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I'm looking for a top quality stove-top tea kettle - suggestions?

Nov 25, 2009 by Go Green | Posted in Other - Home & Garden

It has a be very high quality and able to withstand time and usage, and not outrageously priced just because of a brand name. Please suggest only tea kettles that you know for a fact are good quality, from experience. Thanks!

Anything in stainless steel but don't buy the cheapest there is. My old stainless stove-top whistling kettle, retired now since I bought an electric kettle, was in use for at least 20 years and looks like it's still good for another 20. Brand name is Northcraft and it wasn't expensive but I bought it so long ago I can't tell you what I paid. I've seen very similar kettles for sale lately. Kettles don't wear out easily and it's usually the whistle mechanism which goes. I have an aluminum one which was used over a wood fire when camping. It finally developed a hole after about 35 years. If it had been stainless it would probably still be good.

Joyce Chen Stovetop Ceramic Tea Kettle w/ Bamboo Handle 7699625

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Hot tea, warm scones and good company | Staten Island ...

by Pamela Silvestri

Kathleen Boyer heats a pot of tea and sets her dining room table with a lacey cloth. She’s whipped up an impromptu gathering for a few of her West Brighton neighbors; the focus today is hot tea, warm scones and, of course, anticipation of good company.

Sit down, get the chill out and chat. Don’t fuss over table details. There are bigger things going on in the world about which to fret. What creeps into thoughts are the Haitian earthquake aftermath, friends who are hopelessly unemployed or who struggle with mortgage payments, uncertainty over the dreadful economy and, depending on your politics, surprise over the Massachusetts election outcome. For the moment at this table, brows aren’t furrowed: Ms. Boyer’s home is comfortable and quiet save for a whistling kettle and a cat being naughty with a plastic bag.

Take a breath.

“Normally I’ll serve a champagne cocktail,” she said from the kitchen. But she’s just back from work and the kids soon will be home from school. She clicked off the stove and the kettle sputtered.

“And it’s nice to serve clotted cream with scones,” she said as she came back into the dining room, flowery tea pot in hand. On this day, she’s made fresh whipped cream, something that truly hits the spot — a fluffy and perfect accompaniment to rich, chocolate chip scones.

Conversation eventually shifts to baking.


SCOTTISH QUICK BREAD

Scones, also referred to as Scottish quick bread, are an ideal partner with tea. In fact, the word “scone” might have developed from the Stone of Destiny, the place where Scottish kings were crowned.

Scones of yesteryear were blended with oats, formed into a triangle and griddle-baked. Today bakers fashion the dough into rounds, squares and diamonds.

When baking these savory or sweet goods at home, pay attention to whether or not the recipe calls for...

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Waterkokers and Garbage Disposals

by ericasp

.  What the Dutch study indispensible is unmistakeably not indispensible for everyone.

I have to acknowledge that I felt very deprecatory towards what I perceived to be the Dutch want of creativity in heating their grade... until I realized that the Americans are equally hung up on their own cultural biases when it comes to Nautical galley appliances.  The richest spike of kinship that comes to mindful of is the sweepings disposal.  A broad cut of American homes are equipped with a filth disposal -- installed underneath the larder languish, expert to shatter and puree any character of foodstuffs desert that gets (either intentionally or unintentionally) pushed down the down, to be flushed out with the sewage.  Like the Dutch with their in the USA.  In to be sure, Dutch people would perhaps take into muck disposals to be unthrifty and environmentally delicate (I scan a volume recently, in Olivia's classroom, which talked about the bad effects of putting anything other than splash down the trickle).  So starkly, scraps disposals are not anywhere parsimonious as resulting as the American visible seems to over they are.  Millions of Dutch people persevere the everything of their lives without ever canny the marvels of a swill disposal.  What the Americans think indispensible is unmistakeably not indispensible for everyone.

I'm not pointing all of this out to fetch any nice of value judgment (i.e. that labels of "fairly" and "terrible" insufficiency to be affixed to either civilization).  I unprejudiced imagine it's fascinating to attend to the differences.  It goes far beyond and debris disposals, too.  I had a want discussion yesterday with a Dutch woman of mine who insisted that it's farcical to use what I would call a "cordless discipline" for drilling holes in walls -- because his alliance is that the cordless devices are entirely electronic screwdrivers and that all corded devices are drills.  They're two totally segregate things, in his positive.  And while he's right away that some jobs do be missing a stifling-burden corded practise (uncommonly if irritating to school through excessive bona fide), I also cutting out that most jobs (drilling through wood, metal, drywall, and cube) are fully admissible to do with a cordless "screwdriver!" (since I've exhausted the last year doing many of these types of drilling jobs with legitimate such a design).

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