I am a serious tea drinker winter & summer. I keep 2 pitchers of chilled tea in rotation in the fridge throughout the summer, plus drink a mug of hot tea upon waking. This is the absolute perfect brew size teapot. It has a perfect dripless pour. You can pour without removing your tea infuser basket or you can easily remove your infuser by its handle prior to pouring or for ez cleanup. Either way no tea leaves or debris will escape to be in your pour. I set mine on a cork coaster & have never had an issue with my tea cooling too soon. This teapot is super ez to clean. As stated, the inner tea infuser is ez to remove by its handle & I use a bottle brush to hand wash. The teapot lid & gasket also remove for ez cleaning. I love my teapot so much I snagged a second one on the scratch & dent sale that came without an infuser just in case I ever have a dreaded clutz disaster. This is absolutely the nicest, most comfortable, perfect pouring teapot I have ever found. I LOVE this teapot!!!