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Bodum YoYo 13-Ounce Tea Infuser Set | 
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Brand: Bodum
Category: Kitchen
This item is no longer available
Avg. Customer Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 62822
Color: Glass/Black
Fragile: No
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 4.7 x 4.5 x 3.6
MPN: K1790-01GVP
Model: K1790-01GVP
UPC: 727015226781
EAN: 0727015226781
ASIN: B00008WUA9
Release Date: November 1, 2003
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| Features:
| • | 13-ounce capcity | | • | Durable tempered glass mug included | | • | The lid acts as a trivet to keep your counter clean | | • | Dishwasher safe, handwashing the infuser is recommended for longer life. | | • | Works with any loose leaf tea. |
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Product Description
It's all about flavor and the distictive qualities, unique properties that soothe and excite tastes as you sip delicious tea and inhale the fragrances. Bodum appreciates this experience and has designed a cup that allows you to experience tea in a pure, unfiltered way - one cup at a time. Forget the tea bag. Use tea leaves, ready mixed or blend your own. Place them in the custom strainer atop the cup and watch the leaves brew, slowly infusing the hot water with magnificent flavor qualities. As time passes you envision a warm, romantic tea shop along a plaza - a gentle breeze from afar - as you enjoy a private interlude with nothing and everything. Yet this is part of your daily being - at home, at work, anywhere. Consider this a solo teapot. It's a self encompassing moment of inner joy. It's tea for one but you can always get another to share with a special friend.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 7 more reviews...
it does the job, and well at that May 13, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
As far as a tea strainer goes, it certainly works
other people have commented that while the sides of this thing are a fine mesh perfect for the role, that the bottom allows the powder to drop through, leaving a sediment at the bottom of your tea. This is correct, and is what makes this product a 4 star product instead of 5.
Personally, I have no problems with this, but if you do, search on. Other than that little issue, it has been fantastic.
I drink approximately five cups of tea per day
 So Far, So Good. April 3, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Some sediment will fall through the bottom but i found that this usually occurs when you first put the tea in the yo yo. Solution: Hold the Yo Yo over your tea container/tin while while loading it. Then, give it a little shake so that it settles and anything that will fall out falls back into your possession for later use. Once it is all in there very little falls out. Then, when you add the water, the tea swells up a bit making it very difficult to get through the small holes.
The cup is larger than i'm used to but it's a welcomed change. I'm not sure what size Big Gulp cups the below reviewer is using for his or her tea, but this one is certainly adequate. Also, i really like watching the tea brew through the clear glass. It comes with a cover that also acts as a base that you can set the Yo Yo on. This will eliminate any mess made by dripping.
Cleaning the Yo Yo, for me, involves turning it upside down and give it a couple soft taps against the included cover/base. The tea usually just falls right out on command. A quick rinse in the sink and it looks brand new again.
And oh, by the way, it makes a great cup of tea.
Tea-licious March 9, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This set works great. I used to have to use cheese cloth bags for my tea, but now I can just drop my herbs in and steep and wah la tea! Easy to clean to. I do get some sediment, but I use a lot of loose herbs so that is to be expected.
 Small tea flakes will fall through February 28, 2007
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I've been using this cup/filter combo everyday for 2 months or so. The cup is nicely constructed and I have no problems with it.
However, the filter does not perform very well if you use tea leaves that are very small. I drink PG Tips loose leaf everyday, 3 times a day. The leaves are fine and the holes at the bottom of the filter allow the tiniest tea particles to fall through. If this doesn't bother you, the system works. If you don't like tea particles at the bottom of your clear cup, it will begin to annoy you. I bought this system thinking that the few flakes at the bottom of the cup would not bother me but i have resorted to using the filter in another cup and pouring the leaf-free liquid into my drinking cup because there are many unfiltered leaves at the bottom of the cup. Imagine the entire bottom of the cup covered in the tiniest leaf particles...
Also, the filter stains easily. After two months, there is a hint of yellow orange stain on the side filters.
Therefore, if you use larger tea leaves, this system may work decently for you. If you drink tea like the loose leaf PG Tips that have fine leaves, I would look for an alternative. Hope this review helps people thinking about drinking PG Tips with this system.
not what I expected January 19, 2007
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
It was hard to choose a rating for this item. I actually like the tea mug a lot. It's a nice, big cup of tea. The weight of the cup is nice and it sits well in my hand. The infuser is easy to clean and the lid is useful to set it on so tea doesn't get all over your sink or counter after you've steeped a cup.
However, from the images and the description, I expected the two items to actually be more designed for each other. The infuser is actually slightly too tall for this tea cup (and all my other cups) and just wobbles around in it. It just doesn't appear that the infuser was made for this cup at all, and I found that pretty disappointing.
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