{"id":468,"date":"2011-01-08T15:16:19","date_gmt":"2011-01-08T23:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/?p=468"},"modified":"2011-01-08T15:16:19","modified_gmt":"2011-01-08T23:16:19","slug":"tea-gear-advice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/08\/tea-gear-advice\/","title":{"rendered":"Tea Gear Advice"},"content":{"rendered":"

A friend<\/a>, who has started drinking more tea, asked what kind of teapot to get. I spent a little time on my response, so I thought I’d share. I drink one to two pots of tea every day, so I have a good idea of what works (for me, at least). Here are the items I recommend, if you want to be a serious tea drinker: <\/p>\n

Teapot<\/h3>\n

You can get something fancy if you like, but you can?t go wrong with the classic English ?brown Betty? style (it comes in other colors too). It?s a virtually drip-free spout design, and you can get various sizes. Mine is a 6C size, which fills 3 large mugs. <\/p>\n\n\n
\n\"Brown
Traditional Brown Betty<\/a>\n<\/td>\n		\n\"Green
Modern version<\/a>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

<\/p>\n

Filter<\/h3>\n

Don?t screw around with tea balls ? get a good, large filter so your tea has room to unfurl. Along with this, I recommend a small dish to put the filter on (to catch drips) if the filter doesn?t come with a base. I have and like both of these filters: <\/p>\n\n\n
\n\"Finium
Finium Filter<\/a>\n<\/td>\n		\n\"Chatsford
Chatsford Filter<\/a>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

<\/p>\n

Mug<\/h3>\n

You can drink tea out of any mug, although I recommend a large size so you’re not constantly refilling it. In the nice-to-have department: for Christmas my brother bought me two of these beautiful Bodum glasses, and I LOVE them. They’re insulated, hand-blown, and dishwasher-safe. <\/p>\n

\n\"Bodum
Bodum Pavina 15 oz glass<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Other Items<\/h3>\n

You?ll definitely need a tea cozy. It may be challenging to find one that isn’t all kitschy or flowery, but they’re out there. In Seattle, they carry good ones at Teahouse Kuan Yin<\/a> in Wallingford. I also recommend a wooden trivet for your teapot? it?ll absorb drips and keep it warm longer. <\/p>\n\n\n
\n\"Tea
Tea Cozy<\/a>\n<\/td>\n		\n\"Wooden
Wooden Trivets<\/a>\n<\/td>\n		\n\"Leaf
I have a small dish like this to put my filter on<\/a>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A friend, who has started drinking more tea, asked what kind of teapot to get. I spent a little time on my response, so I thought I’d share. I drink one to two pots of tea every day, so I have a good idea of what works (for me, at least). Here are the items […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumerism","category-tea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":483,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions\/483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}