are coming from business-wise (to them their product is tops, and in reality amongst teabags it may be higher end... whatever that means) I have found though that in manufacturing there is rarely a single owner of such designs. Now this may be a patented product and specially made, but since they are not a huge company I would think otherwise. And I have found some evidence:
Such as this patent:
and this article (with manufacturer name)
Also, I have seen a few different travel mugs with the ability to accept tea bags or loose tea and then with a slide they seal off the chamber with the tea in it so it stops brewing. The only problem is that some water is retained with the tea in the chanber and I'm sure it gets bitter and depletes the leaves making a second infusion impossible... however if that isn;t a problem they may be the way to go. (I saw them at Wegman's grocery store)
Most of the places I get tea at when I'm out use T-Sac's and that's why I use the method I talked about above.
- Dominic
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