yi xing dribbling....

[Salsero]

Mom says you're bad bad boy....

Mom always liked you better!

[hop_goblin]

it could also be that your spout is getting plugged causing the flow to back up.

Good diagnostic technique, Hop. The obvious is so easily overlooked and so often the best explanation! Some pots plug more easily than others and that is as likely the cause as the lid fit. Course none of it bothers me much since I love splashing water everywhere anyway.

a machine made pot

Off topic a bit, but I don't think there are any pots truly made by machines. I think cheaper pots are all SLIPCAST, a non-artisan technique that is nonetheless manual, not done by a machine.

Y'thank you Sal

[hop_goblin]

Yes, it can be a manufacturing defect, or it could also be that your spout is getting plugged causing the flow to back up. Try filling the pot just under the neck of the opening when you add water and tilt the pot slower as you pour. See how that works.

filling the water just under the neck of the spout. but most gong fu cha makers fill the water right to the rim of the pot. don't you? i do. i will try this water filling up to the neck to see if this helps.

the dribbling still happens when the pot has no leaves in it but water is filled to the rim. i will try to this again with water up to the neck without leaves.

again, this is not the end of the world to me. just curious. i know that the whole enjoyment and the experience of gong fu style is to make a bit of a watery mess.

I guess you are "encouraged" to fill the pot entirely in gongfu. Ok, here is the big question. What size of pot are we talking about? Smaller pots are notorious for dribbling! And when I mean smaller I mean 120ml or less.

[heavydoom]

i think i know what i did wrong. one thing for sure, do not hurry pouring out your tea. enjoy the smells, the way the water comes out of the spout, be at one with the tea pot. be zen!!!

[MarshalN]

Dribbles do not bother me at all. I have pots that dribble. Some of the pots that dribble are my best.

I used to think it's a mark of bad craft, but no longer.

The remedy for a dribbling pot -- pour with the spout facing down vertically. All dribble will go into whatever vessel you're pouring into anyway.

[heavydoom]

Dribbles do not bother me at all. I have pots that dribble. Some of the pots that dribble are my best.

I used to think it's a mark of bad craft, but no longer.

The remedy for a dribbling pot -- pour with the spout facing down vertically. All dribble will go into whatever vessel you're pouring into anyway.

exactly.


consider this thread locked. i got what i wanted, time to move on to the next set back in the gong fu cha saga of mishaps.

[Space Samurai]

It irks me to. This is one of the reasons I prefer kyusu, I've never had one leak or dribble.

[britt]

I find the leaking to be annoying but I guess we have to live with it. I use mostly smaller pots and gong fu style brewing, so I fill right up to the rim. Most if not all the small Yixings I use in this way leak, with the one that's claimed to be zhuni the worst of all. That one also looks like it has a hand made lid, as many Yixings, even expensive ones, use a template for the lid even when the body is hand made.

I guess now we know why they make tea trays.

[chrl42]

I find the leaking to be annoying but I guess we have to live with it. I use mostly smaller pots and gong fu style brewing, so I fill right up to the rim. Most if not all the small Yixings I use in this way leak, with the one that's claimed to be zhuni the worst of all. That one also looks like it has a hand made lid, as many Yixings, even expensive ones, use a template for the lid even when the body is hand made.

I guess now we know why they make tea trays.

Actually traditional hand-making use a bamboo not a template. So hand-made pot shows numerous horizental lines but only inside the lid, not body.

What's misleading is most of yixing teapots actually don't dribble. When you visit yixing stores in China, first thing they do is to ensure if pot dribbles or not. Or any case you have right to perform the test with a pot you want to buy. I have 10 yixings and the only one leaking is Zhuni pots. I didn't even care about dribbling when I bought em, believing that buying lao zhuni pot in my favorite patterns(pear-shaped) wasn't a everyday chance.

Chinese goverment is preparing yixing hand-making method to register UNESCO this coming year, not sure if UNESCO will happily accept that.

By the way I used the term hand-making as entire hand-making, not half hand-making.

[Salsero]

I have 10 yixings

Is a photo a possibility some day?

[chrl42]

I have 10 yixings

Is a photo a possibility some day?

The day when I know how to spend money in buying a digital cam not tea-related products. Then I hit Show Your Pots thread..

[Salsero]

I have 10 yixings

Is a photo a possibility some day?

The day when I know how to spend money in buying a digital cam not tea-related products. Then I hit Show Your Pots thread..

I will wait patiently.

[Mengxia]

Do you think that the shape of the spout could make a difference in the dribbling?

With regular old teapots, I've noticed that those with long spouts tend to pour nicely, while the ones with a little "lip" that's hardly a spout dribble a lot.