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#18 - In cucina

Teapot in the culinary world

The Moroccan tea recipe

I was inspired by the previous blogs of 2014 and I thought an authentic way to connect the teapot to the culinary world would be to present the recipe of the Moroccan tea. The typical Moroccan tea serving is made with a (Berrad) Moroccan teapot, an ornate tray, and tea glasses and one important step within the preparation method is that Moroccan teapots should be placed directly over the fire.

Add the green tea in you Berrad (Moroccan teapot)
Boil the water
Add ¼ cup of the boiled water to tea to clean it and throw the dark water away
Fill the Berrad with the boiled water.
Lower the heat and boil off the tea
After turning off the heat, add fresh mint and sugar and leave it for 3 minutes .
Poor up the tea in glasses.

An interesting culinary book: ''The Culinary tea, more than 150 recipes''

Always talking about recipes, when browsing the internet I found a culinary book that exposes around 150 popular recipes with all the ingredients and tips on how to prepare different types of tea.

link1:The source of the picture and the recipe

link2: Cynthia Gold and Lise Stern, ''Culinary tea, more than 150 recipes'' Uk, Hachette,UK,2010.

#30 -La scienza e la tecnica della cosa

Have you ever wondered about the ''Teapot effect''?

When searching for a possible relation between teapots and science, I found an interesting paper dealing with the problem of dribbling teapots. In fact, everyone has experienced the annoying overflowing from the pot spout especially when the tea is poured slowly. Therefore I summarized the main points of this article and I also attached the link to download the full paper.
For centuries scientists have struggled to explain the ''teapot phenomenon''.Some suggested internal vortices in the fluid, others opted for atmospheric pressure as the main factor while other explanations based on the momentum of the fluid tried to find the perfect speed of the flow to avoid the dribbling.
A team of fluid dynamics scientists, C. Duez, C. Ybert, C. Clanet, and L. Bocquet, from the University of Lyon in France have addressed this issue by explaining the main factor of overflowing: a "hydro-capillary" effect that sticks the liquid to the solid surface as it is poured from the spout. The experts emphasised that to avoid this problem one way is to design the lip of the spout very sharp and coat the lip with superphobic materials to repel water from the spout. I reported below some pictures to explain the experiment :

In (a) when water leaves the spout of an (hydrophilic) teapot, the streamline bends and causes the dribbling , and this is worst at a slower flow rate(a').However, when using a superhydrophobic coating the streamline is straight and the dribbling problem is avoided at different flow rates b and b' .

link1:''Beating the teapot effect'',Cyril Duezy, Christophe Yberty, Christophe Clanetz, Lyderic Bocquety ,Universite de Lyon ,2009

link2:The source of the picture

#21 - La cosa nella Musica

The teapot in Music

When looking for teapots in the musical world, I found that they were mainly the subject of popular nursery rhymes and traditional poems for children dating back to the nineteenth century. I have chosen '' I am little teapot'' and '' Polly put the kettle on''

'' I'm a little teapot''

''Polly put the kettle on''

link1:I'm little teapot'',Song and Lyrics
link2:Gus Williams ''Popular songs'', teapots
link3:Polly put the kettle on
link4''Polly put the kettle on '' Lyrics

#32 - Le azioni della cosa / con la cosa

The actions of /with the teapot

To boil:

(To boil water in a teapot)

   To brew:
                                         ( To brew a tea in a teapot)


   To contain:
   (The teapot contains tea)

   To dribble:
(the teapot dribbles)


To drip:
(The teapot drips)

To hold:
   (The teapot holds 4 cups of tea)

   To pour:
   ( The teapot pours tea)

To scream:
   (The teapot screams)

   To steep:
(To steep tea leaves in a teapot)

   To sweat:
(The teapot sweats drops)


   To whistle:
   (The teapot whistles)

#22 - La cosa nei Fumetti

Teapot in comics

Teapots have also illustrated the covers of a wide number of comics and continue nowadays to be an extremely common and funny topic for cartoons and comics. In the two covers the kettle and the teapot are respectively the protagonists of ''Kettle'' and ''Micky Maus'' .