Cuisipro Tea Infuser
January 24, 2010
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Posted by Coffee Man
Cuisipro Tea Infuser Information
Product Reviews Post Time
Jan 24, 2010 02:02:10
Average Product Rating
3.5 of 5.0
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Cuisipro Tea Infuser Reviews By Customers
Hidden away from prying eyes in my desk drawers are a couple large bags of dried mint leaves. Bags of dried leaves combined with a degree of Berkeley are highly amusing to my co-workers.
Before buying an infuser, I had a teapot-shaped ceramic dish, meant to hold the teaspoon or teabag. It didn’t hide tea-stains well, and never looked as nice as this on my desk. The Cuisipro’s long cable never falls in like the string from a teabag, this is its best feature. When not in use, the infuser looks like a small sculpture.
A few tiny particles of mint leaf ends up in my tea, I don’t really mind but it’s worth mentioning for the review. Neatly shredded commercial tea probably wouldn’t do this, but the inexpertly-harvested leaves from my garden do. Check Special Price!
works pretty good – C. Hoffman – MI USA
This works pretty good. The holes are small enough that you don’t get a lot of the loose tea floating around in your tea. A little bit of a pain getting the tea into it, but not too bad.
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Not for the discerning loose leaf tea drinker. – A. Raila –
Nice concept, visually interesting, but functionally not quite what I was looking for.
Holes are too large and too few.
The holes aren’t quite small enough to keep all the little bits out of my cup. I ended up using a screw on strainer cup accessory (GSI H2JO! Water Bottle Coffee/Tea Maker) from my water bottle to re-filter the tea. If it was made more of a wire mesh material, it’d probably be better at keeping the leaves out while brewing more flavor into the cup.
Saucer is useless.
The saucer is a nice idea, but doesn’t seem quite large enough to serve the purpose. You’re bound to have a drop here or there hit the counter. It’s so lightweight and the infuser so heavy, it just doesn’t quite work.
Too much work to use the plunger.
As for the ‘plunger’… You need to unscrew the top and bottom parts, keep the plunger disc in the bottom piece while moving the top out of the way, then insert your tea leaves in the bottom over the disc, and re-screw the top piece to the bottom in it’s original position. I actually found it kind of difficult to unscrew the parts, but I may have just gotten one with a tighter fit.
Unfortunately, this product will probably sit in my kitchen utensil drawer unused.
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Gimicky – NB –
Bought this as a gift. I think the top and bottom components are poorly designed when it comes to securing to each other. The recipient has had nothing but trouble and after seeing her explain it to me, I agree and aren’t surprised she always ends up with leaves floating in her tea.
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