Today I’d like to inaugurate a new post type: “Invention Ideas.” These ideas are freely shared, with the hope that some enterprising individual will act upon them, make the world a better place, and get rich in the process. WOHOO!
Today’s innovation: Better Tea Infuser Balls
Tea infuser balls are globe-shaped little devices with trailing chains that can be hooked onto the edge of a tea pot. They look a bit like sperm, actually. The globes are made of a metal mesh that holds the loose tea leaves. The globes open on a hinge in the middle. They look like this:
The problem is that you cannot fill the globe to capacity, which you sometimes want the ability to do. You can only fill it a little less than halfway. If you try to stack a mountain of tea leaves on one side of the globe, when you close the device little bits of leaf debris get stuck around the edges of the opening. They then float into your tea. The whole point of a tea infuser is to keep the leaves out of the tea.
The solution:
One side of the globe should be much deeper than the other. In other words, the tea infuser should be oblong shaped, with the opening almost at the top.
Then you could fill it almost to capacity and still be able to close the thing easily. You get your extra strong cup of tea with no mess.
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