Reddit mentions of HIC Harold Import Co. HIC Mesh Tea Infuser, 1, Metallic

Rooibos has very fine needles, it's very easy to have bits slip past if you don't use a fine mesh screen.

I don't have an IngenuiTEA, but they probably have a very fine mesh filter. Many tea infusers have a mesh that's less fine, and could easily let some odd bits slip through. (Stuff like this for example.)

There are cheap metal teafilters which you can get on amazon..Get yourself some loose tea and brew it up - my favourite for cold weather is rooibos creme caramel

Conventional teabags also have plastic in them, which a lot of people don't know: https://www.greenchildmagazine.com/plastic-in-tea-bags/ So not sure how you would recycle them.

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Maybe you could try bulk area tea or tea that you can buy in metal tins.

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Stainless steel tea infusers;

https://www.amazon.com/HIC-Infuser-Stainless-Mulling-Spices/dp/B000I1ZZ24/ref=sr_1_13?keywords=stainless+steel+tea+strainer+for+loose+tea&qid=1558316465&s=gateway&sr=8-13

These are similar to the ones I use: https://www.amazon.com/Fu-Store-Stainless-Strainers-Strainer/dp/B014KJ5WLI/ref=sr_1_9?keywords=stainless+steel+tea+strainer+for+loose+tea&qid=1558316500&s=gateway&sr=8-9

Steeping tea is enjoyable to me. At minimum, you'll need a device for heating the water (kettle, either electric or stovetop), a container for steeping (teapot), a filter to catch the leaves (can be part of teapot or separate), and a cup for drinking.

I use these:

• Medelco kettle
  
• BIA Cordon Blue teapot and cup
  
• Steel ball strainer
  
  The process is simple.
  
  
• Place leaves into teapot.
  
• Heat water in kettle.
  
• Pour water into teapot.
  
• Place strainer at mouth of teapot while pouring tea into cup.
  
  You can alternatively place the leaves in the strainer and stick it inside the teapot to steep. That's slightly simpler, but it doesn't allow the leaves to fully expand.
  
  Some teapots are also designed to ease the steeping process further, like Adagio's Ingenuitea, which I own and yet don't use as much. You place the leaves inside, steep, and then the tea flows out from the filtered mesh bottom, directly into a cup.
  
  Once you've developed tea as a hobby and have certain regional or style preferences, such as Japanese sencha (green tea) or Chinese oolongs, you can invest in steeping equipment specific to those, such as kyusu or tetsubin and Zisha teapots or gaiwan. These are by no means required, but they can heighten the experience, especially if you decide to prepare the tea in the culturally traditional manner; see Japanese and Chinese tea ceremonies.

I think everyone answered the too-many grains, etc, here pretty well.

As for straining... I got tired really quick with straining grains. So I stuck them in one of these and just pull it out and put it into the next batch.

https://www.amazon.com/HIC-Infuser-Stainless-6-Inches-1-5-Inches/dp/B000I1ZZ24

Its worked great for months and months. Takes me about a minute to process my kefir on a good day. I dump it into the next mason jar, transfer this over, dump in milk, stir with it.

I've always used something like this, though I usually pay like one tenth of this price, even though things are usually much more expensive in my country than in the US ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

You can always get cheap steepers from amazon. :) I have this and this. They are both a little small, so the teas can't fully expand, though. My personal favorite is something like this because it has tiny holes that stop anything from escaping, and still plenty of room for larger tea leaves to fully expand.

So, the easiest way to make it is to just dump some in some almost boiling water. The downside, obviously, is that you have loose leaves in the water, which is (IMO) not the most appealing tea.

If you want to keep the leaves out of the tea, then you need a strainer. I use (this one)[http://www.amazon.com/HIC-Snap-Mesh-Ball-Infuser/dp/B000I1ZZ24/] cause it's cheap, easy to get the tea into, and easy to clean.

A lot of people like the (pourover kine)[http://www.amazon.com/OXO-Good-Grips-3-Inch-Strainer/dp/B001713L84/], but I like my tea stronger than most, so I like to let the leaves spend more time in the hot water than the pourover method does, and the scissor type strainer I use gives me the most flexible.

If you've got it in a bag, this is the most thorough video I've seen on the subject.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syAjix4QgNc

Otherwise, if you're using a strainer, all the same rules basically apply, you just use the strainer instead of the bag.

thingy. Because our coffee maker is broken at work and I've been downing tea. I have a vanilla, caramel, and earl grey tea that I LOVE at home but it's only loose leaf so I need one of these thingies for the office.

I hope you are having a marvelous day, thank you for the contest :)

Thank you for this! I just purchase a lot of loos leaf samples for the first time (Agiago, verdant, yezi). I guess I should hold off on most of the types until I get a programmable kettle? I have an electric one now. I have a steeper like one http://amzn.com/B000I1ZZ24

Anything you'd suggest as a first timer?

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What about something like this??

HIC Mesh Snap Ball Loose Leaf Tea Infuser, 18/8 Stainless Steel, 6-Inches x 1.5-Inches https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000I1ZZ24/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_Py0eAbQFYKGRJ