h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

We used to have one at home. It was a really big thing. It worked with electricity and it was good enough for making, maybe, 2 liters of tea. My mother used to heal my bronchitis with it, I mean, not that I ate the samovar or something like that She used to prepare camomile inhalation in it for me almost every time I was ill. The idea was for me to sleep in the same room where the samovar or rather... it was the other way ariund, the samovar had to sleep in the same room with me, so that I could inhale the vapour. It had quite a good effect