WWFD?

[jducoeur]

As I mentioned the other day, I picked up a couple of teacups with built-in infusers. They're quite nice -- the glass one produces the best couple of Genmaicha I've ever had. But it does have one key problem: it doesn't provide any good way to take the 180-degree steel infuser *out* of the cup when the brief steeping time is done.

After nearly burning my fingers a couple of times, and hassling with getting the thing out by slipping a couple of forks under the rim of the infuser, I finally asked myself the key question: "What Would Fritz Do?"

A few moments' reflection, a knife and a tin muffin cup with a hole cut in the bottom later, and things are now much better. The hole in the bottom of the muffin cup fits snugly around the rim of the infuser, and the edges of the cup are far enough away that there is no danger of burning myself.

Green tea is good, but green tea without burned fingers is better...

Comments

[learnedax.livejournal.com]

A moment's reflection on the title made it clear whom F must be, before I read further down. Though I started off wondering whether forging was involved...

[rickthefightguy.livejournal.com]

See, as much as I love Fritz, my question would be WWGGD? (or should that be WWAHD?)

[alexx-kay.livejournal.com]

Gary Gygax?

[learnedax.livejournal.com]

I think he had something else in mind, but surely a lot of people would be interested in what that GG would do.

(And I think the answer to Rick's question is clearly "build a four-ton steep engine".)

[rickthefightguy.livejournal.com]

If she can do coffee, how hard can tea be?

[learnedax.livejournal.com]

Judging by the recent popularity of these single-cup rapid coffee-making machines, java is amenable to generation by devices of science gone mad.*

The tea they produce is terrible, though, so flying in the face of spark-theory, I would maintain that you can't force the process.

*(The most popular model I've seen has an eerie blue glow all around the output spigot. Must be Cherenkov radiation.)

[alexx-kay.livejournal.com]

"I would maintain that you can't force the process."

That just means that your Science is Not Mad ENOUGH!!!

[rickthefightguy.livejournal.com]

As Libby chirped up, "Steep Punk!"