Determine the size of your teapot filled to the brim minus a touch in
oz or ml. That's the capacity sold in stores. I use pots that fill
1/2-3/4 of capacity because of weight or convenience for pouring.
You'll find pot size is a function of personal consumption. I use a
one liter pot that brews 700ml which is two 350ml (~12oz) cups. I
usually have too nuke the second cup when I get around too it.

Jim

Gregory Allen-Anderson wrote:
This probably sounds really silly, but I want to get a second tea
pot,
and the size of the pot I have now is ideal. I have an Arthur Wood
china teapot with a blackberry design that I got on a trip to Bermuda
15
years ago when I didn't even drink tea (I couldn't think of any other

souvenir to get and I liked the way it looked). Now that I am
drinking
a couple of pots of tea a day using this teapot, I am concerned I'll
break it, so I'd like to get another and save this one for special
occasions.

So when determining capacity, how full do you fill the teapot? If
capacity is what fills it to the brim, then its a six cup, but if it
is
to the level that I have read as optimum (more or less up to the
point
where it starts to narrow again) then its a four cup. I just want to
be
sure that what I order is the same size as what I have.