TeaBlogger

Currently I have this electric tea kettle from Cuisinart:

Growing up my parents always had a real on-the-stove kettle, and the sound of the gas stove pilot clicking became forever linked in my mind to the coming cup of morning tea.

Once I left the nest and went to college, I began to look for my own tea kettles, but met nothing but disappointment. Design school didn’t help. My best friend and I obsessed over tea pots and kettles of lovely designs and proportions and colors, but actually acquiring one of these never happened. They were either too expensive, nowhere to be purchased, or in reality just pretty but not usable.

After college, after lasting disappointment with my somewhat stylish but incredibly annoying college tea kettle, I finally gave in and got this Cuisinart electric tea kettle. It is really quite wonderful. Nice-looking, easy to use, reliable. It was a reasonable price.

And yet have I always missed making tea on the stove, the whistle, the clicks, the heat! Hitting a button and hearing a click has just never been quite the same. Tea is a ritual for many with many, many different meanings, and for me the electric tea kettle has always been just too… convenient? There is something visceral and old in a kettle over gas that I love. Not to mention that it makes the kitchen look great and is slightly better for the environment and cheaper too.

So now that I am married and have my own home, I think it’s about time that I found myself a good ol’ tea kettle. It may not be easy, but I’m determined! I’ll keep this blog posted on how it goes.