Tea Strainers Collection

Each tea strainer comes with its own individual bowl. This is used to catch the inevitable drips and any loose leaves.
Our range of tea strainers are by far our best selling pieces. They enable you to have a little piece of afternoon tea in your own home. They are definately the most talked about piece of silver when enjoying your Tea and cake, it gives you the feeling of being part of history.
When tea is brewed in the traditional manner in a teapot, the tea leaves are not contained in teabags, but rather are freely suspended in the water. As the leaves themselves may be distasteful, it is usual to filter them out with a tea strainer. Strainers usually fit into the top of the cup to catch the leaves as the tea is poured.
Some deeper tea strainers can also be used to brew single cups of tea, much as teabags or brewing baskets are used – the strainer full of leaves is set in a cup to brew the tea, and then removed, along with the spent tea leaves, when the tea is ready to drink. By using a tea strainer in this way, the same leaves can be used to brew multiple cups.