PM sent.betta wrote:Britt, not to discredit the vendor, but could you share me via PM the vendor you mentioned about?
Is yixing supposed to have strong clay smell to it? I have only one and I use it for everything. But sometimes, esp with delicate tea, I can taste clay flavor. I don't consider it a bad taste but does this ever go away and if so how long?I had a problem with one of the first two Yixings I purchased... tea didn't taste very good from either. In one, it tasted very bad.
Clay smells either clay itself didn't age enough before being made into teapot/teapot heated at low temperature in a kiln.Ti wrote:Is yixing supposed to have strong clay smell to it? I have only one and I use it for everything. But sometimes, esp with delicate tea, I can taste clay flavor. I don't consider it a bad taste but does this ever go away and if so how long?I had a problem with one of the first two Yixings I purchased... tea didn't taste very good from either. In one, it tasted very bad.
Solution to this question is using a boiling water or to be boiled in a long time, in my opinion.