Anyone who knows me, knows that I’m a bit of a tea fanatic! I have many loose leaf teas at home, and a Fine-T tea machine that allows me to brew tea to the right temperature on a timer so I can have Metrodeco Shades of Grey (a variety of Earl Grey) for breakfast without having to get up early to make it!
I get my teas from a few different places usually with my favourite places being Metrodeco and Jenier Teas – the latter even puts nice notes, free samples and occasionally sweets in with each order! 🙂 I’m a big fan of smokey teas, so Russian Caravan and Lapsang Souchoung always go down well with me, but at times white or green varieties of Tea are just what I need. For example, Pink Pride (white tea with rose petals) from Metrodeco is a good relaxing evening cuppa if I need to wind down before going to bed, and Lemon Gunpowder Green Tea from Jenier is very refreshing mid afternoon.
Whilst I have many ways of making a cuppa (strainers, the Fine-T machine, loose leaf tea bags, and the Attic Tea Maker), what I have been struggling to find for years is what I think is the perfect tea caddy. Now you can get tins or boxes or glass jars etc that all say they are good for storing tea (though I’m not sold on glass at all as think light might damage the tea) but none of them are perfect for me. I want someway to take all my teas and put them in stackable, airtight (preferably rectangular) containers that can hold about 100g of tea each WITH somewhere to put a label that can be changed easily or can be written on with chalk so can be easily wiped and redone. AND it has to look good otherwise my other half will not let me put them on display.
Doesn’t sound too hard does it? Well you’d think so but so far no joy! I’ve searched the internet, dragged my other half round many shops, tried a few varieties etc but no joy so far. The tins either aren’t easy to label cleanly, don’t stack well (I am talking about 20+ teas here), or just look horrible so I’m left with a cupboard full of teas and I keep on forgetting what we’ve got. Help me out people – I want to get my teas out of the cupboard so I can enjoy them all!!!
Maybe I’ll just have to commission someone to make the caddies for me – think that might be a tad expensive though! 😉