For my first Tea Time post, I’d like to share a wonderful tool my husband bought me for Christmas 2023. The above photos are of my Electric Tea Kettle. It is wonderful! I can make one to four cups of tea with this addition to my kitchen. The top photo shows the tea kettle in action. While it heats the water, it is blue. When the water reaches the right temperature, it clicks off and the blue light goes out.

In the photo directly above these paragraphs, my kettle is empty. However, notice the button on the bottom front. If I heat enough water for multiple cups of tea, I can push this button and it will keep the water at the temperature the kettle heats it too. When I empty the kettle, I flip this button off again.

If you look into the kettle, (it is visible in both photos, but probably a bit clearer in the blue), you will see a cylinder in the center of the kettle, suspended from the lid of the kettle. The cylinder has little holes all around it from top to bottom. I can put loose-leaf tea in that cylinder, as much as I need for the number of cups I plan to drink or serve. Then the kettle brews the tea while it heats, saving me from measuring tea into a cup and steeping it.

As someone who enjoys a lot of loose-leaf tea, I love this tea kettle.

Join me again next Tuesday when I share my favorite tea shop and a couple of my favorite loose-leaf teas.