"Mephistopheles Jones" > wrote in message
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> I live in Los Angeles. Is there a retail store that carries the old
> school, conservative-looking tea pots. The whistling kind that is a basic
> stainless-steel cylinder, rounded at the top, with a conservative handle
> and spout. Not those quasi-futuristic thingamajigs at Target and Crate
> and Barrel, etc... I've searched high and low, and the best I found was a
> pot at Linens n Things with a copper bottom that makes water taste funny
> cuz apparently the copper soaks into the water (it's copper on the inside
> bottom as well as the outside bottom).
>
> It's so weird what happened to tea pots over the last coupla decades.
> They look like something kids would buy.

I think the microwave has replaced the tea kettle. If you only need a
couple of cups of boiling water, it is faster in the microwave and requires
no supervision. If you forget that you put the water in the microwave, you
won't burn the house down like you will with a forgotten kettle.