Tips on Your Teapot Choices
By Sandra Wilson
You may decide the time has come to add a new teapot to your kitchen wares. You will find this project to be easily done in terms of locating site after site with lots of pots to look over. However, choosing from all that are available is what will make this task not so simple.
Beyond all those pages of teapots, you have more pages of the extras that go to help you with your tea brewing. Lots of strainers and infusers, timers and thermometers, and different bases and removable handles. So many choices to make but so many ways to make your tea sipping more enjoyable.
But even with just the teapots themselves, you will find an almost endless variety of ways to choose a pot. You can start with the what the pots are made from such as glass or metal. There are clay teapots made from whatever clay is local to the pot maker such as the Yixing teapots of China. You also have beautiful glazed and painted porcelain pots. The material you choose may depend on the tea you drink.
When looking for a tea pot, perhaps the first thing you will notice is all the different shapes they come in. You can find short and tall pots. You can find strange ones made to look like some animal or plant or even a car or plane. If it can be formed to hold water and tea leaves, you will probably find the shape somewhere that you desire.
Beyond materials and shapes of tea pots, you can have your choice of just about any color you wish. Reds, greens, blues and yellows abound. Many beautiful teapots come in blue and white or red and white. Many are glazed with whatever colors are popular at the time they are created. It would be like looking through history when looking at the colors of some pots. Even the precious metals will be around in the golden or silver trim on some teapots.
Finding a teapot from a specific location can probably be done if that is what you want. Being a person who wants a teapot, at least enough to look on line, probably means you want something you can't find locally. It might be a Tetsubin from Japan or a special Staffordshire from Great Britain. It could be the most fragile porcelain from China. Whatever it is, there are teapots from all around the world.
Going beyond the other characteristics of the teapot, you will also find that the times have left their mark as well. Each movement or fashion has affected the humble tea pot. Among these you will find Art Deco, Rococo, 60's modernism, and Art Nouveau. If you have a taste for a particular art or architectural style, you just might be able to find a teapot that reflects it.
What it comes down to in the end could be the tea you choose to drink. Each tea could be best served with a special type of teapot, though a glass one should do for most cases because of the nature of glass. It allows you to see the tea as it steeps as well which could be quite interesting if you use one of the tea flowers. At any rate, choosing a teapot, you may ultimately find, is simply choosing one that is pleasing to your tastes (pun intended).
Copyright 2008, Sandra Wilson tea-sippers.info
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