old tea portioner by ospalh

Last crawled date: 3 years, 1 month ago

I’ve designed a new tea portioner that works better. This uses less material, and maybe some people prefer this shape.
Quickly measure the right amount of tea leaves for one pot, or other granular materials where you need the same amount every day:
Place the funnel on the measuring cup. There is a right way, with the wider brim of the funnel on the flat surface of the cup, but with the funnel in another direction it should work well, too.
Pour in the tea leaves until the cup is a bit over full.
Slide off the funnel, striking the measuring cup and pouring the extra tea back in its tin over the chute.
The measure now contains the right amount of tea. Pour it into the filter or teapot. I use my funnel and stand for this.
The STL files included are for 44 cm³ (44 ml) and 55 cm³ (55 ml), the right amount of rooibos tea for my two teapots, 1 dm³ (1 l) and 1.25 dm³ (1.25 l). For other sizes use the customizer. When you have a mass, look up the density in the FAO list, elsewhere, or measure yourself.
The “American customary units” in the customizer is a bit of a joke, or my pet peeve.
Practically, Americans should look up the millilitres per teaspoon &c. in this list, and visit metric4us at their leisure after they printed their portioner.
Of course there’s nothing wrong with using measuring spoons or scoops like things 682146 or 619626. Except that the designer seems to think that 29.5735295625 cm³ or 14.7867647825 cm³ are useful units of measurement, and won’t discourage Americans – and Britons – from that silly habit. I still prefer this thing because tilting a tea tin is easier than filling a measuring spoon, especially if their is barely enough tea in the tin for one pot.