Teapots

Hot water. Sorry

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.

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

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.

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?

Bikergran loved your spooky story.

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.

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.

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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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.

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 .

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

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

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!

Hello, we are also loose leaf tea drinkers and have three teapots, one china and two stainless. They all go in the dishwasher when used. Not every day but pretty regularly.

The stainless one with a hinged lid has to go in at an angle so there is no pressure on the hinge. I had this explained by a family friend who worked in hospitality. Since then I've noticed lots of tea pots in cafes (with hinged lids) don't seem to close properly.

The two stainless ones were both my mother's so have survived since the 1950s and 1960s. They have been washed in a dishwasher since the late 70s.

@Callistemon do what I do and put plants into your teapots with no lids!

I have china pots as ppart of dinner services but I rarely use them .My old teapot makes a great cuppa and fits my cosy well.Its stood on a teapot stand that was my husbands grannies so its at least 60 years old .I did look for another metal pot on the way home yesterday but couldn't find one I liked ,there are a lot of glass ones and copper and glass in the shops .Not sure thats my style

I like China teapots . I have 2 large ones and a mini one just for me. They both go in the dishwasher. Not keen on stainless steel

Ours goes in the dishwasher on a regular basis. It's ceramic with a stainless steel lid. I occasionally put bicarb in it and a little water to get rid of any tannin

Paddyann, I'm like you, stainless steel, just rinsed and never put in the dishwasher.
The teapot was part of a set for wedding present forty two years ago. The rest of the set lay in a cupboard until very recently, when I got rid of it.

Little spooky story...about a tea pot.!

I had an older friend who had these cups with cats on.

She was getting rid and asked did I want them (nice little mug with black cat sitting on a windowsill)

So I acquired these 4 cups.

Maybe about 12 months down the line my late dh was digging on his big allotment (about a mile away from my friends house)

He came home one after toon with this Teapot! we couldn't believe it! it was the teapot that matched the mugs I had been given by friend, haven't got them any more, gave them away when we moved (de clutter)

my kettle never cools down PhoenixI drink a lot of tea.I drink it balck and sugarless ..and alot of the time it decaf .Its not doing me any harm .Its a habit started when we worked very long days 14 or 16 hours 5 or 6 days a week .a cuppa on the side of the machine kept me going when I flagged.Its more often when my MIL stays .its every 20 minutes for tea .She asks as soon as she comes through the door .."is the kettle boiled"?

I wash mine every other day, the outside needs a wash as well as inside. Dink about 8 cups of tea a day.

6 to 8 pots a day

That's a hell of a lot of tea!

My mother in law had over 300 teapots by the time. The poor woman had said she liked them and had a couple on a shelf and that was that. Over the years all of her 11 children, 40+ grandchildren and so on, would get her a tea pot for birthdays and Christmas.

A few days before she died, (which she knew was coming) she said to us that at least there would be no more flaming teapots.

Never forgot that. Everyone was so sad and then the whole room filled with laughter.