General Chat

No denture cleaner available in this house. Have our own teeth. Do have baking or bicarbonate of soda and will try that at first opportunity. Have a lot of hospital visite over the next wek, so may not find time till the week after. Thanks all for your time and trouble.

Mines a metal teapot and I always use denture cleaning tablets (cheap ones work as well as the dear ones I find) Tea tastes fine, wether the pot is tannined up or clean!!!

http://www.helium.com/items/1157959-how-to-clean-your-teapot

Just had a thought. They don't arrive very often. Google!!

Try the above link.

We will have to differ on this subject, to clean or not to clean. I cant bear the taste of the tannin from a stained pot, others obviously like it. Takes all sorts. Bet if we were allowed to discuss brands of tea, we would all be different, too.
I do not like strong tea, seldom drink coffee, have cocoa instead.

Thought I heard you the other day, but it was a Horse Clip Clopping along. :-D tell you what though, those with falsies ( Teeth) are luky they,re not in Russia, theirs were made of Stainless Steel.just imagine useing Chrome Cleaner on them. :-S :-D

Merlin..........how many more times do i have to tell you!!!

I don't have a grass skirt.........that's Island!!

Mind you, i doo have a bra made of coconuts!! ;-)

Steredent Tablet with Wends Teeth to chew the stuborn bits off and Pricklys Grass Skirt to wipe it with. :-D :-S

BIO SOAP POWDER IN BOILING WATER
IS EXCELLENT

FROM A NON TEA DRINKER

Only thing is - a cleaned metal pot is not good. Many moons ago my MIL came to stay and the only thing she could find to clean was my teapot. By the time I had finished feeding and changing the baby - unbeknown to me she had the pot gleaming inside and out. For weeks her son moaned about the tea!!!

Used to use ceramic pots, but got fed up with replacing them as they got chipped and cracked by my OH. I have cleaned these pots before but cant remember how I did it. I cant stand the taste of tannin from a stained teapot. Ours in the hospital were always cleaned, but i have no space for a dishwasher. Dont like teabags, but OH chokes on a single tealeaf. You cant choose the strength you really like with teabags. Milk in first, or black tea, half tea, topped up with hot water. No sugar. Not keen on Earl Grey. medication alters the perception of taste in the tea, too.

The best tea is made with water boiled on a stove too. I don't know why but it seems to have a bit of extra something.

When I had my paper round (in my thirties,I was always a high flier!) an old lady would make me a cup of tea off the Rayburn. It was the best, so was her cake made in the Rayburn and if I was really lucky, that bit of toast she might make me in front of it.

I for one prefer the tea first - who else?

Delph or china teapot a must

Steradent, about every six or eight weeks.

Milk or sugar in tea - yuck :-P :-P :-P

Black tea has nooooo calories ;-)


Shame about the choccy bikkies....

Susan

Because I have always had tea from a ceramic pot using a metal pot is a kind of unnatural act to me.

I can remember, as a very small child, thinking people who used a metal pot a little unusual.

And, as for people who put the milk in after the tea, well, they must be a different species!

I'm a little confused - I've put me teef in a mug of hot water with a tea-bag and I''ve slapped on some tannin before I pop into bed to have a good think.

I'm a little teapot,
Short and stout,
Here's my handle,
Here's my spout.
When I get all steamed up,
Hear me shout,
Tip me over
And pour me out.

Tea hee!

Believe me a cleaned metal teapot will make awful tea, dont do it !!

Well there you go Jean.
As Ronald say's...........A metal tea pot needs a good think!!
And a lining of tan!! :-D :-D :-D

Two methods.

Put on a plastic coat and a waterproof hat first.
Half fill the teapot with cold water and add half cup (more or less) of uncooked rice grains .
Put the lid on the pot and hold it tightly.
Shake the heck out of it.
Rinse out the teapot, removing ALL the rice grains.
This works well for cleaning thermos flasks.

Second method.
Straight bleach. About half a cup. Swirl it around inside, and out through the spout. Or dip a cloth in bleach and wipe the pot out. Then rinse, rinse, rinse.

If you decide to shake, put the pot in a plastic bag first or you are going to get wet.

Diusgusting!! lol A metal teapot needs a good think lining of tannin(?) tea tastes so much better then.