how many more realms is this poison going to infect
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All according to kuki
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So my cast iron teapot doesn’t have anything to protect someone from gripping the top bar and burning their hands. I always use a cloth when moving it around, but I have this recurring vision of me putting out tea for friends and one of them not realizing the handle was hot as shit and burning their hands.
At one point I just taped some cardboard over it because I’m a cromagnon man, but I took it off recently, feeling, “my tea kettle ain’t got no business looking like this:”
Any suggestions?
Looks like there’s a way to weave… something, to create a handle, which would look nice I think. I care about the look of the teapot as a thing that would be sitting on the table with company, so I’m not so much interested in pure practicality as a solution that’ll also look decent.
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Long strips of cotton cloth, glued to it with superglue, then a second layer of braided thin cotton rope? (You want organic fibers, because synthetic fibers conduct heat well, melt, and burn real good.)
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Is the handle removable?
don’t mean to meddle in your business but uh is that kettle really meant to go directly on the burner like that?
oh wait if its cast iron i guess it’s fine as long as it isn’t lined? idk
Oh, are you supposed to heat water up in a separate kettle and then pour it into this teapot for service?
Gary: Just checked, the handle isn’t removable.
no i think you’re good - i thought at first it was like a ceramic tea pot in which case it would probably have already cracked? idk @victor probably knows
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i mean, typically…yes. i mean it’s just hot leaf water, whatever works.
Cast iron water vessels that look like this, tetsubins, are kettles, not teapots. They are meant to be directly heated and then used with a separate brewing vessel/teapot. They’re traditionally unglazed, inside - so you get that iron water taste, mmm mmm iron. Most/all of these little ones you can buy domestically, though, are glazed inside and marketed as teapots - really no reason you can’t use it as one or the other at that point.
I see em in pictures with these rope wraps, prolly works. Although, I don’t have one and never used one, what the hell do I know. I always just assumed you could just touch the handles? Maybe the handles on the larger volume ones are more grab-able. Glad I wasn’t a grabby Gabby over for tea at your house.
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I feel like if I made the water in a kettle and poured it into the cast iron teapot, the handle would then be safe to use. Probably the entire reason it’s scalding hot is because I boil the water in the teapot itself.
Def.
But also it’s gonna suck all the heat from your tea because of the thermal properties of iron and then your brew parameters go out of whack.
Maybe warm it up with a dummy batch of hot water first and then dump that and brew.
using a glazed “tetsubin” as a kettle risks cracking the glaze
you should really have a separate kettle/water heating appliance so’s to guard against whatever eventualities such an adventure might bring (imo)
when I made excessive volumes of oolong almost daily I always did a hot pre-rinse, and if I knew I’d be all day put the pot on one of those warming trivets with a tea light
yeah you gotta hot prerinse your teapot or it cools down wicked fast!
I have never used a tea cosy
are tea cosies why beer coozies exist?
cosy coozie tailor spy
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Good basic explainer on Da Yu Ling and Taiwanese mountain tea in general from Stephane, here.
I ordered some of this tea from him, first time I’ve had some green DYL coming in in a few years. My frothing demand increases, etc.
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Join me, my liquid friends, in media res, as I try this very good tea.
Please do not expect
- relevant tasting reactions
- content
Please, instead, enjoy
- the thrumming clicks of autofocus
- the knowledge that the new age ambient music caused one of my dogs fear that he could not escape from, another addition to the ever evolving list which dictates the character of his existence
- a short but tantalizing glimpse at the outside world in which we all once lived our lives
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I got the gold blend of Barry’s Tea, it’s all right, but not really what I was expecting. It’s not as like, strong or malty or whatever as I expect Irish breakfast to be (that’s what it is, right?). Maybe I’m just used to that Twinnings shit.
Also, I just went on the Adagio tea website because I wanted to look into some looseleaf tea and a cat told me to spin the wheel and
speak of the devil and so on.
eta: i put in an order for a bunch of samples from them since they’re only like, $2-$3. i put in my birthday and now i also get this tea which sounds interesting:
but the aquarius, capricorn, and leo all sound rad, too.
dang rooibos with orange and oolong?
dang i love rooibos
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i’m stupid. barry’s has an irish breakfast. and i had it in my cupboard. it’s pretty good. it’s better than the red box.
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