Guys/Gals,

Those of you who have nine-to-fives (or seven-to-eights, as it were),
what is your tea setup at work, if you have one? I'd like to get one
going and am shopping around online, and as usual, it is difficult to
ascertain the usability of some of the things I am finding. I find that
I only have time to enjoy tea on days when I can dedicate time to it,
since for many teas I enjoy, temperature is vital and difficult to
achieve accurately (some delta off the boil). I would like to brew a
wide variety of teas and other products in the cleanest and best way
possible. At work, I have limited space, so I am looking for an
efficient setup. At home I similarly would like something that achieves
correct water temperature without the hassle.

So far, at work, I have one the following, which works pretty well for
any tea that matches well with the hot water that comes out of our water
cooler (I should probably measure that temperature someday):
One of those chinese tea thermoses (thermii? (: ) found on Ebay and
discussed in this ng a while back (http://tinyurl.com/a9ju2).
An adequately-sized college coffee mug.
Bags of various tea.

So far, I've found I get decent results with oolongs (��) using the
hot water spigot and am willing to steep cheaper Pu-Erh (普洱茶) Tuo Cha
(沱茶) with it as well. Still, It would be nice to have something more
accurate.

The best thing I've found in my online search is an Adagio product
called "UtiliTEA" (http://tinyurl.com/e226e), which is tad pricey. Most
other electric kettles seem to only do boiling--especially the cheap ones.

So, what do you guys use if anything, and how has it worked out for you?

Steve

BTW, if the unicode chinese above worked, I'd like to thank Mike for
making some of the source material available. I love your site and
appreciate the donation of valuable information to the tea community.