tea portioner

thingiverse

Human: Measure the right amount of tea leaves or other granular materials for one pot precisely each day: * Place the funnel on the portioner over the closed measuring cup. * Pour in the tea leaves until the cup is slightly over full. * Hold the chute hole over your tea tin. * Carefully slide off the funnel striking the measuring cup and pouring the excess tea back into the tin. * The measure now contains the right amount of tea. Add it to the filter or teapot. I use my [funnel and stand](https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2144990) for this task, which works well with one hand. This is the second design created for this purpose. I renamed the first one to [old tea portioner](https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2183718). The stand is not required but it's useful to keep the bottom of the portioner clean and stabilize it a bit, depending on the size. There are STL files available for various sizes. 47 cm³ and 66 cm³ are the right amounts of rooibos tea for my two teapots, 1 dm³ and 1.4 dm³. For other sizes use the customizer or download the `scad` file, load it into OpenSCAD on your computer, set the volume and generate the three parts there. When you have a mass look up its density in the [FAO list](http://www.fao.org/docrep/017/ap815e/ap815e.pdf) elsewhere or measure yourself. Americans can find milliliters per teaspoon etc. in [this list](http://www.jsward.com/cooking/conversion.shtml). As a reminder, milliliter and ml are synonyms for cubic centimeter and cm³, as are liter, l, L, or ℓ for cubic decimeter and dm³. Using this style where you pour the tea is preferred, especially when almost out of tea. However, there's nothing wrong with using measuring spoons or scoops like [682146](https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:682146) or [619626](https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:619626). Except for using non-SI units, like "fl.oz." with different meanings, it's better to use 30 cm³ instead. For precision use a graduated cylinder. The customizer works now after I removed every non-ASCII character from its input.