Steel tong strainer

Steel tea ball strainer with tong handles

This steel strainer is operated by squeezing the tong handles together to open the strainer ball.  This makes it easy to plunge the ball into a bag of loose leaf tea and grab a scoopful.  For the more particular tea drinkers, it can be held open with one hand while the other spoons in the exact quantity.  This strainer is slightly more effort to clean than our two-armed one, but a durable model all the same