Best TeaPot

[northernladyuk]

Get a coffee maker and fill it with coffee.

FTFY

[WTFH]

Get a coffee maker and fill it with tea.

FTFY

Get a still, fill it with (vodka, juniper berries, Angelica root, bergamot, bitter orange, cardamom, cassia, coriander and a few others). Your distillate will be gin.

[northernladyuk]

Get a still, fill it with (vodka, juniper berries, Angelica root, bergamot, bitter orange, cardamom, cassia, coriander and a few others). Your distillate will be gin.

Vodka is already a distillate. That sounds like an infusion. Not sure why you would do this in a still.

[WTFH]

Vodka is already a distillate. That sounds like an infusion. Not sure why you would do this in a still.

You suspend the botanicals over the vodka so that they flavour the vapour, then you condense it.

[northernladyuk]

You suspend the botanicals over the vodka so that they flavour the vapour, then you condense it.

Ah. Thanks. Must try. Sloe and damson gins are my regulars.

[Pip in a Poke]

Ah. Thanks. Must try. Sloe and damson gins are my regulars.

Always made my own sloe gin in time for Christmas.

Word has it that one shouldn't pick the sloes until after the first frost.

Now, years ago that meant you could have them steeped in a kilner jar by the end of September but these days one can count the number of pre-Christmas frosts on something I haven't got.

So, onto a baking tray for a night in the deep freeze they go...

[OwlHoot]

When you go shopping for a teapot, take a bottle of water and a bowl with you. Then you can check easily if the teapot is a dribbler.

The main dribbling aspect isn't hairline cracks but utterly carp "shallow" spouts where supposedly chic minimalist design has long since completely taken over from sound hydrodynamics and plain common sense.

Frankly I wouldn't bother buying any teapot made after about 1950 for that reason, as it will dribble like an incontinent two year old!

Your best bet is to try and find an old one in a charity shop. (I have several, although I don't generally use them.)

[WTFH]

Ah. Thanks. Must try. Sloe and damson gins are my regulars.

I’ve 3.5l of sloe gin on the go from picking the blackthorns I planted a couple of years ago. They don’t go through a still, just 500g of fruit, 250g of sugar per litre of gin.

[northernladyuk]

Sloe Home

[greenlake]

my trusty old teapot has developed a hairline crack.
What do you guys think is the best replacement? i want a nice strong brew without too much faffing.
oh, and money is no object.

Sounds like you need the advice of experts....