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Pros: Quite easy to use. Scoop some tea into the bottom half of the "note:, click it together, immerse in hot water. Has enough capacity to easily make a two- or three-cup pot of tea, not just one cup. No worrying plastic smell or flavour added to the tea.
Cons: The holes are a couple of millimetres in diameter, so fine tea will get out through them. Also so tall that it probably won't be possible to hook the top of the "note" over the rim of your cup; it'll just sit in there like a swizzle stick.
Other Thoughts: My first set of these got squashed in delivery, but DealExtreme immediately agreed to send a replacement. This second set is A-OK.
Bottomline: If you like fine-grained tea ("tips"), and don't like the idea of straining it AGAIN or dealing with a lot of "dregs" in the cup, you'll need a metal-mesh infuser instead. Plastic infusers just can't have small enough holes - some fine tea will escape from even a metal infuser.But for coarser un-ground leaf tea, or coarse herbal tea, these things will work fine. Ought to last quite well too; the plastic will break if you stand on it, but not if it just falls off the table.I'll be sticking with my little spring-loaded metal infuser for making single cups, but that's because I like fine-grained tea.
Pros: Small and cute. Great if you only need a small cup of tea. Saves you the trouble of making a mess since all the tea leaves will be easier thrown away once done.
Cons: Too small. Needs to be 2x its size to be usable in a 1L pot. Otherwise, just enough for a small cup.
Other Thoughts: Cute design. Both of mine are white. You might want to boil it to clear of any plastic smell. Same with any other plastic wares anyhow.
Bottomline: Well worth it if you only drink a little bit of tea. Not big enough for people that drink a lot of tea. Maybe good for guests.
Pros: its a very nice item, it does what it is supposed to do, and does it well.neat design, the top part allows it to sit pretty nicely on your mug. the holes are just the right size.
Cons: well here we go again with the plastic and hot contents again. it leaves me a bit concerned, i mean who is to say that its not releasing some sort of chemicals or anything else for that matter when used with hot liquid, which most of us probably are.
Other Thoughts: i love the design, the colors are ok as well
Bottomline: ah ok item if its something you are looking for.
Pros: Light, compact and cute
Cons: Wish the strainer part was bigger for tea fans such as myself that wish to have more tea leaves. Also would like to have been able to choose my colours as well.
Other Thoughts: The plastic is sort of thin so you probably wouldn't want to put it in for too long.
Bottomline: Not bad at this price, and definitely doesn't leave a metallic taste like the larger metal strainer balls.
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