Hey teaheads.
This is Don from Mei Leaf.
In this video I'm going to be talking to you about the Leaf & Bean Brewer.
In this video we're going to TALK about this brewer, drink some tea out of it, and I'm
just going to show you how it works.
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Okay.
The Leaf & Bean Brewer.
Rather than talk too much about it, I think the best thing to do is to show you how it
works.
What I'm going to do is brew up some tea.
It's Sunday morning here, so let's start off with some GABA.
This has 500 ml capacity, so a LARGE capacity compared to a lot of other brewers, which
means that you can brew for a GROUP of people, but it's ALSO suitable for brewing for yourself
as well.
I'm going to put in a couple of teaspoons of tea, like this.
Now you can see that the LID here has a twisting function.
So as long as it's in the middle the water will stay in the chamber.
The moment you twist it, it will RELEASE the water.
So I'm going to put it in the middle, pour over some hot water.
Now if you want you can do a tea rinse, just like tea ceremony style brewing.
You pour the water over, and then go over your sink - I can do it over my tea pet - and
then you can release the water.
So you can do a tea wash if you WANT to.
You don't HAVE to.
Right.
Let's pour some water over and do our first brew.
Okay.
Some features here, large chamber, as I said.
You've got the clear window which allows you to look at the leaf unfold, and also give
you a judgement on how strong the tea is, which is very useful.
You have a little drip tray here.
This doesn't leak.
I mean, you can see this is full of water and it's really not leaking.
But there will be, of course, the odd drop that happens as water spills down the side,
so it's nice to have a drip tray you can just leave it on your counter and you don't make
any mess.
In terms of the CONVENIENCE of this brewer, you can use ANY drinking vessel you want.
You could have a mug like this and you can just put the Leaf and Bean brewer over you
mug, twist the lid, and it will start dispensing the tea.
Of course, that's if you're drinking by yourself.
You can have a COUPLE of mugs if you're drinking with TWO people, or you can have a larger
teapot.
This is our Symphony glass teapot.
You can just stick that over, twist the lid, it will DECANT the tea.
And what's wonderful is that the leaf is now ready for your next infusion.
You can KEEP infusing, you're not going to waste your leaf, and you're certainly not
going to leave your leaf in the water to stew.
I'm going to IMMEDIATELY brew up another batch of this tea so that I can have a large teapot
of tea.
Let me quickly talk to you about the MATERIAL used.
This is safe, high temperature, food grade plastic.
This is obviously a point of controversy for SOME people.
If you are one of the people out there that is concerned about BPA, and potential leaching
of BPA, then you REALLY need to use glass, porcelain or clay.
You can't use ANY plastics.
I've done a lot of research on this, and I'm HAPPY to use this Leaf & Bean Brewer, ESPECIALLY
because we're talking about one or two minutes, maximum, of brewing time.
So it doesn't really give much chance for any leaching to happen.
I also think that the amount that leeches is miniscule.
HOWEVER, if you are one of those people who is concerned about BPRA then by ALL MEANS
you need to brew with glass, porcelain, or clay.
DO NOT trust the BPR-free plastics out there.
A lot of them contain BPS, which has been shown to have VERY SIMILAR effects to BPA,
they're made by the same company.
There's one - I'm not going to mention NAMES - that makes the vast MAJORITY of the BPA-free
plastics, and there's a lot of controversy in their plastics too.
So as I said, COMPLETELY up to you.
If you are somebody who wants to be ABSOLUTELY plastic-free, fine.
Glass and porcelain.
However, you WON'T get these movements and mechanisms with glass.
Okay.
Tea is brewed, you can see how EASY that is.
Now I've got a litre of tea here.
I can pour and serve for lots of people.
REALLY convenient, really easy to use, I HIGHLY recommend it.
One of the questions that we get asked quite a lot in our shop in London is, "What is the
difference between the Leaf & Bean Brewer and the Connoisseur Tea Brewer?"
This is one of our OTHER products; a very POPULAR product of ours.
The MAIN differences are, first of all, the CAPACITY.
THIS is about 200ml, this is 500 ml.
So this is designed to replicate the tea ceremony.
Small chamber, a small capacity, a large amount of leaf, very short brewing times.
So this replicates the tea ceremony style.
This is much more a kind of western brewing style.
Secondly, this has the decanter WITH it.
You put the leaf in here, pour the water over, when it's finished brewing you push the button
and that will DECANT the tea from this TOP chamber into this bottom chamber which is
glass, so therefore it can sit quite happy, and there will be no controversy over plastics.
You pour and you keep re-infusing.
This, I advise for one to two people doing tea ceremony style brewing.
If you are doing very small cups tea ceremony style brewing then you can do three or four
people with this, but this is really imitating the tea ceremony, whereas this is much more
of a no-nonsense, day-to-day tea brewer.
Okay.
That's it teaheads.
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