Sorapot arrives

Joey Roth’s Sorapot has arrived. Within five minutes there was blood on it. Here’s a picture that explains why.

Agaves are sharp. They remain sharp even when you’re trying to balance a Sorapot on them in an artistic way. They remain sharp when you stab your thumb directly on the point of one of the leaves. Fortunately blood wipes off the Sorapot very easily. Was this a design criterion when choosing the materials?

I haven’t yet tried making tea with it. I’ve read why it should make good tea and I’ve read why the design is the way it is and I’ve wished that I’d designed something like that. But actually making tea… that brilliant shiny glass will be dulled by the deposits from the peppermint tea, it’ll get misty from the water, it’ll never be the same again. And how to find tea worthy of it?

Perhaps it’ll be better to keep it as a piece of garden sculpture. Here’s a safer picture.

The packaging of the Sorapot is designed to be easily recycled. It fails miserably at this because it is too beautiful to throw away.