I am planning to buy a good air pot, such as a Zojirushi

http://www.zojirushi.com/ourproducts/airpots/airpots.html

for making 6-8 cups of tea for the office.

My plan is to make it right in the air pot. Since none of them come
with an infuser, I'll need to find one that can handle roughly 3g of
leaves for each cup (8 oz). For an 8-cup (48 oz) air pot, that would
be 24 g of tea.

Any suggestions for the infuser?

There are several on this page that look promising

http://www.teagschwendner.com/US/en/publish/Shop_Permanent_Filters.aspx?ActiveID...

including the 003132, D-93998, and 003120.

I wonder how a cloth tea net would work:

http://www.teagschwendner.com/US/en/publish/Shop_Cloth_Filters.aspx?ActiveID=1123&parent_id...

This eBay vendor has a large selection of stainless steel ball
infusers.

http://search.stores.ebay.com/acme-kitchen-plus_tea-ball_W0QQfcdZ2QQfciZQ2d1QQfc...

This one got great reviews on Amazon, but it doesn't say the
dimensions

http://www.amazon.com/Teeli-Brew-Basket-Finum-Strainer/dp/B000J3JFJU

Its like fitting a round peg in a square hole when finding infusers
for pots that dont have one. The rigid ones usually dont fit the
mouth, at best almost if youre lucky. Forget about the lid in these
cases. The TeeLi company also makes a tea sock in small, medium,
large which is held in place by the normal lid seal. The sock is
disposable so you dont have to do anything special with the leaf. My
local tea shoppe taught me that. The tea ball is the next best option
because the chain can be held in place by the lid but will eventually
chip hard surfaces like clay and porcelain.

Jim

PS If you have to twist the lid, the sock lip might tear. I bought
some expensive Chinese teas in 25g bags and I expect that to last
forever or until I forget how much I paid. I still drink my penny/
gram teas.

Square Peg wrote:

On Sep 16, 2:53 am, Square Peg wrote: