Tea storage?

That’s a cool idea, I’ll have to remember it.

I… should probably do something like that, but I’m so lazy. I still have this big square elaborately decorated tin from Adagio that has “cranberry” written all over it and pictures of cranberries everywhere, and it’s just sitting there with four or five sad pieces of ragged masking tape sitting atop eachother, the most recent of which reads, “Irish Breakfast”. Your tins sound so much nicer.

It can be a bit fussy cutting it to fit correctly and using double-sided tape, but it’s worth it. I still use bright yellow duct tape on the top for my labels, though. Nothing fancy.

I usually find paper that is really gorgeous in the scrapbooking aisle. Sometimes wrapping paper is great, too.

I do that, as well (though with other tins, for some reason I always keep original labels, even if I do not like the tea or design, dunno why!). like this

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cteresa/6959177033/

pretty easy (I am lazy). If tin is cylindrical, I just measure very carefully its height and cut carefully (taking out 1 mm) a strip of paper that height and about 4 times the diameter of the tin. I tape, normal tape one end of the strip, roll it carefully, the paper will overlap and glue it as tight as possible. a friend has suggested treating with mod podge but so far have not tried it.

I glue a label on top and a label on top of label etc, if necessary. since it´s not (yet) treated, pretty easy to remove and redo it i want to.

^ Nice photo – really colorful.

Now I’m inspired to make more; I will have to remember to dig around at my folks’ place the next time I visit. They have some old tins sitting around (many with seriously expired, tasteless tea in them…).

Good idea – anything works, really. Some day I might splurge on some nice paper from Paper Source or some place like that. Though right now I don’t even have any spare tins.

I think the labels come off of those pretty easily. I sometimes soak them and then use a product like Goo Gone to get the adhesive off.

Cool, thanks.

That’s a very cute little tea tin about a third of the way down that page (the Airtight section).

Are you guys planning on adding something like that to your teaware offerings?

yes, we will add the tea tins on our site in future!

Nice link, thanks. I’m struggling to find a nice collection of tins in the UK. There are some nice jars at Adagio, but they’re glass. Are glass jars that don’t allow UV light through ok:
http://www.adagio.com/teaware/glass_jar.html
or is it more that just the ultra violet that’s harmful to the tea?

Thanks

This glass jar will absorb light, and it will influence the tea’s flavor.

Oh :( Thank you for the reply.

The first one is the exact size I am looking for! The price is good, too.

However, I just bought another gaiwan (impulse buy!) so I will stick to resealable bags for my new teas for now.

There is always next month :)

I still need more tea, though! So maybe a few more months before I get around to finding better tea storage options. But I could look at teaware porn all day, so keep posting.

Meanwhile, I will be crossing my fingers that my gaiwan does not arrive broken…

Where did you get your gaiwan from and what does it look like? :)
Yeah more tea > storage

A colorful old dragon gaiwan from a seller on ebay – my first time bidding for something. It was strange; I generally prefer to buy something in a store where I can look at it.

Congrats!! :) I hope you love it!

So what is your ONE special loose leaf tea? :)

Teavana’s Rooibos chai…don’t pick on me, I haven’t had the chance to buy any more loose leaf yet X_X

Nothing wrong with that. :)

Lookin good! So check this out – from someone else’s post on another thread – sorry to the person who posted I don’t rememeber your name I am half asleep and woke from a dead sleep and now can’t go back to sleep – this site has TONS and I mean TONS of cool stuff under 10 bucks!
This link should take you to the 0 -10 price range but if not just look to the left side of the screen and select that – tea caddies, tins, cups, tea pots, glass pots, tea samples, ETC GALORE for under 10 bucks and a lot of nice tins and such for under 3 each. I am floored at this selection! http://jkteashop.com/index.php?main_page=advanced_search_result&pfrom=0&pto=10

I think it’s just the UV. I have Adagio tins that having a plastic top that blocks UV/whatever light. I’d assume the glass they sell does the same. It’s nice to be able to see teas, but I do wish they were a bit more streamlined. The hinges make them a bit clunky.

I ordered some tins from Speciality Bottle, I don’t know if there is something similar in the UK or if they ship there. They’re at my parents house though so I haven’t had a chance to check them out.

They say the glass stops UV light, so should be fine I guess. I rescued a couple of old tea tins from my mum’s today, washed them and they both leaked water. Not really what I’m after.