Had the Tealounge my first and only tea maker, I would certainly join the consistently positive reviews. However, I have since just over a year, the Special-T by Nestle and the Tealounge have ordered as a secondary device because I hoped for a technical improvement. This is definitely not the case. When it comes to operation, cleaning, descaling and taste the product of teapot in my opinion, can not compete with that of Nestle absolutely. My conclusion: In direct comparison my choice would fall again and again on the unit of Nestle. Here I would like to say that I belong to any test group, but objectively, the two systems could konkurrienden compare.