Bacterial tea cannot be expected to give the benefits that a true compost tea gives, and buyers must be aware of the differences. Any compost tea machine must be able to substantiate that all of the organisms in the compost are extracted into the tea by that machine. If the compost has good organism numbers and diversity, those organisms will be extracted into the tea by compost tea machines. If the machine is not capable of extracting the organisms, then it is not a compost tea machine, and should not be called such.