Let’s be honest: $285 is too much to spend on a teapot. But if you think of Joey Roth’s Sorapot 2 as an abstract dromedary sculpture that makes brewing tea like watching a laser show at your local planetarium, the asking price makes a bit more sense.

It’s time to bust out those flowering tea balls you’ve been saving up and crank some 'Tull. The Sorapot 2 brews two cups at a time. You unscrew a stainless-steel locking bar at the base of it, open it up via a hinged handle, and put your most-exciting loose leaves in the 11-ounce glass brewing chamber.

Like its predecessor, which had a less-heavy-duty build around its top hinge and a spout that wasn’t exactly built for precision pouring, you feed the Sorapot 2 boiling water through its redesigned wide-mouth spout. You can use it with teabags for a less-exciting show, but the Sorapot 2 is really built to use with loose leaves; there’s a strainer panel built into its steel housing.

You can preorder the Sorapot 2 now, but you'll have to keep using your tedious bore of a current teapot until it ships in October.