How do you heat your tetsubin

[TIM]

I found a good and traditional way of heating tetsubin is by charcoal. It took less than 5 mins for a full boil for my 750 ml. Binchotan charcoal burns hot and odorless.

[Oni]

That stove looks expencieve, and where can I get the special charchoal for it?

[Chip]

I found a good and traditional way of heating tetsubin is by charcoal. It took less than 5 mins for a full boil for my 750 ml. Binchotan charcoal burns hot and odorless.

That is very interesting, Tim. In 10 years of drinking tea, I never heard of Binchotan charcoal. That is an awesome piece, what is the entire unit called?

[TIM]

http://www.teachat.com/viewtopic.php?t=7681
With wyardley help in the previous post, I was then able to find it in the City.

http://korin.com/White-Binchotan-Charcoal

Chip- This is a pipe tobacco station from the 1860s.

[Victoria]

That is a beautiful piece, what a great idea.
Very nice!

[TIM]

That is a beautiful piece, what a great idea.
Very nice!

As Cigar, tea and antiques are part of my life. This unit do tickle my fancy

[orguz]

I use a tetsubin and an induction stove to heat it with, in the long run the induction method shortens the life of cast iron kettle.

The three spots left behind from casting process are starting to flake right off from the inside maybe caused by the uneven heating. I noticed too that tiny flakes are coming off on other parts of the bottom. The speed with induction heating is great though.

This is just my observation during the last 10 months. I am considering switching to a Waring hot plate that Wyardley recommended (49USD), and ordering a new Tetsubin

[MarshalN]

I use a waring and it works just fine. At the end of the day though, tetsubins are going to break no matter what. It's iron + water, eventually something has to give. Iron is not that durable when it comes down to it.

[odarwin]

hi tim,

its very nice! can we see more of the insides of the stove? im curious to see where the charcoal goes

-darwin

[TIM]

hi tim,

its very nice! can we see more of the insides of the stove? im curious to see where the charcoal goes

-darwin

Here is the secret darwin

[odarwin]

thanks for the picture tim!

so its sand and earth as insulation right?

sweet! its really a great find!

-darwin

[Jayaratna]

Hi to everyone,

this stove of yours looks great, Tim!

Maybe it's a dummie question, but how does the fire keep burning inside that pot? Doesn't it need some fresh air flow from below to keep burning?

Besides, do you think one could build his own, lacking sources for buying it?

A

[britt]

...and why does hojo say that water boiled in tetsubin is not good for raw puerh and oolong and red tea?

Maybe hojo is a Japanese tea seller? So all Chinese tea is not right??

Wrong assumption. Hojo Tea sells Japanese, Chinese, Taiwanese, and Indian tea; green, black, white, oolong, and yellow varieties. They never said a tetsubin was not good for any Chinese tea, in fact they said it was fine for all except oolong, black, and raw puerh.

I do not yet own a tetsubin, so I can't comment on whether or not I agree with their opinion.

[TIM]

Wrong assumption. Hojo Tea sells Japanese, Chinese, Taiwanese, and Indian tea; green, black, white, oolong, and yellow varieties. They never said a tetsubin was not good for any Chinese tea, in fact they said it was fine for all except oolong, black, and raw puerh.

....fine for all except oolong, black, and raw puerh. So, besides green, what else is left? maybe brown??