Can one enjoy a tea in 250ml teapot

[Konrud]

For now, I only have a 250ml glass teapot.

I was wondering, could one still enjoy a tea (using gong fu cha) using this, quite a large capacity, teapot?

I myself use 5mg tea to 100ml water.
That is, for 250ml teapot I mostly use (although it depends on the tea) 12.5mg tea.

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[.m.]

There are many good ways to brew tea other than "gongfucha". For example you can only half-fill the teapot (e.g. with green teas), or you can use smaller amount of leaves and do longer infusions.

[polezaivsani]

@Konrud, the ability to enjoy tea lies within you, not in the wares you use. For an even more daring statement, I'd say stick with this fine pot while you make your way for the next couple kilograms of tea and you'll come out a much happier person and a seasoned tea connoisseur by then.

Rushing for things you have little understanding of (yixing, terroir, brand names, etc.) just makes you make all the stupid mistakes. Mistakes are needed, but at least you could wait a bit and commit some interesting ones rather than falling for the traps people been into dozen times.

Seriously, stick with this pot and start trying teas (in sample quantities). Share it with some of your folks. Have fun! The rest will come in due time.

[Konrud]

Konrud, the ability to enjoy tea lies within you, not in the wares you use. For an even more daring statement, I'd say stick with this fine pot while you make your way for the next couple kilograms of tea and you'll come out a much happier person and a seasoned tea connoisseur by then.

Rushing for things you have little understanding of (yixing, terroir, brand names, etc.) just makes you make all the stupid mistakes. Mistakes are needed, but at least you could wait a bit and commit some interesting ones rather than falling for the traps people been into dozen times.

Seriously, stick with this pot and start trying teas (in sample quantities). Share it with some of your folks. Have fun! The rest will come in due time.

What an answer.

It's a pearl!

Thank you.
Means a lot to me.

It is quite difficult, at least at the beginning I guess.
So many new words, and things to learn.

But as you rightly said I shouldn't rush.
I should probably take one step at a time and just enjoy the process.

Although sometimes I feel like a kid in a candy shop, I want to try it all and now.

[Teafortea]

I drank tea for years with only Brown Betty 2 cup teapot( about 250ml) with a tea cozy . I still do for earlgrey to this day. I think your teapot will do great. Just as the comment above suggested, adjust the size of the water or longer infusions!

[pedant]

you can basically do gongfu in that if you want. you can put whatever dose of tea you want (~4g?) and just put however much water you want (~100g?). that's what i'd do.

[tolean]

Sure you can! You can try different styles of brewing. Also do not have to fulfill the teapot. I sometimes use my big teapot (220ml) just for myself. Sometimes i use half of it. Sometimes i use less tea and longer steeps and make it full. Perfect to drink tea when you do smth like writing, reading, whatching smth on PC. Enjoy the tea, try as musc as you cab and some day a teapot will find you (or Taiwan)

[Konrud]

I drank tea for years with only Brown Betty 2 cup teapot( about 250ml) with a tea cozy . I still do for earlgrey to this day. I think your teapot will do great. Just as the comment above suggested, adjust the size of the water or longer infusions!

Thank you, for your kind reply.

[debunix]

Lots of good advice here.

I have enjoyed tea that I prepared in vessels as small as 30 ML capacity and as large as 2 L capacity. Admittedly, I enjoyed as much the sense of using a toy tea pot to make real tea as much as the tea itself when I was using the 30 ML pot, but still, the tea was good.

You can balance the amount of tea leaf, the type of tea, the infusion temperature, infusion length, and how you’re going to be drinking the tea to get delicious results with many combinations of tea, vessel, and Infusion parameters. Not every tea will work for every situation.

But a 250 mL glass pot is a wonderfully versatile vessel should be able to turn out a decent cuppa from almost any tea….. If you pick the right combination of leaf, temperature, time. I have kept a glass pot this size at mom‘s house for use on my regular visits there, and while the conditions of my being there do not support fussing with my Japanese teas that require particular temperatures for best results, I do fine with anything where I can start with boiling water because that’s what the kettle there does best. And if I have a temperature controlled kettle, it will do fine with sencha, gyokuro, and everything else.

[Konrud]

as small as 30 ML capacity

Wow, can't imagine having a teapot that small.
It's like having a doll teapot, it's probably so small that you barely can hold it with your two fingers.

How much tea do you usually put in there, like 5gr at most?

Would it be impudent of me to ask you for an image of your teapot?

I'm curious what a 30 ML teapot might look like.

[debunix]

I bought this one because it was cute, not because I thought I was going to make great tea in it. But I did give it a try, and on a couple of occasions I have brewed two or three leaves of some nice oolong in it. I appear to have infused a bit of puerh in it during this shoot:


Tiny teapot by debunix, on Flickr


Tiny teapot by debunix, on Flickr


Tiny teapot by debunix, on Flickr


Tiny teapot by debunix, on Flickr


Tiny teapot by debunix, on Flickr


Tiny teapot by debunix, on Flickr

[Konrud]

I bought this one because it was cute...

You're right it is cute.
Thank you for those lovely pictures.

[LeoFox]

Glass can be cool to see the leaves.
Just did a session with ~230 ml hario glass pot with some nice arbor tree white from yunnan craft
https://www.yunnancraft.com/en/pressed- ... shan-white

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[faj]

Glass can be cool to see the leaves.
Just did a session with ~230 ml hario glass pot with some nice arbor tree white from yunnan craft

I have a few Hario teapots similar or identical to this one. Neutral, very thin, and they make very nice pitchers, as they pour much better (no drip) than any dedicated pitchers I have encountered.

[debunix]

I also have and love my Hario glass pot (500mL) for herbal teas especially when I have a cold and need lots of hot liquid.....so pretty and so functional....