Teapots

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<p>I have a Capresso electric kettle because it looks really great and, being glass, doesn’t make the water taste odd. I know some people like the metal electric kettles, but we’ve found they add a metal taste.</p>

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<p>Apparently, for a perfect cup of tea, one should never reheat water. I confess that I commit this mortal sin if I’m short on time and want a second cup.</p>

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<p>Wow - all the options for boiling water! My husband bought a Chantal enamel-on-steel teakettle with a loop handle a few years ago. Never dribbles, has a nice hum, is dishwasher safe (though I just wash it by hand), and I never thought twice about it until this thread. :smiley: I looked it up and saw that he must have spent $50-60 for it, which is not like him. It’s a nice kettle, for sure. [Chantal</a> Loop Teakettle | ChantalStore.com](<a href=“http://www.chantalstore.com/teakettles/loop]Chantal”>http://www.chantalstore.com/teakettles/loop)</p>

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<p>Have to add my love for the electric tea kettles. A visiting English co-worker was scandalized by us barbarians making tea by heating cups in the microwave; she brought in her electric kettle to teach how to make a “proper cuppa”. I have the Braun also, it comes to full rolling boil in about a minute. Just love it.</p>

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<p>Now ekettles work and I have used one for about twenty or so years. But a whistling kettle appeals and a pot with water on gas flame can make in the end decent tea.</p>

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<p>I for one don’t taste any difference in boiling water multiple times. Tap water has some dissolved oxygen in it. I have no idea how much survives boiling, but the difference between water boiled twice versus once can’t be much. </p>

<p>I think the real objection to boiling water more than once comes from less purified water than most of us get at home. Our water now has very limited mineral content and not much taste. If you took water from an older system, boiling it multiple times would concentrate the mineral and other flavors in it. I remember living in Ann Arbor and the water having a genuinely off taste. If you boiled it, the taste became concentrated. But I can boil and reboil the plain tap water here because it has no taste.</p>

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<p>I have a great English tea kettle that I hardly use anymore because it has been replaced by an electric Aroma pot I got at Target. LOVE it!</p>