This is my most recent article on Tea Examiner. I sort of had to chuckle at the idea of it. Why would anyone need such an application? Actually, the information on the Teavana website does not say whether this is one application or two different ones.
I cannot fathom anyone needing an iPhone to find out how to steep his or her tea or to time it. I cannot imagine being so lazy about buying tea that one would want to do it by pushing buttons on the phone.
I do buy tea on the Internet, but I like to look through several sites to make my choices. This application limits the buyer to only Teavana, which is the point, I suppose. They would want an app. to buy only from them to increase their sales.
I enjoy reading the websites of the various tea companies. That not only gives me a wider choice of teas, it exposes me to new information. There are teas I would never have known about let alone tried if it had not been for looking through the websites of The Tea Spot, Teas Etc., Rishi, Kusmi, and Adagio, just to mention a few.
Speaking of the Tea Spot, I have been taking my Tuffy Steeper everywhere. When my daughter took 3 days to have her baby, having my own tea and my Tuffy at the hospital was a huge comfort. The fact that my daughter had been in labor for more than two days was enough to completely frazzle me. Like many tea drinkers, I turned to tea to hold me together. Weak hospital tea made from cheesy teabags was not enough. So I took my Tuffy and some sandwich bags of good tea, put my Tuffy into a hospital cafeteria Styrofoam cup, used their hot water, and paid for tea even though I used my own. It was worth it to drink real tea instead of stale tea dust.
The Examiner.com new publishing tool is available, so I will be able to get to the tea reviews now. If you do not read Tea Examiner, you will find them here.
The rooster teapot has nothing to do with this post. I just liked it.
