Sorry, i meant to respond to this sooner but my cell phone failed when i tried to post a few weeks ago & i forgot to come back to it.victoria3 wrote:Curious, are you pouring near boiling water over pot regularly while steeping? and flash cleaning it also with near boiling water? Good to hear it has worked for you this long. I wonder if this silicone is the same type used in modern stovetop spatulas, which is supposedly non-toxic?aeris311 wrote:I dropped the lid to my first jian shui pot as I was taking it to the kitchen to begin it's clean & seasoning. It was a pretty clean break like yours. I used Dap 00688 silicone adhesive to repair it.JB-ONE wrote:I have a couple of broken lids. One is an EOT 90s Factory 1 and the other (the first pic) I'm not sure. Had it for more than a few years. The clay is the same color on the inside and out, but on the Factory 1, the clay inside is darker. Wondering if the 90s F1 is zisha coated with hongni or if it's just the firing.
The visibility of the repair on the polished side depends on the lighting, if under soft indoor lighting it takes some scrutiny to notice. If you shine a cell phone flashlight at it, the seam stands out quite a bit lol. The seam is evident on the underside, so that's probably what could be expected from yixing.
BUT... The repair is standing up fantastically. I use it regularly for sheng. And as I said I hadn't even cleaned or seasoned it when I broke it; so after curing for 24 hrs or so it started off by surviving a good boiling, and a soak in a pot of hot puerh after that.
Yes and yes to your first two questions. I pour my water in the pot, put the lid on, & then pour water over it when i'm steeping. And i clean it with boiled water when done with the leaves.
I'm not sure if the DAP is the exact same type as silicone cookware... I had read somewhere that it's foodsafe so that's why I picked it up; don't know where now. But it is currently advertised as nontoxic & safe for aquarium repair--good enough sign for me considering how sensitive fish are.