It’s Tea Time! Sorapot Review - Yanko Design

It's here, we got information technology and have been drinking tea similar in that location's no tomorrow – Joey Roth's Sorapot. How excited was I to open such a beautifully packaged teapot! Information technology'due south important to notation all the packaging materials are 100% recycled. The Sorapot is a modern teapot, with its architectural shape and uncomplicated functionality designed to bring the quiet dazzler of tea and brewing tea into focus. How well does it perform? Hit the jump for our review.

The Sorapot is made from 304 stainless steel and borosilicate drinking glass (call up Pyrex). Score 1 for Joey since any tea connoisseur knows loose leaf tea should Just be brewed in steel, ceramic, or drinking glass. Cheap aluminum based brewers impart a nasty metal gustatory modality, peculiarly to more fragile white and green teas. The Sorapot is so handsome, then well made. It'due south extremely robust simply I couldn't help from treating information technology like a fine piece of china. It'due south hefty and makes enough tea for two viii oz. cups.

There'due south a cardinal support rod that screws together to hold the height and bottom ends taught. The steel frame is jointed in the centre along the handle. Unscrew to remove the steel frame from the drinking glass cylinder. Place your loose leaf tea inside, then reassemble. Pour water thru the spout and voile!

What we liked

Beautifully constructed steel, glass, and silicone. High grade materials. Hefty and solid.
Steel is beautifully polished.
Non made of cheap aluminum.
The glass cylinder allows you to watch tea leaves unfurl. It's similar a trivial dance in at that place.
All metal parts seem to have been treated. No rusting or corrision.
Piece of cake make clean up. Just rinse out the cylinder and run water thru the spout to dislodge any tea leaves.

What could exist improved

I wish there was hinged cap on the spout – to proceed all oestrus from escaping while brewing.
The born sieve works perfectly fine for big loose leaf teas but doesn't capture small leaf teas like roobis. Many of the tiny leaves passed thru into my cup. Maybe if the diameter of the sieve holes were a tad smaller, it would help without restricting h2o.

The Sorapot is $200 for the original brushed steel (the one in this review) and $250 for the very sought after mirror polished. I say without hesitation this is well worth the price if yous're a tea lover (I potable iv-six cups a day). Sure you can detect many cheaper stainless steel brewers but I challenge you to find one that looks as cute every bit the Sorapot. This is a teapot I don't hibernate in the cupboards. It proudly sits on my kitchen counter strategically placed under cabinet lighting. Congrats to Joey for designing a such a lovely product.

Designer: Joey Roth [ Purchase It Here ]