Customer Reviews

Adagio Teas 16-Ounce Ingenuitea Teapot

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My wife bought one of these when we were vacationing in Eureka Springs a year ago, and I thought it was another gizmo to add to the cupboard. Was I wrong. I started using it more and more, mostly for green tea, and thought it would be good to have one for work as well. So I ordered one from Cooking.com and use it all the time. I just put the tea leaves in the container, add hot water, let it sit for 5 minutes, then set it on top of my cup. The valve on the bottom opens up and the tea pours into the cup, with out the leaves (with the green tea I buy from China, the leaves are full leaves, and I can get another 2 cups out of it, so refilling is easy). The nice thing is, I can use it for coffee as well as black tea. The coffee, especially if you grind your own, tastes so much better. To clean, I just invert in a trash can, and rinse out what's left.

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A quick demonstration of the Ingenuitea teapot. We like the ease of use of this product and especially how easy it is to clean. We tend to not use tea bags and prefer loose leaf tea. This little infuser has us drinking tea more frequently. Watch how easy it is to make a nice cup of tea:

I got a pot of tea at a cafe recently and they served it up in an Ingenuitea. Within about 5 seconds, I realized this was the perfect way to make tea - or coffee, actually, and that this is how tea should be made. If you like loose tea and tea balls are awkward - not to mention hot to take out, etc. - the Ingenuitea is the BEST. No drip, no mess, no nothin'... simply tea. Ingenious, indeed!

TIP: I've had this 'teacup' (16 oz.) for a while now. I recently became frustrated with it. I use green tea (leaves never bags) and I re-infuse the leaves. Normally I would pour the hot water into the cup, steep the tea the enjoy my cuppa.

A few weeks ago, I decided to try using cold water and popping it into the microwave as suggested. That, I thought, would eliminate the step of boiling a kettle full of water for 16 oz of tea. True, but the little strainer at the bottom of the cup kept popping out, and the leaves would then strain into my cup - annoying me and wasting my leaves. I was not a happy camper.

Well it finally dawned on me yesterday that the hot water worked to seal the little strainer. So now I have completely abandoned the microwave idea (probably wasn't good for me anyway). I pour a bit of hot water into the cup, wait 3 seconds, gently press on the strainer with my spoon, listen to it pop into place and seal. THEN and only then do I add my precious tea leaves and more hot water and wait 2 to 3 minutes for gratification.

When re-infusing the leaves, I press first with the spoon while carefully adding a bit of hot water. If I don't, when the strainer pops out the leaves already in there will slip under and end up in my cup.

I've noted that even when using the hot water, if you pour all at once the strainer will pop out. I don't know why this is happening now or if it happens only with mine, but the above is my solution if you encounter the same issue.

I just purchased one of these after using a friend's, and I love it. This is the perfect way to make loose leaf tea for one. Unlike with tea balls or spoon-size infusers, the leaves have plenty of room to unfurl as the tea steeps and there's no clasp to come undone. Unlike with basket infusers, there's no dripping or mess when it's time to remove the leaves. You simply get perfectly brewed tea with no mess every time. I can't recommend this enough.

The filter that fits into the bottom of the unit keeps floating up. Basically the did not design it tight enought to fit. So now you have a boiling hot cup of water and your trying to manipulate the filter back in with spoons. No fun. I emailed them and they suggested preheating it with hot water. The filter then expand and stays. I don't want to have to add steps to compensate for their design/manufacturing mistakes.

I now wedge it in tightly with a strip of tea bag (bought the roll your own tea bag assortment) That works, but again. Shouldn't happen.

There is a competing product with a large, wide bowl. I would try that one instead. Another advantage, the wider bowl will allow you to load the filter more easily. I have a large hand and its hard to fit it into ingenuitieas narrow cup.

On a positive note their tempored clear glass teapot is great. Tea stays Hot for 20+ minutes.

I also first saw the ingenuiTEA at a local cafe. They use about 8 or 9 of them to brew up their loose leaf teas. It is the best system that I've seen/used. It really is easy. The only issue I've noticed is that it becomes stained quite easy, but hey, that's what tea does! It can easily be washed with a SMALL amount of bleach and a lot of water. We also use ours in the dishwasher and it's held up perfectly for over a year. This is also a fantastic deal on amazon.

I received an ingenuiTEA as a gift two years ago and have used it again and again. It is a great little appliance. It makes tea easily and well. Why only 4 stars? Because of the plastic. Yes, it's "food grade plastic," but now the EPA is warning against heating food and beverages in plastic, or serving them in plastic containers. It seems kind of crazy, given how much plastic we heat up every day...but even though I'm skeptical of government, the data made me switch to ceramic, glass, and metal. If only there were a non-plastic version of this little device! I would be in heaven.

I received one of these for a birthday present and have used it every day since! For those who have never experienced the flavor of loose leaf teas, you don't know what you're missing! The only problem I have is making that second cup of tea by reusing the same tea leaves. The leaves have a tendency to get stuck in the valve on the bottom and I occasionally have come back to dispense my tea into a cup and have found my tea all over my countertop! I have found that as long as I don't reuse the tea leaves, this product is perfect!!

I LOVE the InenuiTEA dispersing teapot. I can pour boiling water over tea leaves and have gourmet tea in three minutes with no mess.

The only problem with the design is that the filter can drop out with the tea, get into the garbage disposer and be destroyed! (uh, duh! Guess who did that!?)

If they fix that small defect, you've got a perfect tea brewer!