coconut wrote:I found a nice porcelain kyusu on ebay but it's 350 ml. I plan to use it for chinese greens or anything else. Do you guys/gals think the size it too large
Depends on how much tea of what teas you most like to prepare and drink at a time.
For my morning senchas, I generally try for 2-4 steepings, depending on how much of a hurry I am in in the morning, and drink them by myself.
2 steepings as I do them, at 300mL in that pot, would take 10 g of tea and result in 600mL of tea (a pint, I can drink that much by myself) and 4 steepings would be over a liter (can't drink that much so early in the morning). And it would be way too much for a fancy dragon well tea where I might be looking for 6 steepings or more--1.5 L is a lot of tea! (tea co$t and bladder capacity both figure into this)
So I have 150-180mL kyusus for the senchas, and 75mL gaiwans for the dragon wells, and a 300mL kamjove to fill up the quart thermos for the afternoon clinic when I share a lot of tea. Except for that almost daily afternoon session, I like to brew small infusions.
