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Trusar you are making a lot of very confident statements, but I have the impression that you are not very experienced on teaware yet. May I ask you for how long you have used Yixing teapots and Chaozhou teapots? I agree with you that it is a good idea to test for yourself the claims people make. I ...

Trusar you are making a lot of very confident statements, but I have the impression that you are not very experienced on teaware yet. May I ask you for how long you have used Yixing teapots and Chaozhou teapots? I agree with you that it is a good idea to test for yourself the claims people make. I ...

you cannot be talking about the texture, because the texture i think is how yixing should be, white dots, black dots, bumps here and there from the firing and rough texture. so the texture from my zini is all there, you can only be talking about the colour, is this correct? there are probability di...

I wrote a lengthy reply but it didn't post. So here's the gist. The samples above look like clays fabricated to look like their namesakes. If I compare the zini sample to my F1s from the 60s, 70s, 80s, there is only a very superficial resemblance. to the real things. I have a modern, fully handmade...

Going back to my previous post. According to Wikipedia " porosity is a measure of the void spaces in a material, and is a fraction of the volume of voids over the total volume." A dual porosity structure then refers to connected porosity (measured through the volume of gas or liquid that can flow i...

That is the problem these days, people take their own limited experience to make general statements. In the way of: I know this guy from xyz-origin, he is a bad person, so all xyz-origin must be bad people! See the problem here... ? im not being that general, im just agree with some who know a lot ...

I wrote a lengthy reply but it didn't post. So here's the gist. The samples above look like clays fabricated to look like their namesakes. If I compare the zini sample to my F1s from the 60s, 70s, 80s, there is only a very superficial resemblance. to the real things. I have a modern, fully handmade...

I got mine from yunnan sourcing and the clay is the same as mei leafs. this type of CZ hongni is not porous. Scott says "The clay is highly porous but without allowing water to escape or soak in deeply." :) I am certainly not questioning your assessment of the pot, you own it so you know the best h...

Trusar CERTAIN Yixing are more porous than certain CZ. There are many kinds of Yixing clays, all with different properties in terms of porosity. The way they are fired further determines how porous they are. Or are you saying a Zhuni clay Yixing is porous? You’d be the first to say so... hongni is ...

Mei leafs one is a little more red, but the feel of the clay is the same as mine, Does so well with bai mu dan, other wise i don't know if it even has a big impact on the tea at all. i cleaned it out with an electric toothbrush, still not sure which tea to use in it. been using it for everything up ...

Just saw this claim on Meileaf. This is exactly the opposite of what I understand to be the dif b/w Yixing and CZ clay. Could this be right? "The porosity essentially determines how much the tea will be affected by the minerals in the clay. Yixing clay is very porous and so has a very pronounced ef...

This is the CZ Teapot I have, dont know how clear the Pics are but if they are clear enough, you can see it is not the same as the one BOK put up.
smooth inside and out.

Yes actually I found what mei leaf said to be correct. everywhere you look online and people just copy each other and say the same thing. I bought a CZ hongni clay teapot from yunnan sourcing, and it is not porous at all. infact it is so not porous that i actually do what mei leaf said and use it as...