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Do you use a tea bag or a tea ball infuser?

Depends on the type of tea...

Get into tea enough and you'll soon find yourself with every form of tea and every device required to brew it.

I like to use a small pot with a mesh infuser so that any type of loose tea works, no matter how small the bits are, and you can also just throw a tea bag into it too.

I love using a tea ball infuser when I'm brewing a pot of herbal. (Otherwise, I tend to be a coffe drinker.)

I used to like a tea ball, but then I found a type of te pot that has a strainer built into the pout spout. So you just put the loose leaf tea into the pot , and it can "swim" arond freely and be exposed to more water. i like the taste better that way,

Tha only downside is,m you really nee to drink the entire pot within about 30 minutes, or else it steeps way to strong for drinking. <img src="/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

The only tea ball I have tried is shaped like a tea pot. When the tea in it gets wet it swells up, and the tea just can't steep. It is cute but just does not work well. I like the pot with the removable mesh strainer. Do Not use a cheese grater if you have nothing else. Brilliant me, making tea with nothing to strain it with, decided the cheese grater was the answer. Well, bits of tea leaves and orange rind escaped into my cup, I drank it, and got the worst case of indigestion/heartburn ever in my whole life. This is a wonderful cinnamon spice tea with cloves and orange rind bits, my favorite, but it does not go well with pizza either.

Tea ball, infuser.... whichever one is handiest at the time.