glass beaker infuser with stainless steel top/strainer shown with top off and full flower tea infusion

Glass Infuser

$ 24.00

Watching your leaves unfurl and the liquor of your tea unfold is one of the many simple pleasures of the tea brewing process. This beautiful yet functional glass tea infuser is one of the most beautiful ways to brew tea. 

For this reason, our glass infuser is what we use most often to brew traditional teas at our tea bar. The large 400ml bormolite glass allows plenty of space for even the largest leafed tea to interact with the water and create the perfect infusion. Plus, it's fun to watch!

Is this infuser just a French Press?

You may have noticed this tea infuser's similarity to a French Press and be wondering if you can use a French Press instead. Unlike a French Press, the glass tea infuser's strainer stays in place at the top of the infuser. This not only allows plenty of room for the leaves to brew to perfection, but also strains them without expressing bitter tannins into the tea. Pressing down on a French Press is much like squeezing out a tea bag - yes you're going to get all of the tea out of the leaves, but that tea will come with extra tannins that have been squeezed and pressed out of the wet leaves, leaving your cup bitter. Regardless, if you do use a French Press for your tea, we don't recommend using the same one for your coffee! 

Dishwasher safe.

About Saratoga Tea & Honey Co.

White bags of loose tea on shelves at Saratoga Tea & Honey Co.

Our passion for teas...

We are delighted to be able to share one of the largest and most varied collections of single origin traditional teas on the East Coast with our communi·tea. Personally curated by owner Hayley, these teas come to us from small farms and collectives and represent the best of their terroirs and production styles. While wondering our shelves in-person or online, you will discover familiar favorites like English Breakfast and Long Jing (Dragonwell) alongside rare teas like Shan Lin Xi and herbal tisanes blended for mindfulness, inflammation, and much more.

wall of monofloral raw honeys at Saratoga Tea & Honey Co. in Saratoga Springs NY

& bees...

Raw honey is one of nature's most marvelous gifts. Not only is honey a marvel of energy-giving carbohydrates fortified with antioxidants, minerals and beneficial enzymes - making it the healthiest natural sugar - honey comes in a rainbow of flavors and varieties with something for everyone to appreciate and enjoy. From dark, robust honeys like Buckwheat and Chestnut to light or amber honeys like Tupelo or Orange Blossom, the subtle and sometimes not so subtle flavor differences between varietal honeys lend themselves to extraordinary flavor combinations and experimentation in the kitchen, on the charcuterie board, or in your favorite cup of tea.

all started with our Queen Bee!

A trained chef, Hayley's vision for Saratoga Tea & Honey Co. has been her entire lifetime in the making. Though she was still drinking espresso at the time, the Tea & Honey seeds were planted in the kitchens of Michelin-starred restaurants with training and appreciation for food and beverage as not just sustenance, but experience and hospitality. Her time spent as a chef-instructor at Jacques Pépin's French Culinary Institute introduced her first to matcha (and its ability to enhance sustained and steady focus), then to the subtleties of single-origin traditional teas like high mountain Taiwanese oolong. As a celebrated and awarded taster and master of culinary arts, in 2015 Hayley opened the doors to Saratoga Tea & Honey Co. Since then, she has cultivated a communi·tea for discovering rare and exciting teas, extraordinary raw honeys & unique gifts produced by small farmers and artisans from around the world.