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lmaxell · 9 months ago

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This is an 'easy gaiwan'

A gaiwan is a lidded bowl you use to make tea, it's from a Chinese tea service/technique called gong fu. There leaf to water ratio is much higher than you get with a western style brewing but you steep for much shorter time and multiple times until the tea no longer tastes good or you're finished.

THIS, however, is an easy gaiwan. The ceramic is beautiful, and it is a beautiful piece, but easy gaiwans are so unnecessary and over designed. If you want to get into gong fu, just get a standard gaiwan.

Additionally, this reeks of an advertisement.

Anyways, here's my favorite gaiwan tutorial video because of the sound her table makes when it drains.

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#Tea #The thing that makes a gaiwain good is the lid/bowl combo being able to drain as much of the liquid as possible #because you don't want your leaves sitting in the water or steaming while you're not actively brewing #This easy gaiwan fails at that because it needs a second vessel to hold the leaves from the water #But it can't drain all the liquid from the main basin #so there will always be some liquid steaming your tea #Also #The lid only covers the smaller vessel for the leaves #but not the main body for the liquid #meaning your water will cool down faster #The reason why ceramic is used is because of the heat retention #and you're just giving that all away.#Additions #These ads make me so irate #Let's talk about cleaning it #Youtube #gaiwan #gong fu #tisane

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