One tea, one teapot

[bagua7]

I would like to know who follows that philosophy in here.

It's an expensive game but is it the only approach to fully enjoy specific teas like pu erhs and oolongs?

[finddream2020]

Hi, I'm from Yixing, China.
In my opinion, It's better to follow"one tea, one teapot".
It may be an expensive game, but it's worth trying and you will find your clay teapot look more beautiful in this way after using it for some time. Meanwhile, I think it's a good choice to clean the tea scale on the teapot every day.
Hope that will be helpful!

[Chip]

Well, define "one tea?" There are general types all the way down to an exact specific tea.

I would say I am more the former to somewhere in between.

[TwoPynts]

I am current of the "one teapot, all teas" persuasion, at least until I can expand my collection of wares.

[exquisite]

I am current of the "one teapot, all teas" persuasion, at least until I can expand my collection of wares.

Hopefully a porcelain one would really spare anyone the trouble of developing the (irreversible) passion for dedicated tea-ware to each type of tea.

[IPT]

I adhere very strictly to the one tea-one teapot rule. I even have specific teapots for different varieties of a certain tea. Puer, for example, I have 4 teapots for Shengpu and 3 for Shupu. I have different pots for aged varieties of Yan Teas than for new varieties.

Can anyone say TOCD!

[teaisme]

Can anyone say TOCD!

Haha yeah im sure a few people on teachat would be considered hoarders to someone who doesn't really understand why. I've definitely been given some funny looks...

[Drax]

I'm not as "bad" as IPT, but maybe close.... I have a 3 pots for puerh (young sheng, aged sheng, and shu), one for black tea, one for oolong. I have a three more pots that I took into work: a kyuusu for japanese green tea, a pot for black tea, and one for oolong and puerh (I wasn't going to buy another three for work).

And then I have a number of gaiwans for chinese greens, white, yellow, and anything else (particularly of smaller proportions).

I enjoy the idea that a variety of tea gets to season a pot, and it also allows for a nice variety of stuff (:

[alan logan]

Well, define "one tea?" There are general types all the way down to an exact specific tea.

I would say I am more the former to somewhere in between.

yeah, that is the good question. for me the answer is "one profile of flavors", not necessarily related to the type (or family) or teas. so if you dedicate a pot to dan cong with a fruit profile you can also use it for a fruity taiwanese wulong (mi xiang/gui fei types, or some rou gui taiwanese for instance). but if you brew these wulongs in a pot you dedicate to honey profiles, you might get a different interpretation of them. tea 1 + pot 1 will say something, tea 1+ pot 2 will say something else and it is interesting (this is why you can have many pots for one type of teas and realize some pairings have your preference so you may end up approaching "one tea/one pot")
When you get to know how your pots work and what's in your teas then you see how you can do the pairings. it's like music, you can play the same tune with different instruments or in different styles and then evaluate what is ok or not.

but there are limits to that logic, for instance dan congs (in my opinion) don't all give their best in any teapots, they seem to be a bit "demanding". other limit : you can brew young sheng cha in a teapot that is good for dan congs but then if you do a dan cong in such a pot you are usually using for these pu ers you may not like the result (depending on how long the pot has been used for pu er and when it last worked).

[gingkoseto]

I don't think I can afford them. Even if I can afford the teapots, I can't afford the space storing the teapots. Even if I can afford both, I won't be able to remember which is which

I think "one teapot, one category of tea" would be more affordable. But I don't follow that either. The teapots "soiled" by shu puerh, I reserve them for shu most of the time. For others, every time I grab one that I feel like to use There are teapots that I never feel like to use them for certain types of tea, but I don't spend time thinking why

[auhckw]

At the beginning, I have been trying to apply the rule of 1 pot to rule them all, but somehow pots keeps appearing progressively

Gosh... this hobby has no end...

[ajiaojiao]

Clay teapot is also called "violet jade gold sand".Not all of the clay are called this name ,only the clay came from huang long shan of ding shan. The teapot is a expensive interest. The teapot is used to be provided to noble longlong a go.When the reform and opening up, the teapot began to export to South Korea and Japan primarily.Now in china ,people like it crazily about a lot of reasons.The price is also various .The false teapot is too many. one tea one teapot, my view.
one tea one teapot
1.yixing teapot is called "the king of teaware",you use different tea ,the teapot will keep different looking and feeling.If you use the black tea to keep it ,it will become to have the black tea smell for sometime. Water can have this tea flavor, even without the tea.
2.You have the tea -teapot,different from another tea.
3.Good tea is worth.
4.Chinede people like collection.
one tea not one teapot
1.price
2.If you don't like the tea ,it is not need.
3.You couldn't be sure it is true .

[tenuki]

I have a bridge to sell you, but you'll need this other one for foot traffic as well....

[Chip]

1 pot to rule them all

a LotR's fan in Malaysia!

[the_economist]

1 pot to rule them all

a LotR's fan in Malaysia!

i'd much rather be 'mortal men' and get 9 pots