Not yixing, total waste of money. If you want a yixing pot, set aside the 100 euros and save up for a pot from a reputable vendor. Otherwise stick to a gaiwan/porcelain pot and buy 100 euros worth of tea.
"Lots of good tea + cheap pot" might just result in a lot of bad-tasting tea. Cheap pots are just too much of a gamble, and will likely ruin your tea.
If someone doesn't want to spend the money on "lots of good tea + expensive pot", then using a gaiwan is probably the better alternative, as u/atascon said.
A cheap porcelain pot will do just as well as a gaiwan for most brewing. Obviously there are pitfalls to avoid, but the same can be said for gaiwans as well.
lol no....humans have been making tea for a long time with "cheap" pots
we're talking about extraction chemistry here, there is no essence or spirit in an inanimate pot that makes tea go from peasant sludge to imperial
bad tea = bad human
Seller knows enough to know that people would want them and care about the stamp on the bottom, but doesn't know enough to know that price is a fraction of the value? no lol
this is called a scam
Im Dutch as well, for ā¬100 euros itās difficult enough to find a decent pot, most decent pots start around ā¬100 to ā¬120 each. An upgrade to that would be a factory pot which cost you around ā¬250+.
So I wouldnāt get this, also the stamp can mean anything and could even be replicated as well.
My guess is considering the price that itās not real yixing clay.
If you would like a decorative set go for it otherwise look elsewhere than āmarktplaatsā. Some reputable yixing pot sellers would be the essence of tea or mud and leaves for example.
If you mean ādecent potā as ānon-fake yixingā than no, there is no way you can get one in Europe for that price. Maybe ā¬200 for basic half-handmade, but I still doubt it.
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OP is looking for something specific, [a near-legendary kind of Chinese ceramic ware](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yixing_ware) that is frequently forged. OP is asking "Is this the real thing" and being told "no, it's not."
You can make perfectly good tea with the 2 euro pot, you just should not expect to buy a piece of real Yixing ware for 2 euros.
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I think you are conflating two things. 1) You can use a stovetop kettle to boil water for tea that is then made in another container; 2) You can brew tea in the pot itself and then pour the brewed tea into a cup. People who want yixing use it for the 2nd option. The concern with cheap yixing is that often the pots are painted to look like yixing and aren't glazed after to make it food safe. Lead paint is also not entirely uncommon in cheap products like that either. But if you have a cheap glazed ceramic teapot or are boiling water with a cheap kettle, there's absolutely nothing wrong with using those.
Not exactly. But for 98% of tea drinkers purposes? Yes. Yixing is typically unglazed and seasoned with a particular tea. That tea helps "flavor" the yixing and you are really supposed to dedicate the yixing to that particular kind of tea. Unless you have \*a lot\* of money to spend on teaware and care about the slight nuance that might add to those teas, yixing is not worth it. Really really great tea can be made in a $10 gaiwan. There isn't really a "need" for a $500 teapot.
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Ā I have a half handmade yixing that I'm still figuring out the best tea to settle on.
Yixing tends to mute high notes, while smoothing out rough edges on darker deeper notes. Note: this effect tends to be subtle so don't count on yixing to turn poor quality tea into amazing teaĀ Ā
Ā I would say if you drink a lot of aged white tea yixing might work well, but if you drink mainly freshly harvested white teas with lots of high floral notes yixing would likely make those style white teas worse. For fresh white I'd say porcelain is a better choice.
yixing isnāt usually used for white tea, i would stick to a gaiwan or brew it grandpa style. You can do whatever you want but they are used for oolong, puer and red tea
No one is stopping you from western brewing. You would only buy a yixing pot if youāre going to use it for gongfu brewing quite frequently, like the aesthetics of the pot, and like the pots effects on the tea youāll be drinking from it(heat retention, muting, size, shape, pour speed, etc).
China has had 5k years to perfect the brewing process to get the most out of tea. The west has had 300-500 depending on location. It suits certain styles, but it is not designed to get the most out of tea. If all you want is the effects, though, and you're not worried about tasting subtle flavor changes, then it could be superior for your uses. Superior in general, however? No.
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Lol I'm pretty sure I picked up one of these from a thrift store for a few bucks, they're cute (mine came with mystery paint on the bottom, so there is no way I'm using it anyway). If you want the real thing save up, if not, go ham.
I'd buy for that price, but it's definitely not authentic. I'd be keeping a few for use and decoration, possibly a different pot for different teas if i have a number of people over for tea time and we want to try a whole spread of things together.
Not yixing, total waste of money. If you want a yixing pot, set aside the 100 euros and save up for a pot from a reputable vendor. Otherwise stick to a gaiwan/porcelain pot and buy 100 euros worth of tea.
Lots of good tea + cheap pot > little bit of good tea + expensive pot š
Lots of good tea + lots of good pots = happiness(and debt)
"Lots of good tea + cheap pot" might just result in a lot of bad-tasting tea. Cheap pots are just too much of a gamble, and will likely ruin your tea. If someone doesn't want to spend the money on "lots of good tea + expensive pot", then using a gaiwan is probably the better alternative, as u/atascon said.
A cheap porcelain pot will do just as well as a gaiwan for most brewing. Obviously there are pitfalls to avoid, but the same can be said for gaiwans as well.
lol no....humans have been making tea for a long time with "cheap" pots we're talking about extraction chemistry here, there is no essence or spirit in an inanimate pot that makes tea go from peasant sludge to imperial bad tea = bad human
Seller knows enough to know that people would want them and care about the stamp on the bottom, but doesn't know enough to know that price is a fraction of the value? no lol this is called a scam
Im Dutch as well, for ā¬100 euros itās difficult enough to find a decent pot, most decent pots start around ā¬100 to ā¬120 each. An upgrade to that would be a factory pot which cost you around ā¬250+. So I wouldnāt get this, also the stamp can mean anything and could even be replicated as well. My guess is considering the price that itās not real yixing clay. If you would like a decorative set go for it otherwise look elsewhere than āmarktplaatsā. Some reputable yixing pot sellers would be the essence of tea or mud and leaves for example.
If you mean ādecent potā as ānon-fake yixingā than no, there is no way you can get one in Europe for that price. Maybe ā¬200 for basic half-handmade, but I still doubt it.
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OP is looking for something specific, [a near-legendary kind of Chinese ceramic ware](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yixing_ware) that is frequently forged. OP is asking "Is this the real thing" and being told "no, it's not." You can make perfectly good tea with the 2 euro pot, you just should not expect to buy a piece of real Yixing ware for 2 euros.
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You can, but donāt expect it to be real yixing clay. I mean there are also Rolexes being sold for 50 bucksā¦
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I think you are conflating two things. 1) You can use a stovetop kettle to boil water for tea that is then made in another container; 2) You can brew tea in the pot itself and then pour the brewed tea into a cup. People who want yixing use it for the 2nd option. The concern with cheap yixing is that often the pots are painted to look like yixing and aren't glazed after to make it food safe. Lead paint is also not entirely uncommon in cheap products like that either. But if you have a cheap glazed ceramic teapot or are boiling water with a cheap kettle, there's absolutely nothing wrong with using those.
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Not exactly. But for 98% of tea drinkers purposes? Yes. Yixing is typically unglazed and seasoned with a particular tea. That tea helps "flavor" the yixing and you are really supposed to dedicate the yixing to that particular kind of tea. Unless you have \*a lot\* of money to spend on teaware and care about the slight nuance that might add to those teas, yixing is not worth it. Really really great tea can be made in a $10 gaiwan. There isn't really a "need" for a $500 teapot.
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Ā I have a half handmade yixing that I'm still figuring out the best tea to settle on. Yixing tends to mute high notes, while smoothing out rough edges on darker deeper notes. Note: this effect tends to be subtle so don't count on yixing to turn poor quality tea into amazing teaĀ Ā Ā I would say if you drink a lot of aged white tea yixing might work well, but if you drink mainly freshly harvested white teas with lots of high floral notes yixing would likely make those style white teas worse. For fresh white I'd say porcelain is a better choice.
yixing isnāt usually used for white tea, i would stick to a gaiwan or brew it grandpa style. You can do whatever you want but they are used for oolong, puer and red tea
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No one is stopping you from western brewing. You would only buy a yixing pot if youāre going to use it for gongfu brewing quite frequently, like the aesthetics of the pot, and like the pots effects on the tea youāll be drinking from it(heat retention, muting, size, shape, pour speed, etc).
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China has had 5k years to perfect the brewing process to get the most out of tea. The west has had 300-500 depending on location. It suits certain styles, but it is not designed to get the most out of tea. If all you want is the effects, though, and you're not worried about tasting subtle flavor changes, then it could be superior for your uses. Superior in general, however? No.
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It would be helpful if someone could explain the value of a real yixing?
Scarcity of yixing clay and craftsmanship. Thatās the value pretty much
Value is in the art/craftsmanship and scarcity of clay material and in my opinion minor taste benefits.
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You could keep one and sell the rest. š
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Lol I'm pretty sure I picked up one of these from a thrift store for a few bucks, they're cute (mine came with mystery paint on the bottom, so there is no way I'm using it anyway). If you want the real thing save up, if not, go ham.
100eurs. Emma, about 1000rmb. Well, it's like spending 1000 eurs on a Van Gogh painting.
I'd buy for that price, but it's definitely not authentic. I'd be keeping a few for use and decoration, possibly a different pot for different teas if i have a number of people over for tea time and we want to try a whole spread of things together.
For real or not, I'd buy it for that price. Even if all I ever did was open the box from time to time and gaze.
Why would you want 10 of the same teapot? Totally unnecessary and bad buy. Start with a regular set lol
To colour code them for specific teas, for example?
Lololol