Fav Cup Size For Teas

[Ambrose]

Ive recently been drinking alot of gyokuro also more sheng now that the seasons are changing.

Long story short I seem to love my sencha in a big cup, my sheng in a smaller one and gyokuro in a medium.

Ive tried mixing sizes on each tea but these are my fav thus far most enjoyable.

what is your favorite cup size for each tea, here are mine

gyokuro - 4oz

sheng - 50-60ml

sencha - 8-9 oz

[nickE]

I classify my cups in 3 broad categories

• Large - 4oz. +
  Medium - 80-100ml
  Small - 30-60ml

This is pretty general, but I prefer large cups for Japanese greens and any type of White tea. I use medium cups for Oolong/Black/Red, and small cups for Shengpu & Shupu.

Also, I prefer a wider opening for teas brewed with boiling water and narrower for teas that aren't.

Cool topic!

[Victoria]

I pretty much like a 4-5oz max for everything.
A 4oz flared cup is universally perfect for me.

[entropyembrace]

I use 350ml cups because that is the size of my teapots

though I will be using 120ml later when my new oolong and puerh pot arrives

[AdamMY]

This is sort of hard to answer I use cups varying in size from half ounce, to cups that hold about 20 oz.

Though I must admit the 20 oz cup, is actually boxed up and stored with all the empty boxes.

But for Japanese greens I often use cups 5-15 oz, but for most other teas I use cups between .5 and 2 ounces.

[debunix]

My favorite cups are about 7-8 oz apiece--big enough for one infusion from my 5 oz kyusu plus a little extra water to dilute it if I overbrew a bit. I also adore the 3 oz shino cup from the "Shadows" TC TA SO #2 as it is PERFECT for my small gaiwans for nearly everything that I don't brew in the kyusus, and big enough for my smaller 'yixing' pots too: small enough to be easy to quaff before the infusion cools too much, and large enough to hold a full infusion.

It is frustrating that the cups at my local teashop are about 50mL or a little less--too small for a full infusion from the gaiwans--or much larger, 8-10 oz. I'd like a wider variety in a 3-4 oz size.

[IPT]

That's hard for me to answer too. I use everything from tiny gongfu teacups to large yunomi's and chawan's. It depends upon what I'm drinking, how I'm drinking it, and whether or not I'm drinking alone.

[Herb_Master]

That's hard for me to answer too. I use everything from tiny gongfu teacups to large yunomi's and chawan's. It depends upon what I'm drinking, how I'm drinking it, and whether or not I'm drinking alone.

+1

When I started my tea journey 3 years ago I purchased lots of teaware and this imcluded lots of the really small gongfu teacups.

Drinking mainly Chinese Mainland oolong I soon started to prefer chunkier 70ml size cups for Yancha and Ornate shaped flatter Borneol bowls for Dan Cong and Jing Dezhen porcelain for Anxi.

Then I fell for (larger) artisan wares from Bill Perrine and Petr Novak.

Now I have started exploring Pu and find myself digging out the tiny Gongfu cups to use.

[IPT]

It's interesting how our tastes change as we travel through the world of tea isn't it.

[Alex]

for all my teas sat up at the tea table I like 60-80ml

for taking away and chilling doing other stuff I use around 100-150ml.

[TwoPynts]

Honestly, unless I'm at home, I drink my tea at work from what once was a coffee mug.

[olivierco]

3-4 oz for any teas.

These two cups are my current favorite

[Mrs. Chip]

Beautiful cups Oliverco, especially like the first one!

[rhondabee]

I use the smaller gong fu cups (about 40 ml) for drinking oolong at home and at work I use a 4 oz Japanese cup that matches perfectly with my gaiwan, so that I can eliminate using a fair cup at work.

[britt]

As with many of the posts here I often use a larger cup for Japanese sencha and much smaller ones for Chinese and Taiwanese tea. My Japanese yunomi range in size from about 3/4 ounce to 12 ounces. My Chinese and Taiwanese cups range from 1/2 ounce to 3 ounces.