A Quick Klip

I have been promising a major blog post for a few weeks now, but it’s tied up in the research phase. Soon, I promise.

Meanwhile, I opened my front door to a mysterious package from Philadelphia. What could it be?

It transpires that when I was looking at Kickstarter a few years back, I found a guy who was designing a tea infuser, and I slipped him a few bucks to assist. The perk was to eventually get one of these, but I’d had about 7000* “You’ll get it soon ” updates and had therefore ceased to take any notice.

And now it was in my hand. No, it wasn’t, in the blink of an eye it was on my bench! Let’s make a photo-blog!

I decided on Rose Blush, a delicious tea not available in the USA, just to make my American Friends seethe with jealousy.

I placed 1.25 teaspoons of this incomparably delicious, sadly non-US tea into the device.

I had ordered my Klip in blue, which set off the luscious pink petals in this magnificently flavoured Australia-only tea.

I switched the kettle on while I enjoyed the superb aroma, tragically unsmelt in the Northern Hemisphere.

The Klip sits on any cup, I used a clear one to monitor what was going on.

It’s quite small, actually a latte cup.

At this point, there was a lot of anticipation. It had been about an hour since my last cuppa, and I was ready for this.

So far, the infuser had been really easy to use.

I added the water, and it almost immediately took on some colour.

I was pleased, as sometimes the small holes in infusers trap the tea flavour.

Not so with the Klip. And colour is a great part of the process.

And now, I wait. Will it infuse properly: Let’s see!

 

Three minutes later and the colour is what it should be.

That’s the box next to my cup: a marvel of economical design. It just fits the device, and sells it well.

So far, the Klip works like any other infuser.

So what’s so special? Let me show you why I invested in it.

 

Basically, I’m messy. I have a track record of dripping tea across the kitchen.

When you remove the Klip and turn it upside down, it has a built in saucer: no drips!

As I own about 20 infusers, you might think I’m an easy sell. I even have a plastic man whose trousers can be filled with tea.

 

But I like this device, because I end up with a drip free kitchen and a great cup of tea!

Joel at Boco Living has done a great job of design.

I think we will see this device a lot. Not just in specialty teaware shops, but in homeware shops across the world, even in America, despite the absence of Rose Blush tea.

 

A final note: Why was I looking at Kickstarter? Well, because I have been dreaming of funding a special project that way. And in the last few weeks, that project has been posted on indigogo. Because Kickstarter is the opposite of Rose Blush tea – you can only get it in America.

*an exaggeration. You know I exaggerate 73 times per minute.