Teapots

I like a steel teapot as it keeps the tea so hot. (Second cups, all round!)

I bleach mine every now and then as the inside gets very stained. (About an eggcup of bleach, fill with cold water, and leave overnight. Wash in detergent, rinse well, and then fill with boiling water, stand on a cooker ring and simmer for about 3 - 4 minutes.) Beautiful and shiny inside and out! This never spoils the taste of my tea.

And of course, you need a tea-cosy. I always buy a Harrods one! (My inside snob coming out!) Friends know my needs, and I have three now. But it has to be one with 'Harrods' printed on it - not just any old tea-cosy from Harrods!

I buy a new cosy every year at the artists market near my home ,currently have a quilted one with chickens on it

mine has a wooden handle and knob on the lid I'd be concerned about wood splitting if it was wet regularly

We've got a ceramic teapot , it gets rinsed out after every use and once in a while I'll put it in the dishwasher. Doesn't alter the taste of the tea .

I think I might have a teapot at the back of a cupboard somewhere.

Tea bag in a mug in this house though mine is china. We only drink tea at breakfast and late afternoon. Otherwise it's coffee.

Only have two teapots now, one is for one person because DH often has tea and I'll have coffee. The second pot is an old Arthur Wood pot which I love (with Yorkshire tea... I bring hundreds of teabags back with me ever time I visit the UK... Liptons seems the brew of choice in Brittany ?)

I rinse the teapots under tap water, frightened they mightn't make it through a DW cycle.

I do have several friends however, who like you Paddyann swear by developing the flavour of tea through the way the pot is washed. Enjoy your cuppas!
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Hi, my teapot is stainless steel and I have the sugar bowl and milk jug as part of the set. A wedding present from 49 years ago. I clean the teapot by putting in a scoop or two of washing powder, filling the pot up with boiling water and leave it to stand for a few hours. It comes up really clean after rinsing thoroughly.

I rarely use my ceramic teapot. When I do it's handwashed and put back clean in the cupboard. When I used stainless steel I washed with a brush. Didn't worry too much about the stains which were hard to remove.

Bikergran loved your spooky story.

My late MiL had a Picquot tea pot, sugar bowl, milk jug and tray which I admired. Earlier this year I managed to get a set the same at an auction. It's 'retro' stylish, pours beautifully and stays hot for ages. I cleaned it well when I got it but now just rinse. I had to tell off DH when he put the milk jug in the dishwasher. If I use leaf tea I empty the whole lot on the roses as my mother used to do. Does anyone else do that?

I have a on-person little red teapot with its own filter, which is my breakfast teapot. I have loose-leaf Ceylon tea. At other times of the day, I have roibos teabags. For visitors I bring out my Chatsford teapot also with a filter. I give them the occasional wash in the dishwasher and don't think it affects the taste at all, though a teapot never washed may have a considerable build-up of tannin which probably gives the tea its characteristic taste.

I have glass teapots with infuser, wash with hot water. for the spout of teapots, I recommended using a teapot cleaning brush.

Always a teapot for us.
However I showed my age when teaching. The children were doing ' sequences'. We talked about making tea in steps. I realised I was talking to a different generation who put teabag, sugar and milk in the cup and poured on not water.

Hot water. Sorry

I have a lovely teapot for one that I use. I knit tea cosies and egg cosies too. I've found that the tannin marks come off if I rub salt on a damp cup or inside the teapot. You do have to rinse well!

I don’t think it will affect the taste of the tea made, just keep rinsing it under the tap, or put it in the dishwasher now and then if you want to.
There were no dishwashers years ago and people survived their unwashed teapots.

We’re not big tea drinkers here but I have one teapot, a lovely Spode Copeland Italian one, which I press into service when my DiL visits as she drinks a lot of tea! It never goes in the dishwasher; I just rinse it out with a solution of bicarb, dry it and put it away until she comes again. Why bicarb? I have no idea; just something my mother used to do! I have the cups and saucers to go with it but they never see the light of day.

I have a china teapot. It only comes out on high days and holidays.
I wash it with the teacups, with fairy liquid. I always rinse it with hot water, dry it out and put it away until the next time I have visitors.

I don't possess a teapot. I don't like tea or coffee, prefer tap water.

Our Old Hall teapot was a wedding present 58 years ago and has been in daily use. We have hard water so it goes in the dish washer when it looks grubby inside and comes out immaculate. It would be the thing I would rescue in a fire, I think!

I use my beautiful Poole Celeste teapot, and wash it in the dishwasher. I’m picky about tea (Lady Grey or Earl Grey in the mornings, Lapsang Souchong or Rose Pouchong at teatime, and then red bush before bed), and the dishwasher doesn’t cause any tainting of the taste.

shysal

I don't possess a teapot. I don't like tea or coffee, prefer tap water.

?you’re a cheap date Shysal

That is a lovely teapot geekesse

Yes I am, lemongrove. I don't drink alcohol either!

I’ve been using a teapot since lockdown having realised you can get lots of cups of tea out of one teabag. But my teapot gets really scummy and it drips horribly. I’ve been using a stainless steel one but it isn’t mine and I have to give it back. I much prefer it.