The difference in a slip-cast and wheel made teapot is the strength too, a wheel made piece of clay is wedged and then formed on the wheel aligning the particles in the clay, and is able to be made of clay with more gritty pieces further strengthening the final product. Slip-cast needs very fine clay and it is less compressed than wheel made clay so it has less strength.

Tip for those who get annoyed taking out tea leaves at the end of a session, when you’re done using your teapot or gaiwan, add any temp water inside with the tea and dump that mixture in a separate bucket, then in a toilet (so you don’t have to struggle or bring your teaware into the bathroom). Just a tip :)

Informative AND fun, I always get so excited seeing fellow 'younger generations' enjoying gong fu brewing and talking about yixing!!!!!!! I just found your channel and I love your vibes, dude

Amazing video happy i come across this video

Dude you make such great content! love it!

@TaoTeaware

11 ай бұрын

I appreciate that! Thanks so much Robert. 🙏🏻

I prefer to think of handmade pots as snowflakes :) great pots, great content

@TaoTeaware

11 ай бұрын

Ooooooh snowflakes are a good analogy 🤓

Love the Chaozhou apple pie! Excellent video.

@TaoTeaware

11 ай бұрын

Me too! I’m so excited that we got them 💜

When I went to a tea-ware/tea store in NYC, the owner recommended me a smaller $18 cup/mini-kettle set from Old Amsterdam Porcelain, since she's had a lot of broken gaiwans. Gaiwans are pretty cool, but the issue is that they apparently break all the time. *In Chinatown NYC -- they charge $10/gaiwan at discount ceramic stores, but $14/gaiwan at the specialty tea shops. I'm wondering if investing in a teapot as a beginner might actually save more money in the long run, since they seem to be built sturdier than gaiwans?

Spending money on good tea is more important than good pottery. A bad teapot may arguably make good tea slightly worse, but no matter how good your teapot is, it won't make bad tea any better. A $10-15 gaiwan and a simple $30-50 teapot can cover pretty much all your needs and last a lifetime. My collection of over 200 all kinds of teas from all over the world are covered by only 3 kyusuu, gaiwan and houhin. A little over $100 all of them, two kyusuu are handmade. If you wanna go fancy, no problem there, knock yourself out, but it's absolutely not necessary.

@TaoTeaware

4 ай бұрын

Totally true, it’s not a need. It’s just nice and helps to round out the experience. I definitely didn’t appreciate the breadth of teaware until we opened Tao Teaware though. The art, the history, the stories. All that being said get a nice $20-30 ruyao gaiwan and you’re set for life haha.

@Hannari-xt6nr

24 күн бұрын

And at least you know that your Kyusu made in Japan are made properly, while your yixing might slowly poison you.

在中国，饮用红茶最好的茶具不是景德镇的瓷器和潮州的茶壶，最好的是宜兴的紫砂壶。因为宜兴的茶壶是完全用手掌拍打出来的，所以透气性很好，当然价格也会比较贵。而瓷器一般更适合喝新鲜的绿茶。

I have 3 good quality tea pots. I paid about $5 each. But it took me more than 4 years of looking at second-hand stores to make these great finds.

@TaoTeaware

5 ай бұрын

Wow!! That is quite the feat. 🤯

@ScottGaul

5 ай бұрын

Yes. Go twice a week for about a year and a half to get a deal like this. OH! I just went to your Teaware shop. Now I see the benefits of skipping the second hand stores. Nice! @@TaoTeaware

@missourimongoose8858

5 ай бұрын

I found my first one at a flea market for 7 dollars, each seller has a booth in this store and one of them was the stuff of a grandmother who passed away and she collected tea pots, there were all kinds and shapes but all of them were for western style tea until I looked on the bookshelf and boom there was a little clay gong fu pot by some toys, they thought it was a toy pot for dolls or something lol

Um, nice shirt lol

@TaoTeaware

6 ай бұрын

👀 thanks!

Pour cup? Nope. Fairness cup.

The glasses, the long messy hair, the hobo shirt, the tattoos to piss mum and dad off, and the cultural appropriation, .... boy you are the definition of hipster, or as we call them every else in the world, the rightful descendant of colonialists. Next video, how to eat sushi, followed by how to wear a keffiyeh, and ring singing bowl, tie-dye fabrics in a mandala, and of course the good'ole, Jumbe and digeridoo tutorials.

@TheDalisama

23 сағат бұрын

I didn't realize that China had exclusive rights to brewing tea leaves. The act of steeping predates human history, and tea leaves predate all current civilizations. There's nothing wrong with trying different styles of tea brewing. Are all non-Asian people required to only put tea bags in hot water? Are non-Italians forbidden from drinking espresso? How far back does this restiction go? I hope you don't eat cooked food, because that's appropriating techniques started by Homo erectus.