Friday TeaDay 12/04/09 More focus ... types of teaware?

[brad4419]

I have been focused on yixing for the past few weeks mainly because I knew nothing about buying them and wanted to get one and learn about them.

peach oolong today

[Drax]

Yixings and gaiwans here, though mostly because I bought what I needed and then stopped. Hm. I'm occasionally intrigued by the hagi offers, but haven't quite yet seen "the one" I want.

I had a "thai iced tea" out this evening, but no other time today to enjoy any tea. ahhhh well, there's always tomorrow.

[Proinsias]

Ignorance is indeed bliss, for the first time in my life I'm thinking about nice tea canisters.

I was quite happy with my tea cupboard yesterday, no more. I'm blaming it on Oliver.

[chris&amy]

Jasmin Oolong is in the cup right now.....have a great night!

[Janine]

Japanese teaware for me.

If I had to pick one type, chazutsu.

This one has just landed at Roissy Airport.

Beautiful, olivierco

[Janine]

I started out the day breaking in a yixing pot. Since these days I focus on black tea, I started with Yixing black tea, traditionally used in Yixing for seasoning the pots. And it was delicious, from Tillerman.


Now I'm kicking back with a mixture of chamomile and lavender before bed, very nice and relaxing

[Chip]

Yeah, pretty focused these days, but definitely not exclusive to one type of teaware. Hagi, our Teaware Artisans dominate the list.

Lots of great tea today. Beginning with Hatsumi from O-Cha, followed by Adagio's Fujian Baroque, a tasting of Zencha Fuji SP, and finally Matcha from Zencha with DW.

[olivierco]

I have a cherry bark one that is metal on the inside.
I just saw some cherry bark that were wood inside, and wow, did they have a strong shellac odor. I have avoided many of these due to that.
What do you think?

I have two types of all wooden canisters, cherry bark and paulownia





They had some wood odor but after about a week with a low grade sencha (received as a gift when ordering some other canisters) in them, the odor disappeared.

[Victoria]

Also, thought I'd share images of ku ding cha (a chinese tisane - medicinal - works fabulously for warding off a bug when you're just coming down with it ).
In presentation:


infusing:


Here is a pretty good article on Wiki about Ku Ding, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku_Ding_tea

Cheers.
ps - I snuck in an ice split full of Jasmine White Peony and a chocolate chip cookie before the ku ding.

While everything else may or may not be true - the claim to alleviate thirst is groundbreaking!

[Seeker]

They had some wood odor but after about a week with a low grade sencha (received as a gift when ordering some other canisters) in them, the odor disappeared.

Oooo - I reallllyyyy like that one!
And thanks for the tip on odor Oli.

Vic -
cheers.

[Chip]

Heh, you are killin' me, Olivier! You have a great collection.