Buy Salam White 4 Cup Teapot by Guy DegrenneSalam White 4 Cup Teapot by Guy Degrenne Product Description:
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When you're enjoying a casual breakfast, it's always nice to sip that second or third cup of hot tea. The Salam teapot keeps the contents deliciously warm for up to an hour. Its felt-lined padded 18/10 stainless-steel cover insulates the porcelain pot, like a tea cozy. Inside is a removable aluminum strainer that holds loose tea leaves. We recommend washing by hand. (Capacity: one cup is 7oz.) Made in France by Guy Degrenne.
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Elegant styling and very clever design; costly; a few minor design issues
By P. Berry
The key clever idea of this teapot is that the lid is integral with a tea cozy that keeps the brew warm. (The only similar design I know of is G&H Tea Services Soho 30 2-Cup Ceramic Teapot with Insulated Chrome, White ). The pot itself is all porcelain, with a stainless-steel removable basket for the tea leaves (as is common in Japanese teapots, rare in European or American ones). On the outside, the lid-tea-cozy combination (as you can see in the illustration) is made of a brilliant shiny metal (stainless steel?). It is lined with an insulating padding of some synthetic material. It provides pretty good insulation for a rather thin layer --but doesn't stop me from using a conventional tea-cozy over the whole thing. The pot is well balanced, with a large easy-to-hold handle that makes pouring easy, and a spout that hardly ever lets a drip fall.I use this pot every day and judge it the best teapot I've ever owned. That being said, it isn't quite perfect. Here are some things that might have raised minor doubts had I understood them in advance:(1) The cozy's insulated liner extends all the way down below the lower edge of the metal cover. When you remove the cover, if you park it on the countertop, the liner (white) can contact anything you happen to have spilled there, and is thus easily stained. The insulation is not really removable from the metal outer shell, but I did succeed in washing it in place.(2) The strainer-tea-basket is very robust. It has a double layer of stainless-steel mesh, but of a relatively coarse weave that will let through small particles of very fine-grained teas (for example, Brooke Bond Red Label, which has the smallest leaf-fragments I've ever seen). No problem with larger tea leaves.(3) The infuser basket has a handle made from a curved bar across the center at the top. This cross-bar is welded in place. I wish they'd made it pivot at the edges. When the basket is full of tea leaves that have swelled up in the boiling water, this rigid bar makes it a little harder to get the old tea leaves out.(4) Be aware that when the manufacturer describes the sizes of these pots by a number of cups, they're talking about cups of 7 fl.oz. (about 200ml) which for this tea-drinker is a rather scant cup. I should have bought the "6-cup" or the 8.
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