Review of sorts

[dorkpie]

I've been trying loose leaf tea lately (when I'm not drinking my store-bought brand of Earl Grey), and it's a lot more fun than I thought it was going to be. Anyway, we got two tea infusers, the classic ball and a robot-shaped one, and we also got: Teavana's Perfect Teamaker.

This lovely thing right here:


It's weird for me that I'm recommending this as I tend to dislike anything Teavana tries to sell me, but it was a Christmas gift, and also I love it.

Not only is it ridiculously easy to use, but also fairly easy to pull apart and clean. It's so intuitive that the directions are virtually unnecessary. There's more than enough space for the tea leaves to expand, which turned out to be my main problem with the tea infusers we got. Overall: it's a really nice tool, and I think a great thing to give someone just getting into loose leaf tea.

Edit: Just realized that it's pretty much the same thing as Adagio's ingenuiTEA that proseac was wondering about a few months ago.

Comments

[claire_chan]

My sister has this teamaker!

It seems useful, especially if more than one person is drinking tea. My sister likes different teas than I do, though, so I usually do not have tea from this contraption.

The Teavana salespeople were not friendly to me last time, but perhaps I was just grumpy from the long trip and misinterpreted their behaviour.
(I don't live next door to either of the Teavanas "near" me)

[dorkpie]

From what I've heard and experienced, unfriendliness (with a healthy dose of snobbery) is the common trend for Teavana employees. Also I find their merchandise ridiculously overpriced.

But this teamaker is so lovely! I thought it would feel really cheap (it's plastic, not glass), but I was really impressed with how sturdy it was. I like a lot of things about it, but you brought up a good point. It's not really as awesome when it's something to be shared amongst people with different tastes. :/a

[claire_chan]

Snobbery and unfriendliness seem terribly regular in the world of virtually everything! Tea, Latin -> Linguistics, Academia, Oboe, Dressage, Rhetoric... Edit: I probably should have written Linguistics -> Latin, but in my mind, Latin is a much broader field than Linguistics, rather than vice versa. *shakes head* A little much on the arma virumque cano...
The overpriced nature of Teavana merchandise is probably the executive staff's way to narrow the range of customers who could afford dealing with it.

It's hard to share anything with people who have drastically different tastes! Music, dinner, conversation, rides... especially if you really don't want to experience whatever they love.