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Annemarie's avatar

When I met my partner I was introduced to his family's way of making a cup of tea. You put the teapot itself on the stove full of water AND the tea leaves and bring it to the boil, take it off the burner and let it steep before adding to mugs. No boiling of water in a kettle and then putting that in the teapot. According to them the water doesn't get hot enough 🤔 So for the best part of 30 years that's how my teas have been made for me...no teabags allowed.

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Lisa-Marie Cabrelli, Ph.D.'s avatar

Isn't it lovely that every family has their own traditions and that they get passed down? Do you mean that you put the kettle on the stove, though? Not the teapot (unless you have a metal teapot). My Mum has a tradition of "one extra for the pot," where you count the cups of tea, add the matching amount of tea bags, and then add one extra for the pot.

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Annemarie's avatar

They use a metal teapot!

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