Do people use teapots in real life?

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I see them all the time on insta reels and in cafes obv but haven’t seen people using them in real life for ages. I’d love a nice one for myself but I think it migjt just be a waste of money and will never get used. Do you have one and use it? Any recommended ones in terms of practicality but also beauty? I quite like the clear glass ones or the black japanese looking style, not sure what they are called.

Ours is used several times a week, complete with tea cosy!

I do. MIL does, Mum does. Best mates Mum does. Lots of people still use them.

We use a glass one every day, twice a day. When we go one holiday, self catering, whether UK or abroad it's rare to be provided with one. We hate tea made in a mug so if we have the car we'll take a pyrex jug with us as that's multi purpose and a bit tougher than our teapot.
I also have a pretty single cup teapot which sits in the cup, from a NT shop in the sale, if I remember rightly.

DH has one with a metal filter insert that he uses for his fancy teas. He has a cup and saucer too.

I used a small teapot when I lived on my own for a while. I still have it, and we do have a bigger one, but they both languish at the back of a cupboard.

For one cup? No; the cleanup isn't worth it. But if I'm making 2+ then yes, it's the teapot.

Yes, two stainless steel ones, a large and a small one, used every time I make tea, three or four times a day. Tea made in a mug doesn't taste the same. Mine are a non-drip type but are no longer available.

And a tea cosy!

I don’t personally, although fancy the idea should I ever have more kitchen storage space, but my ex’s dad used to be evangelical about his tea and would have a whole process to making the perfect cup of tea with his whopping great teapot and a series of exacting steps 😂

Every morning! Like a teapot! 2 decent mugs of tea, strong, better than a teabag in a cup in my opinion.

Yes, I do. It's a morning ritual: get up & make a pot of tea. I use loose leaf Assam and Kenyan (Kericho Gold), about half a tbsp of each & brew for 4 minutes. I pour out 3 large mugfuls, using a strainer. I add milk to one mug straight away & drink it, then heat the others up in the microwave when I'm ready for them, then add milk.

One teapot looks a lot like the blue one upthread, but it says Teapot & Co on the bottom of it. I bought it in a charity shop. I've got a large white one, which I think I bought in Sainsbury's & a smaller Teatime Collection one which a friend gave me.

We have one but don't use it every day. We use it when we have guests or if we are having a fry up for breakfast.

My mum does. She says it tastes better.

Yes. Tea tastes far better made in a pot. Ours is not decorative, it's functional. It's made of stainless steel and it lives in a corner of the worktop near the kettle under its cosy. It gets rinsed out, not washed up. Minimal effort required.

We have three, two glass and one stoneware pot.

But we mainly drink loose tea, especially if I am working from home. DH would just plonk a tea bag in the mug but I love having a pot of tea and enjoying it over the time before heading to my desk.

We do. Recently switched to an enamel one though as DH is clumsy and we'd got through several pretty ceramic ones!

My sister tells me I'm the only person under the age of 70 who uses a tea cosy....but maybe there are a few of us! 😊

I use one every day because we're a household of tea drinkers. And at the weekend the pot comes up to bed with me for my lie-in/read-a-thon.

And I don't really ever wash it, it gets rinsed but that's it, it has a tea patina on the inside.

My dear departed Aunty knitted it for me as a housewarming gift many years ago and it means a lot to me to use it every day. It actually works as well, means I can keep drinking hot tea for half an hour if I want to!

Yep, got a lovely white one from Portmeirion. Use it regularly with a big red and white spotted tea cozy.

Tea pots are so ‘homely’ (in the non American sense).

We use a teapot every day at breakfastime. It means we both get a mug of tea and if either/both of us want a top up it's already made.

My mum does and in her 80’s. She has a stainless steel pot from the 1960s

Yes, every time I make tea it’s in a pot.
Tastes totally different to a bag in a mug plus I like a tea topper as well.

I think if your quite geekily into tea then you need one. I didn't realise that electric kettles were quite unusual in the states.
I bought one when I lived in NY and my roommate immediately started using it to cook ramen noodles, inside the kettle? She was a bit odd. But I realised that most kitchens over there don't have electric kettles. They drink coffee from a filter machine and boil water in mic or on stove?

Dh loves tea. For last year's wedding anniversary I bought him a glass teapot with metal insert for loose leaf tea & a tea cosy. It makes 2 cups. I can't stand tea so he gets it all to himself 😁.