Sorapot reviewed. Verdict: good, with minor flaws about the spout

Posted by Rob Beschizza, September 19, 2008 8:11 AM | permalink

Yanko reviews the attractive Sorapot, a teapot for modern minimalist types, and finds it to its liking. Joey Roth's Pyrex-esque design wins for its simplicity, lack of taste-affecting materials and easy clean-up, but loses marks for its tiny size (you only get two cups), lack of a spout lid to prevent heat escaping, and a sieve that lets fine leaves through.

It's also $200, which is art-expensive. Me, I'll stick with the brown betty.

It’s Tea Time! Sorapot Review [Yanko]

posted in:

Favorite this! ( 1 )

Older Gizmodo reviews LASIK (Verdict: having your eyeball sucked out of your skull and sliced open with a laser hurts.)

Newer $1,000 motorized wine squirting bladder

Discussion

Take a look at this

#1 posted by Tommy

, September 19, 2008 8:50 AM

$200? Ummm, no thanks. (Pats his mustard-yellow Beehouse.)

Take a look at this

#2 posted by Anonymous , September 19, 2008 9:44 AM

this remind me those ancient Chinese urinal. It shape just like it. I definitely not going to get one..

Take a look at this

#3 posted by jjasper , September 19, 2008 11:14 AM

A French press works just fine.

Take a look at this

#4 posted by Anonymous , September 19, 2008 11:20 AM

This is the coolest teapot I've ever seen. Definitely going on the holiday list. Thanks BB!

Take a look at this

#5 posted by Chris Schmidt , September 19, 2008 12:33 PM

I agree with Rob. I Imported a real brown betty from the UK a few years ago and it's become one of my favorite things in my apartment.

Take a look at this

#6 posted by Rob Beschizza

, September 19, 2008 12:58 PM

Wouldn't a french press release too much tannin for tea?

Chris knows his tea.

Take a look at this

#7 posted by nerd rage blackout , September 19, 2008 1:10 PM

I'm pretty sure you're supposed to smoke weed out of that.

Take a look at this

#8 posted by dculberson , September 19, 2008 1:21 PM

Other than the spout, it would seem to be the ideal container for a facehugger fetus.

Take a look at this

#9 posted by hohum , September 19, 2008 2:35 PM

I love it! $200 is kind of steep for a struggling artist with an incurable tea addiction though. I'm sure the Brown Betty steeps up a good pot, but it would look horribly out of place in my humble spot. I've used a French press to make tea before and never have i noticed it being too tannic - however, I rarely am offended by tannins in tea or wine... Tannic coffee, however....

Anyway, this is the pot I want right now... Or one of the Bodums with the glass filter.

Take a look at this

#10 posted by sonny p fontaine , September 20, 2008 4:58 PM

the lack of scale in the image made me think it was a really cool coke vial.

Take a look at this

#11 posted by mdh , September 20, 2008 8:57 PM

I make my coffee a cup at a time, but it's too flash for me.

Take a look at this

#12 posted by Anonymous , September 21, 2008 7:11 PM

Why would a french press release too much tannin? Because you squeeze the leaves? - I don't think that has much effect, at least not as much as tea steeping time does.

Take a look at this

#13 posted by MrsBug , September 22, 2008 10:59 AM

@#9 I had one of those Bodums with the glass filter and, alas, the filter breaks easily. :(