Tea in a pot with a teacosy anyone? (lighthearted thread)

Tea pots here too. I still use my Mum’s knitted tea cozy, it goes with nothing but I can see her knitting it each time I use it and it makes me smile.

I have a traditional navy blue Brown Betty teapot and always make tea in the pot with loose leaves (PG Tips, nothing fancy) I use a strainer and china mugs but no cost- it stews the tea! If it is only me, I have a small china pot that holds 2 mugs worth of tea.

Has to be loose leaf English Breakfast for us, nothing else will do, made of course, in a tea pot. I’m afraid I don’t have a tea cosy though, perhaps I’ll crochet one.

I love my teapots and have about 6 , must do a count , ranging from one cup size to a very large family one .
Sadly I find tea makes me trot up the corridor too often and have resorted to red Bush , which is far too expensive in leaf form so tea bags it is , but still in the teapot

Well I am afraid I do not use loose leaf tea, but I still put my teabag in a small pot. I cannot abide a teabag in a mug; to me it. tastes completely different to same teabag in a pot. I always refused tea at my sister's as she used to put the teabag in a mug then put the milk in before topping up with hot water - yuk!

MawB I enjoyed your reply! Yes, I know it's awful to re-heat but.. Did you ever read Angela's Ashes and the description of how they used to squeeze out the tea leaves to a maximum?!

We visited a tea plantation in Sri Lanka where we were told the best tea is sold as loose leaf and the inferior tea (we translated that as the 'sweepings up') was put into tea bags.

And “ball on a chain things” - need to find my glasses!

“Buy” their tea, not “but”

You are not an old fogey but very very trendy!
All the hipster young things now but their tea loose and use teapots and tea-strainers or those perforated ball on a chain hints.
The DDs (who are the epitome of cool) and I had a wonderful time shopping in an exclusive (and ruinously pricey) tea shop in Brussels last year with more varieties of tea you could possibly imagine. We certainly were not buying it in kg quantities either!
Congratulations on being a trailblazer though. Teabags are indeed decidedly uncool (think of the environment) as are mugs, especially the “jokey” sort. Checking in my kitchen cupboard I find I have five teapots, plus MIL’s silver one in the sideboard. Two “proper” tea sets too.
However I must take issue with you about reheating (or stewing) left over tea.
Just put less in the pot next time.