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... Can not be bothered to buy a few of those cupping sets, too ugly and otherwise useless for my purposes, too much nice teaware not to use it... I could never figure out why end users like us would need those cupping sets - they look more useful for vendors and manufactures. After all if doing a ...

I suppose I had coffee primarily in my mind, as I used to mainly drink coffee until begining teas a few years ago. I still drink the occasional cup of strong coffee and consider all types of teas milder than it. I've never had any problem drinking any kind of teas on an empty stomach, though I've of...

Tea is already a lighter and milder drink as compared to others, I prefer brewing it as thick and strong as possible. Drinking a variety of teas trains your glands to pick up the different notes, I don't think it is necessary to make a habit of brewing lighter for that - so brewing lighter should be...

They appear to have controversial opinions on puerh storage:

Seems to me that it is more about brewing properties, e.g. Yixing, Glass, Porcelain etc. Ceramics is too large a field in my opinion and as you say it would accomodate almost all teaware except metal and glass ones… Now the earthen and stonewares are divided due to their origin, where it would make...

How about renaming Teaware>Porcelain to Ceramic instead? Earthenware, stoneware, porcelain, and pottery objects are all subsets of ceramics.

Some observations from a storage experiment in progress: Ambient temp and RH in my apartment in Toronto are 24C and 50% respectively. <...> - Going from 24C to 40C, these cakes release enough moisture to maintain approximately 60% RH. Note that at 24C, I have found that 1701-7542 maintains 66% RH, ...