For a cold drink I want juice or milk or water.
I don’t want a hot drink unless I’m sick, when I’d choose broth.
An average day for me is 4-6 cups of tea. I have heartburn and other issues, so I’ve switched to only drinking decaf tea. I’ve never liked the taste of coffee, so tea is my hot drink of choice.
I didn’t care for tea at all until my early 20s. Coffee, I couldn’t stand until I turned 40. Now I love both, hot or iced (though I prefer hot coffee and iced tea).
My family is Southern. Iced Tea is a part our heritage. I love good Iced Tea. I cannot tolerate in any way mediocre to bad Iced Tea.
Seconded. There are other similar devices out there but this one works great and costs the right amount.
Cool! Milion gracias!
There’s something vaguely tautological about that… Like, butterscotch is better than bad chocolate, but good chocolate is better than butterscotch.
I find that coffee, when it gets cool, is awful, but tea, when it has gone cool, is still pretty good. Am I alone in not having any love at all for iced-coffee? I do not enjoy it at all.
It looks good, but what advantages does it have over an infuser ball?
An infuser doesn’t increase the “IngenuiTea” manufacturer’s bottom line.
Not fair. The idea is that making tea in a larger pot let’s the tea open up all the way and insfuse better. Getting your own large tea bags is better than an infuser ball (but less good for the environment). For example, my every day tea is a green tea that is tightly balled when dry. A tsp fills half my teapot when steeped. That doesn’t happen in an infuser ball because they aren’t big enough. And I have a full teapot too but this makes one mug at a time so if I am drinking tea by myself I don’t have to make a whole pot.
Tea tastes like dirt to me. I do not enjoy the taste of dirt. Therefore I do not like tea.
Hot, cold, makes no difference. I do occasionally like Chai, though. I’m guessing there’s little more than trace amounts of actual tea in that, at least the ones I’ve had.
Chai (which literally just means “tea”) is tea with sugar, milk, and a few spices, particularly cardamom. It’s mostly tea.
A chai latte, like any latte, is mostly milk.
Chai latte is somewhat similar in result to “milk tea” of northern India, which is tea made by steeping the tea leaves in hot milk instead of hot water. It’s incredibly rich, stinks of dairy cow, and has a buttery undertone. I can’t drink it.
The tea can float loose in the water rather than being packed together inside the infuser. I feel that way you get all of the flavor out of your tea.
And I’ve used infuser balls and found you have to pack the tea leaves in carefully or you end up with some of them sticking outside the infuser. It’s more convenient to just throw some tea leaves into a cup.
Plus there’s the coolness factor.
You’re right. My response was flippant, cynical and somewhat calculated to entertain rather than be serious. I apologize.
Um…thanks, but not helpful.
Helpful! Thank’ee.
(They had me 66.67% sold at “easy to clean.”)
That’s what my cousin Saroj makes. It’s a taste I, eh, haven’t fully acquired.
Dishwasher safe! The hardest part is figuring the correct wrist flick to get all the leaves into the trash in one shot without getting tea leaves everywhere.
And just FYI, in South Asia, “chai” or “cha” just means “tea,” which is generally served with milk and sugar.
That spiced stuff we call “chai tea” here would be called “masala chai” (“spice tea”) or something like that.
OH, man. Now I’m all hungry for some milk tea of northern India…
Very cool. I had elevenses at the Orangery last spring when I was in London. Darjeeling with good bread-and-butter and a few pastries. Tres elegant.
The Ukulele Lady is crazy about afternoon tea and makes me go to them in luxury hotels or places like Fortnum & Mason whenever visiting Britain or Ireland, though I find them irresponsibly expensive. Luckily she’s also crazy about good bitter ale and stout, so we also spend a responsible amount of time in pubs.
Well, I just gave you the recipe. You could make a version of it tonight! 
Just get yourself some full fat milk, loose Indian tea, and sugar.
Uh-oh! Now I’m in trouble! STR 15; INT 11; DEX 6. (WIS 3; I’m an SDMB addict!)
Spin-off question: is it okay to run used tea leaves through the garbage disposal, or do they harden into concrete and block up the grinder and the pipes?