Friday April 30, 2010 | 3 comments
I recently had lunch with a dear friend and avid tea drinker, Yvonne Maisonette. Yvonne has been transitioning from her career as a fashion model and actress into entertainment journalism and asked if we could do a segment on tea.
As much as I love talking about what I’m doing with my company and the different teas we offer, I thought this could be a great opportunity to focus on some of my favorite products for enjoying our teas.
What you use to prepare your loose-leaf tea is as important as the tea and the water you use. I often receive new product submissions from designers and companies wanting to know what I think about what they offer and how well their particular product works with quality loose-leaf teas or with finer blends. Not every submission makes the cut.
So, in my tea segment with Yvonne, I picked several of my favorite ways to make Naja Tea. So take a moment (or one minute and 27 seconds) and experience some of my favorite tea accoutrements.
I’d love to know about your favorite new and innovative tea products.
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I have to agree when you say what we use to prepare our tea is extremely important. I get so much pleasure from each of my tea ware accessories. Truth is, I suspect most people really enjoy a favorite cup or pot and tend to use them over and over again. We’ve got a surprise coming to T Ching this fall that will put smiles on lots of faces I’m sure.
I just found a new way ( for me at least) of brewing loose leaf tea while traveling. It consists of an open tea sac with a hole punched on both sides of the top of the tea sac and about 4″ long wood “pick”. You fill your sac with loose leaf tea put the pick through both holes and drop the sac into your cup of hot water. The pick is balancing on either side of the top of the cup and keeping the sac from falling in the cup. When you are done you just pick up the pick and slide the bag into the trash and you are ready to go! Takes up very little room and so easy to use. Has anyone else seen these? I bought it in a tea shop outside of Chicago.
Yes, I use it all the time. You don’t even need special tea sacs with holes – just a packet of asian tea bags -sole at any Asian food store- i use a bamboo stick that easily makes holes where needed. I store the tea from home in the tea sac – the Asian ones allow you to fold them over so the tea doesn’t spill out. Once you’re ready with hot water in a cup – open the sac, insert bamboo post and you’re there.