Looking for a mobile tea infuser

[BILLy]

As tittle please, looking for something robust, small enough to put in my back pack, light weight, and big enough for a couple of mugs worth of liquid.
I have had a look on Internet but not come up with the ideal one as yet.
Thanks for your help

 

[Bowlander]

Cliff the Climber! I'm sure I've seen these for under £10.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B00BYBNTK2

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[BILLy]

Thanks bowlander, kind of looking for the complete thing rather than something to dunk in, but really appreciate your reply
Thanks

 

[SJStuart]

I have the spinner kind. Put the tea inside the mesh, attach the floating spinner, place it in your cup of hot water and spin it to infuse.

Obligatory but arbitrary eBay link (I paid less)

 

[ex-member BareThrills]

built in with kettle?

http://www.tesco.com/direct/tesco-aluminium-camping-kettle-1l/200-0128.prd?pageLevel=&skuId=200-0128

 

[petrochemicals]

now your being silly, if a tea infuser is a tea or coffee pot. Nice stainless steel cafitieres I have seen with double wall insulation.

 

[AJB]

Just change your mugs? These make great tea or coffee...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Smartcafe-H...&qid=1387147923&sr=8-1&keywords=cafetiere+mug

 

[Toddy]

We've been using these ones for years. I keep one for tea and one for coffee because it's fine enough to make real coffee with when out too It packs away inside my mug and takes a wee poly bag of tea inside it too.

http://www.nbtea.co.uk/shop/product.php?xProd=897&jssCart=84872097f13fbff0132430f3d3a59ecb

cheers,
M

 

[Graham_S]

I've been using the same infuser as Toddy for years (She put me on to it )
It's the best infuser I've got, and very robust.

 

[rik_uk3]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Stainless...pt=UK_Kitchen_Accessories&hash=item415b47b372

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/TEA-BALL-...081?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item3388930719

 

[Toddy]

I have a collection of teastrainers....not deliberately, iimmc, just they kind of built up as I tried to find a really decent one.

I have both of those two Richard, and the wee green gold mesh one beats them both hands down. It's worth the fiver it costs, it really is. It even fits into a couple of my teapots really well too

cheers,
M

 

[General Strike]

Not quite a tactical colour, but this is simple, robust, and works well:

http://www.lakeland.co.uk/43750/Green-Floatea-Infuser-?src=gfeed&gclid=CLubt7TftLsCFQcewwodJiAALA

It comes with a little egg-cup style stand so you can avoid getting drips on the table - or leaf litter (beyond finest Darjeeling) on your infuser.

 

[BILLy]

Thanks for all your replies guys, some things of interest and some I have, the main purpose was to try and make a brew out of different edible flowers on my bimbles, by steeping them in something or other, for example nettle tea, with out the bits and crumbs in the actual tea so to speak,
Thanks again

 

[xylaria]

I made a small drawstring bag out of tough net curtain. The sort of fabric jam bags are made from. I found it too fiddly to get right with a sewing machine so handsewed french seams. I lost it a while back and havent got around to making a new one. It was really portable, and easy to loose.

 

[treadlightly]

It even fits into a couple of my teapots really well too

Ahh, then I might get one

 

[rik_uk3]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/8X-REUSAB...442?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item461003aa8a

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Strong-re..._Home_Garden_Food_SM&var=&hash=item27dbb8c405

 

[rik_uk3]

These look handy, £2 for two
http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/60232969/

 

[Toddy]

I tried those Rik.....kind of small but the large holes let all sorts of bits and pieces through.

cheers,
M

 

[rik_uk3]

Scrap that then. Might be OK as a spork drainer?

 

[Toddy]

...maybe, maybe It's actually okay as a teabag lifter outer
Someone brought a pack into the office thinking it was a good thing; even rooibos came through the holes

The mesh one just does what it says on the box. It works for pine needles and nettle leaves, mallow flowers and rosehips, Keemun China and Gunpowder Russian Caravanserai ....and the spare one does the coffee grounds tidily in a mug too

cheers,
M