Monday 3/02/09 Your favorite "go to" teapot?

[Chip]

Welcome TeaFriends old and new to TeaDay. Please stop by often and share what is in your cup throughout the day.

Yesterday the vast majority of responders voted that their oldest nonpurposely aged tea was less than 3 years old. You can still vote and discuss yesterday's topic.

Today's TeaPoll and discussion topic. I know many TeaChatters have a selection of TeaPots, but, do you have a favorite teapot, a "go to" teapot? What kind is it, tell us a little about it, details details details.

I am looking forward to sharing our fave teapots and of course what is in our cup with everyone today. Bottoms up.

[Victoria]

Yes, most definitely. My first Tokoname, it's still my favorite pot.

I now have 3 yixing, and 3 Tokoname, and several glass.
Still ... the first Tokoname is the one.

[olivierco]

No go to teapot for me. I sure use some teapots more frequently but I try to use all my teapots and chawans.

Here are the brewing vessels I use the most frequently.

For gyokuro:


For black and chinese greens:


For sencha:


For matcha:




For bancha:


I also have a 80-100ml white porcelain gaiwan for oolongs.

[Drax]

No "go to" pot here, either. I think like olivierco, I have one pot for various type of leaf... hmmmm.

I'm trying out the 2008 "American Hao" tea from the Puerh Shop today. The first few sips are giving me an interesting kick in the flavor... I'm hoping this one is more interesting than the "Queen of Yi Wu" that I had yesterday...

[brandon]

This one gets the most use, despite being a little less than whole.

[Sydney]

No go to teapot for me. I sure use some teapots more frequently but I try to use all my teapots and chawans.

Here are the brewing vessels I use the most frequently.

What, no yerba mate gourd?

[Sydney]

I use my den's kyusu by default for most loose tea, little clay "yixing" pot for most of the rest, happy little gourd for yerba mate, and chawan at least daily for my matcha fix.

I still voted "definite" on this one, though, as I see these as totally different functions.

[cherylopal]

I voted other- my thinking was "not yet"!

I have one older blue willow teapot that my MIL bought for me one christmas, one glass one that I bought in Dec but now never use. That leaves me with three- one tokonome for sencha, one shiboridash for gyukuro, and one gaiwan for everything else.

[omegapd]

I do...and hardly ever use it. When I make tea for myself now, I use a strainer in a cup. When we have tea as a family, I use a different bigger pot.

I can't even say it makes a nice display piece because it's boxed up and in a cabinet.

[Jasmin]

The one in my Avatar.
I only have one other one right now that I use for chai teas.
But often I just brew it directly in the cup using a strainer.

Right now I'm actually drinking my own blend "Walking on Sunshine" brewed in the pot in my Avatar. It's not on the list anymore. I deleted it after someone else created a blend with the same name :shock: .
But I kind of recreated it and named it "Tuity Fruity".
It's Pina Colada, white tropics and a bit of lemon grass.
When I first received it I hated it. But I must have used too much and let it steep too long. Cause now I love it and so do my kids.
I like fruity teas for breakfast. Propably because that's how I grew up.

[JP]

I have three pots that I seem to use equally. There's the Mori Tetsubin with the infuser basket which is used most often for morning tea or tea to go. There's the glass tea pot that I use with whole leaf teas so that I can watch it as it brews. And there's the 100ml yixing pot that I use for my sheng.

[Victoria]

This morning a Taiwan High Mountain Oolong from the shop
I visited yesterday, to start the day.

Have a nice day everyone!

[Smari]

Why yes, definitely have a go to pot. It's not the prettiest one out there but it gets the job done.

This snowy morning, peach oolong.

[kymidwife]

To be honest, I use whatever is clean and not already full of in-progress leaves waiting for a next infusion. Its not unusual for me to have 2 or 3 different pots going at a time.

I have:
- a glass teapot and a white porcelain teapot which both get love on a regular basis, usually for darjeelings or flavored teas
-I have a larger yixing that works for various oolongs suitable for brewing in larger quantities
-I have a tiny tokoname kyusu that holds about 5 oz. which I use for gyokuro or shincha, and a larger one good for sencha but not very good quality, the lid doesn't fit well
-I have 2 lined tetsubin which mostly I use to keep tea warm after brewing in something else
-I have a larger gaiwan I don't use much because it's hard to handle, and a smaller one I used ALL the time for my better oolongs until I broke the lid (I need to replace this)
-A couple of tiny el-cheapo yixing that I really never use anymore
-And an Ingenuitea lives at home, at work, and at my mom's... for pure convenience.

2 new kyusu should be arriving soon I hope, from Den's... they don't ship as fast as O-Cha. Can't wait to try them out, as I really love how a kyusu feels and pours better than a traditional teapot. Artistic Nippon was beckoning me last night.

In my cup this morning is the oolong that will not die... a Monkey-Picked TKY from NCTG which is absolutely rockin my socks. It must have been the abundence of greens this week that made me so deeply appreciate the amazingness of this tea... the most distinct sweet honey/sugar/almost cotton-candy aroma and fragrance. I really may have to order some of this. 2 tsp have yielded at least 48 oz. of amazing tea so far... the first few were smaller infusions, and now some larger, longer infusions are equally enjoyable.

Sarah

[gingkoseto]

So far I don't have strong attachment to teapot. But I don't have many, so basically for each use, I have only one to a few choices.

For Chinese green, I use a mug most of the time


For greener oolong, this almost became my "go to" pot but I broke it


For Japanese green, this is what I love. I obtained a few old porcelain kyusus for their lovely painting pattern. But this is the only one I really use. And the cups are my favorite. I use them for ALL kinds of teas and assemble them into gaiwans