Suitable Oolongs for brewing with a slow pouring teapot

[Herb_Master]

3 Teapots -

on the left a pot that I bought from a charming teashop in a dusty side street in Pangkor Town on a small island off the west coast of Malaysia.
Size 300ml Pouring time 14s it produces excellent results with DHP

in the centre a Teapot that I bought from TeaCuppa 15 months ago, either No.1 or No. 2 - I bought them both and on arrival was unable to distinguish them apart.
Size 240ml Pouring Time 12s it produces excellent results with Shui Jin Gui

On the right My aforementioned SevenCups SmallSpout in red, also bought about 15 months ago.
Size 235ml Pouring Time 48s


I have remeasured and repoured a number of times, 48s is the best time



I find the handle too small as well as the spout



I have put my tea pick down the spout and Jiggled


I have reboiled/seasoned the Teapot, twice


I have put the teapick in each of the strainer holes and jiggled



then the thin end of a metal skewer, that resulted in a flake of pot coming away that was not supposed to. (flaked away from hole at 8 o'clock to centre hole)

So I tidied that area up, and stopped playing.

It is always going to be a 48 second pour.

[wyardley]

Is the hole in the button clogged, though?

[Herb_Master]

Is the hole in the button clogged, though?

No, it pours at the same speed with the lid off, a couple of seconds quicker because some spills over the top, but otherwise exactly the same, with what seems to be a steady full stream of tea.

I imagine the way that seven cups are promoting the slow pouring of the similar ones as a feature suggests that it is going to be very slow. But it is not a feature that I am impressed with

[t4texas]

Creative marketing.

[wyardley]

I imagine the way that seven cups are promoting the slow pouring of the similar ones as a feature suggests that it is going to be very slow. But it is not a feature that I am impressed with

Yeah - and the small spout looks kind of funny too.

[Herb_Master]

Creative marketing.

The Creative Marketing idea suggested itself to me too, I did not notice it there 12 months ago!

Maybe it is to stop disappointed purchasers demanding their money back ?

[gingkoseto]

If you don't like it and can't get money back, you may consider sealing the spout and make it a tea caddy for heavy roast oolong. I know of a yixing producer who makes xishi teapot without handle and spout as tea caddies and they look quite lovely

[Herb_Master]

If you don't like it and can't get money back, you may consider sealing the spout and make it a tea caddy for heavy roast oolong. I know of a yixing producer who makes xishi teapot without handle and spout as tea caddies and they look quite lovely

Interesting idea, I was also toying with the idea of using it for flowers at my drinking shrine - a la salsero with the lid off for an arrangement - or drilling out the hole in the knob so that lid on could be for a single flower

But actually I will probably use to comparison brew western style.

I have had some success with the loading and 5 seconds rest (calculating how much tea for a 25 second 1st infusion) and it worked well for the first infusion but subsequent infusions were disappointing