Ceramic Tea Stove & Teapot Warmer Set – Hammered Stoneware, Tea-Light Heated

$69.99

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Set Stove + loop-handle teapot Stove + side-handle teapot Stove only

A tea-light stove that keeps a small pot of tea warm while you drink it

A squat coarse-stoneware stove with a hammered, iron-and-gold glaze and a little handled dish that slides into its front window. Light one tea light in the dish, set the teapot on the ribbed top, and the pot stays warm for the length of a sitting. No cord, no plug, no electricity: a candle is the whole mechanism. Choose the stove with a loop-handle teapot, the stove with a side-handle teapot, or the stove on its own for a pot you already have.

What it actually is

A candle-heated warmer, not a kettle. One tea light keeps brewed tea warm and takes the chill off water for a second steep. It will not bring water to the boil, and it is not meant to.
Coarse stoneware with a hammered finish. The body is thick pottery, dimpled by hand before firing, in a dark iron glaze with a band of gold-bronze speckle. Each piece varies a little in tone and texture; that is the nature of the glaze, not a defect.
A ribbed, vented top. Raised ribs hold the pot slightly off the surface and a scalloped centre vent lets the candle's heat rise onto the base of the pot.
A removable tea-light dish. The small round dish with a stub handle slides out through the front window, so you light the candle outside the stove and slide it in.
Two teapot shapes, same glaze. The loop-handle pot has a metal wire handle with a woven rattan grip that stays cool; the side-handle pot has a straight ceramic handle in the East Asian style. Both hold about 6.8 fl oz (200 ml), the maker's figure: a small pot for one or two people, or for gongfu-style brewing.

Which option to choose

Stove + loop-handle teapot

The stove, its tea-light dish and the round pot with the arched metal-and-rattan loop handle. The handle lifts straight up, so the pot pours like a small kettle.

Stove + side-handle teapot

The stove, its tea-light dish and the pot with the long straight side handle. Held from the side, it pours with a turn of the wrist and takes up less height on the table.

Stove only

The stove and its tea-light dish, for a small teapot you already own. The top is about 3.9 in across; a pot whose base is narrower than that sits securely on the ribs.

Using it

1. Set it down

Put the stove on a heat-resistant, level surface: a tea tray, a trivet or bare wood. Not on a tablecloth, plastic or a polished finish you care about.

2. Light

Slide the dish out through the window, set a standard tea light in it, light it, and slide the dish back in.

3. Warm

Brew your tea in the pot as normal, then sit the pot on the ribbed top. The candle keeps it warm; it does not cook the tea.

4. Finish

Blow the candle out through the window, or slide the dish out with its handle. The stove body and the top stay hot for a while after the flame is out.

Size and materials, as the maker states them

Stove

About 3.9 in across and 3.5 in tall (10 x 9 cm)

Loop-handle teapot

About 4.9 in wide at the spout and 5.3 in tall with the handle up (12.5 x 13.5 cm); holds about 6.8 fl oz (200 ml)

Side-handle teapot

About 7.2 in from spout tip to handle end and 3.6 in tall (18.3 x 9.1 cm); holds about 6.8 fl oz (200 ml)

Material

Coarse stoneware, glazed; loop handle is metal wire with a woven rattan grip

Heat source

One standard tea light (not included)

Colour

Dark iron brown with a gold-bronze speckled band; the hammered pattern varies piece to piece

About the numbers, honestly. The dimensions above are read from the maker's own measured photographs, rounded to the nearest tenth of an inch. The capacity is the maker's figure for the teapot and we have not measured it ourselves. The maker does not publish a burn time, a temperature or a glaze test for this piece, so we do not state any.

Good to know

It is a live flame. Treat it like any candle: never leave it burning unattended, keep it away from curtains, paper and children, and put it out before you leave the room. The window is open at the front, so a draught can flicker the flame.
The stove gets hot. The top and the body around the window are hot to the touch while the candle burns and for some minutes after. Lift the pot by its handle and move the stove only when it has cooled.
A small pot. At about 6.8 fl oz the teapot is sized for gongfu brewing, short repeated steeps for one or two cups at a time. If you want to keep a full-size Western teapot warm, buy the stove alone and check your pot's base is narrower than 3.9 in.
Hand wash. Rinse the pot and the dish by hand and let them dry. Keep the rattan-wrapped handle out of the sink.
Not a cooker. Do not use it with alcohol, gel fuel or charcoal, and do not try to boil water on it. It is designed around a tea light and nothing hotter.

In the box

Stove + loop-handle teapot: one tea stove, one tea-light dish, one loop-handle teapot with lid
Stove + side-handle teapot: one tea stove, one tea-light dish, one side-handle teapot with lid
Stove only: one tea stove and one tea-light dish

Tea lights, cups and the tray shown in some photographs are not included.

What changed on this page. We removed a long promotional description, a durability claim and a heat-retention claim we could not verify, and an embedded video whose captions described the set as an incense burner and showed cups and a tray that do not ship. We added the actual heat source, what each purchase option contains, the measured sizes, the pot's capacity, and plain candle-safety guidance. The lead photographs are our own; the maker's photographs follow them.