TEA EXPERIMENT: Do Yixing Teapots Improve the Quality of Tea?

Is tea better in an Yixing teapot? Gabriele performs a side-by-side experiment pitting two Yixing against a gaiwan to taste how the porous clay affects the flavour of the water—and the tea steeped within. If you have some Yixing (or other unglazed) teaware, do try this at home!

To do the experiment, you need:
• One or two (different) Yixing teapots
• One gaiwan of a similar volume
• Identical small cups, one for each brewing vessel
• Identical pitchers or glasses, one for each brewing vessel
• Strainer
• Precise scale
• Container to weigh leaves
• Timer
• A mild tea (e.g. a white tea)

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