Hi everyone,

A friend of mine just came back from a visit to China. He had with him
the coolest tea drinking decanter/glass thingy. It was a like a single
serving thermos, all glass with a metal strainer built into the top.
Pop off the metal strainer, pour in your hot water and tea leaves, put
the strainer back in place and then screw on a lid. After setting long
enough just drink right from decanter/glass.

Anyone see such things about on the net and can point me to a link or
two? Would appreciate any comments.

Cheers,
Eric

Search for Tea thermos on Ebay. Yellow Mountain imports sells them.

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"Eric" > wrote in message
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> Hi everyone,
>
> A friend of mine just came back from a visit to China. He had with him
> the coolest tea drinking decanter/glass thingy. It was a like a single
> serving thermos, all glass with a metal strainer built into the top.
> Pop off the metal strainer, pour in your hot water and tea leaves, put
> the strainer back in place and then screw on a lid. After setting long
> enough just drink right from decanter/glass.
>
> Anyone see such things about on the net and can point me to a link or
> two? Would appreciate any comments.
>
> Cheers,
> Eric
>

"Eric" > wrote in message
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> Hi everyone,
>
> A friend of mine just came back from a visit to China. He had with him
> the coolest tea drinking decanter/glass thingy. It was a like a single
> serving thermos, all glass with a metal strainer built into the top.
> Pop off the metal strainer, pour in your hot water and tea leaves, put
> the strainer back in place and then screw on a lid. After setting long
> enough just drink right from decanter/glass.
>
> Anyone see such things about on the net and can point me to a link or
> two? Would appreciate any comments.
>
> Cheers,
> Eric

If you don't want to buy off of eBay:

http://www.ymimports.com/ProductInfo.aspx?id=497894.

It's great for multi-infusion teas. I use water below 140 degrees F because
there's a longer steep since the tea leaves aren't removed before drinking.

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>> A friend of mine just came back from a visit to China. He had with him
>> the coolest tea drinking decanter/glass thingy. It was a like a single
>> serving thermos, all glass with a metal strainer built into the top.
>> Pop off the metal strainer, pour in your hot water and tea leaves, put
>> the strainer back in place and then screw on a lid. After setting long
>> enough just drink right from decanter/glass.
>>
>> Anyone see such things about on the net and can point me to a link or
>> two? Would appreciate any comments.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Eric
>
> If you don't want to buy off of eBay:
> http://www.ymimports.com/ProductInfo.aspx?id=497894.
> It's great for multi-infusion teas. I use water below 140 degrees F because
> there's a longer steep since the tea leaves aren't removed before drinking.

I use mine with water cooled to below room temperature. This gives green tea
a chance to slowly infuse as I travel. I just refill it now and again as I
move about. It's a great summer travel thing. Mine has a painting on the
glass wall, and phoney diamonds embedded into the guilded pastic top. It's
perfectly ugly in a perfect sort of way.

Michael

"Michael Plant" > wrote in message
...
>
> > If you don't want to buy off of eBay:
> > http://www.ymimports.com/ProductInfo.aspx?id=497894.
> > It's great for multi-infusion teas. I use water below 140 degrees F
because
> > there's a longer steep since the tea leaves aren't removed before
drinking.
>
> I use mine with water cooled to below room temperature. This gives green
tea
> a chance to slowly infuse as I travel. I just refill it now and again as I
> move about. It's a great summer travel thing. Mine has a painting on the
> glass wall, and phoney diamonds embedded into the guilded pastic top. It's
> perfectly ugly in a perfect sort of way.

Yes, lower temp for longer steep.

Have you tried using water from a drinking fountain since that water's
usually chilled?

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11/4/05

>
> "Michael Plant" > wrote in message
> ...
>>
>>> If you don't want to buy off of eBay:
>>> http://www.ymimports.com/ProductInfo.aspx?id=497894.
>>> It's great for multi-infusion teas. I use water below 140 degrees F
> because
>>> there's a longer steep since the tea leaves aren't removed before
> drinking.
>>
>> I use mine with water cooled to below room temperature. This gives green
> tea
>> a chance to slowly infuse as I travel. I just refill it now and again as I
>> move about. It's a great summer travel thing. Mine has a painting on the
>> glass wall, and phoney diamonds embedded into the guilded pastic top. It's
>> perfectly ugly in a perfect sort of way.
>
> Yes, lower temp for longer steep.
>
> Have you tried using water from a drinking fountain since that water's
> usually chilled?

Yes, and to good effect.
Michael

BTW, I see I have quite a string of posts this morning on rfdt. This, by the
grace of God and for the weal of the tea drinking world, will be the last.

"Michael Plant" > wrote in message
...
> 11/4/05
>
> >
> > "Michael Plant" > wrote in message
> > ...
> >>
> >>> If you don't want to buy off of eBay:
> >>> http://www.ymimports.com/ProductInfo.aspx?id=497894.
> >>> It's great for multi-infusion teas. I use water below 140 degrees F
> > because
> >>> there's a longer steep since the tea leaves aren't removed before
> > drinking.
> >>
> >> I use mine with water cooled to below room temperature. This gives
green
> > tea
> >> a chance to slowly infuse as I travel. I just refill it now and again
as I
> >> move about. It's a great summer travel thing. Mine has a painting on
the
> >> glass wall, and phoney diamonds embedded into the guilded pastic top.
It's
> >> perfectly ugly in a perfect sort of way.
> >
> > Yes, lower temp for longer steep.
> >
> > Have you tried using water from a drinking fountain since that water's
> > usually chilled?
>
> Yes, and to good effect.

Thanks, I'll have to try it then, myself.

> Michael
>
> BTW, I see I have quite a string of posts this morning on rfdt. This, by
the
> grace of God and for the weal of the tea drinking world, will be the last.

Why? What did I miss?


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Thanks folks ... this is very much the idea of what I was looking for.

With the one referenced in the link, being a plastic based container,
does that detract from the look and feel of it over a glass container?
Does the bottle show scratches? The one I saw originally from China was
glass.

Cheers,
Eric

I really doubt that it was glass unless it was double-walled.
Some of the plastics they use are very dense and look and feel almost like
glass. The single-walled are almost exclusively plastic, only WangZi
double -walled are tempered glass (and they are expensive too).
Double-walled have quite a gap between the walls so you can easily see the
"internal glass" "hanging" there. I say that because if you ask for
double-walled and the vendor does not have it he will nod-nod-nod and offer
you one with thick walls which may look like it is double-walled but it
ain't. Beware! Again the trick is to look at the bottom part - the
double -walled is also double-walled on the bottom and it looks like there
is another glass hanging in the air inside. The only factory that I am aware
of that makes true double-walled is Wan Zi (Wan = King Zi = Son).

I know this 'cause I have several and I broke several too.

Sasha.


"Eric" > wrote in message
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> Thanks folks ... this is very much the idea of what I was looking for.
>
> With the one referenced in the link, being a plastic based container,
> does that detract from the look and feel of it over a glass container?
> Does the bottle show scratches? The one I saw originally from China was
> glass.
>
> Cheers,
> Eric
>

Yes, your right! The one I was looking at from China was indeed
doubled walled. I'm sorry I forgot to make that clear in my original
description. I know it was double walled because I was looking at it
closely, inside and from bottom.

Did you like you glass version better than a plastic variety?

Cheers,
Eric

Here is a doubled walled see through glass or plastic. It doesn't say.

http://www.thejoyofteaonline.com/

Jim

Eric wrote:
> Yes, your right! The one I was looking at from China was indeed
> doubled walled. I'm sorry I forgot to make that clear in my original
> description. I know it was double walled because I was looking at it
> closely, inside and from bottom.
>
> Did you like you glass version better than a plastic variety?
>
> Cheers,
> Eric

I forgot to ask you, Sasha ... where did you get your glass ones?

Thanks,
Eric

I liked the double-walled glass version very much. It did keep the brew hot
for quite a time.
I got it in Beijing. After I broke it (dropped on the hard floor) I wanted a
replacement, but all my attempts to buy it in the US failed. Also you
can't but them at a street corner, I bought mine in a gift shop inside
Beijing International Hotel (the one with rotating restaurant on the top).
It was 80 Yuan. They also have a hologram on the top that is dark normally
and "develops" into an image of a deer when the liquid is hot. Nice since
you can't tell by just touching the outer wall. Kitschy, though.. (as almost
everything there)

Sasha.

"Eric" > wrote in message
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>I forgot to ask you, Sasha ... where did you get your glass ones?
>
> Thanks,
> Eric
>

11/3/05


> I forgot to ask you, Sasha ... where did you get your glass ones?
>
> Thanks,
> Eric
>

I'm not Sasha, I'm Michael.
I got mine in a Chinese "department store" in New York City called "The
Great Wall" on Canal Street just off the corner of Broadway. Sasha, what
about it?

Michael

Alex igy.net11/3/05


> I really doubt that it was glass unless it was double-walled.
> Some of the plastics they use are very dense and look and feel almost like
> glass. The single-walled are almost exclusively plastic, only WangZi
> double -walled are tempered glass (and they are expensive too).
> Double-walled have quite a gap between the walls so you can easily see the
> "internal glass" "hanging" there. I say that because if you ask for
> double-walled and the vendor does not have it he will nod-nod-nod and offer
> you one with thick walls which may look like it is double-walled but it
> ain't. Beware! Again the trick is to look at the bottom part - the
> double -walled is also double-walled on the bottom and it looks like there
> is another glass hanging in the air inside. The only factory that I am aware
> of that makes true double-walled is Wan Zi (Wan = King Zi = Son).
>
> I know this 'cause I have several and I broke several too.
>
> Sasha.


Hey, I thought were talking about the double walled sort. I wouldn't go for
the single walled. They don't make it. But, if they are plastic, they'll
make it longer than my doubled walled type, which, as I mentioned
previously, I have a graveyard full of.

Sasha, what about the Dostoyevski translation question? Did you read the
New Yorker article on this? As a yout, I read the Garnett translations, and
thought D's prose was pretty smooth, but it turns out, according to the
article, that the style I was actually enjoying was Victorian and Garnett.
I'm trying to find top flight translations of his novels.

Michael

Michael Plant wrote:


> Hey, I thought were talking about the double walled sort. I wouldn't go for
> the single walled. They don't make it. But, if they are plastic, they'll
> make it longer than my doubled walled type, which, as I mentioned
> previously, I have a graveyard full of.

I bought the plastic "Best Chinese THERMOS Tea Pot Teapot in
China" on eBay 7-8 months ago for $9.99 from the vendor (Yellow
Mountain) mentioned up-thread, and I've found it to be a
perfectly handy alternative brewing device. Although I'm usually
reluctant to use plastic containers for tea, this one tolerates
high temps very well without imparting any plastic-y tastes to
the liquor. No drips or leaks, either -- as long as the top is
screwed on properly.

> Sasha, what about the Dostoyevski translation question? Did you read the
> New Yorker article on this? As a yout, I read the Garnett translations, and
> thought D's prose was pretty smooth, but it turns out, according to the
> article, that the style I was actually enjoying was Victorian and Garnett.
> I'm trying to find top flight translations of his novels.

I'm not Sasha, I can't read Russian, and I haven't seen the New
Yorker article you're referring to, but I've been a Dostoevsky
aficionada for 40+ years and can highly recommend the translation
team of Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. Their
English-language texts are splendid, and although Constance
Garnett's work is reliably solid, the Pevear-Volokhonsky
renditions are beautifully literary in their own right/write.
The duo has also produced an excellent translation of (among
other works) Bulgakov's "The Master and Margarita," in case
you're interested.

"Eric" > wrote in message
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> Thanks folks ... this is very much the idea of what I was looking for.
>
> With the one referenced in the link, being a plastic based container,
> does that detract from the look and feel of it over a glass container?

Funny, I'm so used to plastic for water bottles, travel mugs, and the like
that I never thought about it. I do use a glass mug so...yes, it's
different, but not as cheap-feeling as my travel mug and certainly not as
plasticy as my water bottle. The tea traveler's got more heft to it
and...and...well, I just like it better.

> Does the bottle show scratches?

Since it's plastic, I s'pose it will if I get rough with it. I got mine
about 7 months ago and haven't knocked it around or banged it against
anything much so it still looks good.

>The one I saw originally from China was glass.

Sorry, I don't know of any Chinese glass tea travelers, just this one.

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11/3/05


> Thanks folks ... this is very much the idea of what I was looking for.
>
> With the one referenced in the link, being a plastic based container,
> does that detract from the look and feel of it over a glass container?
> Does the bottle show scratches? The one I saw originally from China was
> glass.
>
> Cheers,
> Eric
>

Eric,

I like the feel and weight of glass. But, on the other hand, I broke three
of these, so there *is* a trade off. Truthfully, I don't think the plastic
would be a problem at all. What are the prices of these things nowadays?

Michael

"Michael Plant" > wrote in message
...
> 11/3/05
>
>
> > Thanks folks ... this is very much the idea of what I was looking for.
> >
> > With the one referenced in the link, being a plastic based container,
> > does that detract from the look and feel of it over a glass container?
> > Does the bottle show scratches? The one I saw originally from China was
> > glass.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Eric
> >
>
> Eric,
>
> I like the feel and weight of glass. But, on the other hand, I broke three
> of these, so there *is* a trade off. Truthfully, I don't think the plastic
> would be a problem at all. What are the prices of these things nowadays?
>
> Michael


$10.00


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