gaiwan or teapot?

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Brent D
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Mon Oct 30, 2017 11:33 pm

My first brewing vessel was a gaiwan. I hate the thing. Many burned fingers and spills. I have 2 porcelain teapots. Done with the gaiwan.
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lac63
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Tue Oct 31, 2017 4:29 am

Brent D wrote:
Mon Oct 30, 2017 11:33 pm
My first brewing vessel was a gaiwan. I hate the thing. Many burned fingers and spills. I have 2 porcelain teapots. Done with the gaiwan.
Hello Brendt.
You can show your porcelain teapots
for oolong.

Thank you

Lluis Abad
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Brent D
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Tue Oct 31, 2017 7:36 pm

lac63 wrote:
Tue Oct 31, 2017 4:29 am
Brent D wrote:
Mon Oct 30, 2017 11:33 pm
My first brewing vessel was a gaiwan. I hate the thing. Many burned fingers and spills. I have 2 porcelain teapots. Done with the gaiwan.
Hello Brendt.
You can show your porcelain teapots
for oolong.

Thank you

Lluis Abad
Nothing fancy. I got one of these. I also had them make me one in 300 ml

http://www.dragonteahouse.biz/chrysanth ... 120ml-4oz/
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Brent D wrote:
Tue Oct 31, 2017 7:36 pm
lac63 wrote:
Tue Oct 31, 2017 4:29 am
Brent D wrote:
Mon Oct 30, 2017 11:33 pm
My first brewing vessel was a gaiwan. I hate the thing. Many burned fingers and spills. I have 2 porcelain teapots. Done with the gaiwan.
Hello Brendt.
You can show your porcelain teapots
for oolong.

Thank you

Lluis Abad
Nothing fancy. I got one of these. I also had them make me one in 300 ml

http://www.dragonteahouse.biz/chrysanth ... 120ml-4oz/
Thank you ;)
Biblony
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Tue Dec 12, 2017 1:56 am

Gaiwan for everything, mostly at first time not to spoile my pot.
When I bought my first yixing teapot, I dedicated to roasted oolong. It was 5 years ago, still my favorite.
Of course for lightly fermented oolong like TGY needs another pot, but I use only gaiwan or glass pot for it.
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Bok wrote:
Sun Oct 29, 2017 11:05 pm
I could never bring myself to like gaiwans, I do not like the way they look nor how they handle and brew the tea. I find myself having much more control with a teapot. For neutral testing I just use a porcelain teapot.

For anything else Taiwanese glazed(outside only) or woodfired.
I love that I can control the flow with a slight nudge of the lid. When I’m at the end of a bag and there are some small, broken leaves, I brew shorter and with a more sealed opening, hold back the smaller leaves. And it’s the easiest to rinse and clean out. But it’s only one typle if pot I use...
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christian
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Wed Dec 13, 2017 5:27 am

Personally my preference is for Yixing teapot for oolong. One teapot per tea. If is not possible have a Yixing teapot for each tea i like to use glass teapot, because are beautiful and easy to clean, so can be used for general purpose.
Of course for some kinds of teas like Fenghuang's gaiwan could be better, because the kind of leafs is not easy to use a teapot, because the entering hole, is not adeguate, but for that kinds usually i choose a large enter-hole teapot, and solve the issue in this way.

An example, i use this teapot just for Ling Tou Village Bai Ye:


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_Soggy_
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Wed Dec 13, 2017 10:09 am

I use a porcelain gaiwan for greener Oolong and a jianshui teapot for roasted Oolong.
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Wed Dec 13, 2017 5:42 pm

Teapots when I'm lazy (which is most of the time) and gaiwan whenever I want a deeper, more thorough experience.

Though, I do have to say taste-wise, so far I strongly prefer brewing in a gaiwan.
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Thu Dec 14, 2017 3:19 am

I try to avoid gaiwan as much as possibly, because my small hand is not very comfortable to brew with it. I can barely grab 70-80cc gaiwan, but as I prefer 100-120cc for 2 people session, I ended up buying a porcelain teapot as my "utility" pot for those teas I haven't dedicated Yixing pots for.

And of course, major reason is actually that I'm into Yixing teapots and cultivating them :lol:
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Thu Dec 14, 2017 10:42 am

Started with a gaiwan, moved into a crazy amount of teapots over the years just to end up reselling them and going back to a simple gaiwan again. There’s just something special about their simplicity that I enjoy and the fact it’s all about the leaf and not what the pot is doing to it is nice too.
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Thu Dec 14, 2017 11:36 am

CWarren wrote:
Thu Dec 14, 2017 10:42 am
Started with a gaiwan, moved into a crazy amount of teapots over the years just to end up reselling them and going back to a simple gaiwan again. There’s just something special about their simplicity that I enjoy and the fact it’s all about the leaf and not what the pot is doing to it is nice too.
Same for me except I still have some teapots for occasional use :)
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leth
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Thu Dec 14, 2017 5:48 pm

I prefere using a pot, I seem to get the best results with pots. I mostly only use Gaiwains in some few cases when testing or experimenting with teas.
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Psyck
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Sun Dec 17, 2017 10:45 am

I use glass/thin porcelain/thick ceramic/unglazed clay teapots and glass/thin porcelain/thick ceramic gaiwans of various sizes. I'm comfortable handling any of them and most of my wares are used regularly. I have not done comparison tests across them though, as my purchases have mainly been based on aesthetics and size requirements rather than potential influence of the vessel on the taste.
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Sun Dec 17, 2017 6:07 pm

Depends on what I want to get out of the tea ;)
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