Talk:Teapot

Bias
This page is extremely biased and POV! When will people learn that Wikipedia is not a vessel for propaganda? This article is even more biased than the Yassir Arafat article. I'm serious. It is an opinion that different types of teas should not be prepared in the same pot (even though that opinion is held by almost everyone, it is still an opinion and should not be presented as a fact).


 * It looks fine to me. If you don't agree with the articles, than write down the facts and show it. About the lines that say "different types of teas should not be prepared in the same pot", please state your reasons. I agree with the original author and it is a fact. For common understanding, different types of tea mean tea process in different method, e.g. green tea, white tea, black tea, oolong tea, etc. Mixing this tea is like mixing Cognac with beer and wine.
 * By the way, this wiki is not complete. English teapot should be included. Sltan 17 Feb 2005.

I didn't write the above unsigned comment. This article definitely needs work though.

I think what the author was trying to get across was that different types of tea (black, green, white) all require different brewing temperatures to achieve the best results. I assume the reason that iron, silver or pewter is used for black tea is because of the need for higher temperatures. Those types of materials conduct the heat much more quickly.

There should be a discussion of the various types of tea pots available. Some people do buy special pots, like Yixing in order to brew tea. Sometimes a Yixing pot is limited to brewing one specific type of tea because the pot picks up the flavour of the tea. Overtime this can actually add to the enjoyment of the tea brewed in the pot. Accountable Government 21:56, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

Sky Kingdom
An holy Teapot in Malaysia:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/08/02/wteapot02.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/08/02/ixworld.html


 * Look to: Ayah Pin

Why Shouldn't One Wash a Teapot?
Re: washing teapots

What's the source of the advice not to wash a teapot? Does the original author or someone else have a reference to this?

re:

That depends on the kind of teapot which you are using.

If you use Yixing purple-sand (ZiSha "紫砂") teapot to brew your green tea or oo-long tea, it's strongly suggested that you should not wash your teapot too carefully. Because the Yixing purle-sand teapot is quite good at absorbing the flavour of tea leaves.

--Eugene.shi 01:43, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

Teapot history
I have added some history of the teapot I have sources for this but haven't worked out how to add them yet! Teapotgeorge 20:49, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

Teapot in the movies
There is a movie, unfortunately I can't remember which, where a sidekick or a confused character suddenly puts his hand to his head and the other arm to form the spout and exclaims "and I'm just a teapot". Does anybody know? RobiBuecheler 15:35, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

Flawed statement
"Unglazed teapots (like Yixing) should never be washed in a dishwasher or soapy water due to the porous nature of its clay, since there is no glaze used{dubious}}." This is wrong for a number of reasons:
 * It is supported by any references (which isn't surprising given it's mianly incorrect)
 * "Nature of clay" Well if the teapot has been fired, which it will have, then t is not clay. It is ceramic.
 * Unglazed ceramic can be non-porous, for example porcelain. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.126.226.253 (talk) 02:56, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

Polish interwiki link
I am removing the Polish intewiki link, as it pertains to an electric kettle rather than a teapot. --B. Jankuloski (talk) 05:08, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

Teapot collection at Norwich Castle Museum is world's largest
See http://museums.norfolk.gov.uk/default.asp?document=300 and search for teapot. The Twinnings teapot collection holds almost 3000 teapots. -- wloveral 08 Nov 2009 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 189.82.193.19 (talk) 20:02, 8 November 2009 (UTC)

Whistles on teapots
Many tea pots available in the United States feature a whistle on the spout. This allows someone to boil water, walk away, and be alerted when the water is boiling. Is this a strictly American / Western phenomenon? Is this relatively recent in human history? Is it classical, or did it only appear in the last few hundred years? Do we know who invented it? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 140.180.0.94 (talk) 03:19, 18 December 2009 (UTC)
 * I don't know about America but in the UK water is generally boiled in an (electric) kettle and then poured into the tea pot once it's already boiling, so a whistle on the teapot would be useless. It's possible that old style stove top kettles would either whistle simply because of the steam escaping through small holes or have an intentionally built whistle. The only place I've seen it though is in cartoons. Danikat (talk) 10:36, 16 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Whistles used to be common on kettles, but I have never seen one on a teapot Everybody got to be somewhere! (talk) 23:44, 22 June 2010 (UTC)


 * I do not believe they are teapots, but simply kettles. I recall seeing kettles with whistles in the UK many years ago, but now everyone uses electric kettles. Making your tea in a kettle would be a bizarre thing to do, and would make the tea taste unpleasant, known as "stewed". If using teabags: put one or two teabags in the teapot. Pour on boiling (or at least very hot) water. Wait no longer than two minutes, or preferably about a minute. Remove the teabags. Consume the tea. Leaving the tea bags in the tea makes it taste "stewed", ie unpleasant. 92.29.125.34 (talk) 20:57, 19 November 2010 (UTC)

Teapot Types, Social Aspects
The article makes virtually no attempt to provide an overview of teapot types. One thinks of the Brown Betty, the formerly ubiquitous Staffordshire teapot, and the large metal teapots used by caterers. Rather more reference should be made to the special place the teapot holds in ceramic design (particularly stoneware), with Bernard Leach transmitting the design parameters of the perfect teapot to generations of British potters.

Mention might also be made of the care given to teapots used in the Japanese tea ceremony, where often teapots of great age may used, and in which cracks or breakages may have been repaired with gold. One also thinks of the British phrase "Who will be mother?" that may be heard when a group of relative strangers sit together for tea and there is doubt about who will perform the central task of pouring the tea. Everybody got to be somewhere! (talk) 23:56, 22 June 2010 (UTC)
 * I agree with the first paragraph. The 2nd paragraph is more suited to a tea or tea ceremony article. 92.28.250.11 (talk) 10:27, 17 November 2010 (UTC)

Chocolate Teapot
The second half of this section seems to consist of statements of the bleeding obvious with no obvious encyclopaedic relevance. Should it be removed? LaFoiblesse (talk) 14:40, 18 July 2010 (BST)


 * Actually, the common view is that a chocolate teapot is impossible to use at all, and the Naked Scientist experiment designed one, and gave criteria for its dimensions, so... no.- Wolfkeeper 13:59, 18 July 2010 (UTC)


 * An article is supposed to cover the topic thoroughly, therefore the fact that somebody has made and used a chocolate teapot does seem to be encyclopedic.- Wolfkeeper 13:59, 18 July 2010 (UTC)


 * It surely goes without saying that a) a thin chocolate teapot is liable to be melted by the hot water before tea can be brewed b) a thick enough chocolate teapot has enough mass that in the time required to brew tea, its innards will not have been melted entirely by the heat of the water. If the naked scientist teapot had been made using chocolate with a freezing point higher than 100 degrees Celsius then that might have actually gone some way to demonstrating that a chocolate teapot isn't thoroughly useless (except as a decorative and delicious discussion point). LaFoiblesse (talk) 20:26, 21 July 2010 (BST)
 * You're supposed to use it?? I just ate mine. Johnbod (talk) 21:56, 21 July 2010 (UTC)


 * Do you have a reference that it's obvious? Because that seems to be your OR.- Wolfkeeper 22:26, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Are you being facetious or do you just have a vanishingly little amount of faith in humanity?LaFoiblesse (talk) 19:02, 26 July 2010 (BST)
 * Since you're insulting me then that's obviously a no, you don't have a reference that it's obvious, and just because a thick enough pot wouldn't melt, doesn't mean that you know how thick the walls need to be to work; it may be that it's impractically thick for example. The research they actually did, rather than your pontification about how obvious it is, gave a centimetre minimum thickness. And no chocolate melts at 100C, cocoa butter melts at 37C, it might vary a bit, but I'm sure that nothing that you could sensibly call chocolate would go so high.- Wolfkeeper 21:46, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
 * I haven't insulted you. Your recent amendment to the article gives the "research" some spurious relevance, whereas before "thick enough" was patronizingly obvious. I am sure you appreciate that it is still a nonsense and the teapot is still of no practical utility, and does nothing to undermine the accuracy of the idiomatic use of the term. I can't find you a source telling you that it's obvious, because, shock horror, nobody (except Naked Scientists, it seems) has bothered to write an article on bears shitting in the woods. Great for Naked Scientists readers as a "lol functional chocolate teapot" item, but as far as I am concerned it is nothing but padding in this article.LaFoiblesse (talk) 22:55, 27 July 2010 (BST)
 * Ladies! Please. Handbags at dawn. 92.28.250.11 (talk) 10:25, 17 November 2010 (UTC)

Chocolate Tea Pot
A chocolate tea pot is of course useless & serves no long term purpose as it would melt away to a good for nothing puddle. People who may be tarnished with the CTP title, are often moved through the ranks of management & quickly put out to grass to save face. CTP adds little value & gains little respect. Colintonybone (talk) 16:34, 10 September 2010 (UTC)

Traditional British spherical ceramic teapot
Used every day by millions. The article really needs a photo of it. Its also often quoted as an example of perfect folk-design. 92.28.250.11 (talk) 10:24, 17 November 2010 (UTC)

Setting up WikiProject Silverware?
Would anyone be interested in helping to set up a WikiProject Silverware? I'm interested in salvers, coffee pots, jugs, candlesticks, famous silversmiths, different styles, etc. Thanks. Girlwithgreeneyes (talk) 11:55, 3 April 2012 (UTC)

Teapot Game
Still very famous in Germany (with its own German Wikipedia article), the earliest description of the Teapot Game is found in an old English book: Mary White: The Book of a Hundred Games. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York NY 1896. I wonder if this is still known and played in English speaking countries. --Blutgretchen (talk) 20:16, 5 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Seems notable. Perhaps it should be added (or better still have its own article). Martinevans123 (talk) 20:23, 5 March 2015 (UTC)
 * I added it to the article and let others decide if relevance for its own article is sufficient. --Blutgretchen (talk) 19:33, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

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