Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #46070 in Kitchen & Housewares
- Brand: Piao I
- Model: GL-865
Features
- Brew your tea or coffee to perfection then press a button and the brew drains to a lower chamber for serving or drinking.
- There are copycats but this is the original Piao I patented design made to a quality standard and with a pride of craftsmanship.
- Perfect for home or the office. It can hold 500cc/16 ounces of tea when the infuser is removed and 300cc/10 ounces of tea when the infuser is in place.
- Integrated stainless steel filter lets you brew tea or coffee without a separate paper filter.
- Includes three complimentary samples of premium gourmet Pu'erh tea.
Piao I Perfect Infusion Tea Pot/Coffee Pot with Stainless Steel Built-in Filter and Infuser. Patented Design, Easy to Use, All in One Multi-tea Server. Brews up to 16oz/500cc of Tea or Coffee.
Product Description
Brewing tea or coffee has never been so easy. This is the original patented Piao I teapot made by Piao I Enterprise Co., Ltd. While there are many popular infusers on the market, the Piao I has a built-in teapot that allows for the separation of the brew from the tea leaves once the perfect brew has been achieved. It has an upper chamber for brewing tea or coffee to the desired strength. Then just press a button and the perfectly brewed tea will drain into a lower chamber from where it can be poured into a cup for consumption. Any remaining tea, separated from the leaves, retains its perfect strength. Alternatively, the top chamber may be removed and the lower chamber can function as a cup. While this product specifies use for infusing tea, it works equally well for coffee. A splendid device for work and for home. It also makes a wonderful gift for a tea/coffee lover or someone on the go. The Piao I teapot is made of strong pyrex glass, dishwasher-safe and so easy to clean. It can hold 500cc/16 ounces of tea when the infuser is removed and 300cc/10 ounces of tea when the infuser is in place.
Customer Reviews
Most helpful customer reviews
16 of 16 people found the following review helpful.
By Stockstradr
I'm a white boy who married a lovely mainland Chinese woman about ten years ago. Her parents also live with us. They have all been educating me about tea for the last ten years. So I now understand plenty about the proper steeping of Chinese tea. We own a second home in China, and have coincidentally returned only days ago from a two week trip there, where we bought lots of good tea!We own FOUR of these teapots, and have used them for years. This product is quite popular in many areas of China because of the quality of this teapot and how well it steeps tea.This teapot has an upper reservoir of about one cup capacity, which lowers into the larger body of the teapot. The bottom of the upper reservoir contains a stainless steel ball stop valve. When you press a small button on the top of the teapot, the ball lifts and tea is strained through a fine stainless steel mesh as it drains into the lower reservoir. Then you refill the upper chamber with hot water for the next infusion.NOTE: everyone I know uses this product only for serving ONE, maybe TWO people; this teapot's capacity is too small for serving larger groups. Typically, owners use this as a "personal teapot" (at work, or wherever), loading it in the morning and infusing off the same tea all day long. That's how I use it EVERY day at work.I strongly recommend this as a personal teapot for steeping LOOSE tea, for these reasons:1) You can easily increase each successive infusion time (off the same tea as it weakens), to ensure consistent tea intensity: pushing the button quickly vents tea into the lower reservoir, effectively halting the infusion (and fixing the intensity). A glance at the tea color through the transparent reservoir tells you when the intensity is just right.2) You should always "wash" each new batch of tea leaves, and this teapot is very convenient for that; you simply put the dry tea in and poor hot water into the upper reservoir, swish it through the tea for about 20 or 30 seconds; then vent that directly into the sink to discard that wash water.3) This product is well designed and quite reliable. Yes, as other reviewers mentioned, it does have a minor design flaw (which is why I lowered the rating to four stars): if you shake this teapot too vigorously while washing it, the stainless steel stopper ball can become slightly jammed. An easy fix to this has never failed me: simply lift up the button (attached to its control rod) about a cm, and then shake the ball back into position. As example of the general quality of the product, the fine mesh strainer is high quality stainless steel because I've never seen that mesh rust or discolor. Other Chinese made tea strainers (from different manufacturers) are often seen having rusted mesh strainer after only few months. Also this teapot survived my accidentally dropping it several times (while heavy filled with tea) about four vertical feet onto a hard floor. I was amazed it survived unbroken.4) It is absolutely true this teapot gets more tea (more infusions) out of each gram of tea, compared to any other teapot. However, keeping in mind those last infusions may easily be 20 minutes steeping time. You yield more tea per load due to the bottom venting ensures the flow of hot water is always down through the tea, also the upper chamber is small so infuses more effectively even when the tea is quite weakened by previous infusions.
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful.
By M. Lee
This is a very nice tea pot, I really like the design, which is very functional. I use it daily at office and it is easy to clean out the tea leaves.
13 of 16 people found the following review helpful.
By M. Rhodes
I bought this because I loved the idea that I could keep re-infusing my green and white teas in the same pot so easily. Unfortunately, my strainer/infuser stopped working and I have to dismantle it with almost every use. The steel ball keeps going off-track and getting stuck. That is getting really old! I finally broke down and bought the Teavana Perfect Tea Maker, which is similar in concept but brews 16 oz. of tea with each infusion. Even though the Piao I pot is a 16 oz. pot, you can only brew 8 oz. at a time since that's all the infuser holds. For any price, this pot is not worth it!
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