My tea making stuff

For making tea I normally use a Bodum Assam tea press which also seems to be out of stock at the moment. (It is in stock at Amazon, however they want twice the list price for it.) This lets me make 4 cups of loose leaf tea at a time, with minimal fuss and bother.  I put the tea in the basket, pour water into it, wait 3-5 minutes depending on the tea, then push the plunger down.  I then pour the tea and enjoy.  Cleanup is simple once the basket has cooled (and normally after I've drunk all the tea) I pull it out of the pot, dump it into the trash, then rinse out the remaining leaves, plus rinse off the plunger and rinse out the tea pot itself.

If I'm making only one cup of loose leaf tea I use an "IngenuiTEA" tea "pot".  It's more of a mug that drains through a filter in the base of the thing.  Cleaning it is about the same as for the tea press, but you have to do it for each cup made.  Less than optimal. 

Tea bag tea just goes in one of the  8 ounce tea mugs I drink out of.  Not particularly of note, however they are bigger than most "tea" cups, which tend to be 4-6 ounces.

For heating water for my tea I use a Vava hot water kettle which I got off of Amazon.  It seems to be out of stock at the moment. The biggest advantage this kettle has over a stove top kettle is that it can be set for temperatures other than boiling and that it can keep the water at that temperature for up to 30 minutes at a time.  This is important for green, oolong and some herbal teas.