Teapresso
Congratulations, you have just found one of the most innovative tea advancements in recent years!
The Teapresso is set to revolutionize the tea industry, much like the espresso machine altered the world of coffee over 20 years ago.
I am in love with this machine. I am not kidding when I tell you that at least 6 years prior, I was using an espresso machine to attempt extracting tea shots through the porta-filter. The results were mediocre at best. I remember thinking that some day, someone will invent a machine designed with the perfect time/temp/pressure to extract the essence out of tea as well as as an espresso machine draws it out of ground coffee. So, here we are, 7 years later in 2008 and now such a machine is available to the tea cafe industry in Canada.
I'd like to draw a comparison between teahouses opening today and the typical coffee house 20 years ago. There were few espresso machines in operation back then. Today, if you open a coffee house without one of these machines, you would be considered mad by your counterparts. The cornerstone of your business and the prime profit center in your teahouse will not be the chipped brown betty, nor a $50.00 German glass handcrafted tea press, but the drink program that will arise from the use of a teapresso.
