I've run across a lot of tea gadgets over the years, but I'd like to think that I haven't become jaded just yet. This theory was confirmed recently when I saw an article about a rather unique gizmo. It's a chocolate teapot. To clarify exactly what that means, it's a teapot that's actually made of …
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It has become customary to include a novelty tea infuser in each one of these reports whenever possible. So, with no further ado, here's the latest and greatest. It seems rather appropriate for an object that's dunked in water and is called a Deep Tea Diver Infuser. I wrote about tea smuggling at this site …
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There are any number of alleged uses for a used tea bag, including various cleaning tasks, soothing your weary eyes, and fertilizing plants. Tea has also been used in various ways to make art, and the same goes for tea bags. But what about making your own tea bags? Well, I'd have to say this …
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The well of novelty tea infusers is so deep that it can surely never run dry. It's become kind of a tradition in these gadget reports to comment on a notable one of these gizmos and this edition is no exception. But this time around we'll feature not just one but two outstanding novelty tea …
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If you follow the articles I write for this site, you might have noticed that a certain topic turns up rather often. That would be gadgets. For a while now I've been writing a regular monthly column on tea gadgets, and from time to time I throw in an extra article. Having written about so …
I'd like to think I haven't become too jaded about the wonderful world of tea gadgets. Even though I've run across a zillion or two of them in my time and even though I write a monthly column on the topic. Yes, a zillion or two might be a bit on the high side, but …
We've written about Tregothnan Estate many times at this site and here's the proof. It's noteworthy for the fact that it's the only significant producer of tea in a place where tea is consumed with great enthusiasm - the United Kingdom. Recently, it was announced, as one of the British papers put it, that "English …
There's an app for that, as Apple's popular trademarked phrase might put it. It seems that nowadays there's an app for just about everything and tea is hardly an exception. I've reported on various tea apps in these gadget reports every now and then. But the good people over at the Apple-focused publication Mac Life …
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There are a couple of themes that seem to crop up now and then when it comes to gimmicky tea-related stuff. One is using tea in one way or another to make some sort of art and the other is using tea to make or flavor beer or spirits. The latter is a topic I …
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I've seen a lot of tea gadgets. This is the twelfth monthly installment of this report and I wrote many more before we began numbering them. So you'd think that I might have become a bit jaded when it comes to tea gadgets, and perhaps I have. But every once in a while one comes …
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