Categories / Food and Drink, Gadgets and Tech, Homeware

Micromark Teaexpress – the teasmade returns

Tea_express If one gadget defines an era, it’s the teasmade. Beloved of our parents and grandparents, the teasmade was an essential before the days of designer coffees and busy lifestyles. And now it’s back as the Micromark Teaexpress.

And apart from a change of look, everything is pretty much the same, with the option of a cuppa ready in the morning as you wake or straight away, using the ‘tea now’ function. There’s also an illuminated LCD alarm clock, reading light and a ceramic tea pot included. You just need the cups, milk, sugar and biscuits.

Available now, you can pick one up for around £50.

Find out more at the Argos website

Categories / Cars and Bikes, Food and Drink

Vintage scooter teapot

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Not the first time we have featured a novelty teapot, but the first time we have featured the vintage scooter teapot.

Designed by Gary Seymour, the scooter has a spout in the front headlight, the seat is the lid and the backrest the handle, with the whole thing sized at 21 x 26cm.

And it’s a limited edition of just 500 – which might explain the rather hefty price tag of $136 (around £70).

Find out more at the British Novelty Teapot website

Categories / Art and Photography, Food and Drink

Surreal Sweets

P343242647_4 Gallery shops are coming up with increasingly novel ways to get visitors to part with their cash, as these Surreal Sweets prove.

Left over from the recent Dali and Film series which finished at the Tate Modern earlier this month, each piece of candy rock is decorated with a famous surrealist image, including lobsters, lips and of course, eyes.

Not sure they look that appetising but at £4 a bag, they might make an amusing gift.

Buy online at the Tate website.

Categories / Design and Interiors, Food and Drink

Milkii – the double-spouted milk bottle jug

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Few of us still get our milk delivered in traditional bottles, but you can store yours in one with a twist – the Milkii.

Not quite the traditional bottle, this design by Kathleen Hills is a bone china container with two spouts, both of which can be resealed with the included foil tops of various colours or red plastic lids. Capacity, as you would expect, is a pint.

Available in traditional white or with a black glaze finish, you can pick one up from the newly-launched Ochigo online store for £24.95.

Find out more at the Ochigo website

Categories / Food and Drink, Toys and Games

Super Mario Brothers Mushroom sweets

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Mushroom sweets? Well, not quite – these are sweets in a container shaped like the Super Mario Brothers Mushrooms.

There are three flavours available – raspberry (blue), cherry (red) and apple (green), with the containers sized at 3.5 inches high. That means you can use it again for storing your small essentials. Or as the makers suggest, as the Mushrooms can give an extra life in the game, they’re ideal for medication!

Available to buy online, you can pick one up for $3 (around £1.50).

Find out more at the Fractal Spin website

Categories / Food and Drink, Homeware

Tea and toast in one with the Toaster Teapot

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Here at Retro To Go, we like nothing better than a cup of tea and a slice of toast. And now we can have both – at once – with the Toaster Teapot.

Descriptions aren’t really necessary, it does what it says. That means toast to your required level of darkness and the ability to slip in some tea and hot water for your brew.

Add to that some retro styling, right down to the logo on the side, and you have a very useful thing of beauty for your £29.95.

Find out more at the Teapottery website