Melissa’s Cozy Teacup

This lovely Salty Bag is for sale on my Etsy site.

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When I worked at the tea shop a few years ago, I was clueless on many aspects of tea. Time, not only heals but it also allows us opportunities to change things, to learn and grow, explore and discover, but only if we are willing. I thought, at the time, that there was no difference between the shapes of tea pots, coffee pots and hot chocolate pots other than to distinguish between them on a buffet table. While the shapes may very well aid in pouring the correct beverage into your cup, there is a difference. I thought I would give a little tutorial because while visiting other ladies’ blogs during Lah-Tea-Dah’s blog-a-thon, I saw other’s making the same mistake as I, and calling their coffee pots, tea pots.

Tea pots are more short and stout with rounder bodies. This allows the tea leaves to expand as it was and still is common for people to place the tea leaves directly into the tea pot to brew.

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Teapot

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Coffee pot

See the difference?

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Hot chocolate set

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This is a hot chocolate pot. Original chocolate pots were tall and narrow, had handles sticking straight out at the sides, and an opening in the top of the pot where the stirrer went, called a molinillo. You would roll it between the palms of your hands. The style below is still made today but you usually find it in boring white cafe’ type china. What is it with the current trend for plain white china? But, I digress.

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So that is your pot tutorial for Tea Tuesday.