gaiwan or teapot?

[Brent D]

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.

[lac63]

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

[Brent D]

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/

[lac63]

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]

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.

[Noonie]

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...

[christian]

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:

[_Soggy_]

I use a porcelain gaiwan for greener Oolong and a jianshui teapot for roasted Oolong.

[teafarer]

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.

[Aya]

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

[CWarren]

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.

[Elise]

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

[leth]

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.

[Psyck]

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.

[steanze]

Depends on what I want to get out of the tea