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Tetsubin

I use a mixture of things, but I boil my water either in an electric kettle I have that the element is encased, or my whistler glass stovetop tea kettle, a lined regular tea kettle, or sometimes a HotShot.

I brew in either a gaiwan, my ceramic or glass mugs with a polymesh (nylon) People's Brew Basket, Yixing (I do brew a particular jasmine green in Yixing even though it is not "correct"), or in one of my porcelain/ceramic/yixing 3-piece mugs with mug, strainer, and lid.

All of them make it very easy to cleanup with the Yixing and brew basket being a bit more of a chore. But with Yixing it is enjoyable to me. And, I'd love to find a gold/silver kettle I have nothing against those at all except cost. I also hope I don't give off a vibe that one need be wary of questioning me or my methods/thoughts... quite the contrary, I love a good discussion and I'm happy to be proven wrong and showed new things and ideas. I tend to ignore many "technical" tea things and prefer, time, experience, tradition, and common sense... that doesn't make me "right" and I don't care to be :) I just enjoy the simplicity of tea and how it was enjoyed originally, and I'd bet good money there were no scales, timers, thermometers, and 3-day-old picked tea airmailed next-day for more than my car cost me.

- Dominic

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Thank you Thitherflit. It is just as I suspected. The Tetsubin was/is a water heating vessel meant to heat the tea water, not to brew. God, you, and I triumph yet again. All else is trash.

Cordially, Michael

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Michael Plant

Unfortunately kitchen stores, Joyce Chen, and boutiques everywhere see it differently such as

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who has 12 different ones all with stainless steel infusers for brewing and even
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2285 who sells a ~$150 "traditional" tetsubin again with the stainless infuser. Both of these examples go to porcelain lined ones, and I don't have the time to find the others but I assure you that many, many places sell the non-lined tetsubin with the stainless infusers as well. I fully agree with you guys that if one was going to use it that it would be for water boiling, but even historically it could go either way with only the kama being a water-only vessel.

- Dominic

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Dominic T.

... AFAIK Tetsubins have also been used/are still in use to warm up sake [to keep it warm], but sas a different story.

Karsten [Downing: strong Ostfriesian blend w/ "Kluntje" & heavy cream, registering 10/10 on the kick-o-meter]

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