chantal rules

Posted on January 2, 2004 by mariko

This morning I discovered rust in my trusty Chantal tea kettle! It’s probably about 10 years old, but I was still very dismayed. I called Chantal, and they are sending me a replacement! I asked if I needed to send them the rusty one, and they said no. Can you believe it? I wasn’t expecting them to just send me a new one with no proof of purchase or rustiness (if I were really slimy and had more nerve, I would have asked for a different color. Hee hee). Anyway, now I am a loyal customer. Check out how cute the new teeny ball kettles are! They come in really tantalizing colors. Oooh, mandarin, seafoam green, and even pink (at Williams Sonoma).
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Another New Year’s resolution: change my banner. I told my brother, “Hey, I don’t care if you have leukemia and you created the banner. It’s going down!!” Well, maybe I wasn’t quite so aggressive. There are so many good banners out there, but I have no clue how to make one. I don’t have any graphics software, either. But I’ll figure something out, even if it takes me until December 31, 2004!

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9 Responses to chantal rules

  1. gen says:
    January 3, 2004 at 00:31

    if you tell me what you want on it, i can make one for you… =)

  2. Jessica says:
    January 3, 2004 at 00:42

    I had the same problem with my kettle but I just tossed it. I got a replacement which was fine until the day that I got a call from my son’s school that I was late to pick him up from an early dismisal day. I grabbed my other son and ran out of the house. I picked up my son and we played on the school playground for about an hour. When we got home there was a very strange smell. I got into the kitchen to discover that I had left the kettle on, it had boiled dry and the enamel had melted down off the sides onto the burner. Basically I was probably an hour away from a massive house fire. Last week I got myself a Black and Decker hotpot with an automatic shutoff. It doesn’t make the water as hot as a kettle but I won’t destroy my house making a stupid mug of tea.

  3. greta says:
    January 3, 2004 at 06:27

    Now THAT is a teakettle, boy howdy! A harmonica whistle…I can’t explain why this makes me grin with joy, but it does. Love the Williams Sonoma pink one 😉
    Extra prayers go out for the brother…may he get through the barfy expensive stuff quickly and heal miraculously!
    In case it is any *help*, I um, NEED two mixers (blush) because for those times when we are making bread in the big one and cookie dough in the smaller one and we are just TOO lazy to thoroughly clean dough hooks between projects….well. I’d rather knit while the dough rises….nuff said.

  4. Em says:
    January 3, 2004 at 07:07

    I did the same thing as Jessica with my cheapo Target teakettle, years ago (“Oh wait, that’s right–I wanted tea”). Then a former roommate left behind–willingly–a vintage-looking Revere kettle that only needed some Barkeeper’s Friend to make it all shiny and wonderful. I love it.

  5. Heidi says:
    January 3, 2004 at 07:48

    I too am bannerifically-challenged. One day I’d like to have something more than just the thimble on my page…
    My tea kettle is a Le Creuset, in kelly green. One day I set it to boil and then forgot about it for like two hours! Oh no! But it survived. The only casualty was the little stick-on Le Creuset label, which shriveled up into charcoal. I wonder if they’d be as good about a replacement as Chantal. Lucky you!

  6. claudia says:
    January 3, 2004 at 12:38

    It’s *your* blog and everything, but damn I like your banner. A tea kettle that sounds like a train? Brilliant.

  7. Rachael says:
    January 4, 2004 at 14:40

    I too am a big ole fan of the electric kettle – love that it heats up so quick. But there’s nothing like a pretty kettle, is there? I LIKE the color yours is! 🙂

  8. Marie says:
    January 4, 2004 at 15:14

    Here in the UK we use electric kettles but I had always loved the idea of a stove top kettle. some years ago I bought a beautiful blue enamel one and just like Jessica, Em and Heidi one day I put it on to boil and forgot about it.
    It was ruined and the experience did cure me of my love for them. Now I have electric kettles which aren’t quite so cool to look at but take less time to boil and, switch off just after boiling!

  9. Eklectika says:
    January 5, 2004 at 11:13

    I can help you out too – or you could have a contest and rotate your favorites like you rotate the ones you have now (which I enjoy also!). I have a fun idea…I’ll have to Photoshop it out and send it to ya…
    Best wishes to the bro!

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