Can boiling water be poured directly into the teapot without breaking?
1487225
I have had no issues with the tea pot. Pour boiling water from the kettle into the pot and put on the lid. Great teapot!
1487226
Definitely! I like my tea HOT and have been using this teapot with boiling water for a year without an issue
1487227
Yes. I always pour it right after it boils with the tea and it hasn't broken on me.
1487228
I have had mine for almost two months and I have poured boiling water into it almost daily and it has not cracked.
1487229
Most definitely! Here's what I do. I fill my stoneware teapot with water and then stick it in the microwave for "5 min on high" and then continuously on "hold." During this time water is heating to boiling in another pot [electric or on the stove]. When the 'tea water' reaches boiling, I empty the stoneware teapot, add three tea bags, pour in the boiling water and then steep for 4 minutes.
541901
NO! I have poured boiling water in it, but do not place it on a stove and heat it because it will break!
1235975
As far as I can tell. I don't remember if I used water that had been boiling, but possibly since I would pour from a hotpot that had just boiled the water. Now I use water from my Keurig--boiling, I would think at the boiling point. This teapot is marvelous. I eat in a community dining rom where everyone loves my little teapot. If something happens to it I will immediately replace if possible.
1428373
This kettle has a copper bottom/insert, and I suspect you could melt it IF you let the kettle boil dry. I actually did that to an aluminum tea kettle once. But IMO it would never happen under normal use -- the boiling water keeps it cool enough to ever allow that to happen.
1194552
No, you cannot put boiling water for tea directly into this pitcher. I gave this for a gift, and at first she wasn't going to tell me that she did just that, and it cracked. She said that she should have tempered it first by filling it warm water and letting the glass get warm 1st (let me also add... put it on something besides a cold countertop also.) Once the glass has gotten warm over a few minutes, then I "think" it would be fine for the hot tea. I still wouldn't put boiling tea right off of the stove. I would let it cool just a bit. You might had rather buy a pitcher that is made of tempered glass, if you don't want to go through the ritual and waiting. It's a great size, though, for a crowd. I was really sorry to hear that hers broke. She was so happy to receive it as a gift.
192102
I have looked and looked for a glass pitcher that will withstand boiling water, but have found very few that do. This particular pitcher is well made, but I've never attempted to put billing water in it. I use it for iced tea. I make the tea in a separate kettle and allow it to cool a bit before I pour it into the pitcher. Also, I put hot water from the tap in the pitcher before I pour the tea into it in order to help warm up the glass. As I understand it, the reason many glass pitchers crack from boiling water is because of the temperature difference between the glass and the water...so, I always warm up the pitcher a bit first.
1826612
no you must heat the water on stove top or microwave and then pour in to tea pot
2040465
This is a ceramic pot into which you pour hot water to make tea. It is not a metal pot for boiling the water on a stove of any sort. .
727394
No. My pitcher was room temp and I poured boiling water in it for tea and the whole bottom cracked. Another one bites the dust.
1992107
Yes! I purchased it to make homemade tea, and I put the boiling water directly into it. No problem so far. It also has a nice slim design, for a 64oz pitcher.
323009
I have poured boiling water from my plug in kettle into the glass jug and it has been fine. I have made it this way at least 6 times, but i have two jugs, so am unsure if it would last through many uses of boiling water poured into it. I make iced tea this way (I live in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada).
1939726
I have used for boiling tea and coffee. It is very thick glass. Mine never broke or cracked.
364642
No you can not. You must boil the water and add it to the pot. It is a very stunning piece but any glass tea pot is some what fragil. I do love it however.
1964890
This pot is not intended for stove top use. You are supposed to boil the water in sonething else then pour it into this pot to make your tea.
900211
I would expect that, yes, you can pour hot, even boiling, water directly into the container. Mind you, I haven't tried this, but the plastic it's made of is, I believe, heat resistant.
867982
I have been using the teapot regularly on my gas stove-top over medium heat for several months without incident. I also wash it in the dishwasher. I've banged it against things on accident and the lid has fallen off while pouring - and it has not cracked.
1488249
I personally would not pour boiling water in this container. As I mentioned in my review from a few years ago, the one I purchased (as a replacement for one that I got in the 90's) broke the first time I poured very hot- about 200 degrees (but not boiling) into it. Manufacturer's changed the formula for making "tempered" glass and this new formula doesn't seem to be able to take the "thermal shock" that the old glass formula could take. (I made ice tea with almost boiling water in the old glass pitcher for over a decade until it broke when I dropped it on the floor). Several years ago Consumer Reports did an article about this topic, and their research indicated this was happening because of the change in the glass formula. If you research this topic online you will find information about this issue.