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My name is Huw, I am not an alcoholic, I don't do drugs and you can stick bum sex up your jacksy, my question is far more embarassing...

84 replies

HuwEdwards · 09/04/2009 22:25

It's DP.

He has insisted on this since I've known him - over 20 years.

He has to have tea made in a teapot, and the teapot has to have a tea cosy so he can go back time after time.

An addict, I know, but I still love him

WTF can I do? Tea cosies are vile. We currently have a very faded cack one that desparately needs replacing.

I want a plain lipstick red one but all I can find are hideous things that look like badly knitted woolly hats.

If anyone anyone sends me a link to a knitting pattern, I will kill them.

OP posts:
JackienOeuf · 10/04/2009 09:50

Funky black neoprene?

LackaDAISYcal · 10/04/2009 09:53

this doesn't exactly meet your criteria, other than there's a bit of red, but PMSL

muffle · 10/04/2009 09:55

Huw, I envy you because I'm always seeing tea cosies I love, but have no call for them - I only ever want one cup of tea at a time and don't even have a teapot.

I like differentegg's "vile" one best

JackienOeuf · 10/04/2009 09:56

rofl - with a name like that, how can you resist ? .

edam · 10/04/2009 10:01

That stainless steel one is a 30s design. I always thought the covering was merely to give the pot a streamlined 'moderne' appearance rather than to keep it warm. (Have forgotten O-level physics but metal conducts heat. Which means either it would work as a cosy or it wouldn't, I don't know which!)

edam · 10/04/2009 10:02

(I have to admit here that my dh is very good about making me endless cups of tea so I probably should withdraw from the battle for your dh, conceding victory to Hester.)

hupa · 10/04/2009 10:11

If you really don´t like tea cosies you could do what the Germans do and use one of these. Keeps the tea warm for hours and much more stylish than a tea cosy.

JackienOeuf · 10/04/2009 10:16

More black neoprene, but in a more conventional design.

JackienOeuf · 10/04/2009 10:22

Has anyone linked to the really scary terrorist one yet?

Housemum · 10/04/2009 13:51

I thought tea cosies and all things twee were supposed to be comeing back in fashion? All things craft-related etc? My mum used to make stripy ones with pompoms on top - can't see that they ever were in fashion let alone coming back...

Seriously though, how do you use a tea cosy? Do you take the bags out first? As if you put it on while the tea's brewing, it will be perfect temp when you pour it out, but if you leave bags in you will have lovely warm over-stewed tea. I'm a slob that makes tea in a cup but DH bought me a lovely teapot in Bridgewater Xmas sale that was a bargain, so feel I need to get a teacosy now...

fryalot · 10/04/2009 14:51

how to use a tea cosy:

boil kettle. Swill hot water around tea pot, then empty out. Put tea leaves (or bags if you must ) in pot - one for each person and one for the pot (tablespoons of tea leaves)

Fill teapot with boiling water straight from the kettle. Water must not be re-boiled and must not have cooled.

Wait

Wait a little bit longer.

now pour tea from pot into cups then add milk and sugar.

Re-fill teapot with water from kettle. Do not re-boil it first.

Put tea cosy on teapot.

Drink tea. By the time you have finished your first cup, the second pot-full is brewed nicely and ready to drink - it should also be just about the optimum temperature to drink straight away.

fryalot · 10/04/2009 14:51

oh - if you are going for the tea leaf option, you will need a tea strainer to catch the tea leaves so they don't go into your cup.

MoreSpamThanGlam · 10/04/2009 14:52

{hugs}

kentmumtj · 10/04/2009 14:59

lol im loving all the tea cosy's sooooo much that i think im gonna buy a tea pot

MrsWeasley · 10/04/2009 15:06

Do you change them at different times of the year, if you here

MrsWeasley · 10/04/2009 15:07

Is this your DH?

MrsWeasley · 10/04/2009 15:08

HuwEdwards???

MrsWeasley · 10/04/2009 15:10

the perfect solution?

MrsWeasley · 10/04/2009 15:12

a tea drinker?

Housemum · 10/04/2009 15:23

Squonk - sounds v complex - I like my coffee machine!

Throw beans in top

Put cup under spout

Push button

Mmmm, caffeine hit....

hmmSleep · 10/04/2009 15:30

Oooh tea cosies aren't vile, they're kitsch,
love this one,

www.cathkidston.co.uk/p-12813-cath-kidston-tea-cosy.aspx

but then I even like the knitted ones, served with cupcakes piled high on an old fashioned cake stand, and I don't drink tea

Lilymaid · 10/04/2009 15:45

DH also requires a tea cosy - and has been known to wear one on his head.
Even stranger, if we go into a tea shop, he will cover the tea pot with his Buff, so that his hat/scarf becomes his tea cosy.
He has recently lost his Buff, but we still have our tea cosy - wonder if he could wear that for mountaineering?

JackienOeuf · 10/04/2009 15:53

Billy Connolly quote from that terrorist teapot link:
According to comedian Billy Connolly, if a man is left alone in a room with a tea cosy, and he does not attempt to wear it, he should not be trusted.

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Shitemum · 10/04/2009 16:02

Try Etsy - some people will make one to order too...

duchesse · 11/04/2009 10:22

I have the quirkiest, most wonderful tea cosy ever. Unfortunately I don't think they make them any more, but it's worth hunting down a replacement to my mind. It looks a bit like this but it was a lot cheaper and is turquoise with large spots on it. Everyone loves it, and it doesn't look in hte least grannyish.

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