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Post by BarbaraUK on May 13, 2016 19:45:35 GMT
I'm British but you won't catch me anywhere near a cup of tea, vile stuff ![](http://www.s2ki.com/s2000/public/style_emoticons/default/UnionJackSmiley.gif) ^Agree!
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Post by Deleted on May 13, 2016 19:47:47 GMT
The pistachio coloured one is £70 over here but I've only ever seen it in cream or black here. Oooo, where have you seen it for £70? Cream would match my mixer There you go.... here it's called almond but that's the same thing
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Post by Deleted on May 13, 2016 19:52:30 GMT
I guess you could heat the water in a saucepan, but that kind of takes the zing out of "putting the kettle on," doesn't it? Boiling water in the microwave makes it taste funny. It just does. Any teakettle is okay, but I do love my Braun electric teakettle. It doesn't show temp, it just comes to a boil and shuts off. I use Calistoga water in it because anything else (including other bottled waters) causes the inside to mineralize. If you send me your address, I'll send you a few Yorkshire Red teabags from the gigantic box JoP sent me. My very favorite tea ever. Aww lucyg that's very kind of you to share I have a stovetop kettle that whistles when it boils ![:D](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/grin.png) - it whistles a lot Bet she's eaten all the digestives though
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Post by LeaP on May 13, 2016 19:56:03 GMT
LeaP, I checked Costco online and they have this one. Pricy though at $79.99, especially when compared to the kettle that Mystic got, $14.99. The one benefit would be the filter. Our water tastes awful here. I won't drink it and I don't even give it to my pets. I get Arrowhead delivered and carry that upstairs for my Keurig and the waterfall pet water thing. Is that the kind you are talking about? I guess I expected them to look like a teapot and these look more like coffee pots. Viante Water KettleOur is way less fancy. It was around $50 and it is this model link. We got it to replace the one that is $29.99 in the warehouse.
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Post by lucyg on May 13, 2016 20:07:22 GMT
Oh no. They carry a Dualit electric kettle on Amazon. I love, love, love Dualit products. I have their regular sized toaster and the bigger toaster oven right now. If I were working, I wouldn't hesitate to get the matching Dualit kettle. But it is $147.13. That is some damned expensive hot water. And unfortunately all the reviews are stellar, calling it the best electric kettle in the USA. Sigh. Well, I didn't get anything for Mother's day from my son (And here I thought we were going to try to repair our relationship. He didn't even call or text me on Mother's Day) and my birthday is coming up and I won't be getting anything from anyone else on that day either. Should I go for it and buy the Dualit for my combo birthday/mother's day present to myself? My Dualit toaster is amazing. It makes perfect toast every single time, and I hear they last forever. My boarder keeps talking about it and saying he would like one for a gift. Not from me! That is much more than I spend on his Christmas gift. I would imagine the kettle would be as well made as their other products. Does anyone here have this one or do you know someone that has one? Care to give a review on it? Of course you should get it for yourself! I'm single, my kids are iffy on gifts, and I always get myself a birthday and Christmas gift or two. You could get a less expensive one and it'll probably be fine. But in the long run, you will be happier with your beloved Dualit. ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/5645536/images/MNrJDkDuSwqIMVw33MdD.jpg)
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Post by lucyg on May 13, 2016 20:08:32 GMT
Aww lucyg that's very kind of you to share I have a stovetop kettle that whistles when it boils ![:D](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/grin.png) - it whistles a lot Bet she's eaten all the digestives though Yes ... yes, I have. Long since. Ably assisted by my sister, my kid, and my grandkid. ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/5645536/images/MNrJDkDuSwqIMVw33MdD.jpg)
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Post by Jockscrap on May 13, 2016 20:45:42 GMT
Lexica. Everyone deserves to treat themselves sometimes and remember that the real price of something is the actual cost divided by the number of uses or wears. If you start drinking a lot of tea and boiling water for cooking, the 'real' cost will be tiny ![:P](//storage.proboards.com/5645536/images/OrTI4SBmZ2ZYSFv6ag4f.jpg)
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Post by cougarjo on May 13, 2016 21:06:53 GMT
It never occurred to me, as a Brit, that there were households out there without a kettle ![???](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/huh.png) ? I don't actually drink black tea but I drink some hot drinks however I use it for loads of other things. X
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Post by Lexica on May 13, 2016 21:19:11 GMT
Thank you for the encouragement. I do deserve a birthday present! And the only way that is happening is if I buy it for myself.
I'm getting the Dualit. But not the one on the USA Amazon site, I'm getting the Classic style that matches my toaster, and it is on the British site. It is a little retro looking. It also has a replaceable heating element should the element ever go out. That means I will have this kettle until I croak. The insides are 100% stainless steel, as opposed to some of the others I looked at that have plastic inside where the water goes. I don't want plastic, especially plastic that will be heated to 100% a few times every day.
Thank you peas, for enabling me on this. The hot water will be helpful for a more than just my tea. Twice a day, I put hot water into my dog's freeze dried sliders to rehydrate them. I have had to time it to when I was showering or using hot water for something else. I feel too guilty just running the water in the upstairs sink, waiting for it to get hot. It wastes gallons and gallons of water to do it that way. I can see me using this upstairs and carrying it downstairs when I make jello or something that requires hot water.
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Post by Deleted on May 13, 2016 21:26:06 GMT
Thank you for the encouragement. I do deserve a birthday present! And the only way that is happening is if I buy it for myself. I'm getting the Dualit. But not the one on the USA Amazon site, I'm getting the Classic style that matches my toaster, and it is on the British site. It is a little retro looking. It also has a replaceable heating element should the element ever go out. That means I will have this kettle until I croak. The insides are 100% stainless steel, as opposed to some of the others I looked at that have plastic inside where the water goes. I don't want plastic, especially plastic that will be heated to 100% a few times every day. Thank you peas, for enabling me on this. The hot water will be helpful for a more than just my tea. Twice a day, I put hot water into my dog's freeze dried sliders to rehydrate them. I have had to time it to when I was showering or using hot water for something else. I feel too guilty just running the water in the upstairs sink, waiting for it to get hot. It wastes gallons and gallons of water to do it that way. I can see me using this upstairs and carrying it downstairs when I make jello or something that requires hot water. Good for you ![:2thumbsup:](//storage.proboards.com/5645536/images/zKsqKGInldFvtmx415J3.jpg) everyone deserves to have a little treat now and then, even if it is from yourself.
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Post by Jockscrap on May 13, 2016 22:21:11 GMT
I treated myself to a fabulous retro Picquot ware tea set the other week. Back in the 50s and 60s every couple getting married would get Picquot wear for a wedding present. It would have been considered to be a pretty good gift. My mum and dad gave me their tea pot recently and it keeps the tea really hot and pours beautifully. I checked out eBay for months until I found the complete set: tray, milk jug, hot water jug, sugar bowl and another tea pot and I love love love it. It gives me so much pleasure to use the set everyday.
I'm really glad you've bought the kettle you really wanted. Sometimes you just have to go for it.
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Post by lucyg on May 13, 2016 22:24:56 GMT
I treated myself to a fabulous retro Picquot wear tea set the other week. Back in the 50s and 60s every couple getting married would get Picquot wear for a wedding present. It would have been considered to be a pretty good gift. My mum and dad gave me their tea pot recently and it keeps the tea really hot and pours beautifully. I checked out eBay for months until I found the complete set: tray, milk jug, hot water jug, sugar bowl and another tea pot and I love love love it. It gives me so much pleasure to use the set everyday. I'm really glad you've bought the kettle you really wanted. Sometimes you just have to go for it. Please post a photo or a link to the auction! sheesh ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/5645536/images/MNrJDkDuSwqIMVw33MdD.jpg)
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Post by Jockscrap on May 13, 2016 22:43:51 GMT
I treated myself to a fabulous retro Picquot wear tea set the other week. Back in the 50s and 60s every couple getting married would get Picquot wear for a wedding present. It would have been considered to be a pretty good gift. My mum and dad gave me their tea pot recently and it keeps the tea really hot and pours beautifully. I checked out eBay for months until I found the complete set: tray, milk jug, hot water jug, sugar bowl and another tea pot and I love love love it. It gives me so much pleasure to use the set everyday. I'm really glad you've bought the kettle you really wanted. Sometimes you just have to go for it. Please post a photo or a link to the auction! sheesh Sorry! Here's a link to the set I have but not my actual set. Picquot ware tea set
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Post by Lexica on May 13, 2016 23:03:04 GMT
I just looked on my Craigslist and in an area north of me, there is the full Picquot tea set - teapot, coffee pot, cream and sugar, and tray, along with a matching 3 container sauce/condiment holder. What would a set like that go for in England? The set is going for $55 here. tea set
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Post by lucyg on May 13, 2016 23:03:56 GMT
Please post a photo or a link to the auction! sheesh Sorry! Here's a link to the set I have but not my actual set. Picquot ware tea setVery cool and very '50s looking. I understand ... I use my mom's Adams everyday dishes from her wedding in 1951. It's pretty rare because it's pottery and it breaks easily, but I've bought every single piece of it that has shown up on eBay in the last 10 years. I've never even been bid against. LOL
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Post by lucyg on May 13, 2016 23:05:00 GMT
I just looked on my Craigslist and in an area north of me, there is the full Picquet tea set - teapot, coffee pot, cream and sugar, and tray, along with a matching 3 container sauce/condiment holder. What would a set like that go for in England? The set is going for $55 here. tea setLOL, now we've not only got Lexica drinking tea, we'll have her collecting tea sets any minute now!
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Post by Jockscrap on May 14, 2016 7:47:54 GMT
I just looked on my Craigslist and in an area north of me, there is the full Picquet tea set - teapot, coffee pot, cream and sugar, and tray, along with a matching 3 container sauce/condiment holder. What would a set like that go for in England? The set is going for $55 here. tea setIt's a reasonable price, although the wood on the pots looks quite worn and possibly damaged. I've never seen the condiment stand before. I'm not sure if that is Picquot ware. I paid £42 ($60) plus postage for mine but the set is in very good condition. Condition varies a lot, but from a quick look on eBay.com, there seem to be a few items coming up and prices are lower than in the UK from the looks of it as I think the US market maybe isn't so aware of how fab these pieces are. They truly can be in daily use and still be going strong decades later. The trays are quite hard to find and can be expensive here at £20-30 on their own. They clean up very well on the inside with a denture cleaning tablet (the type that fizz) and boiling water. Leave to soak for a while then give a light scrub with one of those kitchen sponges with a soft scratchy layer, and the stains come right off. Metal cleaning paste restores the shine to the outside. When buying, I would concentrate on looking for the wood to be in good nick as grime and lack of shine can be dealt with. There are a few different sets. My pot is a T8 and quite large. The T6 pot is really cute and a bit smaller. I have a kettle in my bedroom and use the water jug (folk often use it for coffee and refer to it as a coffee pot, but it is a hot water pot, used for topping up the tea pot after a few cups have been poured and it's getting strong) to fill the kettle as it doesn't fit under my bathroom taps easily. I use the the sugar bowl in my bedroom too to keep the little sachets of instant coffee I get from hotel rooms in. I actually use PG Tips tea granules in my bedroom (they make a surprisingly good cup of tea) to save me the hassle of dunking tea bags or making a pot when I'm just waking up. My tea pot, tray and milk jug are all used during the rest of the day downstairs. ![](http://i67.tinypic.com/opwsuo.jpg)
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Post by stargazer on May 14, 2016 21:48:24 GMT
Don't apologise to me: British through & through but can't stand tea! Hate the smell, hate the taste & hate making it too! Love coffee though but even then I only average one cup a day.
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Post by Lexica on May 15, 2016 8:16:01 GMT
lucyg and Jockscrap, I am watching Broadchurch right now. Of course, being another English show, there is a lot of tea drinking going on, but they don't mention it as much as the other show. In a scene in Episode 3, which is where I am in the series at the moment, the female detective goes to pour herself a cup of tea, and would you believe she is pouring it from one of those Picquot kettles! I know, when you first learn of something, you start seeing them all over the place, but I actually laughed when I saw this. I guess they really are very popular there.
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Post by Jockscrap on May 15, 2016 8:50:06 GMT
lucyg and Jockscrap , I am watching Broadchurch right now. Of course, being another English show, there is a lot of tea drinking going on, but they don't mention it as much as the other show. In a scene in Episode 3, which is where I am in the series at the moment, the female detective goes to pour herself a cup of tea, and would you believe she is pouring it from one of those Picquot kettles! I know, when you first learn of something, you start seeing them all over the place, but I actually laughed when I saw this. I guess they really are very popular there. I loved Broadchurch but never noticed this, but Picquot Ware wasn't on my radar at the time as my folks hadn't used their pot for years before they gave it to me. It's only recently I've started researching the make. The kettles are highly sought after and really expensive, but stove top kettles are unusual here - everyone uses electric and I just have one for camping. That's so funny you spotted it. Picquot Ware was incredibly popular decades ago, but probably most folk of my age remember their grannies or parents using them but don't have them themselves - a bit like vintage Tupperware or Pyrex (which I also love, fuelled by this forum, but just can't get into as I have no space for it).
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Post by RedSquirrelUK on May 15, 2016 13:58:33 GMT
I'm halfway between cracking up with laughter at your enthusiasm at buying new kettles, and sitting with my mouth open at the realisation that there are people who don't own one. I don't think I've ever known anyone in the UK without a kettle. DH's best mate just divorced and moved into a tiny flat. He hasn't got a bed, or a dishwasher (OK that's fairly common here) or a toaster. He didn't have a teapot until I bought him one for his birthday yesterday. But he has a kettle. When I was renovating our house, it had no hot running water or furniture. A little radio but no TV. I slept on old sofa cushions on the floor, in my sleeping bag. I had a washing machine but no oven or hob. I sat on an old cool-box, and wrote letters on a shelf across my knees. But I had a kettle. How do you guys LIVE? ![](http://i1168.photobucket.com/albums/r481/2peasrefugees/Smilies/roflmao.gif)
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Post by catck on May 15, 2016 19:38:37 GMT
I just binged watched Happy Valley and remembered the thread about the tea drinking. I'm from England but now living in the US and had to buy an electric kettle as the Keurig did not do my tea bags justice. My husband did have a stove kettle but it took too long to boil and when I want a cuppa I do not want to wait an excessive time!
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Post by Lexica on May 15, 2016 22:24:53 GMT
Now you guys are making me laugh. I have my electric kettle on order. A Dualit, directly from England, is on its way to me. They didn't have on on the Amazon in the states so I had to go to the UK Amazon. I also ordered a selection box of teas as was recommended earlier in this thread. I am going to Costco in a few minutes and the first thing I wrote on my shopping list was Tea! just like that with the capital and exclamation point. I haven't tried it with milk yet, but I remember Mom and Grandma having it that way. I think Grandma had sugar too. I blame her for us not having an electric kettle in the house growing up. She was born in England and moved to Canada to marry. She didn't educate my mom enough to instill the need for a kettle, apparently. When she visited us after my mom married and moved to the states from Canada, we had a teapot thing that we heated water in on the stove. Would you call that a teapot or kettle in England? It was just a metal pot to heat the water and we each put our tea bag in our own cups. Mom liked some tea from Canada, but I cannot remember what it was. She wouldn't appreciate it if I found some for her now because she says her taste buds are too old and not tasting things anymore. RedSquirrelUK, what is a hob?
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Post by Jockscrap on May 15, 2016 22:40:00 GMT
Lexica it's a kettle if it is for boiling water on the hob (stove top). A teapot doesn't normally go on the hob, although we use massive metal, indestructible teapots at church and as they are all thick metal, you can put them on the hob with the heat turned down to the lowest point to keep the tea piping hot. This only works on an electric ring - gas would get too hot.
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Post by Lexica on May 16, 2016 2:17:29 GMT
Lexica it's a kettle if it is for boiling water on the hob (stove top). A teapot doesn't normally go on the hob, although we use massive metal, indestructible teapots at church and as they are all thick metal, you can put them on the hob with the heat turned down to the lowest point to keep the tea piping hot. This only works on an electric ring - gas would get too hot. Thank you. I thought that might be the case. And apparently a hob is the stovetop. I usually refer to it as just the stove instead of stovetop because there is no bottom to mine. I have a separate oven, so it is the stove or the oven in my house. Costco had no interesting teas. All they carry is Lipton and green tea. Oh well. I do like Lipton because that is pretty much all I have had.
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Post by lucyg on May 16, 2016 2:33:33 GMT
World Market will have a good selection of U.S. and international teas. Yes, the metal pot with a spout that goes on the stove is a (what I call) tea kettle but those Brits are laughing at me for not just calling it a kettle. A tea pot is what you put the tea and boiling water in to steep. I know a lot of Americans don't know any better and call the kettle a tea pot. Don't be one of them. ETA I would have told you not to buy tea at Costco anyway, unless you're going to drink several cups of the same kind every day. Those giant boxes will get old and stale otherwise. Try smaller boxes of different kinds at first.
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Post by AmeliaBloomer on May 16, 2016 4:31:32 GMT
As long as the thread is still going, I'll add this: I once watched a show about tea on a TV foodie channel and learned useful things like water temperature and when to bring the water to the tea versus the tea to the water. But the thing that was the most surprising was the admonition to not squeeze black tea bags (e.g. wind the string around the bag or smush the bag against the inside of the cup). It releases tannins, which can cause a bitter taste. (And it's also just considered poor form among some people. Although I doubt anybody's going to sniff at Lexica's tea etiquette in her new upstairs tea room. ![:P](//storage.proboards.com/5645536/images/OrTI4SBmZ2ZYSFv6ag4f.jpg) But as long as you're shopping, you could get one of those cute little tea bag saucers or one of those mugs with a built-in used tea bag repository.) ![]() ![](https://images.vat19.com/pouch-tea-mug/pouch-tea-mug-new-colors.jpg) ![](https://annella.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/tea-bag-holder-3.jpg)
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Post by Jockscrap on May 16, 2016 8:28:42 GMT
Next time I'm in Costco, I'm going to try to remember to take a photo of the aisle the tea is in. There are several brands sold in bags the size of small sacks! I've no idea how many teabags are in them but i'm guessing it must be about 1000.
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Post by wellway on May 16, 2016 8:42:20 GMT
One thing that divides some tea drinkers is whether they put milk in the cup before the tea or vice versa. If you have a toddler/older person about can I suggest milk before tea. I watched a programme last week which featured a guy who had pulled a cup of tea (no milk) down on top of himself when he was a toddler. Years and years later he is still dealing with the scars. My Mum always did milk before tea for that exact reason and it's something I do automatically myself. Happy tea drinking.
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Post by RedSquirrelUK on May 16, 2016 14:53:31 GMT
That would apply to any hot liquid, coffee included, and is a lesson to parents to keep a close watch on their children. As far as tea goes, if you add the milk first then the liquid isn't hot enough to extract the flavours from the tea. You may prefer the flavour, but it will be different from what you get when you add boiling water to warmed tea, and add milk afterwards. ETA: try it and see what I mean. It's noticeable. And Lexica yes, the hob is the stove top. In the UK there is a manufacturer of hobs and ovens called Stoves. So to us, calling a hob a stove is like calling a Dyson the Hoover. ![](http://i1168.photobucket.com/albums/r481/2peasrefugees/Smilies/laugh.jpg.gif) {raises mug of tea to lips, slurps happily} Ah that's better...
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