Ooops I broke my tea pot :(

Published 2025-04-29

tag(s): #infusions #failures

Today I am working from home. Was about to make some afternoon tea, opened the cabinet and when reaching for one of the tea tins, some stuff at the front of the shelf fell.
And with such luck that the mate straw (metal) flew down and hit the "lip" of the teapot :(

A broken teapot.
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This was a gift from Maria from like, our second year in the US. It spent some time stored away, lightly used here and there. But as blogged recently, I traded coffee for tea to get my daily dose of caffeine (and my little rituals). So the last month or two I used this thing every other day, twice a day.

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I was pretty attached to the teapot, because of being a gift and from long ago. And happy that I was using it a lot, too. Breaking it made me genuinely sad. :(
Can't say that it surprised me though because I am known to be clumsy. And it was made of glass, after all.........but still.

I considered buying a smaller teapot recently. The least amount of water I could brew in the one I have had was 750ml, about 3 coffee mugs. And sometimes I just wanted a cup, maybe two.
Yes, a very first world problem. Which combined with my inclination to try to own less stuff, made me decide against having two teapots.

Juts this weekend we were in a store in Montclair, and they had Japanese ceramic teapots from the brand "ZERO", and they looked cute. Vibrant colors, too.
What is nice about glass teapots is that you can judge the brew's color more easily. My wife found online a smaller version of the one I broke. For some reason the smaller version is priced like three of the 1 liter ones, so I am hesitant to get it.

Footnotes
  1. I think this will look like crap on the site itself, in Emacs the emoji render in black and white and they are infinitely more readable. IMO.[2]
  2. Really, look:

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