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- Mon Mar 11, 2024 12:52 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Looping usps packages
- Replies: 5
- Views: 344
Re: Looping usps packages
How do you reach the station master? My local branch literally does not pick up the phone for their posted (harhar) number.
- Sun Feb 04, 2024 8:07 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Boiled tea flavour
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1172
- Sat Feb 03, 2024 4:54 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Boiled tea flavour
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1172
Re: Boiled tea flavour
I remember that when I was boiling tea in my stainless steel pan, it would always turn out different than when brewing in a gaiwan or in a thermos. The taste was strong, all right, but it was always kind of equalized, minty, not very interesting. Good when you want to extract the leaves quickly and...
- Mon Jan 22, 2024 4:34 pm
- Forum: Vendor Discussion & Recommendation
- Topic: Your favorite Dan Cong vendor?
- Replies: 106
- Views: 197231
Re: Your favorite Dan Cong vendor?
I'd take anything tea related that KZ says/recommends with a grain of salt. Too much ego in that one. Some teas he has recommended in the past were junky.
- Mon Jan 22, 2024 4:27 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: The Porcelain Thread
- Replies: 311
- Views: 217392
- Mon Jan 08, 2024 2:55 am
- Forum: China & Taiwan
- Topic: Yixing
- Replies: 5877
- Views: 1819426
Re: Yixing
For stubborn pot smells I have tried vinegar, baking soda, citric acid soaks and boiling all with pretty limited success - nothing has worked as well for me as sodium percarbonate for any kind of cleaning. Agreed! Sodium percarbonate has worked the best at cleaning for me too. I did receive a piece...
- Thu Dec 07, 2023 10:04 pm
- Forum: Black Tea
- Topic: What Black Are You Drinking
- Replies: 678
- Views: 340741
- Thu Dec 07, 2023 3:57 pm
- Forum: Fermented Tea
- Topic: Tea Quiz
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1667
Re: Tea Quiz
Hmmmmm "1 teaspoon of tea per 1 cup of water" I don't know of anyone who prepares tea by measured teaspoons. With so many varieties of tea, 1 tsp per cup of water would hardly be universal enough to be called a "Golden Ratio". I weigh in grams or gauge by sight. Also, rooibos is no more tea than Red...
- Mon Nov 27, 2023 10:18 am
- Forum: China & Taiwan
- Topic: Help ID one of my fav teapots?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1497
- Sat Oct 21, 2023 12:28 am
- Forum: Repair & Cleaning
- Topic: Testsubin Black Residue
- Replies: 2
- Views: 882
Re: Testsubin Black Residue
If you are heating it over gas, I suppose there is the possibility that incomplete combustion could leave soot. I cant quite tell from what part of the tetsubin you are finding this soot-like substance but I have seen actual soot from gas stoves find its way quite far up the outside of kettles.
- Tue Oct 10, 2023 2:09 pm
- Forum: Repair & Cleaning
- Topic: Cleaning: Awakening & Resetting Unglazed Ceramics / Yixing
- Replies: 224
- Views: 140953
Re: Cleaning: Awakening & Resetting Unglazed Ceramics / Yixing
I haven't tried percarb yet, mostly because I tend to have bicarb on hand for porcelain. I usually do a warm bicarb soak, followed by light scrubbing with a chunk of loofah, warm white vinegar soak to neutralise, finishing with boiling water rinses. Never had to contend with any tough staining thou...
- Tue Oct 10, 2023 2:45 am
- Forum: Repair & Cleaning
- Topic: Cleaning: Awakening & Resetting Unglazed Ceramics / Yixing
- Replies: 224
- Views: 140953
Re: Cleaning: Awakening & Resetting Unglazed Ceramics / Yixing
I reset them when they start to feel a bit dirty, like when the interior is to a substantial degree covered with residues, or when putting a nice tea in them doesn't feel right anymore. The first one or two sessions after it might be a bit awkward, but afterwards the pot starts to feel right again....
- Thu Oct 05, 2023 2:54 pm
- Forum: Repair & Cleaning
- Topic: Interior crack inside yixing lid
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1900
Re: Interior crack inside yixing lid
Damn that really sucks to hear. I mean if anyone knows the shop's contact details on 171 Queens Road Central in HK that would be great but I'm not hopeful. I paid around £200 for it 😞 You may try to stabilize it with Permabond, a FDA & EU approved food safe adhesive but it does contain BPA as appar...
- Sat Sep 30, 2023 12:07 am
- Forum: Repair & Cleaning
- Topic: Interior crack inside yixing lid
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1900
Re: Interior crack inside yixing lid
I wouldn't worry too much. One of my pots has a similar crack - late 1970s/early 80s green label zini. Been using boiling water without too much care ./download/file.php?id=14243 The crack in his pot is more severe and extensive. I think it is likely to separate whereas yours is likely to remain th...
- Sat Sep 30, 2023 12:01 am
- Forum: Blogs, Podcasts, & Vlogs
- Topic: Takashi Ichikawa article
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1286
Re: Takashi Ichikawa article
I have one of his older kettles and after seasoning it makes the softest textured water. I love it so much I've bought a backup and a third as a gift to a dear friend. She says it makes "cloud water". I also have some of his plates and a teapot. The teapot is really beautiful with an iridescent, met...