Can teapots absorb odors?
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So I'm shopping for a storage/display cabinet for my teapots and a lot of the options are wood. I read somewhere (I think it was marshaln's blog but not sure) that teapots, scan absorb odors. Does this sound right? And will that affect tea brewed in the pots?
Have you considered a glass display cabinet? All of my Yixings at home are in glass cabinets. It makes it easy to admire them without handling and I can pick which one I intend to use before I open the cabinet!
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Yea, I was leaning towards a glass one, but wanted to ask anyways.
cabinets can definitely make your teaware smelly and negatively impact brewing.
leave the cabinet closed for about a day (or at least a few hours) to let potential odors build up inside. then open it and quickly smell.
if there's any kind of a smell, don't use it for your teaware.
leave the cabinet closed for about a day (or at least a few hours) to let potential odors build up inside. then open it and quickly smell.
if there's any kind of a smell, don't use it for your teaware.
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Does glazed unglazed make a difference in your experience?pedant wrote: ↑Sun Mar 25, 2018 12:26 amcabinets can definitely make your teaware smelly and negatively impact brewing.
leave the cabinet closed for about a day (or at least a few hours) to let potential odors build up inside. then open it and quickly smell.
if there's any kind of a smell, don't use it for your teaware.
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I ask cause I don't store any of my yixing unglazed pots in wooden cabinets but do some glazed ones. So far I can't smell anything on the teapots, maybe I'll air them out every so often.Teachronicles wrote: ↑Sun Mar 25, 2018 12:42 amDoes glazed unglazed make a difference in your experience?pedant wrote: ↑Sun Mar 25, 2018 12:26 amcabinets can definitely make your teaware smelly and negatively impact brewing.
leave the cabinet closed for about a day (or at least a few hours) to let potential odors build up inside. then open it and quickly smell.
if there's any kind of a smell, don't use it for your teaware.
in my experience with using an unsuitable cabinet, glazed and unglazed are equally affected.
i could smell the cabinet on my pots and cups i had in there.
ime, leaving them to air out didn't quickly fix it.
the deposited smelliness could be easily and quickly removed from glazed wares with soap and water, but i didn't want to use soap on unglazed pots.
it took several boiling water rinses, lackluster tea sessions, and a bit of time for those pots to go back to normal. i think they're fine now, no long term harm done.
i could smell the cabinet on my pots and cups i had in there.
odors can adsorb onto glazed and unglazed surfaces alike.
ime, leaving them to air out didn't quickly fix it.
the deposited smelliness could be easily and quickly removed from glazed wares with soap and water, but i didn't want to use soap on unglazed pots.
it took several boiling water rinses, lackluster tea sessions, and a bit of time for those pots to go back to normal. i think they're fine now, no long term harm done.
I have noticed that packaging sent out of China often have some crazy smells going on! Never mind the weird sort of net-like wrapping they use to pack several packets together – comes with original road dust and sand! Scary stuff.