Care For Your Yixing Clay Teapot
  Yixing Teapot and a Chinese Porcelain Tete-A-Tete on a Partly Draped Ledge Giclee Print Buy at AllPosters.com Your Yixing clay teapot can last a lifetime, even generations. And it's easy once you know how to care for your teapot. Your Yixing clay teapot is prized not only for its utility and artistry, but also because it is unglazed clay that holds hot water. The unique qualities of Zisha “purple sand” clay include, holding hot water, absorbing and enhancing your tea flavor, and containing healthy minerals free of lead. When you first bring it home, you should rinse it out in hot water to remove any dust. Before you cure the teapot, you should note some general rules:
To cure or season your Yixing clay teapot, brew several pots of tea in succession, each lasting about 30 minutes, using fresh leaves. Throw the brewed liquid and infused leaves out each time. It is very important to use only the tea chosen for this teapot for this seasoning, even if you have chosen a great Dragonwell because that particular flavor will soak into the clay. Also, those first few infusions that season the pot to the specific tea will have a clay taste to them. Throw the first four infusions away before you start drinking your tea. Continue to care for this treasured teapot remembering the above rules, and you will have a wonderful and useful keepsake not only for your lifetime, but for generations to come. Here are some beautiful selections of these teapots
Green tea varieties: Dragon Well | Mao Feng | Matcha | Gunpowder Green | Pi Lo Chun | Gyokuro | Lu Shan Yun Wu | Japanese Sencha | Lu An Melon Seed | Jasmine | Blooming Tea | Chun Mee | All Flavored | Organically Grown | Premium Estates This page was last updated by Sharon Jones on February 13, 2012. Return from Yixing Clay Teapot to Green Tea Health News Home
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