Customer Reviews

Bodum Assam 51-Ounce Tea Press

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I bought two of these in the personal and large size a few years ago. It is very easy to use. Scoop loose tea in the plastic bucket. Pour in boiling water. Put the lid back on. When the tea is the right color, push the plunger connected to the lid. The tea becomes compressed below the holes in the plastic bucket stopping the brewing process. When done, I rinse the loose tea into the garbage disposal, then put the pot, lid and bucket into the dishwasher where it comes out unstained and ready to use. Its great.
Two small downsides. On the smaller model, you have to hold the lid onto the pot when pouring from a really full pot. It may leak a little otherwise. I don't have this problem with the larger model. The other thing is if you use a tea with a very large leaf, like some of the green teas, it takes the water some time to drain through the holes in the bucket, possibly two or three fills before the pot is full. But that's not really a big deal in my book.

As a tea lover, I have gone from tea pot to tea pot, tea bag to loose leaf, strainer to tea ball to infuser, and never was totally happy until now. I have had my Bodum Assam for over a year and will never brew tea any other way. It is beautiful, neat and easy to clean.

I just ordered and received this 6 cup Bodum Assam tea press and I LOVE IT! It is my very favorite Amazon purchase thus far!

It used to be such a pain to fill a little stainless steel strainer tea ball to make loose tea, nevermind the pain in the 'tocks in regards to clean up involved but THIS TEA PRESS is great, easy to clean, and makes a nice cup of tea. I can usually down the whole pot by myself without the tea loosing heat. I don't like to drink my tea BOILING hot either... I highly recommend this tea press.

Another thing I love about it is that it is clear glass and you can see just how strong & dark your tea is steeping.

If you care to have your tea stay BOILING HOT, Bodum also makes a little candle tea warmer to sit your tea press on, item #B0000U6PUE that you add a tea light to. VERY QUAINT!

Also, as an aside... DO NOT WASH this tea press. Just rinse with hot tap water. The stains on the plastic insert and the glass make tea taste better. Don't believe a YANK? Ask ANY BRIT!!!

As other reviewers have noted, the plastic basket in this teapot is very shoddily constructed. It doesn't fit snugly into the rim of the carafe because the plastic tabs are too poor quality. I received my tea press six days ago and the plastic filter, which already seemed cracked and scratched, has gotten much worse for the wear (despite very gentle handling).

That said, the design idea is great and the size is perfect. I can imagine that a stainless steel version of the same product would be optimal; if you can find one, buy that instead of this. The tea press is definitely the best way to make tea in large quantities, and is extremely easy to clean.

It's really funny to see that people do not read the descriptions of things before they buy them and get angry about their own incapability to use whatever they bought. This Bodum teapot is called a Tea Press, but even if it was called just a teapot every tea lover would understand that it is not a kettle and is not supposed to be used on a stove.
Great teapot! I had one for 4 years. Recently it broke while I was washing it in a sink and hit it with a heavy platter, so a dishwasher is a good idea.
As for staining, books about tea making will tell you not to clean the stains - just rinse a teapot with cold water. These stains are part of good tasting tea!

My son gave us this for Christmas. Coming from a long line of Brits who boiled tea until it was the color of coffee and the consistancy of molasses, this is a true joy. My mom would boil tea leaves and water in a huge pot until the tannic acid etched the aluminum. This pot lets you see exactly how strong the tea is, and STOP the brewing before the glass dissolves. We use it everyday, love the little pad that came with ours. It doesn't keep the brew real hot for long, but usually we are well into our second pot before it starts to cool. Perfect tea, whatever your taste, everytime. Buy it and enjoy your next cuppa! Our Ethel would be pleased!

I love this tea press!! I will be ordering another for my mother for christmas... what better review could there be than that?! If I would reccomend it to my own mother, it deserves five whole wonderful stars. Makes fabulous tea, easy to use and ridiculously easy to clean, looks adorable and holds the perfect amount... I do a half a pot when by myself and a whole pot for tea with a friend... the small size is great and making more is so easy, who cares if you need to make a second pot? It's fun to use, too.

This tea press is very easy to use, and makes great tea. You just need to add the appropriate amount of tea to the basket, add boiling water, let the tea brew for about five minutes (black tea), and press the plunger, which isolates the tea leaves in the bottom of the basket preventing excess brewing. This way you never get bitter tea! This pot is big enough to make a thermos of tea.

This tea pot, like their French-Press coffee pot, is made of `magic glass' - it doesn't seem to break. I'm hard on things and usually need heavy-duty models just for every day survival. I've had this tea pot for - maybe 8 years - unheard of for things around me. The glass just doesn't seem to break. Others have spoken about how you use it to make tea - a brilliant idea. But here's the other cool thing: when you get a `presentation' tea like say a `peony' tea that opens into a flower or say, a sea-shell tea like peets.com sells that opens up into an oyster looking shell with a string of jasmine flowers as `pearls' floating above it - you can SEE the magic unfold and enjoy the beauty and art of the tea unfolding if you leave the infuser out and just let the folded tea do what ever it does.

The ONLY down side is that the cap won't fit on the tea pot if you take the infuser out. But I have never found that to be a problem. The tea MAY cool a bit faster - but not so much so that it bothers me. The fact that it is glass and has outlasted so many hand thrown ceramic tea pots I've had speaks to it's wonder and durability. Like I said, this is made of magic glass.

Pair this 6-cup beauty with a mug warmer and you have tea for an afternoon/evening of reading or computer work. Well designed, practical, it works! Buy this!