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Kristal reviewed The Steeper by DAVIDsTEA

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I reviewed this a few months back, but I decided to delete the note because I don’t think my review was entirely fair.

I owned a steeper 2-3 years back but had to throw mine away due to the fact I always left tea leaves sit in there FOREVER and they rotted and the rotten smell never got out of my steeper. Fast forward to now: I’ve been making tea lattes using rooibos teas at home and the mesh baskets I have from DAVIDS still allow rooibos pieces through. I know this steeper is awesome for filtering out everything so I decided to purchase a new one. This thing is awesome. It allows the flavours to really get in to the water and I know I’m adding enough water due to the position of the DAVID’s TEA logo . I like how you can put it on top of your cup and the water drains right into your cup, and honestly, unlike what I previously thought, as long as you get to it right away this steeper is just fine to clean. Just spoon out as much of the leaves as you can into the trash, then I just rinse and pour any remaining leaves down the drain (I just use rooibos teas in this so I know there won’t be enough leaves to clog the sink). Overall I’m bumping up my rating from a 70 to a 90, because I was just lazy about cleaning my old steeper and was mad at myself for ruining it, lol.

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I used to drink coffee, but it started to hurt my stomach so I switched to tea. A friend of mine introduced me to DAVID’s TEA and I couldn’t stop after that! I’ve now been expanding my scope beyond DAVIDs away from “candy-like teas” into more natural teas or flavourings. Current favourite stores include International House of Tea (iHOT) and Verdant Tea.

When it comes to tea ratings, I usually only ever rate them once. I know a lot of people on steepster do many tasting notes for the same teas depending on their mood, but I prefer to rate once and if my opinion changes, I will delete the old note and rate again. How I rate teas goes as following:

1-49: Teas I won’t buy again. Either the taste is disgusting to me, or it’s too bland, etc. I’m most likely not even going to finish the tin/bag.

50-59: Teas I wouldn’t buy again; I have to force myself to drink the whole cup to not waste it.

60-69: I’ll finish the cup and even the bag/tin, but I wouldn’t buy these teas again. Teas of this rating are “lacking something”.

70-79:Teas that are pretty good and ones I might buy again. Usually these teas are ones I have to be “in the mood for” and drink occasionally.

80-89: Great teas! Ones I will drink several times a week and often have in my stash :).

90-100: Favourite must-have teas!

My favourite types of tea are green tea and different types of “natural” herbal tea (different herbs, natural flavourings, etc). I cannot drink black or oolong teas due a sensitive stomach. I don’t really go for white tea due to its cost and the fact that it has just a little caffeine (if I want caffeine I’ll just go for a green tea and if I don’t I’ll go for a herbal-no sense on just having a little caffeine). I also like to do iced teas in the summer time, and then I’ll gravitate towards herbal fruit blends that are bagged to cut costs and convenience (it’s easier to throw out bags than clean a filter). Flavours I don’t care for include anything too tart, bitter, artificial, overly spicy or overly sweet.
Also, when I have time (usually when I’m not working much) I like to make tea lattes out of different rooibos blends.

My everyday green tea is Gunpowder since it is strong and not sensitive to temperatures or steeping time which is something I cannot be bothered with when I’m getting ready for work. Other greens I enjoy are dragonwell, sencha, and different Chinese greens. I’m not the biggest fan of yunnan greens since they are so finicky (although I do like gyokuro)

On a day to day basis I usually have 2-3 cups of green tea and several more cups of different herbal blends.

Besides tea I also work at a couple libraries (I am finishing my library tech diploma),am in my early 20s and got married in Oct 2014.