Alright, family member decides to clean your pot with soap.

[shah82]

What do you do to get rid of the smell?

[jayinhk]

Tell your family member to shower, pack up their things and move out.

I'd boil and season the pot all over again.

[miig]

oh nooo... I suppose you're talking about a porous tea pot? Because any glazed or otherwise 'closed' surface wouldn't mind very much. That might take a while then.
After boiling and rinsing several times, I'd also try and take a tea that is not too expensive, fill the pot with quite a lot of it, infuse, and let it stand, hoping the tea leaves will pull out and absorb the flavors, thats what they like do do, dont they? And of course repeat that several times.

[beachape]

You could try filling it with a heavy baking soda/water solution and letting it sit overnight. While I have not used for teapots, I have used this to de-funk things like plastic cups/cookware. Then rinse very well and re-season.

[Muadeeb]

I had a couple new Bero cups go through the dishwasher a couple weeks ago one glazed inside and one not (or much thinner glaze, hard to tell). The glazed one made it through ok, but the unglazed one still smells and tastes a bit funky when i pour in hot water. I'll try brewing some leaves in it and letting it sit for a few hours, after that, the baking soda dip.

[茶藝-TeaArt08]

I'd boil and season the pot all over again.

I'd also try and take a tea that is not too expensive, fill the pot with quite a lot of it, infuse, and let it stand, hoping the tea leaves will pull out and absorb the flavors, thats what they like do do, dont they? And of course repeat that several times.

You could try filling it with a heavy baking soda/water solution and letting it sit overnight. While I have not used for teapots, I have used this to de-funk things like plastic cups/cookware. Then rinse very well and re-season.

Wow....I'm sorry to hear this. I imagine there was some frustration for you to process. If not, you're more unattached than I am . Luckily my wife is Taiwanese and knows better than to ever wash a pot, so I'm safe in this household.

However I did recently come across three old, 70's/80's Yixing pots in a random antique store for quite cheap. The owner was a high ranking officer in the British service and then a diplomat in Beijing in 80's. He and his wife collected antiquities from their travels and kept them, recently opening an antique shop. I noticed three pots that were nice and very cheap ($20) but in need of love and cleaning. I took them home and put them in a wire strainer in a pot and boiled them. I did this repeatedly and then used hot water and a clean toothbrush to massage away any grime. One of the teapots was filled half full with potpourri crystals . I couldn't believe it...the shame. For this pot I had to boil it in many rinses of hot water. I lightly scrubbed the pot with a clean, soft-bristled toothbrush and then soaked multiple soakings of tea leaves in the pot, leaving them to sit for 24 hours. I then reboiled the pot again before soaking some hot baking soda solution in the pot and brushing the pot multiple times. After I had gotten the pot mostly neutral, I sat the pot near my tea table and poured hot water into it to soak every time I poured tea. After three weeks, the above process, and multiple hot water infusions, the teapot is neutral and brewed water from the pot tastes great. But it was a process! Good luck, I have to imagine soap is not as bad as a pot that sat half full with potpourri crystals and that it will come clean.

Blessings!

[chrl42]

One of the teapots was filled half full with potpourri crystals

I heard some Japanese used Yixings as a soysauce container back then

Same as some Cantonese, when Pan Hu (Yixing teapot shape designed by the millionaire of Qing) was used as a wedding gift (symbol of financial lucks), some wives or girls used this as hair oil container gotta watch out if one gets a luck of getting Daoguang period's Pan Hu someday


I heard using a baking soda or lemon with boiling works pretty good as cleasing..

[茶藝-TeaArt08]

One of the teapots was filled half full with potpourri crystals

I heard some Japanese used Yixings as a soysauce container back then

Same as some Cantonese, when Pan Hu (Yixing teapot shape designed by the millionaire of Qing) was used as a wedding gift (symbol of financial lucks), some wives or girls used this as hair oil container gotta watch out if one gets a luck of getting Daoguang period's Pan Hu someday


I heard using a baking soda or lemon with boiling works pretty good as cleasing..

Soy sauce ?...like I said....the shame. No Yixing pot should be subjected to such treatment, master made or not.

[bryan_drinks_tea]

suicide or homicide? but I would never, ever seriously suggest something like that, of course.

[MEversbergII]

I was going to say "Find a new family".

M.