My preferred way of making #tea is using a #FrenchPress since I use loose grounds/herbs.
Until recently, I could not figure out why when the plunger is all the way done and one tries to pour all the liquid in the beacon, there will always be some underneath the plunger. This made cleaning the soggy herbs more messy than necessary.
I finally noticed that if one pulls up the plunger ever so slightly, the leftover liquid will pour with more ease and thereby make cleanup easier.