Review on 🧞 Experience Pure Bliss with Aladdin's Perfect Infuser: 12oz Chai Delight by Scott Welch

Bought 2011, Reviewed 2012 I've had this travel mug for about a year now and it's fantastic! This is the only one on the market (as far as I know) that allows you to remove the tea strainer, so you don't have to drink very strong tea or rummage through hot tea to get a pouch. The fact that the base is microwaveable is also a definite plus. The lid retains heat well, I absolutely have to open it to let it cool, but with the lid closed it's waterproof enough that I can easily toss it in my purse or backpack along with electronics and paper. Dishwasher Safe and Top Shelf Safe! (However, I do recommend giving the lid a thorough cleaning from time to time, as it can leave dark stains in the corners.) After a year of use, the brewer lowering lever isn't the smoothest, but does have a little wobble. always goes down. I dropped it on hard concrete a few weeks ago and the inside and outside fell apart but after a really hard push my office mate put them back together so it's not vacuumed now if it ever was, but air is in too good insulator .. and I didn't notice the loss of the ability to keep warm. I'm going to buy a second one so I have one for the office and one for traveling. Update 2015: I now have this travel mug. for four years (2011), and I bought the second one in 2012. The original around 2014 (3 years of use) started to diverge the seal between the inner and outer layers and the second is happening now in 2015 (also 3 years of use). Basically the layers are held together with a silicone ring and friction and after about 3 years it falls apart and the two layers start to separate. This makes one-handed operation in the car more difficult, as lifting the lid leaves the lower/outer part behind. After a year or two of use, the basket lock became a bit stiff on both, but still usable. Both can occasionally leak if not maintained, but this does happen intermittently and in small amounts. As a replacement for this, there aren't any other tea infuser devices yet that will allow you to raise/lower the tea portion. There are others that allow you to completely remove the tea infuser, but in a car it's not practical to take it off and drip everywhere. There were a few styles where you could turn the whole thing upside down or right side up to dunk the strainer, but none of them had a lid that could be opened with one hand. So, four years after I bought my first one, I'm going to buy a third one to replace my existing ones. Too bad you can't just swap floors!