When choosing utensils for tea, you should pay attention to what kind of tea you want to brew in this utensil.
Gaiwan made of porcelain or glass is perfect for brewing any tea: white, green, red, oolong and pu-erh.
It is good to brew pu-erh, red tea and some varieties of oolongs in a clay teapot.
It is best to brew tea in earthenware, faience or china. Yixing ceramics, traditional for China, is also suitable.
We fill the kettle with water so that when brewing it fills the entire volume.
In ceramic dishes, tea cools slowly, making it possible to stretch the pleasure of your favorite drink.
Ceramics loses to porcelain in elegance, but it will cost you much less.
The disadvantages of the material include the fact that ceramics perfectly absorb odors and become covered with microcracks over time.
In enameled water, the water boils very quickly, and therefore it is easier to miss the necessary stage of boiling - the "white key".
Do not brew tea in metal containers.
Special glass keeps the water temperature for a long time.
When glass interacts with water, toxic substances are not released, so this method of brewing tea is considered the safest. Key advantages of a glass teapot: Unique appearance.