Do you use a teapot?
With loose leaves or teabags?
Do you put a cosy on it?
How big is it?
What does it look like?
Would you buy one with a Britnet logo on? (;))
Do you still drink tea?
Did you ever drink tea?
We use loose leaf PG tips imported by relatives (mostly MIL) -the deal is, no tea, no bed. :lol: We have a huge black teapot. (Well what colour did you think it would be? :lol:) I say we, but Beest is the chief tea fanatic and therefore head brewer. No tea cosy, though. No lid to the pot, in fact. But the tea never sits there long enough to need one.
On the odd occasions I make a cup just for me, it's a PG pyramid bag in the (one-and-a-half-pint) cup :D
I used to drink gallons of tea, but no more than a mug a day over here. I think the water makes it taste funny, even though I use imported tea -?
I get right back into the cuppa every hour on the hour when I go back to the UK - definitely more of a social thing to put the kettle on when someone pops in there.
Jan
I have two teapots, one for best and one for everyday. I got rid of my brown one, it had a handle and another handle over the spout, held about a gallon.
My ordinary one is a speckled jobbie, white with paint thrown at it, not pleasing in many ways but a good pourer and that's what a teapot is about.
My best is a piece I bought 30 odd years ago in London. It's called a storm in a teacup and is a huge saucer with rosebuds and a cup shaped teapot with a lid which has a tiny boat awash in a storm. Cute as all get out.
We also have various oriental teapots. All with odd numbers of cups. my fave is a Japanese jobbie in a pearlised finish with tiny round handleless cups.
Never ever use loose tea, hate wet tea leaves. Only use herbal or green in the non english pots and somebodys Brisk tea and earl gray in the others.
Have a lovely old crocheted tea cosy from MIL which i treasure and use on the splatter teapot.
Often just use a tea bag for me though, fave of the mo, Numi jasmine green tea. OOOOh it smells lovely, tastes good too roll lol
I have about thirty teapots, but rarely drink tea. My favourites are a bathtub from
http://www.teapottery.co.uk/ and a somewhat valuable yet humble Victorian Brown Betty with blue and white marbling.
I painted a teapot at the local pottery painting place and use that whenever tea in a pot is called for. PG Tips pyramid bags here too.
I am not a big fan of tea cosies although I do have one with a matching egg cosy and napkin that my friend made for me. I think cosies sort of go along with crocheted toilet roll covers but I would wear one if I needed to prove my Britishness!
I drink coffee in the morning (lots of it )
usually have tea later in the afternoon.
I have a genuine brown betty i fill with loose tea, tyhoo , earl grey , yorkshire and twinnings.
Some times for expediancy i use tea bags in a cup or just a spoonfull of loose tea in a tea holder .
My wife bought me a small teapot a little while back. It's good for two cups only, no cozy. Usually it's just me who drinks tea so I use imported bags for ease. When she want's tea it's usually fruit tea which is ok but isn't real tea to me. On sundays I'll sometimes brew coffee....again, only I drink it, unless the mother in law is round....she'll have a couple of cups with me and that makes it worth putting the machine on.
I'm a coffee man myself.
coffee mainly myself too,
will drink tea every now and again, but mainly coffee
Teabag - Teley British Blend from Wegmans. About 3-4 cups a day.
Coffee if I'm in work - the usual evil gunk they have. Can't be arsed to make coffee at home.
Drink gallons of tea every day (PG tips pyramids from local Shaws) but because I am usually just making the one cup I can't be arsed to use a teapot. We have a number of teapots but usually only get them out for company. Still looking for a teapot with a notch cut in the spout to make it a better pourer. You can't seem to get them over here.
Use t-bags, drink about 6-7 cups of tea a day. That is just in the morning and when I come home from work. Weekends I drink a lot more. Even trained the wife on how to make the perfect cuppa.
I may drink one cup of tea a month....
Didn't really drink tea back home either..
Only one cup of coffee a day too, with breakfast in the morning..
Andrew )
Two teaspons of sugar + teabag in a mug; add in boiling hot water - brew for 2-3 minutes; stir and remove teabag; add milk.
No teapot required.
My parents bought a teapot and a kettle one time they came over as they were dismayed to see that I did not own either.
Actually, that's not true as I have a Pilgrim Pete Argyle tea pot on display in the kitchen but it is for ceremonial use only and can never be used for making tea.
I drink tea about once a year.
Ionly drink about 3 or 4 cups a week, so it's a large mug and a Tetley tea bag.
I have never been a big tea drinker. I think I first started around age 23 and even then very rarely.
I di own a rose floral teapot which is part of a handpainted(by my mother) tea and sandwich plate set.