Teapots

Teapots are here grouped with boiling utensils, though tea should never be boiled. Boiling extracts the thein and the tannin contained in tea, and these substances affect the nerves.

Teapots are made of china, earthenware, aluminum, enameled ware, or silver. Many are fitted with removable tea-balls, or tea chambers, in which the tea is placed, and these are removed when the desired strength has been extracted. Separate tea balls of aluminum are also sold in this department.

The spouts of teapots are longer than those of coffee pots and fitted on the lower part of the pot. They also have a strainer on the inside. Pots range in size from i to 3 quarts.