You know a Nespresso, a home espresso appurtenance which makes good – if rather packaging-heavy – coffee? Now there’s the chronicle which does the same for tea.

It’s called a Special T, the good combination of joke and rap-star name, as well as it works exactly similar to a coffee versions: cocktail in a capsule (€0.35 or $0.50 each) as well as hit a button. Boiling water passes through a tea and you finish up with, as if, the poetic cuppa.

Or do you? Although creation tea is about a easiest thing to do in a universe, it is also easy to do it wrong. The Special T gets a single thing right: a PDF instructions discuss it you to tip away any superfluous h2o in a reservoir after use, recommending creatively drawn water each time. Boiling water knocks out oxygen, as well as this results in the flat-tasting crater.

But unlike espresso, which needs the clever balance of water-pressure, tamp-pressure, temperature as well as time, tea is elementary: pour a still-boiling water over a leaves (or bag) in the pre-warmed pot and steep for around 4-5 mins. After which, it’s tough to go wrong, making me consternation because you’d need this €130 appurtenance to bring to boil a water.

The Special T is rising in France, not a UK, and will be accessible usually by internet sequence.

Special T product page [Nestle (Warning: Flash as well as French) via Oh Gizmo]