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by BioHorn » Feb 24th, '16, 15:43
nada wrote:Just for clarity - this batch of shui ping pots are around 40ml, 65ml and 85ml.
I'd eyeballed them as 2,4,6 cup, but I guess maybe 2 cup, 3 cup, 4 cup given the measurements
Am loving the teapot and cup size banter.
Would like to see the two cup serving size from a 40ml pot! My 65ml pots with 6-7 grams of leaf serve 2-3 eggshell porcelain cups perfectly!
65-85ml seems like the perfect teapot size for optimal brewing!
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by steanze » Feb 24th, '16, 17:18
BioHorn wrote:
65-85ml seems like the perfect teapot size for optimal brewing!
+1 also my favorite size range. Although with gaoshan oolong and aged pu-erh I think also a bit larger works fine.
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by BioHorn » Feb 24th, '16, 18:37
steanze wrote:BioHorn wrote:
65-85ml seems like the perfect teapot size for optimal brewing!
+1 also my favorite size range. Although with gaoshan oolong and aged pu-erh I think also a bit larger works fine.
Right! Would also most likely not brew white tea, fu cha, etc in such a small pot. How about hong cha? Any tiny pot black tea fans? Off topic, but I have not explored this...
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by LouPepe » Feb 24th, '16, 19:10
BioHorn wrote:steanze wrote:BioHorn wrote:
65-85ml seems like the perfect teapot size for optimal brewing!
+1 also my favorite size range. Although with gaoshan oolong and aged pu-erh I think also a bit larger works fine.
Right! Would also most likely not brew white tea, fu cha, etc in such a small pot. How about hong cha? Any tiny pot black tea fans? Off topic, but I have not explored this...
I drink quite a bit of hongcha, mostly in the mornings, and I don't think anything under 80-90 ml really suits it. My hongcha pots actually range in the 130-170 ml range (though I should mention I brew up a thermos for my wife). But even if I didn't brew for a second person, I find sometimes a bit longer steep times with a bit less leaf is just dandy.
Most everything else with the exception of green teas, then 65-90 ml range is my preference!
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by BioHorn » Feb 24th, '16, 22:38
LouPepe wrote:BioHorn wrote:steanze wrote:BioHorn wrote:
65-85ml seems like the perfect teapot size for optimal brewing!
+1 also my favorite size range. Although with gaoshan oolong and aged pu-erh I think also a bit larger works fine.
Right! Would also most likely not brew white tea, fu cha, etc in such a small pot. How about hong cha? Any tiny pot black tea fans? Off topic, but I have not explored this...
I drink quite a bit of hongcha, mostly in the mornings, and I don't think anything under 80-90 ml really suits it. My hongcha pots actually range in the 130-170 ml range (though I should mention I brew up a thermos for my wife). But even if I didn't brew for a second person, I find sometimes a bit longer steep times with a bit less leaf is just dandy.
Most everything else with the exception of green teas, then 65-90 ml range is my preference!
Thank you. It is always interesting to hear this sort of feedback. I may try the occasional +- 80ml hong cha session. Now I usually do 150ml or a bit less.
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by LouPepe » Feb 25th, '16, 11:09
nada wrote:Just for clarity - this batch of shui ping pots are around 40ml, 65ml and 85ml.
I'd eyeballed them as 2,4,6 cup, but I guess maybe 2 cup, 3 cup, 4 cup given the measurements
Hi David. Out of extreme curiousity (and maybe others on here are wondering as well), will you no longer carry ChenJuFang pots? I've been really happy with the ones I've purchased, I find the clay very good and the craftmanship exceptional. Not that I'm opposed to buying old pots
, but it's noticeable there hasn't been any Wuxing Shang Fang additions lately.
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by nada » Feb 25th, '16, 11:40
LouPepe wrote:
Hi David. Out of extreme curiousity (and maybe others on here are wondering as well), will you no longer carry ChenJuFang pots? I've been really happy with the ones I've purchased, I find the clay very good and the craftmanship exceptional. Not that I'm opposed to buying old pots
, but it's noticeable there hasn't been any Wuxing Shang Fang additions lately.
Hi LouPepe, to be honest, I don't think so. Maybe now and again we'll sell some of her pots from our own collection but, in my opinion, the pots we're offering from Lu Wei Fang have better clay, better workmanship and, being originally bought ~15 years ago, are much cheaper too. It's not so convenient from a business point of view since we can't order batches of specific shapes or sizes, but from a tea drinker's point of view I think they're better pots all round.
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by Drax » Feb 25th, '16, 19:09
And the 85mL ones are all gone.... impressive, given the seeming large number that were available!
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by Frisbeehead » Feb 25th, '16, 19:16
Wow the factory 1s are already sold out! Only 2 days.
David, thanks for the opportunity to buy one of these pots, I'm looking forward to getting it!
It's too bad, I was in such a rush when buying the pot that I forgot to get some tea with my order as well.
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by nada » Feb 26th, '16, 07:18
Frisbeehead wrote:Wow the factory 1s are already sold out! Only 2 days.
David, thanks for the opportunity to buy one of these pots, I'm looking forward to getting it!
It's too bad, I was in such a rush when buying the pot that I forgot to get some tea with my order as well.
Yep, they went really quickly. I thought they'd go quickly, but I couldn't have imagined they'd go that quick!
Glad you got one. Don't worry about forgetting the tea, there'll be a sample of tea in with your pot.... some Liu bao. I hope you enjoy it!
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by theredbaron » Feb 26th, '16, 08:05
nada wrote:
Yep, they went really quickly. I thought they'd go quickly, but I couldn't have imagined they'd go that quick!
The moment i saw them i knew they will go very quick. Especially western based tea drinkers are starved of factory 1 shui ping of that era - still affordable, good clay, and pots most people in the west have only heard about, but never had a chance to acquire.
I may be wrong, but I don't think any shop selling over the net or in the west had such a large cache of factory 1 shui ping ever for sale.
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by jayinhk » Feb 26th, '16, 08:30
Thank you David. My pots will be in regular rotation for as long as I drink tea!
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by thirst » Feb 26th, '16, 09:31
Good for those of us who visited Teachat during the last two days
Thanks to David & the rest of you enablers again
Hadn’t actually planned to buy more tea ware this soon.
Pretty excited here.
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by Puerlife » Feb 26th, '16, 10:01
I'm very happy that I was able to get two, a 65 and an 85ml. So many of us bought from the same batch that I'm sure it'll make for some interesting reporting on what kinds of tea we like in them. That it, assuming that the clay in all the pots is more or less identical.
