Terra Wood Fired Teapot

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$165.00
Earn 1,650 Tea Miles

Description

This series of teaware combines a rustic and slightly rough appearance with excellent technical functionality. This particular teapot has undergone a several day wood firing process, giving it a unique semi-metallic finish and pleasant hand-feel.

Made in Jingdezhen, this studio particularly resonated with us upon finding them, as the artists have a tendency to reinvent themselves every few months. While they orbit around their core aesthetic taste, the work produced can vary greatly and depend on what their influences and inspiration at the time is. This means these teapots are limited, as their pieces and style change regularly.

Aside from having a creative process that pushes them to explore new styles, they also maintain a high level of quality control, with is evidence from the fit and finish of their teaware.

This teapot holds 130ml of liquid and pours empty in approximately 10 seconds.

Once your receive your new zitao teapot, you may want to season it and prepare it for the many teas and years of use it will experience. Personally, we have shied away from seasoning teapots as time goes on, not because this process doesn’t help, but because it is extra work and invites the risk of breakage if you’re not careful.

We feel that a week or 2 of consistent use is typically sufficient to break in a new pot. More often than not, we just rinse a new pot twice with boiling water, then go to town. Simple and easy.

With that said, if you still wish to season your teapot and get a head start, the process is relatively simple:

  1. Check for clay deposits and scrape gently with a wooden or bamboo stick.
  2. Place the pot in boiled water and allow to sit for 30-60 minutes.
  3. Remove the pot and allow it to dry
  4. Using new water, add some new or used tea leaves of the type that you plan to use this pot for, boil, add the teapot and allow it to sit for another 30-60 mins.
  5. Rinse with regular water and allow to dry
  6. Repeat as desired
  7. Your teapot is ready to be used!

After seasoning your pot, it’s advised to designate the pot for one type of tea (raw puer, ripe puer, oolong, black tea, etc) as the pot will slowly absorb the flavour and characteristics of the tea you use it for.

If for some reason you use it with another type of tea, don’t worry. Your pot is not ruined or tainted. The process of raising it is cumulative and happens over a long period of time – one simple session of brewing with another type of tea won’t make a noticeable difference. However, one thing you should definitely not do is use soap or anything other than water to wash or rinse your pot. If it absorbs the properties of tea over time, it will also absorb anything else you put in it, especially anything perfumed or scented.

Additional information

Weight 125 g
Dimensions 12 × 9.5 × 6 cm
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