This adorable little tea-infuser looks exactly like the Piranha Plant from Super Mario!

When you’re not using it to brew tea, you could turn it into a prop for your Lego Mario set.

OTOTO‘s Tea Trap puts a fun spin on the art of brewing tea. Unlike those boring metal infusers, the Tea Trap models itself on a carnivorous plant that chomps down on your tea leaves. Once the Tea Trap’s stomach (or mouth) is full, just dunk it in a cup of hot water, and the tea begins infusing through the perforations on the sides of the infuser. Use the Tea Trap’s elongated handle to stir it around till your tea reaches the right color, and when you’re done, the Tea Trap will very kindly spit out the tea-leaves into the waste-bin, because nobody likes eating tea leaves… not even carnivorous plants!

Designer: OTOTO

The Tea Trap is made from stainless steel along with BPA-free silicone. It’s 100% food-safe and dishwasher-safe too.

This travel tea flask comes with a built-in infuser to give you the best brew without messy tea bags!

Inspired and derived from Chinese tea culture, Chá is a travel tea flask that brings the ritual of brewing tea at home back into making tea on the go.

Making your first cup of tea in the morning feels like a ritual. Like clockwork, the water boils, the flavor of tea leaves seep into your cup, and the tea is ready to be enjoyed while you curl up next to a window and read. Having tea on the go is a little different. When we make tea in stainless steel, thermal bottles, we can’t see how strong we’re making it and our tea-making rituals are always cut short. Chá is a travel tea flask that ties the ritual back into making tea on the go, born from a collaboration between Chinese EV maker Nio and UAL’s Central Saint Martins.

Chá is a travel tea bottle that can switch between a tea infuser and a regular thermal water bottle. Topped with a transparent lid, Chá allows each user to witness the seeping process while brewing tea to ensure their desired tea strength is achieved. With a handy rubber strap, users can even brew their tea with the bottle strapped to their backpack. The brewing process of Chá is just like filling a water bottle, but the lid of Chá features a compartment where users can place tea bags near a built-in infuser and transparent section that reveals the strength of each brew.

The built-in infuser opens with a turn of the bottle’s lid, then the user can turn Chá upside down and watch as their water darkens with tea. If users want to only drink water, then the infuser can be just as easily closed and Chá can be filled with fresh water to be used as a regular water bottle. Ergonomic and inviting by design, Chá combines style with the traditional ritual of tea making.

Explaining the brewing process, the designers behind Chá describe, “Twisting the two halves of the opaque lid against one another to form an ‘O’ or a horizontal ‘S’, opens or closes the infuser respectively. An open infuser allows the contents of its flask to infuse with each other. Enabling the infuser and flipping the flask upside down exposes the water to the tea leaves for infusion while the user can monitor for their desired thickness of the tea through the transparent lid.”

Designers: ual x Nio

By twisting the lid’s two halves, users activate the infuser. 

Silicone elements provide some grip for Chá’s bottle.

A handy strap allows users to hold Chá in a variety of ways, like strapping it to a backpack. 

Following several ideations, the final form of Chá envisions a subdued, yet bright blush pink stainless steel bottle with silicone elements and a transparent upper lid.  

Bring and make tea on the go with Chá.

10 Cool Tea Infusers For Tea Lovers

Tea is such a wonderful drink. It’s healthy, it’s tasty, and has more benefits than many other tasty drinks. You really can’t go wrong when it comes to tea, whether it’s green, black, or any color under the sun! Of course, sometimes tea can taste like hot water, so in order to avoid that and drink flavorful, delicious tea, you might need a tea infuser! I’ve put together a list of cool and cute tea infusers so you can get on your way to drinking yummy tea.

Yellow Submarine Tea Infuser


This cute tea infuser is great for fans of The Beatles. Remember that song, “Yellow Submarine?” “We all live in a yellow submarine, yellow submarine…” It’s also great for fans of submarines in general. That’s a thing people are into right?

Piggy Tea Infuser


We’ve all had a piggy bank at some point, so why not have a piggy tea infuser? It’s just as adorable and just as useful. I love this little thing.

Penguin Tea Infuser


So there’s going to be a lot of animal shaped infusers on this list. Sorry, not sorry. I’m in love with this adorable penguin tea infuser. I just hope it doesn’t make my tea as cold as the Antarctic…

Owl Tea Infuser


Aww, look at these darling things. They’re so colorful, I want them all!

Fruit Tea Infuser


Hey, look, it’s not an animal. It’s a precious fruit! It’s making me hungry for some fruit and thirsty for some tea!

Elephant Tea Infuser


Elephants are my favorite animal, so of course, they had to be included on this list! Definitely my favorite tea infusers on the list.

Rubber Ducky Tea Infuser


Who doesn’t love rubber duckies? They’re a part of every childhood and they’re just so dang cute. This rubber ducky tea infuser is the cutest.

Dinosaur Tea Infuser


Dinosaurs are my second favorite animal…even if I’ve never seen a real one and never will. I’d love to have this tea infuser.

Kitten Tea Infuser


Did I say dinosaurs were my second favorite animal? Just kidding, cats are. Or maybe cats are my number one…It’s really hard to decide. I just love animals! Anyway, these kitten tea infusers are a dream to look at.

Babushka Tea Infuser

Russian Nesting Dolls, or Babushka dolls are so adorable! I love the look of this tea infuser doll.

Did you see any tea infusers you liked? I hope you did! Make your way to drinking yummy tea with a cool tea infuser today!

Tranquili-tea!

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There’s a difference in personalities of tea and coffee drinkers. At least the quintessential ones. Coffee drinkers crave the energy, tea drinkers admire the tranquility. Imbue, in that regard makes for quite a tranquil drinking experience. The Imbue (aptly named) is a tea infuser with a calm aesthetic synonymous with Muji products. It serves as an infuser as well as a sipping glass.

The clear tumbler holds the water or milk and a sleeve around it makes holding the Imbue comfortable when the liquid inside is piping hot. An infuser sieve sits on the mouth of the tumbler, holding the leaves. The wooden cap on top does something interesting by including three magnets that snap up the metal infuser when the cap is screwed onto the Imbue’s tumbler base. Once unscrewed, the infuser sieve automatically lifts up, straining out the tea leaves, leaving you with a perfectly glistening golden brew to kick off your day!

Designer: Ashkon Nima

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Tea-for-ya!

We’ve seen expert brewing machines for coffee, heck we’ve even seen soft-drink machines but this… this is a rare one. The Teforia infuser is the grand-master of tea making, with an intuitive AI that can prepare 20 different kinds of tea from Teforia’s tea portfolio. Each tea has a specific brewing technique and the infuser takes delicate care to make sure that the tea leaves are identified, and are then brewed to perfection. If you’re a connoisseur of the finest teas, the Teforia is sure to delight your senses with the way it immaculately prepares a brew with the correct notes, odor, flavor, and hue. Now that’s truly impressive.

Teforia packs centuries of tea-making experience into its design, which is why it comes with a rather hefty price tag. Would you pay $1499 for a machine that brews the perfect cup of the world’s favorite beverage?

Designer: Teforia

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Loch Ness Monster Tea Infuser: Take the NessTea Plunge

This Baby Nessie Tea Infuser from OTOTO will cost you $14(USD). It’s totally worth it, because a trip to Scotland costs much more and there’s no guarantee that you will even see the mother, let alone the baby. Now you are sure to have a sighting in your tea cup.

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This belongs in your kitchen along with the Nessie ladle. The tea infuser is the smallest in the Nessie line of kitchen products and it is as adorable as the rest. Now when you have a cup of tea, baby Nessie will be sitting in it with his head sticking up over the side.

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You can try to take a picture and get proof of your sighting, but it’s just going to come out blurry. It’s a magical power that it has.

[via Gizmodo via Geekologie]

Teabag? Here’s a Teacage.

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The good thing about tea-infusers is that you can reuse them. The bad thing is that once you’re done with the brewing, you have to keep that dripping infuser on your counter-top or in an empty cup. Now that isn’t elegant. The Portable Teapress does something clever. Once you’re done with brewing, just press downwards and the infusing chamber collapses and locks the tea-leaves inside, stopping your tea from becoming over-brewed and bitter. It’s also pretty small, making it the perfect addition to your travel kit. Now that’s how you brew tea on-the-go with style!

The Portable Teapress was awarded with the prestigious Red Dot Award in the year 2015.

Designer: Continuums Ltd.

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Introducing, the PlaTEApus

Inspired by what might be the strangest creature on earth, the VivaBoo is a goofy take on the tea infuser that’s as friendly to use as it is to look at. Simply fill his belly with your favorite leaves, grab the bill to be safe, and dangle on the side for a fresh cup! Check out all the cuteness in the video!

Designer: Gongdreen

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ManaTea Infuser Now Available!

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Restore your sanity with a cup of tea…. from a manatee. The ManaTea Infuser, now available in our shop, is a silicone tea infuser shaped like a lumbering manatee. Manatees like to take it slow and relax in warm water, which makes them perfect for brewing up a cup of tea (unlike dolphins which are known to prefer coffee or meth. true fact.) So pick up this giant sea mammal and have a cup of tea- manatea that is.
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Have a Whale of a Tea Time!

Enjoy your favorite infusions with a little help from the lovable Dreaming Whale Tea Infuser! Made of food-friendly silicone, it’s soft to grip and never too hot to touch. Its detachable decorative spout stream also makes for a perfect muddler or stirrer. Get it here!

Designers: Juhyun Yu & Changbong Heo

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