Learn about Japanese teapots with this complete guide – Find the perfect Japanese teapot for each type of Japanese green tea
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0:00 Introduction
00:32 What Are Japanese Teapots?
01:10 Why Matcha isn’t Made in a Teapot
01:27 Japanese Teapots vs Western Teapots
02:11 Clay Design
03:12 Houhin Teapot
03:53 Shiboridashi Teapot
04:32 Tetsubin Teapot
05:07 Benefits of Japanese Teapots
06:08 Producing Japanese Teapots
06:29 Where to Buy Japanese Teapots
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29 Comments
Hi Neo. I'm from England. What country do you ship your products from? US? Sweden? Am I going to be charged for custom duties? If yes do you know how much these are going to be? Why some products are only available for the US? Is there a way to get in touch with your customer service?
I think traditionally tetsubins are used as kettles, not as teapots. The ones that are glazed and come with strainers are pretty cringe imho.
Suggestion for a drinking game: Take a shot every time he says 'teapot'.
The video never explains why not to use cast iron teapots.. disappointed that the title turns out to just be clickbait
A technique comment – for the pour you should not be doing one big tip and pour. You should pour and rock the kyusu back and forth about 3 times in smaller pours. The person demonstrating the pours in the video you can see all the leaves on the bottom during the pour. (Well the lid should not be taken off either) Not what you want. The leaves should wind up against the side of the inside of the pot for best extraction. At timestamp 7:30 you will see a sped up version of someone doing a good pour.
Lame video. The cast iron pot. Or known as nan Hu 南壺， is for boiling water that used for tea making. U don't use nan Hu to make tea. Cickbait title.
Tetsubins are traditionally used in chanoyu for bon temae, unglazed tetsubin, and the ones that are not urushi treated can be used to boil water for tea, although in senchado small white clay pots called bofura are used over clay stoves called ryoro, if you use a good tetsubin as a tea kettle, it sweetens the water, Banko clay kyusu with a tetsubin make sencha sweeter.
So, it seems i've been brewing my green tea all wrong for years (alas, i have a cast iron tetsubin). I mostly drink Tamaryokucha, Sencha (different cultivars), occasionally Gyokuro. I've known it all along that the leaves are supposed to move around, and yet somehow i've never brought myself to do the switch to a clay teapot. But i definitely need some sort of teapot with a built-in strainer.
Thoughts?
Maybe if you spoke even faster we'd be sure to not follow and retain anything at all. Thanks for the verbal diaharrea.
I bought a kyusu style teapot and its handle is not holloW . possible it is fake ? 😢
I thought tetsubin were for heating/maintaining the water, not brewing?
Self-serving blah.
Ahhh, its an advertisement for your own site.
Wow you really do know your teapots. Incredible content! I had no interest in teapots and I have no idea how I got here…but I watched the entire thing. I must try a Japanese tea!
When you want to boil WATER in it, it’s called a tea KETTLE. Cast iron inside, to flavor the water in a very specific, subtle way.
When you want to brew TEA in it, it’s called a tea POT. Ceramic inside, so the tea leaves dominate.
Using tea leaves to steep inside a cast iron KETTLE will ruin the KETTLE, which if made by hand is very expensive! so don’t do that! People really need to be specific in their titles so others won’t be confused'
Hello, very interesting video. I have added the red pot to my shipping cart but before I check out, do you offer the clear glasses you have in the video? If not, where can we get them?
And eventually we all die and leave this life – 1st world problems and tinkering
This guy is reaching so hard. Most "Western style" brewing is done in a mug. My strainer is over half the size of a cup. He is determined to convince himself it's "watered down" compared to his marginally superior method. And I'm not saying it's not good, I'll probably buy one myself, but if you're doing it right the difference is really not very big.
This is ridiculous, unless you’re participating in a Shinto ritual who cares about being graceful and who wants to brew a literal sip of tea. A “relaxing tea moment???” it’s a beverage, not a massage. I like strong tea, so I use a lot of leaves Japanese style, but I’m also not a rich man who likes to put on a show, so I want my cup to actually be full.
How can you clean a fukamushi teapot properly?
barf
green tea is vile
black tea is good
There are Polish ways to increase tea strength usually for herbs and fruits by covering the tea cup, it takes about 6 min, simple.
Colored glazes of ceramic kitchenware may contain heavy metals like lead or cadmium. On contact with food, these toxic substances may be released from ceramic to varying degrees. I'll stick with cast iron.
Brilliant video. It made me laugh out loud several times.
It's cool to be passionate about something, but this is a bit over the top for an average Japanese family. Sure tea connoisseurs exist, and I suppose that is your market, but you should know that most people here just brew whatever tea they have, in whatever teapot they have on hand…..my mother in law likes using a glass western style teapot. Most people just brew tea to, you know, have a drink, and the minutia of how gracefully the tea is poured is really not a factor.
Still, fair play to you. If you were just selling tea, and teapots without attaching a lot of mystique, and culture, I'm sure you'd only be able to ask for half as much per pack. I don't blame you at all. I'm sure you're much richer than me.
Except for Mijirushi about 10 years ago (which I'm sure is the "wrong" place to buy a teapot) I've never seen a Yokode Kyusu, with the handle suitable for left handed use. I promise you it is far from graceful when I use one, compared with using a top handle.
click bait
Somebody likes teapots lol low
More grifitng from this Yank
Are these teapots only meant for green tea or are you able to make other types of tea like butterfly pea tea?
Maybe I missed it, but why exactly is cast iron bad? For the same reason as other western styles? It's just too big? Or is there something specific to cast iron