Burning Question about Yixing brewing...

Dec 16, 2005 6 Replies
D

I have a feeling my last post was ignored... I cut down to the chase with this question.



I'm wondering if it is feasible to put boiling water in a yixing pot, steep the tea with a swissgold filter, and pour the steeped tea into the fine china cup that I enjoy drinking tea with so much. As much as I enjoy the tupperware's taste, etc. I like the ritualistic aspects of the pot a little more, which enhances the experience for me, DEPENDING on my mood.



I've been drinking tea religiously (no pun intended) about a year, but have been thoroughly enamored with various green, black, and flavored teas the last fifteen years. (I refer to simple brands like Twining's Earl Grey, various jasmine green teas, oolongs, dragon-eye (superb tea!), etc... I'm finding that I want to delve more into this stuff, limitations towards caffeine free varieties due to dietary constraints, but I'd like to experience at least something similar to the traditional tastes, and was wondering if this method was a feasible means to do so.



I'd be surprised if someone hasn't actually tried it this way, already.



Regards,



Daniel


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Brewing tea is what works for you. There is no correct way only traditions. I used a tea kettle all my life till recently where I now use a sauce pan. I'd probably still use a kettle but I remember this is how grandma did it. The British make a strainer that sits on the top of the cup. There is making tea for yourself and guests. Different teaware, different occasions. You could buy an 8 oz clay pot with an infuser. You steep the tea in the pot just to the bottom of the infuser. That would give you about 100ml of tea. I don't like any teapot where it takes longer to get rid of the leaves than making the tea. Making tea itself is a mood enhancer.

Jim

Daniel J. Morlan wrote:

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You want to put an infuser basket into a Yixing pot? Why? And do you really expect the infuser to fit snugly under the lid so it pours well?

/Lew

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Yixing teapots are traditionally intended for single use, so their size are usually small. The swiss gold filter is simply too big to fit in, and it would be quite useless owing to the internal build-in strainer yixing teapot are equipped with.

Saluti

Giovanni Vanni

Furthermore they have an internal build-in strainer, so il would be "Daniel J. Morlan" ha scritto nel messaggio news:ETyof.33346$ snipped-for-privacy@newssvr21.news.prodigy.com...

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Hey! How did you know I was just thinking about oral sex?

--scott

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D

What we have/had here was a simple miscalculation of scale...

I humbly apologize.

Regards,

Daniel

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