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Change tea type for yixing teapot

by Eludes1 » Jun 4th, '11, 14:59

Hello community :)

I bought my first yixing teapot about two months ago, but found out it isn’t as good as I wanted it to be. It was cheap, but it looks nice. I seasoned it for drinking ripe pu erh tea. I used it perhaps seven times for brewing tea.
Now that I learned something about teapots, I bought new one, that I want to use for ripe pu erh instead, asi t is my favourite tea.

My question is, if I will be able to use the old teapot for other teas. Is it possible to reseason the teapot? If I boil it and then season it with new tea will it make some difference than making tea in gaiwan? I would like to use it for high roasted oolongs.

Thank you for any advice :)

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Re: Change tea type for yixing teapot

by wyardley » Jun 4th, '11, 15:20

I wouldn't do anything special. Just start using the pot for a different kind of tea.

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Re: Change tea type for yixing teapot

by TokyoB » Jun 4th, '11, 17:33

wyardley wrote:I wouldn't do anything special. Just start using the pot for a different kind of tea.
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Re: Change tea type for yixing teapot

by Alex » Jun 5th, '11, 08:11

Yeah 7 times is very little. Just brew some different teas

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Re: Change tea type for yixing teapot

by tingjunkie » Jun 5th, '11, 08:33

I'd boil it first. Nothing like a clean slate. :wink:

Before you go dedicating these pots to particular teas, have you been doing any testing to make sure they are a good fit? I use this test myself.

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