oyster knives make great cheap tea picks.

@TaoTeaware

15 күн бұрын

@@johndurishan695 ooooh that’s a good call!

Thank you for tea source recommendations. So Han especially at West China Tea is amazing for making people feel welcome and comfortable around tea. He also seems to focus more on small artisan farmers compared to some others so while his selection is not as crazy big as say Yunnan sourcing, it still has plenty of variety and some versions of tea that are unique to the farmer in China he sourced it from.

If we're talking new tea drinkers then I think the biggest thing they need is legitimate knowledge. Some people on this platform hype tea up to what it isn't. Tea is tea. Secondly, don't spend your life savings on a teapot. I'm still using an $80 repro clay pot and apart from some leaking it goes fine. Would a hand made clay pot be better? Yes. Is it severely impacting my experience? Nope. I think the biggest thing I found out with my last tea order is that harvest time matters. A spring harvest is considerably better than a winter harvest. Also year matters too. I think I had a 2013 dan cong and it reminded me of buttered popcorn but a 2014 does not taste like that.

@LucDion

16 күн бұрын

I had a Da Hong Pao that reminded me of that too on its latter half of its steeps. Though it was just the smell.

I've been into tea for a while and it was worth the watch just to see another persons perspective and enjoyment. Thank you very much for all of your videos.

@TaoTeaware

16 күн бұрын

🙏🏻🙏🏻 it’s fun to go back thinking about what I would go back to in the beginning 🤔

Awesome 😎 thanks 👍

Very helpful video!

Do you ever fully break open your cakes and store them loose?

@danielfrazier5586

16 күн бұрын

I picked up a couple clay jars and broke apart half a shou cake to put inside thats my daily drinker

@vonvanna3196

16 күн бұрын

Typically no. I may break off some if I know I'm going somewhere and I will be having tea and that's the one I want but otherwise I find it much easier to store them in the cake form.

@TaoTeaware

16 күн бұрын

I don’t have any storage jars currently so I haven’t done that in a while but I also do find it easier to just store as cakes.