Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

It was not obvious until I tried to use it, but you can only fill one half of the sphere with tea leaves using a spoon. Think about it, this is essentially a hemispherical container with a hemispherical lid. And a lid of any shape that is not flat is stupid because you can’t capture anything on a lid since gravity will make the leaves fall when you try to close the lid. The only way to fill the entire sphere would be if you have a large bag of the tea leaves in which case you can “submerge” this open strainer into the leaf bag and pinch a good chunk of tea leaves in between the halves. I’ve done this and it is a hassle because you get too many leaves and the strainer won’t close until you remove the correct amount. To recap: You have can’t set this on a table while filling it because it does not have a flat bottom, and so is unstable; and you have a lot of wasted space inside the lid that does not get used. In the end I see only two purposes for this abomination of a product: 1. As a teaching tool for design students so they can see an extremely bad design that somehow became a product 2. As a teaching tool to the public at large so they can learn that good Amazon reviews do not a good product make. At the time of this writing this product has 899 reviews with an average rating of 3.4 stars. Why anyone would rate this thing anything above the minimum score is beyond me.