$125 tea kettle, wtf?

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The tag line is, "For People who have to cook." It should really read, "For People who have to fart away money."

 

[Looney]

There's a lot of needless extravangant stuff in this world. I was watching Superhomes or whatever on Discovery, and they had a townhouse home in a neighborhood in England that went for $24 million. A TOWNHOUSE. Drapes were $55k.

 

[FallenHero]

pot. kettle. black.

 

[Lonyo]

$135 kettle
$300 coffee maker

 

[Descartes]

I have one. I love it. I use it to make tea or cofffee in my press pot. Does it do a better job than your average kettle? Probably not.

 

[Jzero]

For $25 less you can get a TriniTEA that will heat your water, brew your tea, and keep it warm until you drink it!

 

[Descartes]

Originally posted by: Jzero
For $25 less you can get a TriniTEA that will heat your water, brew your tea, and keep it warm until you drink it!

Yes, but there's something decidedly better about doing it all yourself and thus controlling everything. It also opens up other tea preparation methods like Gongfu, Gaiwan, etc. Does it actually result in a difference in the cup? Not really, at least not to most palates; however, like with other consumables, part of the fanfare is in the process: Popping the cap of a beer, pulling the cork of a wine (although there's a movement to screwcaps), and serving a tea in a n Yixing teapot using a Gongfu method with water from a nice Chantal kettle.

I'm half kidding. It is a ridiculous price to pay for a tea kettle, imo.

 

[Jzero]

Originally posted by: Descartes
Yes, but there's something decidedly better about doing it all yourself and thus controlling everything. It also opens up other tea preparation methods like Gongfu, Gaiwan, etc. Does it actually result in a difference in the cup? Not really, at least not to most palates; however, like with other consumables, part of the fanfare is in the process: Popping the cap of a beer, pulling the cork of a wine (although there's a movement to screwcaps), and serving a tea in a n Yixing teapot using a Gongfu method with water from a nice Chantal kettle.

I'm half kidding. It is a ridiculous price to pay for a tea kettle, imo.

The TriniTEA is an awesome piece of equipment. The Mark II version coming out this summer is also going to have variable temperature for those teas that require it.

Actually, well-seasoned earthen teaware does improve the flavor of the tea.

But when I'm getting out of bed, I'm not fiddling with a teapot or a gaiwan. I put my TriniTEA on a timer, load it up before I go to bed, and have a properly brewed pot of tea waiting for me when I come downstairs in the morning.

It's well worth the cost of admission if you drink a lot of tea...at least you can justify the cost in that it's actually doing some of the work instead of just holding the water while the stove heats it 🙂

 

[Descartes]

Originally posted by: Jzero

Originally posted by: Descartes
Yes, but there's something decidedly better about doing it all yourself and thus controlling everything. It also opens up other tea preparation methods like Gongfu, Gaiwan, etc. Does it actually result in a difference in the cup? Not really, at least not to most palates; however, like with other consumables, part of the fanfare is in the process: Popping the cap of a beer, pulling the cork of a wine (although there's a movement to screwcaps), and serving a tea in a n Yixing teapot using a Gongfu method with water from a nice Chantal kettle.

I'm half kidding. It is a ridiculous price to pay for a tea kettle, imo.

The TriniTEA is an awesome piece of equipment. The Mark II version coming out this summer is also going to have variable temperature for those teas that require it.

Now that'll be nice.

Actually, well-seasoned earthen teaware does improve the flavor of the tea.

I tend to agree, but I also think that I'm partly appealing to the "romance" of preparation in such teaware. I have read that it's the oxidation of the lead in the earlier Yixings that gave them their patina over the years, so it remains to be seen whether the lead-free ones do the same over the years.

But when I'm getting out of bed, I'm not fiddling with a teapot or a gaiwan. I put my TriniTEA on a timer, load it up before I go to bed, and have a properly brewed pot of tea waiting for me when I come downstairs in the morning.

That'd be nice. I honestly don't fiddle with the more involved methods that often. I just put some water in the kettle, boil it, take the temperature down to where I want it, and pour it in whatever tea pot I have available. I'm drinking a Tung Ting Oolong right now, and I have it in one of those little portable ingenuiTEA tea pots.

It's well worth the cost of admission if you drink a lot of tea...at least you can justify the cost in that it's actually doing some of the work instead of just holding the water while the stove heats it 🙂

My Chantal has a three-stage whistle to let me know if it's at a rolling or a full boil 🙂 I usually just let it go to a rolling boil, wait about 15-30 seconds, and pour. Good times... great tea.

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[mordantmonkey]

HAHA i knew it was a chantal tea kettle before i even looked at the link. wtf is wrong with me. why do i know this stuff.
for the record i bought a chantal tea kettle at a thrift shop for 5 bucks. later found out it retailed for $135. it was a gift for a friend so she was thrilled.