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- Tue Nov 02, 2021 1:53 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Your day in tea
- Replies: 482
- Views: 202613
Re: Your day in tea
I'd feel far too vulnerable, leaving anything tea-related of value in an office environment. What if I came in one day and found that my well-loved teapot had been 'cleaned',... I do keep my stuff clean and organized, behind doors. There is also strength in numbers : if I had one teapot, maybe some...
- Mon Nov 01, 2021 6:34 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Your day in tea
- Replies: 482
- Views: 202613
Re: Your day in tea
I've been thinking the same thing, especially now that our second lockdown over here has ended, people are returning to offices, there are fewer excuses to work from home Just for the sake of sharing an atypical experience, let me say I am one of the probably few for whom the pandemic has, ultimate...
- Thu Oct 28, 2021 10:03 am
- Forum: Black Tea
- Topic: Lapsang Souchong
- Replies: 65
- Views: 19902
- Fri Oct 08, 2021 11:12 am
- Forum: China & Taiwan
- Topic: Yixing
- Replies: 5888
- Views: 1867831
- Wed Sep 29, 2021 10:52 pm
- Forum: Tea/Teaware Vendors
- Topic: Daxue Jiadao 大学夹道
- Replies: 45
- Views: 17811
Interested in ordering
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- Wed Sep 15, 2021 3:17 pm
- Forum: Japan
- Topic: Use of cast iron teapot/kettle
- Replies: 18
- Views: 9318
Re: Use of cast iron teapot/kettle
I must tip my hat to @pedant, who has a knack for whipping out succinct, useful summaries of sometimes complex subjects, without them sounding like heavy-handed advice or judgement on individual preferences.
- Tue Sep 14, 2021 3:45 pm
- Forum: Storage & Organization
- Topic: Storage Failure
- Replies: 34
- Views: 13600
Re: Storage Failure
Other issue: the recharged packs sometimes develop salt crystals inside which don't dissolve anymore (it happens with the RH69 packs) -- these crystals could easily pierce the bag, but more importantly, i suspect that the crystallization might get to the point where the the RH is no longer correct ...
- Thu Aug 26, 2021 4:09 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Single tree!!?! Can it be true?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5559
Re: Single tree!!?! Can it be true?
faj at least you can drink tea. What can you do with this?? You can brag about it. You can bask in the pleasure of knowing all your buddies know you really, demonstrably spent this much money to get something of little practical value. If you are done bragging, you can resell it too. It is like pur...
- Thu Aug 26, 2021 2:31 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Single tree!!?! Can it be true?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5559
Re: Single tree!!?! Can it be true?
The recent trend around non-fungible tokens can give a perspective. The idea with them is being able to transform an (approximately) infinite flow of low-value blobs of bits into an (approximately) infinite series of individually scarce items with nonzero value. This is, to be sure, entirely disconn...
- Thu Aug 26, 2021 10:23 am
- Forum: Japan
- Topic: Why are Chawans so expensive?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5206
Re: Why are Chawans so expensive?
Also of interest, the concept of Veblen goods, which are goods for which demand increases when their price increases, because of their status signaling role.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veblen_good
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veblen_good
- Sat Aug 07, 2021 5:25 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Your First Teapot... show off!
- Replies: 33
- Views: 15317
Re: Your First Teapot... show off!
Yes, worth sharing. And ease-of-use is super important for work, where the rinsing & cleaning options may be quite limited. When I first started using teapots at work, I was worried about this. I built a habit of cleaning my teapots by putting a bit of water from the kettle, shaking and moving the ...
- Fri Aug 06, 2021 7:05 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Your day in tea
- Replies: 482
- Views: 202613
Re: Your day in tea
Is that an earlier Hokujo? I have noticed earlier batches have a slightly different, darker looking clay. Also the details of the spout look different to his later style. Will be interesting to see with what he comes up now that he is semi-retired from commercial teapot making... There have been qu...
- Wed Aug 04, 2021 6:17 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Where did you get your tea education?
- Replies: 49
- Views: 13883
Re: Where did you get your tea education?
Start with one very specific tea. Make as many servings of that one tea as you can so you become familiar with its every nuance. I have not dedicated to a single tea for a prolonged period, but as time passes I have been purchasing larger quantities of fewer teas. I did not start with the method yo...
- Wed Aug 04, 2021 5:06 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Where did you get your tea education?
- Replies: 49
- Views: 13883
- Tue Jul 20, 2021 7:50 pm
- Forum: Repair & Cleaning
- Topic: Cleaning rings of tea stain on unglazed clay
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4179