Mephistopheles Jones > wrote in message in.com>...
> I live in Los Angeles. Is there a retail store that carries the old
> school, conservative-looking tea pots. The whistling kind that is a basic
> stainless-steel cylinder, rounded at the top, with a conservative handle
> and spout. Not those quasi-futuristic thingamajigs at Target and Crate
> and Barrel, etc... I've searched high and low, and the best I found was a
> pot at Linens n Things with a copper bottom that makes water taste funny
> cuz apparently the copper soaks into the water (it's copper on the inside
> bottom as well as the outside bottom).
>
> It's so weird what happened to tea pots over the last coupla decades.
> They look like something kids would buy.
>
> Meph

I can't answer about the metal ones, but there is a common GLASS one
called "whistler" that is quite nice. Of course the glass imparts no
taste, and one can see when to de-lime it, unless you use distilled
water like I do and never need to do that. I've seen whistlers at
grocery stores, and places like hardware stores that carry kitchen
things, like OSH. They work w/o the whistler top, and you can see the
water boil, which I like so I don't get a noise. But you can put the
top on after filling and get a whistle when it boils. Fairly cheap,
lasts forever unless you break it.
My $.02
betsy