Teapots

[PrettyCandles]

Why are you supposed to just rinse out your teapot, and only wash the outside?

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I always wash mine and rinse it out really well.

Wonder if it's like baking pans where they season with use.

Do you really think so? Doesn't it taste tannic and harsh and overbrewed?

I don't use the teapot very often, and every time I do I eye the brown 'glaze' with a bit of a

My mil has always said this, so I don't because I get moaned at by my dh. I think it's ok if you are using your teapot regularly.

I don't remember the last time I drank tea brewed in my pot. I bought it to serve my tea-aholic ILs!

For me tea is a bag of something good quality, Darjeeling perhaps, swished briefly in a cup of hot water.

I confuse my ILs.

Tea tastes best out of my teapot - only ever rinse.

DP hates it when I bleach his favourite mug - (he has had it for 12 years) because the tea 'doesn't taste right' afterwards.

I wash mine properly (small one so it goes in the dishwasher) because I alternate between strong British tea and various Chinese/Japanese/herby things which taste really weird if you haven't washed it properly after the strong stuff. But I guess if you only ever drink one kind of tea then the years of accumulated tannin might enrich the flavour....

Never wash inside the teapot - only rinse. Wash around the rim and outside etc but nothing inside at all.