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Shipped on time, although I thought I ordered one, but received and paid for two. Willing to assume operator error.
There's nothing classier that serving gourmet iced tea with a side of pizza rolls (grad student). It also works well to use all cold water and leave the leaves in overnight. I love iced tea--not just in the summer. Then I add cold water, take out the filter and chill for a bit. In fact, I got a crack in the filter trying to knock out a clump of tea debris. A little bit of superglue and it was fine. When everyone else is drinking lattes and hot chocolate in the middle of a blizzard, I order an iced tea. Usually I choose my tea, heat up some hot water (not boiling) in my water kettle and let it steep until concentrated.
Despite my general love of this pitcher, there are some issues. Maybe if they had a trapdoor at the bottom of the filter, this wouldn't be an issue at all.In short, my unhealthy obsession with tea leads me to excuse these few drawbacks (and the price). This pitcher is one of my favorite non-sentimental belongings. The ability to have my favorite loose teas brewed and ready in my fridge makes me happier than you could safely imagine. First, it is a real pain to clean out the filter once the tea leaves have expanded.
I brought this to work where there is not a dish washer so in little time the inside of the insert started to stain where I could not reach to physically wash it off. I felt robbed after paying $30 and when opening the box found a plastic pitcher with simple insert. been using the pitcher for 1 year now, looking back on this product I should have looked at the picture just realized its a $30 plastic pitcher and nothing more, moved on and found a $12 plastic pitcher.
It makes good iced tea. This simple looking pitcher is an ingenious device. I do believe that the $30.00 price tag is a bit high; $15.00 at most is what it's worth.Try it anyway, you'll appreciate the results.
The product immediately warped from the hot water to the point that the infusers would stick and jam when being inserted or removed, so I stopped using the infusers.The plastic also immediately stained from the iced tea, and no amount of scrubbing would clean them.Today, when pouring the hot water into one of them I heard a distinct "crack" sound, and looked down to see a crack along the side. I bought two of these about 18 months ago. The entire reason I bought a non-glass pitcher was so that it would survive being doused with boiling hot water.So, one of my two pitchers is dead, they do a workmanlike job as tea pitchers, but I'll look elsewhere for replacements.
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