Friday TeaDay 4/24/09 Did someone say Yixing?

[Chip]

Welcome everyone to TeaDay. Please stop by and share what is in your cup today.

Yesterday responders picked blacks as their easiest teas to brew. You can still vote and discuss yesterdays topic.

Today's TeaPoll and discussion topic. As I read the forum, I can not help but notice a lot of topics and posts regarding Yixing pots. So, do you own a Yixing, and do you use it? More than one? Everyday? Etc ...

I am looking forward to sharing TeaDay with everyone. Bottoms up!

[trent]

I own quite a few yixing and almost never use a gaiwan.

80's thin zhuni ballshaped - green oolong
80's, thickwalled, traditional wuyi shape - wuyi oolong
80's, thinwall - dancong
new hongni Dragon TeaHouse - old oolong (that isn't wuyi or dancong)
50's, can't remember the claytype but it absorbs off flavors - young sheng
80's, some type of brownish clay old sheng
egg shaped Yunnan Sourcing DaHongPao - red (black) tea

The 80's and 50's pots were acquired from my local tea shop, and the owner of my local tea shop acquired them (along w/ a yixing tea tray I have) from an old lady who has been collecting yixing since the 50's. She is unaffiliated with any factory, but there is some story about her being the only foreign buyer of yixing from factory 1 in the fifties. (I can't remember the details of the story at all, I just know that she has a LOT of experience w/ yixing)

[entropyembrace]

I have a yixing but I smashed the lid about a year ago by dropping a bowl onto the pot when I was doing dishes. The rest of the pot is miraculously totally fine but it doesn't pour right without the lid so I don't use it anymore.

I'll buy another eventually but my next tea ware purchase is going to be a gaiwan and porcelain tasting cups.

[olivierco]

Since I have been drinking very seldom puer and that I have been using a gaiwan for the few times I drink oolongs, I don't have much use of my two yixing (in fact a duanni and a zisha).

Keemun with my breakfast.

[Salsero]

I go through stages. For a month or so I have been using only gaiwans, no pots. Other times it's the opposite. For sencha, I use almost exclusively kyuusu.

[omegapd]

I've got 3 or 4 of them but rarely use them. The way things are going right now, I hardly use any of my pots...but if I had to pick a favorite, it would be a Yixing.

[Victoria]

I have a few of them, and I use them occasionally, but I prefer my
kyusu, gaiwans and glass pots. I have more brewing vessels than
time to brew. But I like the variety and I will go on little spurts of
being fond of one pot over the others at times.

Exciting day ahead, I am meeting daughteroftheKing today! We have
lots of fun planned and will be checking in to let you all know about our
tea adventures!

[Drax]

I do have a bunch, and I use them regularly. I've got separate pots for oolong, black, shou pu'erh, sheng pu'erh, aged sheng pu'erh. But I tend to brew my white and green tea in gaiwans...

In fact, this morning's ali shan was brewed in a neat little pot from Seven Cups.

[CutieAgouti]

I don't own one yet, but hope too within a month or two. Until then I'm sticking with my kyusus

[Saifuddin]

I own one, a thin walled pear shaped "zhuni" which I use for light Oolongs from Taiwan.

Today is a special day for me, as it is my wedding day, and I am incredibly excited. I will be enjoying some Moroccan mint tea after the ceremony, but currently my mug is holding a simple breakfast blend.

[chad]

Don't own one and am not in a hurry to obtain one.

Trying a new to me Monkey Picked Oolong today.

[Chip]

Today is a special day for me, as it is my wedding day, and I am incredibly excited. I will be enjoying some Moroccan mint tea after the ceremony

Best wishes to you on your special day, Saifuddin!

[spot52]

I am annoyed at by only using one type of tea in them. I am from the Alton Brown school of thought, multitaskers are the only things that have a place in my kitchen.

And don't think I am not a refined snob like a lot of people here, because I am. Its just another type of snobbery .

Happy Drinking!

[gingkoseto]

I own more than a few and use them constantly. I know number of my yixing is smaller than 1/10 of what some teachatters own So far I am very self disciplined and don't spend big money on any one of them. But I always enjoy seeing people showing photos of crazily beautiful teapots

[gingkoseto]

I go through stages. For a month or so I have been using only gaiwans, no pots. Other times it's the opposite. For sencha, I use almost exclusively kyuusu.

Sal, from your photos I can tell you love this kyusu. I love it very much too!! It's such a little handsome!