Barely have we come out of appreciating the Enso that we have another innovative way of making and serving a hot beverage. The Mateando is the Spanish way of serving your cuppa in a very stylish ceramic set. The three-layer construction consists of “a yerbera, a sugar bowl and a mate”. Sugar is understood, mate here is the brew cup, but pardon my Spanish I don’t know what yerbera means! Hot ceramic can blister your hand, that’s why a special leather sleeve has been included round the cup.
Someone may as well whisper leather to Starbucks!
Designer: Eliana Vincenzo
I will try to enlighten you:
in southern america (Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, southern Brazil) yerba-mate is consumed by putting the grounded leaves in a special cup and pouring the hot water beside it. The “yerbera” is where the ground leaves are stored for a longer time span (so you can brew many cups of mate). Take a look at Wikipedia!
Many Thanks for this.
It’s always interesting to learn about other people’s food habits and culture.
Notice that you don’t drink it from the cup, as you’d do with tea -for example-, but you use a straw to drink it.
Look carefully, you’ll see the straw in the image.
Yerbera is like a teapot for Paraguay tea. And conception is great)
Gosh, I thought it was a communal bong with a built in stash trap. j/k
If hot ceramic is going to blister your hand, it would certainly blister your lips and scald your tongue as well. Did the designer not take this into consideration?
Hi berkana, it wouldn’t blister your lips because the user doesn´t drink from the cup. The Mate is’t a famous infusion in Argentina and Uruguay. The way to drink it it’s by a “bombilla” (that’s a little tube with little holes at the bottom).
Thanks for the appreciation!!
again, you dont drink mate as you would drink tea.
you drink it out of a metal straw.
i think the design is very nice.
breaking many traditional barriers though.
usually, the cup would be made out of horn, or wood.
i don’t know how they drink it in uruguay and argentina, but in paraguay and brazil we just don’t use sugar.
great design indeed
greetings from Argentina
dammn this looks like toile bowl…. =.=”
Where is the flush handle?
NICE DESIGN!