It is a little tea accessory that looks like a piece of steel wire with a hook on one side and a coil on the other. You can usually see it hooked inside a nozzle of a glass teapot. I think it functions as a strainer.
What is it called?
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This webpage calls it a wire coil filter. Others seem to call it other things, e.g. a spiral coil.
Nifty idea. Does it work well?
Nifty idea. Does it work well?
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- Billy Connolly
I have something similar, where it is basically like a wire christmas tree that you insert into the spout, it works great at stopping the leaves from coming out, but the problem is that the spout gets clogged with leaf. I imagine the wire one has the same issue to a degree, but not as much.
It's one of the reasons I like to go for the 360 degree mesh filters found in some kyusu's. They do a great job of filtering without clogging.
It's one of the reasons I like to go for the 360 degree mesh filters found in some kyusu's. They do a great job of filtering without clogging.
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My glass teapot has one, its basically a big springy coil thats suspended in place by the base being too big to go all the way up the spout and a hook that goes around the outside of the spout's edge. They work, but can get clogged very easily. Fortunately they can be removed even easier, by unhooking the hook on the spout, the whole contraption springs out into the pot and can be pulled out (and put back in place with a little persistence)
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