The Air Tea Kettle™ · Precision botanical vaporizer

Slow breaths. That’s the whole ritual.

Heated air, not fire, draws the aroma out of loose botanicals and holds it in glass. No smoke. No app. Set it, wait for it, and take ten slow breaths.

Shop the Kettle — $249 How it works

500 Limited Edition kettles · Kickstarter funded 115% · Made by a B Corp

Heat-not-burn

Five temperature presets

Glass vapor path

No nicotine · No THC · No tobacco

Analog by design

Rhode Island B Corp

30-day returns on the Kettle

The instrument

An instrument, not an appliance.

The Air Tea Kettle warms loose botanicals gently and evenly with precise heated air. Lower settings coax out the lightest top notes; higher settings reach the deeper aromatics. The same plant gives you a different session at every preset.

There is no burning. Combustion scorches a plant and flattens its character into smoke. Vaporization keeps the aromatics intact, the glass holds them, and what you notice first is the aroma — then the quiet.

Heated air, never a flame

100–250°C, five color-coded presets

Reusable steel TeaCup — a pinch of leaf per session

30-day returns and free US shipping on every Kettle

$249 — was $349 · Ships from Newport, RI

Add the Kettle to cart Start with a blend — $19.99

How it works

Load. Set. Breathe.

Three steps, no hurry, and no instructions you will need to read twice.

01 — Load

A pinch of loose leaf in the steel TeaCup.

Any dried, loose botanical — chamomile, lavender, tulsi, rose, or one of our blends. No oils, no concentrates.

02 — Set

Pick one of five temperature presets.

Three clicks cycles the modes. Lower for the bright, delicate notes; higher for the deep, round ones. The readout tells you where you are.

03 — Breathe

Watch the glass fill. Take ten slow breaths.

Let it warm while you settle in. Ten slow breaths, then put it down. That is the entire ritual.

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Why vaporize

Why warm a plant instead of burning it or steeping it?

Every way of taking a plant trades something away. Here is what each one gives you and what it costs, in plain terms.

How you take the plant	What you get	What you give up
Tea, steeped	The water-soluble parts, a warm cup, a familiar habit.	Most of the aroma leaves with the steam. Ten minutes of waiting, and then it has to go through digestion, which is slow and inefficient.
Tincture	Concentrated, portable, keeps for years.	Contains alcohol. No aroma, no flavor to speak of, and it was made weeks before you opened it.
Rolled and lit	Immediate. The plant's full aroma, briefly.	Smoke: combustion byproducts, heat on the throat, a smell that stays in the room and your clothes. By the time it is lit, the delicate notes are already gone.
Burned as incense	Aroma in the room.	Smoke again, and you are breathing the room, not the plant.
The Kettle, heated air	The plant's aroma and flavor at a temperature you choose. No flame, no smoke. Fast onset: the aroma is in the glass within a minute.	It lives on a table, plugged in. It takes dried, loose herb only. And it is $249 up front, which we explain below.

What the heat does

A plant's aromatic compounds release at different temperatures. Warm air at 120 °C lifts the lightest, brightest notes; 238 °C brings out the deep, round ones. A flame runs far past all of that and burns the plant. The Kettle stops where you tell it to, so the same tin of chamomile is a different session at each preset.

Why $249

A precision heating element with a readout, a borosilicate glass vessel, five calibrated presets, and a stainless steel TeaCup you reuse for years. One pinch of herb per session. Built in a first run of five hundred by a small company in Newport, Rhode Island, with a thirty-day return window on the Kettle. It is not the cheapest way to meet a plant. It is the most precise.

What we will not claim

Vapor is not smoke, but it is still something you breathe in, and we will not call that risk-free. We make no claims about treating or preventing anything. If you have a respiratory condition, or you are pregnant or nursing, talk to your doctor before using the Kettle. What we do promise is that you will know exactly what is in each tin and what temperature it ran at.

See the Kettle Read the full comparison

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Analog > Algorithm

The ultimate luxury is slowing down.

Every wellness product of the last decade was engineered toward invisibility — the app in the background, the supplement that dissolves, the ring that reports on a night already over. None of it asks anything of you, which is exactly why people quit.

The Kettle asks for a minute. You load it by hand, you wait for it, you watch it, and you stop. Friction you can feel — the kind that makes a practice stick.

Meet the Kettle

“It’s neater, faster and simpler: it doesn’t require any knowledge of herbs, formulating, or extraction to provide you with a profound experience.”

Amanda Crooke — Herbalist, Locust Light Farm

Choose your mood, choose your temperature

The product is a mood dial.

The Mindful

Intention, presence, sensory attention. The ritual is the point, and the Kettle is built to be watched.

The Sober Curious

Something to do at six o’clock with weight in your hand, a beginning and an end — and nothing in it that gets you high.

The Plant Person

Herbalists, apothecary regulars, home blenders. Tune each botanical by temperature and hear what it has to say.

The Athlete

Clean, aromatic, additive-free. A wind-down that fits between the last set and dinner.

Our signature blend

Seven botanicals, cut for the chamber.

Organic red raspberry leaf, mullein, passionflower, valerian, marshmallow, hops and damiana — chosen for how they smell, how they layer, and how they carry across the Kettle’s temperature range. Soft, green and grounding. The kind of thing you settle into at the end of a day.

Tobacco free, nicotine free, additive free. 22g tin.

Air Tea Blend — $19.99 All blends

Questions, answered plainly.

Mechanically it is a dry herb vaporizer, so it is related. What goes in it is not. No nicotine, no THC, no e-liquid, no propylene glycol, no flavourings, no solvents — loose botanical leaf and heated air. Loose leaf, warm air and glass — nothing else.

Heat-not-burn means no combustion and no smoke, which is the design premise. We will not tell you that inhaling anything is risk-free, because nobody honestly can. We tell you exactly what is in each tin, where it was grown, and what temperature it runs at. If you have a respiratory condition, or you are pregnant or nursing, talk to your doctor first. The Kettle is sold to adults 21 and over.

Any dried, loose botanical: lavender, chamomile, skullcap, damiana, tulsi, blue lotus, rose, lemon balm — or one of our blends. Source from a local farm or apothecary, or a reputable vendor such as Mountain Rose Herbs. Do not use concentrates, oils or liquids. Avoid resinous plants like pine, frankincense and sage: they are harsh and hard on the device.

Five clicks turns the Kettle on or off. Three clicks cycles the five temperature modes. Two clicks starts an auto session; click-and-hold runs it manually. It reaches temperature in about 45 seconds and charges from the included DC power supply.

Thirty days to return the Kettle. Herbs and botanicals are final sale. Full details on the refund policy page.

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