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Teasmaid or kettle and gubbins in bedroom?

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clangermum · 12/02/2011 14:42

Inspired by a thread on how to make getting up easier in the mornings if you're a night owl rather than a skylark, several people mentioned they use a teasmaid. I've looked and they seem really expensive.

Does anyone just have a tray with a kettle and all the other bits on? It's not as neat a solution as a teasmaid, but I could justify buying a spare kettle as the one in the kitchen will conk out eventually, so it's just like having a spare.

Just wondering what other people do, and what about milk? Don't fancy long life or powdered. How does this work with a teasmaid?

I'm inhuman before a cuppa, and if anyone ever brings me one in bed it makes a huge difference. I can't train them to do it consistently though Wink

My new routine might then be to have an indulgent cuppa, get everyone else off to work and then have breakfast, so could actually save rush time

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swanriver · 12/02/2011 18:15

I wonder whether a kettle might not be downright dangerous in the bedroom...
I need a Teasmade, your comment has convinced me I definitely need one. And somehow, the idea of it coming on automatically is rather pleasing...

swanriver · 12/02/2011 18:16

On the other hand the need to get out of bed to Get my Coffee From Downstairs is a good reason to get up.

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clangermum · 13/02/2011 09:55

I know what you mean about danger swan, but then I stayed in a hotel recently and didn't give a second thought to having a kettle in the room where I slept.

As soon as I get up everyone else moves too - it's like tripping a wire or something. If I could creep downstairs and have 10 mins alone with a brew it would serve the same purpose. Or I could wake up 10 mins early and have a brew upstairs.

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GeneralissimoVonBobbington · 13/02/2011 16:59

I can't stand tea first thing in the morning, so I'd hate this, but what I've seen in hotels is a vacuum flask with milk in. Could you get a little one and top it up each day? Mind you, unless your bedroom is very hot, a small amount of milk would be ok in a jug overnight I would have thought.

BecauseImWorthIt · 13/02/2011 17:01

I looked into buying a Teasmaid for our spare room, for when the PILs came to stay - but they're not only expensive, they're hideous! I couldn't bring myself to buy one they are so horrible.

So I bought a small travel kettle, a pretty tray and a small vacuum flask. Perfect!

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clangermum · 13/02/2011 20:39

Yes, Because, that's what I thought - seem very big and clunky and white.

A tray it is then Smile

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stuffthenonsense · 15/02/2011 14:50

i have the bosch tassimo, it does tea coffee hot chocolate etc etc etc you just need to by discs for it which amazon sell cheaply

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clangermum · 15/02/2011 16:54

stuff - hadn't even thought of that.

I already have a clock/alarm by the bed, so in that sense a teasmade would be doubling up, and it seemed a lot to pay for elements I already have

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amothersplaceisinthewrong · 15/02/2011 16:54

Arent' Tesasmaids very '70s like hostess trollies.....

CoffeeInTheMorning · 16/02/2011 09:30

For two decades we have had a tray. We fill a decent vacuum flask with boiling water, and put on the tray cups with coffee and milk in, or milk and a teabag on the side. When we wake in the morning the water is still incredibly hot and good for a morning drink - no need to boil a fresh kettle. The milk only ever goes off in the hottest weather or if it's on the edge of its use-by anyway. We started this so we could have hot drinks during the night when I was b-f'ing the children, then it turned into waking-up drinks. So long as you have a quality Thermos, it is dead easy.

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clangermum · 16/02/2011 17:12

great name Coffee Smile loving the thermos idea too

I am a child of the seventies, but the Teasmaids are just ugly

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Rorogeorge · 18/02/2011 20:10

My parents had tea in the bedroom while listening to radio 3 every morning all their married life ( My dad died and mum stopped). They kept a kettle they upstairsand just brought up cups and milk on a tray each night. I always loved getting in the bed with them and having a cuppa every morning, it was a lovely start to the day!

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clangermum · 19/02/2011 14:09

Tried it this morning and it was lovely Rorogeorge

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Rorogeorge · 19/02/2011 18:42

That's great! I would love to convince my hubby to get a teasmaid now!!

Lilymaid · 19/02/2011 18:47

We have had a teamaker (not sure what they are called nowadays but John Lewis sells them) for several years. DH no longer has to go downstairs in the cold to make the morning tea Smile and the tea that is made is very good - probably because the water is very very hot.

I put the milk in a very small stainless steel vacuum flask (probably not really needed much of the year). The first few times we used the teamaker the tea was a little plasticky, but after a week or so it was fine.

We clean ours out every few weeks with white vinegar solution as we live in a hard water area, but we have used it daily for nearly 7 years and it is still working fine.

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