{"id":5618,"date":"2014-09-09T15:49:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-09T22:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/?p=5618"},"modified":"2022-10-20T13:13:01","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T20:13:01","slug":"the-perfect-cuppa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/outsidechocolate\/the-perfect-cuppa\/","title":{"rendered":"The perfect cuppa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I learn something new every day. It seems the British military coined a phrase, \u201cuseless as a chocolate teapot,\u201d to describe an inept or clumsy person or a pointless thing. But now someone\u2019s done something to make that insult obsolete.<\/p>\n<p>According to The Telegraph, Master chocolatier John Costello and his team from the Nestle Product Technology Centre (PTC), in York, England, have made a working chocolate teapot.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Us72tedgR9o\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The process is somewhat laborious, and seems to involve a combination of commercial kitchen utensils and homemade hacks, but it does result in a teapot made of chocolate. It even has a lovely pattern embossed into it.<\/p>\n<p>Of course they put it to the ultimate test: brewing tea in it. (Although my mother would be disappointed in their process. No initial pour-swish-drain to warm the pot. And they poured the water first, then put in the tea bags.)<\/p>\n<p>The resulting brew looked a bit thin to me, but the scientist drinking it pronounced it: \u201cTea&#8230; a little sort of hint of chocolate. It&#8217;s quite nice actually. I quite like it with a bit of chocolate in it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I think I might like it too, since I\u2019ve been drinking tea and eating chocolate since before I could talk. But I can\u2019t see myself doing all the work involved in making a chocolate teapot \u2014 just pouring and finishing one pot takes a skilled chocolatier 2-3 hours, and that doesn\u2019t include making the mold.<\/p>\n<p>But those balloon experiments they did might work as teacups&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tastes like tea! With just a hint of chocolate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5624,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,49,13],"tags":[139,221,482],"class_list":["post-5618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chocolateroundtheworld","category-chocolate-news","category-outsidechocolate","tag-british-chocolate","tag-tea","tag-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35367,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5618\/revisions\/35367"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}