Black & Red Dragon Cast Iron Tea Set

Good and cheap
The bonus is that this teapot is about 1/3 the price you would pay at places like Teavana. The downside is you kinda get what you pay for. the cast iron cups that come with the tea pot heat up like crazy when you pour tea into it burning your hands and the cups were not totally covered by the ceramic coating so i'm already getting some rust spots after 1 month of use though I maintain my teapot well.





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Villeroy & Boch Cottage Whistling Teakettle 2 Liter

Great tea kettle
A beautiful tea kettle matching one we had purchased several years ago and accidently burnt up. Well made. The shipper was very prompt. Best as decorative because it runs back.





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Tramontina Stainless Steel Whistling Tea Kettle - 2 Qt.

Tramontina Stainless Steel Whistling Tea Kettle
Very nice, heavy weight tea kettle. Easy to clean. Very loud whistle. Great value for price.

The way a tea kettle should be made
Great quality and design. I can't think of anything I don't like about this tea kettle!

OK Kettle with some drawbacks
Tramontina is a Brazilian/American/Global company that makes some very nice tri-ply cookware lauded by America's Test Kitchen. I ordered this kettle after returning a cheaper one that was just a piece of junk from China. Imagine my dismay when my Tramontina kettle turned out to be made in China too. But it's reasonably heavy, so I decided to give it a test drive.

I found several reasons to "go hmmmmmm:"

According to the directions, one should only boil water at low or medium temperatures. Following those instructions, it took 18 minutes to boil 6 cups of water. You could keel over in the scrambled eggs from caffeine deprivation while waiting. The whistle is very high pitched. My dog comes running but it's a tad irritating to my ear. Or, the shrieky whistle might be a stroke of genius, as you'll race to turn it off.

While the pot seems to have a wide base, it's constructed with sort of a skirt-like overhang concealing a narrower circle of heavy steel...

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