to use a teapot?

[OohMavis]

I don't know anyone (aside from my pensioner parents, and they're in the minority amongst their friends too) that uses one. And until recently I never saw the point! I don't know what's changed, but six months ago I bought one. And I use it every day. Tea tastes so better. It's also spotty and verra cute.

I think I'm gonna buy a milk jug and a sugar bowl so I can serve tea to guests all proper like, instead of pouring it in the kitchen like someone who's ashamed of her teapot.

Aibu? Teapots are the superior way to make tea, right?

I have two 99p ceramic Tesco teapots for everyday use: one holds about 3.5 mugs, the other around 6ish. I have a Designer's Guild tea cosy and the most beautiful Royal Albert tea cups/saucers/cake plates. Love an excuse to get them out.

When I have a bit more kitchen space in our next home I think I will get myself a fancy teapot for my fancy tea cups. But I'll be sticking with my Tesco cheapies (which don't drip!) and chipped mugs for everyday use. My DC and coffee-drinking DH think I'm a true anachronism for using a teapot but they secretly love that I go to the lengths of using a pot, I think they find it comforting and reassuring somehow.

We have a metal one from the Range that doesn't drip. We got it after breaking 2 ceramic ones in a short period of time.

I microwave my tea if it is less than scalding hot.

bear we're teapot twins .

I love my teapot. I hate tea made by dunking a tea bag in the pot. Actually I don't like tea bag tea...

It must be ceramic and never ever put in the dishwasher.

Glad to know I'm not the only one

Barbara - - if you microwave the milk , then add the cooled tea, that works well .....

This is my teapot. She is beautiful and not drippy. She also makes me two perfectly sized cups of tea per pot. I love her.

YANBU. We have a huge IKEA one that keeps me going in tea all morning. All my DCs learned quite early on how to make a pot of tea! And as I don't like it too strong, we only use 1 bag for a whole pot of tea unless we have visitors, when we put an extra one in. Just gets rinsed most of the time and I leave it to soak in soda crystals and hot water to clean it every 6 months or so. We have a really nice owl tea cosy but I fancy crocheting myself a new one. I like loose tea for a treat and Darjeeling is my favourite but afternoons/evening I switch to decaf anyway.

if you're making tea in the pot with loose leaves do you use an infuser? I've tried it without and it was far too difficult getting the leaves out of the pot. DH was trying to persuade me to ditch my three teapots yesterday.

Teapot!

I have a brill Mad Hatters Tea Party one. Makes me giggle.

I too love teapot tea... reminds me of my Nan and her Colclough bone china that we always drank it out of...

Very nice teapot, Damson, do you have a name for her? :)

I use a small glass teapot so that I can watch my beautiful ornamental teas unfolding. Bloody hate milk in tea though.

Has to be made in an infuser pot with tea leaves. There really is no other way.

The leftover dust from the tea leaves is what gets put into teabags.

It's the mad hatter whittard one that I have coming and the matching sugar bowl and milk jug. I love it.
I have some lovely mismatched plates and small mugs from PIP studio I got in John Lewis for the whole tea tray. It looks lovely mismatched and that means I can just pick up bits and pieces when I see a pattern I like. I found some lovely tea spoons in boots sale the other day with China handles so my tea tray will be looking very swish next time in laws come.

YANBU

When I make tea I always use a tea pot, and has to be loose leaf tea. I have a milk jug too

Always white China tea set for breakfast or afternoon tea.

YWBVVU to not use a teapot before I have always had one, even as a student immediately after leaving home. I love making a pot and drinking the whole thing over a couple of hours

I've just ordered myself a spotty milk jug and sugar bowl! And I've just realised I have the perfect tray for it all too, sitting in my cupboard. This has made me unreasonably happy

And not a single YABU.

Whittard have a 50% off sale at the moment, if anyone's interested. Their tankard style mugs are beautiful and have the perfect rim-width imo. My one has lasted me nearly 10 years and nobody's allowed to touch it

Well if we are also talking tea cosies here's mine. You might just see the tea pot spout and handle peeping out

Teapot, kettle and some decent looseleaf black tea were the first things I bought on my first trip to the USA to visit my now DH before I moved here permanently. I had to sit him down and firmly explain that a Lipton's teabag in a mug of hot water did not then, never had before and never would in future alternate universe qualify on any level as tea and no, adding more Lipton's teabags to the mug of hot water would not make it any better. Even putting the whole box in there would not make look or taste like anything other than cat piss. I then trained him in exactly how tea should be made and after some initial fuck ups (which bit of boiling water aren't you getting?) he took to it remarkably quickly. I have failed, however, to dissuade him from occasionally indulging in the abomination known to Americans as 'iced tea'. No. Just no. It's so wrong it actually causes me pain to see them do that to themselves.

This is our (Polish) teapot. We bloody love it!