After following this ng for awhile, I have been encouraged to learn
more about tea and brewing a really good cup.

I have come to the conclusion that I need better tools. One that I am
about to purchase is the ingenuiTea from Adagio. This looks like the
perfect tool for loose tea and expecially for multiple infusions,
which I am just getting into.

I have a couple of questions and would appreciate any comments.

1. Infuser popping out. Several Amazon reviewers reported that the
infuser would sometimes pop out or float up allowing tea leaves to get
into the cup. However, most of these people also put the whole unit
into the microwave, which I can imagine might warp things.

Has anyone had a problem with the infuser not staying in place?

2. Multiple infusions. One reviewer said that it didn't work well for
multiple infusions. Here's the exact wording:

While intrepidly exploring the bowels of USENET on Saturday, August
30, 2008, Square Peg rolled initiative and posted the following:

Problem? No. Experienced it? Yes.

The infuser in the new model is easily removable for cleaning. The
most common way to get leaves out of such a unit is to shake it over
the trash can. This often causes the infuser to slip.

I just always make sure to get it back in place before steeping,
knowing that it has a tendency to come loose.

That said, the removable infuser makes it much easier to clean than
the earlier model, which I also have.

Square Peg wrote:

On Sat, 30 Aug 2008 16:19:54 -0500, Derek wrote:

While intrepidly exploring the bowels of USENET on Saturday, August
30, 2008, Square Peg rolled initiative and posted the following:

If you're not emptying it, sure.

While intrepidly exploring the bowels of USENET on Saturday, August
30, 2008, Rainy rolled initiative and posted the following:

It's also pretty good early in the morning when I'm not quite awake
and the wife and I both need our caffeine.

On Sat, 30 Aug 2008 15:19:42 -0700 (PDT), Rainy gmail.com>
wrote:

Square Peg wrote:

While intrepidly exploring the bowels of USENET on Saturday, August
30, 2008, Square Peg rolled initiative and posted the following:

Here's another one, just for information's sake.

http://tinyurl.com/5syyp2

I've only seen them at a tea shop in Minneapolis, and I used to use
one regularly that I got from that shop. But it's 2-part construction
made it ill-suited to the workplace.

I prefer the ingenuiTEA. And I find that it works well for multiple
steeps.

Hell < Square Peg,
You have stated that you are new to teas, and when I was really new
and finding out all the stuff you will learn I really wanted to buy
lots of tools. And pots, and strainers and yixing, and bone china and
lovely gaiwans of many sizes and all, tea bags, tea socks, tea sets
cups with strainers, glass teapots with strainers Jenaer or from the
asian market or the world market. Every place has their thing, and so
does each and every person.
I cannot tell you how much money I have spent on utensils but know now
I SHOULD have saved most of it just for nice tea.
In the end.. this am I got up, went to the cabinet, chose an old
coffee mug that I have hundreds of, put a mesh strainer(poly) in the
cup and poured hot water in my tea, took out the strainer and put it
in another cup, drank my tea and then poured new hot water into the
2nd cup (that has the leaves) drained it and put the strainer back in
the first cup. and then go on and on till the leaves were exhausted.
Funny I do this on the counter top of the cabinet that holds my
gaiwans, teapots sharecups,strainers teapots and mountains of teaware.
Sometimes I even brew in a pyrex measuring cup (for volume) Or just
put this same little $4 poly strainer in a teapot and steep, take out ...