When I drink my green tea, what I typically do, is fill a swissgold 1/2 the way with the tea. I bring water to a near-boil in a tall tupperware cup with a lid. I steep the tea about a minute, and drink.
The 2nd and 3rd brews are best. They're brewed progressively longer, and I find this to be a perfectly suitable, tasty way to enjoy the tea. I enjoy it THIS way above any other way, actually, insofar. Even more than brewing a large batch at a time with my fancy-pants German crystal teapot.
(It's a Mikado. It's a fine teapot, but I'm in love with brewing it this new way.)
For a picture of the teapot, and my swissgold filter looks like this...
Though all the gold is gone, and it's just a tea-stained filter. I don't care, it gets the job done, and that tea is TASTY!
Now, I'm quite monogamous with my tea. I *LOVE* green tea. I wonder if I'm getting some risidual flavors from the tea that perhaps I can get brewing in a similar fashion with a yixing. I'm speaking purely scientifically, and with intent to broaden my appreciation of tea without making too much of a fuss about it. (Though I consider what I do with my tea now a ritual that I enjoy, I do not wish to turn this into something overly ceremonial, but merely a means to making a prize green tea that I enjoy.)
I digress a bit...
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