Travel mug/bottle for tea?
Has anyone found a robust way to travel with their tea?
I initially tried a stainless steel thermos, but it tended to completely ruin the taste of the tea.
I then tried a glass bottle, which was significantly better but it seems to leave a weird smell in the bottle which is very difficult to get out…
Has anyone tried a glass/ceramic bottle/tumbler that works well?
I bought this one from Sei Sei company on Amazon. It is glass but comes with a neoprene sleeve. Keeps the tea hot for a couple of hours I guess. It is good but you have to unscrew the top to drink the tea.
http://www.amazon.com/Portable-Infuser-Bottle-Bamboo-Sei/dp/B013PBCGNO/ref=sr_1_48?s=kitchen&ie=UTF8&qid=1439909284&sr=1-48&keywords=Bamboo+Tumbler
I’m reading through Oolong Owl’s tea blog at the moment and she reviews quite a few. You might find some useful information here:
http://camellia-sinensis.com/en/teaware/tea-bottles/bouteille-a-the-en-bambou-porcelaine
This is one of my favorites. It’s lined with porcelain and the convertible infuser is great for grandpa style as well as western. My only issues are that it doesn’t retain heat for much longer than a few hours, and the top can be difficult to remove if you really screw it on tightly.
I like the Libre. The design holds the leaves until the next steeping. But, there are a lot of tumblers using that design, now. Worth checking out.
It all depends on how you steep. I am careful not to oversteep. So, I like the Libre.
Hmm. I’ve always used a stainless steel tumbler for my on-the-go teas and I’ve never really thought it ruined/changed the taste of tea. I’ve heard it from other people too, though. So I’m wondering why stainless steel in particular would do that? Thoughts?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stainless_steel_soap
Could have something to do with that. I find SS tumblers are frequently accompanied with plastic lids, which are probably the more likely culprit for the taste being ruined. That being said I have not experimented with it but from personal experience my SS thermos with plastic lids make tea taste so bad it’s almost undrinkable.
That soap bit is an interesting theory, I’ve never heard it referred to that way, but I don’t really feel that it really works as an odor neutralizer either.
I agree that plastic lids do tend to retain scents/flavors and that can be offputting, but I make sure to do a good scrub down and cleaning of my lids with oxyclean/tea stain remover about once a week or every two weeks and that cleans and neutralizes odors very well.
Funny enough, I tend to enjoy ceramic/ss thermoses/tumblers for that reason, because the feel of plastic or silicon lids is less harsh when clinking against my teeth than just metal, ceramic, or glass. Especially glass, I’m paranoid of microchips/glass dust.
A lot of older style vacuum bottles offer glass lining, such as: http://www.amazon.com/Thermos-33105A-Vacuum-Bottle-Assorted/dp/B001AHASWM/
They tend to be larger though, and heavy, so not really a tumbler, but tend to keep heat pretty well. Searching ‘glass lined thermos’ on amazon gave me alot of hits.
But I think most if not all of them have plastic caps…
If that’s not a problem though, I give another vote for the Sei Sei tumbler.
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