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Musings on Yixing ware

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As we are aware, the core of being is an empty ritual -- to mix metaphors -- but no, there is purpose. Pouring water over the outside of the filled teapot serves to clean off spotting and homogenize stains. In addition, and more importantly, the pouring causes the tea water on the inside to move around in its attempt to commune with the water on the outside, causing a further mixing. Finally, I've noticed that pouring hot water over the filled pot facilitates an eructation of the pot lid in an oft' bemusing way.

Michael

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Michael Plant
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Wow, there must be powerful forces at work in that little pot. I can't remember eructating anything solid in my whole life.

/Lew

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Well, you had to be there. M

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Michael Plant

Thanks guys.... I had almost forgotten how much fun good people can be in a forum. All that aside its not about heat loss directly. Its about heat retention. The pot is properly heated first and properly timed reheating makes the pot hotter each time or if properly timed maintains an optimum temp as you pao. This is because it is preheated and doesn't have to rise as much in temp. Nothing else in the world matches good yixing pots for this. It will never get as hot as the water inside for reasons well covered here already. That keeps all that soup mixing and eructating going in an optimum fashion if you are a good brewer. I'm not even sure what eructation is but your comments make me hope all my pots do it.:)

Regards... Renny

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