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Might we know what said grail cup is?

Got it. Sometimes the inside just takes too long to dry.

@Bok curious how you clean your teapot after use. Do you wipe the exterior with a wet or dry rag? Do you rinse with hot water and air dry?

I have been sticking my cheap pots in an oven to dry off. Wonder if I should stop doing that.

sold

@pedant can you enable PM for the new user interested?

If you did brew tea that way, putting leaves in a tea bottle or jar, drinking that without separating the leaves back out, and then refilling it, what would that be called? It's just called brewing tea in China. It's so default that they didn't give it a name. And because its so common, he would ha...

After a couple of days wringing my hands and revisiting some TeaDB articles and thinking more about the RH/Temp/dew point relationship ... I am fairly certain that the issue was that the temperature was too low at night. Or you can also say that the RH was too high for those temperatures. I'm reall...

I totally understand the risk if the dew point is reached, but why is it bad to come close every now and then? Why do the mold spores care about relative humidity? Is it somehow easier to absorb moisture from air in cooler conditions? The amount of water doesn't change after all. Or maybe it goes d...

Price drop $78 including shipping.

Forgot to mention, I haven't sampled any of them

Collected some white tea over the few months while ordering other teas. Selling as a bundle. 2011 moonlight white cake (beautiful taiwan tea co) 357g 2015 bai mu wang (wuyi origins) 350g 2018 bai mu dan cake (txs) 75g 2020 jinggu sun dried silver needles white puer cake (YS) 100g 2019 shoumei cake (...

That's quite an improvement woah

Do you fill to the brim each time and tea leaks out when lid put in?

Bok wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 28, 2021 8:19 pm

May I illustrate: This pot has been in frequent use for a couple of months. No tea has ever been washed on its outside. Antique clay, cleaned and with a mat finish originally.

Please go dig up a before pic so we can compare

Youzi wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 28, 2021 11:56 am

Patina should be able to develop naturally.
If not, then the processing of the clay, or the production of the pot or the raw material isn't good.

You mean the tea diffuses to the surface from the inside, slowly over time?

Love dirtyish. People pay to dirtyish stuff. People make new muzzleloading firearms like the 19th century, they have ways to antique the metal and the stock. Done well, very stunning.