Steep & Chill with The Tea Spot
Turning a new leaf on drinking
Recently, I decided to kick the Mountain Dew habit. I was drinking 2 cans a day and Doing the Dew on the weekends or when I ate out.
Knowing that drinking sodas was one of the things keeping me from losing weight, something had to be done. I was against just drinking water, because I know myself. And replacing the sugary soda with another sugary drink defeated the whole attempt. Tea was the way to go, but just not regular tea would do. So, I searched the Interwebs for iced herbal teas, which led me to The Tea Spot.
The Tea Spot sells loose leaf tea and they also had an iced tea setup made by Steepware called Steep & Chill. The picture allows you to steep the loose leaf tea and then you replace the core with an ice core to keep it cool without diluting the tea when the ice melts.
Since I didn't know which tea flavors I would like, I took advantage of a deal they had to get a 6 sampler tea collection and the Steep & Chill at 30% discount.
In the Steep & Chill package comes the picture, which looks like a large science beaker with a plastic bottom. Based on how it will be used, it is probably built the same way.
The ice core has a lid, so the water that you put in it doesn't come out. With the lid on, it screws into the picture lid, just like the infuser. The infuser is wider, so it screws into a different ring.
The package says it is dishwasher safe borosilicate glass. With that said, the quality of the container, lid, ice core and the tea infuser is very good and should last through many uses.
Since I don't have a kettle to boil water (for now), I had to use a pot to boil the 32oz needed. Each of the sample tins are big enough for filling the picture twice, which will be good for taking half of the tea with me to work and leaving another picture at home. You could put them together in the picture, there wouldn't be much room for the tea.
After I poured the boiling water into the picture, I put 4 heaping tea spoons of the Red Rocks tea blend into the infuser. The smell was wonderful.
After letting it steep for 6 minutes, I removed the infuser and put the picture in the fridge to cool overnight.
I put the ice core in the freezer so that it will be ready for the second batch tomorrow.
The instructions are so simple that they are printed on the box and the steeping instructions are printed on the tins. Since all of the sample teas requires boiling water, I just do the refrigerate overnight step to finish.
The sample also came with a single serving premium tea. That's a real tease or selling point, depending on how you look at it.
Now I have to wait until tomorrow to see how it tastes.
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