This is my second strainer same design, I have a few requirements for a tea strainer, this meets all: 1. Is made of stainless steel and therefore absolutely tasteless. If it is discolored times by the tea, it can be easily re-scrub and it shines like new. 2. No plastic. 3. sufficiently deep for large coffee cups suitable 4. relatively easy to clean, so a clean affair 5. Since it is a perforated sheet metal mesh screen and no one has any metal scratching noises :-) 6 with two fingers grasped well, so perfectly to pivot about the tea. 7. Cover the drain and with some warm function.