Metal Tea Tray

[Pentox]

Does anyone know where I can find a metal tea tray like the one in the picture?




Picture is from In Pirsuit of Tea's site, but it doesn't look like they sell them.

[scruffmcgruff]

Your toaster oven?



Imperial Tea Court serves tea on steel trays, but they don't quite look like that one. Still, their site might be worth a look if you haven't already checked.

[Victoria]

Your toaster oven?

Yeah, I'm kind of leaning toward the fact it might not be a "tea tray" per se, at all. But some sort of kitchen equipment.

[Pentox]

That'd be one hell of a big toaster oven.

I've seen stainless steel tea sinks/trays/oceans pop up in other pictures a lot though. Notably in pictures of Taiwanese and Chinese gongfu shots. Normally they look to be about 3' x 4' though.

[Pentox]

Here's one of the places I remember seeing one


Bizarre Foods Taiwan

It's most prominent at around 1:36 in.

[ABx]

Your toaster oven?

Yeah, I'm kind of leaning toward the fact it might not be a "tea tray" per se, at all. But some sort of kitchen equipment.

I was thinking that as well. I was kind of thinking that it would be nice to have something like this for underneath the Zoji, with a tube to drain into the sink.

Amazon has some small ones (I think I found them by searching under 'drip tray' or 'spill tray' in the home & garden and/or kitchen sections), but thinking about it now I bet you could find something at a restaurant supply store.

[Chip]

+1 for commercial kitchen equipment outlet.

Maybe one of the commercial places in Chinatown. Philly has a place that might have it or could get it.

[wyardley]

J-tea sells one, but it's quite expensive from there.

http://www.jteainternational.com/accout ... /trays.htm

They are pretty bullet proof, though.

[Trioxin]

Do a google search for "drip tray". Kegworks.com seem to have a nice selection of metal drip trays you might want to check out.

[cheaton]

Ten Ren sells one.

http://tinyurl.com/66hmfl

$35

[Pentox]

Heh the J-tea and ten ren ones look very similar. yet hugely different in price.

I'm somewhat inclined to try to find the squared corners like the one in the picture, i kinda like those. But the ten ren option sounds like a good idea too.

Drip trays seem to be a bit on the undersized area. As per their design they're always really narrow. As fit to fit under a tap.

Thanks for all the hunting help so far though!

[Smells_Familiar]

Great thread!

I'm with pentox, square is lookin better to me as well, but the curves are nice too. The type with 90* corners reminds me of a high end espresso machine's drip tray (only supersized), and I love me some Premium espresso machine!!!!

[hop_goblin]

I've seen these trays in gongfu vids, but they are generally used in tea shops. IMHO, I think it reminds me of a surgical setting and really takes away from the ambience. However, I think it would be good for the office.

[TIM]

I would look into Taiwanese tea vendors. This is the a basic tea tray which most of the tea farmers in Taiwan I came across have. Should be cheap IMO

[heavydoom]

they sell them here in toronto. 25 canadian. huge. cheap. a local ten ren store.