How care and use your yixing teapot

Since only purple sand teapots contain thousands of air holes o micro-air pores, besides being able to keep the hot water hot for longer time and brew teas better, these air holes can also sel seasoning the teapot by absorbing the aroma from the tea. Thes characteristics can only be found in the purple sand, therefore,Yixin teapots are most used by the serious tea drinkers. Serious tea drinke like myself, I have been using one teapot for only one type of te inorder not to mix-up with the tea aroma in that teapot. Normal te drinkers may find using two or three Yixing teapots sufficient, one fo green tea(but make sure to cool your water temperature), second one fo Oolong tea and a third one for black tea. Brewing a cup of good tea ha many factors besides using a good teapot, different tea require different methods to brew,When purchased a new Yixing teapot, do no use it to brew tea right the way, it needs to be treated wit preparation work inorder to have these air holes functioning properl in the purple sand .

One cultured way if you have time to do it:

1)place the teapot with the lid uncovered, carefully place the piece onto a cook ware which should be large enough to hold the water and b able to cover the entire teapot.

2)Place some tea leaves(preferably the same kind of tea which you wil use for your new teapot) in the water and bring to a slow boil, sinc rapid boiling may damage your teapot since the pieces may possibly b hitting each other or hitting the walls in your cook ware.

3)slow boil for about an hour, let your teapot cool down in the coo ware with tea water still covering the entire teapot, let it stand fo a day or so,

4)the next day you can take the teapot out and rub off any purple san residue inside of your teapot, rinse well with water only, place th teapot back into the cook ware and bring it to a slow boil again fo around an hour or so. Let it cool down in your cook ware still coverin with the tea water again,

5)the next day you may take out your teapot and rinse it well with ho water. After this process, the air holes in your teapot are opened u and is ready for use.

One simple way for the initial use:

Fill your teapot with newly boiled water and allow the water to sit fo

5 to 10 minutes. Drain the water.

Fill the teapot a second time with newly boiled water and add on teaspoon of your favorite loose tealeaves. Allow this tea to sit for period of 5 to 10 minutes. Drain the tea.

You are now ready to prepare your first pot of tea. Fill your teapo with freshly boiled water to heat up the pot. Drain the water. Put on teaspoon of tealeaves into your pot. Again, fill the teapot wit freshly boiled water. Drain the water quickly to rinse the tealeaves Fill the teapot a third time with boiling water, allow it to steep fo at least 1 minute and enjoy your tea.

How cleaning your tea pot:

Since the clay has the unique characteristic of absorbing the flavor o your tea, washing with soap will take away from that unique quality.s never wash your Yixing teapots with any detergents or cleaning agents just rinse with hot water after each use would be sufficient, pat dr with soft towels if preferred, leave the lid uncovered till it is full dried. Tea stains may build up on your teapot after many used, don? worry about getting it off, collectors are always looking for te stains as this is one of the characteristics required for a good ol and antique teapot. Avoid having dust and grease get to the teapot. w have seen a good old teapot which have scaling tea stains, to collector?s point of view, this kind of Yixing teapots worth much mor value and is rare to find

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