Friday TeaDay 2/12/10 TeaPot analysis continues?

[debunix]

In a month, I probably use 3 or 4 of the 4 tiny (50-60mL) clay pots (for gongfu with sheng & shu puerh, for oolongs, for dan cong oolongs); a plain glass teapot (200mL for 'bulk' brewing, one at work and one at home); one kyusu for morning sencha; and all of the 6 gaiwans may get pressed into service (matched gaiwans for comparison tastings or gongfu with green teas, some at work, some at home). So that's more than 12 if I use all those in a month. The half dozen larger teapots hardly get used at all.

[leiche2]

I keep it simple--two kyusu, and one Koryo infuser cup. And that last one is a recent acquirement! Sometimes I also throw a gaiwan into the mix.

I'm away from home right now, so at the moment I'm brewing ginseng oolong lazily in my Koryo cup.

[msurads06]

ok, I answered 6, two gaiwan, two teapots, a basket infuser and paper filter. I didnt count the mugs that i use with the infusers because i really dont know, i own about 15 cups that i use with tea and when i am at work i usually brew in a styrofoam cup so im not sure how often i reuse the same cup for the brew basket and filter and how many times it is the same cup. Though as i get better with the gaiwan, the brew basket and filter see much less action.

[LauraW]

Three teapots; one bone china English, two French (from around the 1930s), one is a little metal red one that I love looking at and the other is a pottery one with an unusual chrome "cozy" that is built onto the teapot. I'll try to take a photo if anyone is interested.

Yes! Must... have... pictures...

A little Darjeeling at work before they let us go early - unfortunately, that means I missed the best steep of it, but that's ok. Water boiling right now for some Silver Needles. Snow + white tea = good afternoon.

[artmom]

Laura, I'll try to get some pics -- however, it is snowing and the house is so dark that I would have to use a flash, and don't find the photos that good. I do have an old shot of the pot w/the metal cozy, so I'll try to post that in a few minutes.

Some Golden Monkey this afternoon, with a Krispy Kreme doughnut! From my DH for Valentine's Day.





This was a set up for a still life I was going to paint. Hence the Granny Smiths.

[brad4419]

Mines the same as yesterday at 4 brewing vessels. I don't have much teaware and like to use just a few brewing vessels and get used to them.

taiwanese wuyi and long jing today

[bsteele]

Gotta use something new every brew-- then you gotta smash it to pieces. Boom.

7 pieces a day... 7 days a week... 30 days a month....


I kid, I kid.

4?

Drinking nothing. Sitting in a hotel room in myrtle beach. Was going to shoot the marathon but it was cancelled.... Can't wait for that 6 hour drive home in the A.M... :/