To make a pot in the design of a traditional tea kettle, you need to use chemicals in the clay body to make it into a slip and cast in the mold. Instead of compromising the quality of the clay with chemicals, we did something else: we made a small pot that can heat water to boil tea leaves or coffee beans in it.

Using tea bags allows a good amount of toxins (called dioxins) into your tea from the bag — and that is a popular method to make tea if using a kettle. In contrast, you can add dried tea leaves or crushed coffee beans with ginger, spices, etc., directly to your MEC pot. When it’s done, you can sift the chaff through a cloth or metal sifter as you pour it into your cup to serve!

You can make perfect tea/coffee in any one of MEC’s 100% non-toxic pots with this method! Customers typically use use either the MEC Small Pot or MEC Medium Pot for making their freshly brewed teas and coffee.