The one cup teapot...

[omegapd]

Do a lot of people use these? Or do you find it easier to just steep leaf in the cup?

Just curious...

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[Mary R]

I love my one cup pot, if only for the fact that it keeps my leaves nice and warm for the next round. They tend to cool down when I use brew baskets. It's not that big a deal, really...the taste difference isn't so extreme that I feel cheated or anything. I just prefer to use a pot.

[RussianSoul]

I have two one cup teapots: one for blacks and one for greens. Since I resteep my leaves they are both busy continuously through-out the day.

[henley]

Do a lot of people use these? Or do you find it easier to just steep leaf in the cup?

Just curious...

Thank you for asking as I've often wondered the same thing. However, I do have a 1.5 cup teapot that I let my 5 yr old use as she drinks half a cup at a time or uses a demitasse cup.

[Space Samurai]

All my teapots (non-yixing) are 8-11 oz, one for black, white, green, and oolong. I love them. I think making tea 7-8 oz at a time is perfect.

[Chip]

The longer I drink tea, the more my pots shrink. I am a cup teapot person. Since I do as many as 5 or even more steeps, I would be stuck on one tea all day otherwise.

[olivierco]

I usually use 3oz and 4 oz teapot for gyokuro, 6 oz and 8 oz teapot for japanese greens.

[TimeforTea]

I love my 12 ounce "forlife" brand mug with extra fine infuser and mug cover that doubles as an infuser holder. I use it every night for brewing my before bed rooibos.

Here is a link:
http://www.forlifedesign.com/brew-in-mug.html

[tenuki]

All my daily pots and gaiwans are around or under 100ml, so yes. It's the best way to drink tea, I agree with Chips observation that his pots are shrinking over time, mine too.

[auggy]

I used a 2 cup pot but that's because anytime DH sees I have a new cup, he wants one, so I just make two cups and give him one anytime I'm drinking. Since he doesn't brew ANY tea (just drinks mine), he'd be sad if I only had a one cup.

[greenisgood]

Yeah the only teapot I use more than my 10 ounce kyusu is a big cast iron thing that I got cheap from the dubious Republic that's like 30 ounces or something. I like it for making like a big pot of genmaicha or a cheap Chinese green when I really have to get to work sitting at my desk or something and I don't want to be distracted by resteeping all the time and enjoying subtleties; I just want a lot of tea. And I find that the metal keeps it hot enough for long periods. But otherwise yeah, small teapots are the way. I think that its part of the addicting nature of good tea to brew it in a small pot, I just want more and more but I'm forced to enjoy "sip by sip" (I offended the Minister and he's watching, I had to make up for it). And for some reason brewing tea in little cool teaware is just so much more fun than a mug infuser.