The FBB-1000.
This baby is vacuum-insulated, 13-inches of stainless-steel, Nissan Thermos technology, have-your-tea-blisteringly-hot-at-9pm-even-though-you-made-it-at-7am-goodness. Holds 1 LITER of tea, ladies and gents.
I bought it back in The Office days, to have tea with me when I was separated from my cube. It used to make the trip with Mr. Bento. But lately it's been making the trip with me to school, and I have been imbibing MASSIVE quatities of tea (well, so far, 1 liter of tea per day).
BUT! With finals coming up, I have decided to purchase a SECOND FBB-1000 because all too often, the first is empty by the time the evening rolls around in the library.
Why write you guys an advertisement for this?
Well, I realized last night that I was taking it for granted. You know, all that talk about beauty in the last post? Divina's comment made me realize that yes, I am kinda stressed and no, I haven't been enjoying the things I usually enjoy. I mean, the leaves have all turned around me now, and usually I love taking pictures of the sun shine through them. I don't even have my camera loaded with batteries lately! So while I was sitting in the library--and we have this rather large research project going on right now, so there's lots of sitting in the library--I finished off the tea in the Thermos and found it still incredibly hot, though it had sat in a mostly-empty Thermos all day. It was an Darjeeling, and it was fragrant and fresh, though more than twelve hours old already. And as it coursed into my body, I thought, "Hey, I haven't realized how much I enjoyed this!" I sat back, sniffed at it, decompressed a little, and was thankful. Said some classmates, "Wow, that's a big-ass Thermos." Yeah. It feels good to have a gangsta thermos. And you know what? You can have single-estate FTGFOP1 single-estate Darjeeling that, per quarter pound, STILL costs less than one large Starbucks latte with a flavor shot in it! Amazing!
There is NOTHING, NOTHING like a good cup of tea.
And having it constantly available? Priceless.
Fortunately, you, too, can have this monster of a Thermos for the fairly reasonable price of $24.11 from Amazon.com.
10 comments:
O, I need to have that themos for my tea...thanks for sharing!
Indie--
YES! it's AWESOME!!! Fair warning, though: for some reason, more delicate teas (greens and whites) taste 'stewed' after a while in it (still hot, though...just a little bitter). I tend to stick to blacks and oolongs when I use it :)
Ah, thank you for that warning :)
Are there any perfumes that you think capture the smell/feeling of a cup of tea really well? I haven't found anything I've been really satisfied with.
Oy, it doesn't look like my last post posted *rueful grin*
That's actually a great idea for a post, Indie...it'll have to wait for next week till I get this paper turned in, BUT! I will find and collect all tea-related perfume samples I have and do quick capsule reviews of them for ya.
Indie, though, I was thinking: I need to resmell these on skin, but are you familiar with Christopher Brosius' I Hate Perfume line? He has a few that are very tea-based: Russian Caravan Tea (which I *have* tried), and Lavender Tea and Tea/Rose (which I haven't). CB is known to be a tea person, though, and he captures 'feeling' more than anything really, REALLY well...I'm sure a bunch of people will chime in. There's a few more--dunno if you've smelled L'Artisan's Tea for Two (based on Lapsang Souchong) and The pour un ete (IMHO, NOT very teaish at all). None of the current Green Tea scents on the market are anything like tea at all to me. I think people don't want to admit that green tea is a *really* vegetal smell, you know? So they've cleaned it up and replaced it with i-don't-know-what.
Lemme think about it.
Can't help with the search for tea 'fumes--I'd rather drink my tea than wear it--but I love your homage to the thermos. Let's hear it for technology, which too often gets a bad rap these days.
Maybe I'll do a blog post on my portable air compressor, which has saved me from being stranded with a flat more times than I would care to remember!
Glad school seems to be going okay, even if it's a challenge sometimes ;-)
PS. Do you like Lapsang Souchong? I would love a rec for a good one.
yes! that might be it, my 0.75 liter coffee thermos replacement, once this one brakes. It keeps me going until 10 am and then follow regular marches to the coffee machine which produces Nespresso (what else?) but I prefer my home brewed Max Havelaar, made old-fashioned with water and coffee and a filter paper.
I have tried both of the L'Artisans...either of them captured tea for me. I have only tried a few of the CB I Hate Perfumes...none of the tea-scented ones. I'll have to look into them...and I look forward to the tea/perfume post.
Just bought one yesterday based on your rec...tired of using a cheap travel mug and finding my tea cold by the time I get to the office. Thanks!
p.s. I'm on a Lapsang Souchong kick.
I am a tea freak, and definitely need a Nissan thermos!
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