Looking for a brazier/kettle (furo gama)

I've mentioned a few times in recent posts that I have been interested in obtaining a charcoal fired brazier and kettle set. I've been searching but having a bit of trouble finding anything online beyond maybe three or four antique ones and none of which match the style I was hoping for. I am looking for a cylinder brazier (it can be clay or metal - NOT silver) and a kettle that has a more traditional kettle shape meant to pour from (again clay or metal - no silver - is fine). Many are the round braziers and round no-spout kettles. I have seen them as I described above in use so I know they exist, I just cannot find them and I'm not sure if it is a terminology thing that I am not searching for the right name. Possibly the cylindrical brazier and traditional kettles are not Japanese and therefore not furo gama, but I am not familiar with another name. Hopefully someone here holds the key.

Thanks,

- Dominic

in cup: Song Zhong Dan Cong

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Dominic T.
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Another list I am on has had a lot of in depth discussion on water lately. One of the parameters being debated is how fast the water is heated. Is this the draw of the Brazier style rigs and olive charcoal? To heat the water faster? And what effect does that have on the ultimate brew?

Mike

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Mike Petro

I joined this thread a bit late, but I've seen what I think is exactly the sort of traditional stone tea brazier and kettle that you might be looking for. Best Tea House Co, based in Hong Kong but with stores in Canada and Japan, sells some very hard to find teaware, and the last time I was in their Vancouver B.C. store stone braziers of this type caught my eye. At the time I remember thinking that perhaps it would be useful in trying T'ang dynasty style brewing per Lu Yu, but they didn't have a wheel-style tea grinder in stock.

I couldn't find a working online store front, sorry to say, but if you find yourself in the Vancouver or Hong Kong sometime...

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Iggy

Hey no problem, better late than never. Chou Zhou is actually more the origin as far as I know, but I'm sure stone braziers and the like existed before. Dan Congs especially tend to be the tea brewed this way. I've seen the Taoist wheel grinders in use and it is interesting, I've always looked for one as a cool decoration. I'd love to find myself in either HK or Vancouver but I doubt I will see either this year... especially HK. I'll see if I can find a phone number, I'll let my fingers do the walking, thanks for the heads up though.

- Dominic

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Dominic T.

I could be wrong, but I think the style of brazier used in Japanese (and old Chinese) tea ceremony way predates the Chaozhou stoves, probably by at least 800-1000 years.

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Yes, I just meant the ones I was talking about in this thread... I'm sure fire and kettle predates them all and then the concentration of heat and specialized use slowly evolved into the chimney/brazier and tea kettle. The earthenware/iron/metal split is the one I'd love to learn more about. Because long after metal was common earthenware continued on. I find that interesting because I have an aversion to metal in my brewing, but I would consider an iron kettle if only it wouldn't be rust in days.

- Dominic

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