Is there such a thing? I hate using a kleenex to clean my desk EVERY time I
pour tea. It's frustrating, and certainly isn't keeping costs down. (Yes,
I know I could use a towel...)

DJM

I've seen them advertised, but I have my doubts. I brew in the cup.
Toci

On Fri, 01 Apr 2005 12:42:51 GMT, Daniel J. Morlan wrote:

Is there such a thing? I hate using a kleenex to clean my desk EVERY time I
pour tea. It's frustrating, and certainly isn't keeping costs down. (Yes,
I know I could use a towel...)

DJM

A while back, someone posted the link for these:

http://www.culinaryteas.com/Tea_Accessories/1384.html

A dripless teapot "gadget" that goes in the spout to "fix" your
current pot. I haven't bought one yet, so I can't say whether they
work or not.

--
Derek

"The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature
cures the disease." -- Voltaire

On Fri, 01 Apr 2005 12:42:51 GMT, Daniel J. Morlan wrote:

Is there such a thing? I hate using a kleenex to clean my desk EVERY time I
pour tea. It's frustrating, and certainly isn't keeping costs down. (Yes,
I know I could use a towel...)

DJM

A while back, someone posted the link for these:

http://www.culinaryteas.com/Tea_Accessories/1384.html

A dripless teapot "gadget" that goes in the spout to "fix" your
current pot. I haven't bought one yet, so I can't say whether they
work or not.

--
Derek

"The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature
cures the disease." -- Voltaire

On Fri, 1 Apr 2005 07:08:48 -0600
Derek wrote:

On Fri, 01 Apr 2005 12:42:51 GMT, Daniel J. Morlan wrote:

Is there such a thing? I hate using a kleenex to clean my desk EVERY
time I pour tea. It's frustrating, and certainly isn't keeping costs
down. (Yes, I know I could use a towel...)

DJM

A while back, someone posted the link for these:

http://www.culinaryteas.com/Tea_Accessories/1384.html

A dripless teapot "gadget" that goes in the spout to "fix" your
current pot. I haven't bought one yet, so I can't say whether they
work or not.


Looks like you could make your own with an inch and a half of plastic
coated wire tie.

On Fri, 01 Apr 2005 07:08:48 -0600, Derek wrote:

On Fri, 01 Apr 2005 12:42:51 GMT, Daniel J. Morlan wrote:

Is there such a thing? I hate using a kleenex to clean my desk EVERY
time I pour tea. It's frustrating, and certainly isn't keeping costs
down. (Yes, I know I could use a towel...)

DJM

A while back, someone posted the link for these:

http://www.culinaryteas.com/Tea_Accessories/1384.html

A dripless teapot "gadget" that goes in the spout to "fix" your current
pot. I haven't bought one yet, so I can't say whether they work or not.

Yes they work, 80%

In article ,
Daniel J. Morlan wrote:
Is there such a thing? I hate using a kleenex to clean my desk EVERY time I
pour tea. It's frustrating, and certainly isn't keeping costs down. (Yes,
I know I could use a towel...)

It has to do with the angle of the spout at the end and very little else.
I can recommend the Chatsworth pots.
--scott
--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

In article ,
Daniel J. Morlan wrote:
Is there such a thing? I hate using a kleenex to clean my desk EVERY time I
pour tea. It's frustrating, and certainly isn't keeping costs down. (Yes,
I know I could use a towel...)

It has to do with the angle of the spout at the end and very little else.
I can recommend the Chatsworth pots.
--scott
--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

"Daniel J. Morlan" wrote in message
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Is there such a thing? I hate using a kleenex to clean my desk EVERY time
I
pour tea. It's frustrating, and certainly isn't keeping costs down.
(Yes,
I know I could use a towel...)

Yes, the Jenaer (which ceased production at the end of March) and Bodum
glass teapots have excellent reputations for being dripless. The IngenuiTea
from adagio.com is popular with those who make tea at work. My Bee House
teapot is dripless depending on how I pour. If I don't use quick
wrist-action, a drop of tea hangs from the lip (but doesn't drop) as it does
for the teapot of my Tea-for-One Brown Betty set and bone china Chatsford
teapots. These are made dripless with the gadget that Derek mentioned.

The thing about spouts is that the ones with elongated openings and longer
underlips pour much better compared to spout openings that are round with
short to no underlips. I've got two of the latter that are so poorly shaped
that not even the dripless gadget will help.

--
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"Daniel J. Morlan" wrote in message
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Is there such a thing? I hate using a kleenex to clean my desk EVERY time
I
pour tea. It's frustrating, and certainly isn't keeping costs down.
(Yes,
I know I could use a towel...)

Yes, the Jenaer (which ceased production at the end of March) and Bodum
glass teapots have excellent reputations for being dripless. The IngenuiTea
from adagio.com is popular with those who make tea at work. My Bee House
teapot is dripless depending on how I pour. If I don't use quick
wrist-action, a drop of tea hangs from the lip (but doesn't drop) as it does
for the teapot of my Tea-for-One Brown Betty set and bone china Chatsford
teapots. These are made dripless with the gadget that Derek mentioned.

The thing about spouts is that the ones with elongated openings and longer
underlips pour much better compared to spout openings that are round with
short to no underlips. I've got two of the latter that are so poorly shaped
that not even the dripless gadget will help.

--
~~Bluesea~~
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Please take out the trash before sending a direct reply.

I find that most glass pots with underlips (like the Jenaer) are
dripless, as long as you keep the rate of flow low enough that liquid
doesn't over-run the underlip. I also use a tetsubin with a round
spout, no underlip, and amazingly it never seems to drip (the most I've
seen it drip is one single drop). I think with these types of pots, it
really does have a lot to do with the diameter of the spout and the
angle, as one previous poster mentioned.

Daniel wrote:
Is there such a thing? I hate using a kleenex to clean my desk EVERY time
I
pour tea. It's frustrating, and certainly isn't keeping costs down.
(Yes,
I know I could use a towel...)

One option is to make your current pot dripless.

Most pots I've tried this on respond well, or even perfectly. All it needs
is a thin film of anything unwettable (hydrophobic; low surface-energy with
no hydrogen bonding) where you want the stream to separate. An easy demo is
to wipe the thinnest possible film of flavorless cooking oil around the
spout, but that will wash off quickly. More serious nerds can use either
Rain-X (from any auto store) or a fluorosilicone sample from Du Pont. I've
tried Teflon mold-release spray, which works fine but makes a visible,
powdery coating.

Now all the chemophobe paranoiacs here can start griping.

-DM

Daniel wrote:
Is there such a thing? I hate using a kleenex to clean my desk EVERY time
I
pour tea. It's frustrating, and certainly isn't keeping costs down.
(Yes,
I know I could use a towel...)

One option is to make your current pot dripless.

Most pots I've tried this on respond well, or even perfectly. All it needs
is a thin film of anything unwettable (hydrophobic; low surface-energy with
no hydrogen bonding) where you want the stream to separate. An easy demo is
to wipe the thinnest possible film of flavorless cooking oil around the
spout, but that will wash off quickly. More serious nerds can use either
Rain-X (from any auto store) or a fluorosilicone sample from Du Pont. I've
tried Teflon mold-release spray, which works fine but makes a visible,
powdery coating.

Now all the chemophobe paranoiacs here can start griping.

-DM

All the old teapots and kettles (before ACAD design that started in early
70-ies.) are that way - they do not drip or spill or whatever. Almsot all of
these things were designed by engineers.
But since ACAD things started to be designed by "designers" and these
people do not have adequate training in engineering and physics, so as long
as the teapot or coffeepot looks good on the screen, they are OK.
Now that things are designed by 3d engineering programs like Solidworks and
it became even easier to do so, another disaster is everywhere - things
breaking off because they are too thin (like plastic tabs on battery lids,
etc. SanDisk USB memory dongle has a tiny depression with a thingy to ancor
the lanyard. It is so thin that a weak tug from being caught in a jacket
crevasse and it gets silently broken with your precious data laying
somewhere on the floor. But I am sure that on the screen it looked very
solid.
But the best non-spilling teapot has the spout with down-looking opening
like some of the Chinese porcelin teapots. However it only works if the
internal parts of the spout is rough porcelin and has enough surface tension
to hold that last single drop that forms on the downlooking part of the
spout. Same design with glazed internal surface does not work as well. But
even in this case the worst that can happen is that one drop of tea will
spill. Some of the contemporar pots from the coffee-makers are spilling the
half of the liquid everywhere but not where it is meant to be poured.
Spilling pots and day-saving time are the two most stupid everyday things
that irritate me immensly.

Sasha.



"Daniel J. Morlan" wrote in message
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Is there such a thing? I hate using a kleenex to clean my desk EVERY time
I pour tea. It's frustrating, and certainly isn't keeping costs down.
(Yes, I know I could use a towel...)

DJM

Alex .com4/12/05


All the old teapots and kettles (before ACAD design that started in early
70-ies.) are that way - they do not drip or spill or whatever. Almsot all of
these things were designed by engineers.
But since ACAD things started to be designed by "designers" and these
people do not have adequate training in engineering and physics, so as long
as the teapot or coffeepot looks good on the screen, they are OK.
Now that things are designed by 3d engineering programs like Solidworks and
it became even easier to do so, another disaster is everywhere - things
breaking off because they are too thin (like plastic tabs on battery lids,
etc. SanDisk USB memory dongle has a tiny depression with a thingy to ancor
the lanyard. It is so thin that a weak tug from being caught in a jacket
crevasse and it gets silently broken with your precious data laying
somewhere on the floor. But I am sure that on the screen it looked very
solid.
But the best non-spilling teapot has the spout with down-looking opening
like some of the Chinese porcelin teapots. However it only works if the
internal parts of the spout is rough porcelin and has enough surface tension
to hold that last single drop that forms on the downlooking part of the
spout. Same design with glazed internal surface does not work as well. But
even in this case the worst that can happen is that one drop of tea will
spill. Some of the contemporar pots from the coffee-makers are spilling the
half of the liquid everywhere but not where it is meant to be poured.
Spilling pots and day-saving time are the two most stupid everyday things
that irritate me immensly.

Sasha.

I have found that among the many YiXing GungFu teapot "styles," those well
made with a straight upward pointing spout work best in the drip department.
The last drop is "pulled back" into the pot, as it ought to. This has to do
with design much more than clay roughness and surface tension. Take it from
Michael, the used-to-be potter.

Michael