OXO Good Grips Tea Ball: Loose leaf tea just got a lot less complicated. The OXO Good Grips Twisting Tea Ball makes it easy to scoop up the desired amount of loose leaf tea. The twisting feature ensures that a generous amount of tea leaves stays inside the Ball while you close it. The spinning
Loose leaf tea just got a lot less complicated. The OXO Good Grips Twisting Tea Ball makes it easy to scoop up the desired amount of loose leaf tea. The twisting feature ensures that a generous amount of tea leaves stays inside the Ball while you close it. The spinning design also makes the Tea Ball easy to clean. The Twisting Tea Ball has a long, stainless steel neck to accommodate many different sizes of mugs and cups, and the soft, non-slip grip makes stirring comfortable. The Twisting Tea Ball is also great for steeping herbs and spices.
At OXO, we consistently develop products that address even the tiniest of pet peeves, because we know it’s the little things that make the biggest difference. Sometimes at OXO, tools are introduced because they are the pet projects of our employees. OXO’s president, Alex Lee, is an avid tea drinker and encouraged the development of our Tea Ball. Each detail, even the shape of the holes, was carefully thought out over five years of development. The result? A Tea Ball that has quickly become a favorite of tea enthusiasts everywhere.
Scoop: Generous head and twisting feature makes filling the Tea Ball with a large amount loose leaf tea a breeze Steep: Long, stainless steel neck accommodates most cups and mugs for convenient stirring; length also allows it to rest on the side of mugs for prolonged steeping Comfort: Soft, non-slip grip on handle makes twisting and stirring easy and comfortable Cleaning: Twisting the bottom of the handle after use self-scoops wet tea leaves from the Tea Ball, making clean up a breeze; dishwasher safe and BPA free
The Tea Ball works best with whole-leaf teas, such as pearl teas, full-leaf green teas and large-leaf black teas. Small- or broken-leaf teas are best used with a fine mesh strainer such as the OXO Good Grips 3” Mini Strainer.
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The Is a Good One I have used the common spring loaded, mesh tea infusers for years. I found that the halves don’t always line up and hinges invariably got loose and then broke. I found the mesh balls were messy to clean up. I recently purchased three new infusers of various types because they operated differently and looked different. This is functionally the best of the three. This one is easy to load. It is also easy to unload and clean. I rotate the cover back and tap the handle on the edge of the…
Simple and Effective. Q: How Small a Tea Leaf Can Escape?The structure of this twisting tea-ball is two stainless-steel hemispheres nested inside each other. The seal is not perfect, or it would most likely not slide open and closed, the size of the gap at its weakest is the “equator” of our sphere when it’s closed, a distance of about a third of a millimeter is left in the two spots closest to the handle. Everywhere else is actually pretty spot on. The outside is covered in tiny holes about 1…