I did the same experiment with my Yixing and Chaozhou teapots. Pu'er (both green and black) and black teas are great (thick and smooth) when brewing in Yixing teapot. Light and medium oxidized Oolong teas go great with Chaozhou red clay, because Chaozhou clay preserves high and bright notes of the aroma. The mineral matching of Chaozhou clay and Dan Cong is awesome, while Pu'er matches with Yixing clay really well.
Don't know if you have perfected you tea making process. I watched a video that showed after the rolling process of putting the leaves into a proofer for an hour or so to increase the process of oxidation. This will result in a slightly darker more flavorful tea leaf.
Thank you for this great content,curious enough ,i can find tons of Yixing pots on the net,especially Amazon ,but not so much Chaozhou,and looks like the Yixing are cheaper,unless there is lots of fakes.Please share your thought .
you should boil the tea pot in hot water 30 min and then boil it one more time with some tea that you drink. I think the taste will better. and i think you can not know what cheap what expensive
Surprising... someone with a storefront is anti cheap goods in lieu of their own cheap marked-up goods. A true comparison would have been with two brand new teapots, both seasoned the same way, with a sample size of 4 or more test cups, there is a 50% chance of simply GUESSING which is which using only two cups.
At the time of recording I didn't have any teapots in my store and thought this would just be a fun and informative video to put out there. ( I also wanted to know if it was any good and if I could spot the difference) I can see how it now seems to be a sales tactic but that never was the intention. As for the way I tested it.. I would love to make the experiments more scientific, season more, get pots of the same shape, do double blind tests etc but the issue is time. Just to shoot and edit this video took 15+ hours. This is also the reason I havent done a video in so long (even though I have alot of ideas lined up!). It's a pretty time consuming business. Adding 4 cups is a good idea. I will do that the next time I do something like this. Wishing you well and enjoy your tea!
@@leaveswithhugs I have to say that is a solid response, I would love to see an in-depth approach with double-blind results. Maybe have a few subjects do their assessments. Possibly without telling them it's a cheap pot, or telling them it's a comparison of two expensive pots to remove bias. My position on this personally isn't pro cheap teapot nor expensive teapot. I would just like to see if it's a subjective issue or if there is a substantial difference. I assume the only upside to the cheap pot being the same would be the possibility of saving myself and others money on gear that we could then apply to buy more Tea. Another point of order would be the sample size, to answer the question of are ALL cheap teapots are subpar? possibly tossing one or two more into the fray to mitigate it is a one-off or a trend with lesser-priced teapots. Again I appreciate the fact you took the time to reply, and wish you the best!
Pretty hard to describe the difference.. one bud one leaf has a bit more energy and is a bit more 'clear'. White eagle is more all-rouded and smoother.
Yay! I came across one of your older videos last week and was wondering when you'd be making a new one. Sounds like 2020 was a bit of a bitch to you. Hope 2021 will be better with lots of great tea and great hugs!
sorry but i bought a yixing teapot from AliExpress for $57 and it's most likely Zhuni (I say that because the seller didn't specify exactly, but did provide it with a maker's certificate), and it makes my favorite puerh very well! So the $100 and up rule isn't necessarily true! With more common clays like Zhuni, I think you can buy something for less than $100, granted the pour might not be the fastest (mine has about a 10sec pour) but it's still pretty and very functional! For ref: this is the pot I got --- www.aliexpress.com/item/1005001939988599.html?spm=a2g0s.9042311.0.0.43454c4dzXsolh
Amazing video! I wonder how is that charcoal tea stove is called? Or where can I get one? I wonder if I can make one out of flower pot sand and ash. Because I use brass mortar and pestle with ash for burning resin incense and it doesn't heat up that much. Thanks, will wait for new videos!
I was obsessed with kettles and boiling water, eversince I went to a tea house that heated water in a tetsubin over charcoal. I bought a tetsubin from horaido teashop, the type with the bronze lid that is not treated with urushi, and I tried in with gas and infrared, and infrared was the most comfortable to use, because a gas flame can make the bottom rust, it is a wet heat. Later in I got a white banko clay bofura kettle, without the ryoro stove, again it makes great water on infrared, I also bought a Lins ceramic kettle, I used it a lot on infrared, and my latest addition is a Chao Zhou Shia Dao kettle 400 ml from chawangshop, I planned on ordering the kettle first, playing with it on an infrared heater and later on order a clay stove with olive pit charcoal and try heating the water over charcoal for those special aged oolongs that I really like, or some nice wuyi, or a good aged sheng, but covid situation came along and shipping got very expensive and now I have to wait. By the way laying the charcoal and heating water is a whole chapter in the japanese tea ceremony.
Leaves with hugs my fiancée bought me a cup but it was around $400 but the seller said his friend who buys it, who he bought it from, says he’s been collecting for years. How can I tell it is real?
@@teastudent9794 easiest way is to get it to an antique shop and see if they can value it. Evaluating antiques is a whole art on itself as there are many copies around. I usually buy less expensive stuff or at sellers that I know are good.
the Sheng puerh being a hipster snob vs Shou puerh being a normal, slightly grumpy dude was super funny! and then the Liu Bao hahah. good stuff man. btw I'm @teaware.life on IG, love your posts!
