Need info on Yixing pots

[azoth]

I am thinking of getting this Yixing pot
https://marktwendell.com/yixing-teapots ... apots.html

Does anybody know anything about this company ?

[Evan Draper]

That should work.

[steanze]

I don't know the company but that does not look like a good yixing to me. It looks pretty terrible actually - probably not real yixing clay, and the size is way too big. I would not take that thing if it were free...
What do you need an Yixing teapot for? I suggest you give a look to the official/different Yixing show off topic to get a sense for what yixing clay looks like... if you tell me more about what tea you would like to make in it, I can give you some suggestions about what kind of teapot you might want to look for.
If I were you I would start by looking at the tea swap section of the forum or at some vendors considered reliable by forum members. I usually get my teapots in China or on taobao, but I heard people saying good things about https://www.essenceoftea.com/, http://www.sampletea.com/, http://www.jkteashop.com/

[azoth]

Ok. I drink pu'erh tea. I don't have hundreds of bucks to spend. I been to China town in Montreal where I live and came across $15-25 pots. I came across some at Cha noir for $35-60. One set for $55. Pot and 4 cups.

I like dragon designs on my pots

[steanze]

Aiming for something in the $50 range is reasonable for a first pot it's not so easy to find good pots under $100 nowadays, but not impossible.

For how many people are you making tea? If you brew pu erh gongfu style, you can resteep the same leaves about 10 times. So I'd suggest a pot around 100ml for 1-2 people (that will be 1 liter of tea over a tea session), around 150ml for 3-4 people.

There are some nice pots with dragon designs, but I am not sure if there are many in that price range. Usually the issue with pots with complex designs is that either they are cheap and very bad (trying to hide bad clay under fancy shapes) or very nice and very very expensive

[Chris418]

If you are in Montréal, go look at this store.

Camellia-Sinensis
Quartier Latin
351 Rue Émery,
Montréal

They also have a website.
http://camellia-sinensis.com/

[azoth]

They definately have some nice pots within my price range. I am going there in a couple of weeks with a meetin.org group, !00 ml is more than enough. When I party it is usually mead

[puyuan]

That looks like a kettle, not a teapot.

It also looks surreally bad.

[TuoChaTea]

You can use that teapot as a display pot but I would never brew tea in it. The clay does not look goood and just for practical reasons I cannot imagine how you can lift the lid of that teapot when the pot is hot.

[Drax]

The lid does look a bit impractical. I'm curious -- is the burnished silver part painted?

But to the original question, unfortunately, I have no experience with the vendor to share. Sorry!

[azoth]

Here is a teapot. Though it is probably machine made because of the price
http://www.enjoyingtea.com/golden-drago ... eapot.html

[steanze]

Bad clay, probably not Yixing. If the design is more important to you than the material, I'd suggest to get a porcelain or ceramic pot - at least you will know that it isn't made of some chemical clay that will leak who knows what in your tea...

[BioHorn]

He should have snagged a $30 Novak pot. $30!
That was a favor!

[steanze]

yeah I should have too but I wasn't fast enough

[azoth]

I ordered from www.Jkteashop.com I got a long Dan design. I like design and function.