Teaman

For the heavy tea drinker: Teaman is a really simple console/text-based tea timer that alerts you (with sound) when your cup of tea is ready. It is designed especially for minimum downtime between cups, and supports tea bag re-use.

Truly a marvel of engineering.

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Seconds???

For the tea connoisseur, minutes do not provide sufficient accuracy as they cannot accommodate delays where the tea bag is submerged but Teaman has yet to be given a time value. Since this may negatively impact the tea—especially if the tea bag is later re-used and no longer contains enough spunk for a good cup—Teaman uses seconds. (Nanoseconds were considered, but were deemed slightly too cumbersome.) Here’s a handy conversion chart: