Cauldon Ceramics Classic Brown Betty Teapot | Hand Made 6 Cup Brown Betty Teapot | Made with Traditional Staffordshire Red Clay | Ceramic Teapot for Loose Leaf Tea or Teabags | 43 fl oz

After reading some of the negative reviews of this pot I was a little reticent to purchase it, but I really needed a large tea pot after my old Chatsworth pot got dropped and broken. I'm now very glad I did!! This pot is very large but still light weight and easy to pour. Now I do support the spout when I pour, holding the pot with two hands, not just one on the handle. Makes a lovely cup of tea with 4 PG Tips tea bags in it, with plenty to go around the table at meal time. I find the pot to be of very sturdy construction, holds heat well, and is very nice looking too. I have had no problems with the glazing as some people have complained about, but I do preheat the pot with warm water from the sink before I pour the boiling water in it, so maybe that is the "secret" to not getting crazing in the glaze. It's a pottery tea pot and needs to be handled with the same care you would give to any pottery or china item. I have used this pot everyday, and filled it numerous times a day since I've gotten it and I've not had any problems, very satisfied with this tea pot and would recommend it to anyone looking for a nice big tea pot.

Ever since I had read about what a great teapot the Brown Betty is, I had wanted one, but being a waste-not/want-not sort of person, I would not indulge myself because I had a perfectly good pot that had been a gift 19 years ago. Recently we moved. I had carefully placed the gift teapot in the floor of the back seat of my Honda CRV to make sure it didn't bounce around during the 4-mile drive from my old house to my newone. Upon arrival at my "now" home, I started unloading from the tail gate (having completely forgotten the teapot, which was now under multiple hangers-full of closet stuff piled on top of it). On the 2nd trip, my housemate went out to the car to help me unload, snatched out the tangle of hanging clothes, which caught the teapot at just the right angle and flipped it to it's end on the concrete drive way. Now I was in need of a teapot--at a most inopportune time, as I also just happened to also be in need of MONEY from the expense of moving. Well, fate forced the issue--It was nearing Thanksgiving, and I had foolishly believed I'd be settled in enough to have the family over for Thanksgiving dinner so soon after moving in. You can't feed my family without at least two gallons of iced tea--one sweet (well, we're southern) and one unsweetened (and one of us married a Yankee). Nothing would do but that I must get a new teapot and get it QUICK!! So I ordered a brown Brown Betty, got it quickly (using my Amazon Prime), and have been really loving it since. Can I honestly tell if the tea is really better when brewed in it than it was using my old gift teapot? Well, not really, but it sure does a good job of it, and it is also very much easier to clean than the old one. Very glad I bought it.

This is exactly what my friend was looking for. It made the perfect gift for a tea lover. There was a slight blemish on the first one, so I exchanged it, no problem. The second one had the tiniest flaw (my husband and friend that received it didn't even notice it or see it when I pointed it out), so I realized that they are hand made and imperfections are to be expected. It keeps the tea extra hot and the 4-cup size is perfect for one or two people. I will definitely buy this as a gift again - especially for myself!

When we went in search of a tea pot to replace our old one, we had no idea the education we were about to receive. Not all tea pots are created equal. The Brown Betty Tea Pot is made from Euturia terracotta red clay in Staffordshire, England. This tea pot has been in production since 1695 and there is a reason it is still being made in the same place, with the same red clay, and is still so wildly popular today! The red clay heats up beautifully and keeps the tea hot for a long time. The gorgeous deep, rich shade of brown is from the special Rockingham Glaze, which by the way, passes California's Prop 65, while the shape of the pot produces the most flavorful tea we have ever had. We are very careful about what we put ON our bodies and IN our bodies and so we are so happy that this beautiful Brown Betty Tea Pot not only makes a fantastic cup of tea, it is also clean and non-toxic! My wife (who actually wrote this) and I highly recommend it!

I bought this for an English friend that told me about her Mom having one. She was thrilled and said it looked just like her childhood and happy memories. Very sturdy and heavy. A proper kettle.

It is with great sadness that I learn of the demise of the Brown Betty teapot, one of the great institutions of tea-making, and of England. An English friend gave me mine fifteen years ago after I asked him how to make the perfect cup of tea. I considered this seemingly humble clay pot to be one of my finest possessions, for its elegant shape, gorgeous glaze, good balance in the hand, and of course, the way in which it made the perfect cup of tea. I treated it with care (my mom taught me always to hold the spout when washing a teapot, as she said that most old teapots have chipped spouts from being hit against the faucet or sink), so that it survived nearly daily use in my sometimes-crazy kitchen. However, it was just broken. I was happy to find what I thought was a replacement. No criticism of Amazon (to which I am grateful for carrying something that resembles a replacement), but the new pot is laughably inferior to my old friend. It has a clumsy, baggy, shape and pitted glaze, and the lid is not even the same color as the pot. It is awkward to hold, and based on other reviews here and elsewhere, I expect that it will not last forever, as my old one might have if not for that one moment. So I am meditating on impermanence, on not trying to find happiness in things, which can be broken. But I wish that I -- and the rest of the world -- had the old Brown Betty teapot back.