9:05 oh no! my teapots in its moody teenage years! lol.

Great video, the tea ceremony and seasoning techniques are pretty cool!

That was such an informative video. I totally enjoyed this video. Thanks for this video.

Thanks for the great film!

I have that same water heater. I like all your videos, keep them coming. Can't wait for Christmas, so that I can get some more tea ware and VT teas, of course!

hey man, thanks so much, great tutorial.... really appreciate this!

Very informative video! Thanks for sharing!

Thanks for sharing this video! I just received a new Yixing pot for my collection (from your shop!) and wanted to see if there were any methods for seasoning I hadn't tried with my previous pots. This is exactly what I was looking for. In the past I've boiled pots in strong tea, leaving the leaves in, and wondered if there was a better way since, as you mentioned, the leaves get bitter when over-steeped. Going to go season my new pot using your method right now. :)

Hi @knittingtheblues I would definitely avoid using toothpaste on a new pot. The mint flavor, flouride, etc might partially come out in the long steep, but I am not confident in that always being the case. It is true that many machine-made pots have a lot of dust and grit in them, in which case I would just use the water sprayer on a kitchen sink to dislodge the grit before boiling. Immersion in water for seven days won't hurt the pot. Yixing doesn't mind the water. Hope that helps.

I really enjoy your videos! Thank you for sharing your knowledge! 加油！

Hello Verdant, thank you for the wealth of tea knowledge you have made available to the average joe. I have a question about seasoning Yixing pots. I just recently purchased 2. The first one I put the lid and pot in at the same time and turned the heat up until bubbles were coming out of the hole in the lid. The second pot I did the lid separately. I noticed that when I had both the pot and the lid in, it was only boiling under the lid. Not the rest of the pan. So that teapot didn't get to a full boil. With just the Teapot in I was able to get to a full boil. The pot that reached a full boil had a Stone or Rock smell afterwards and stole all the flavor of my first and second brew. The teapot that didn't reach a full boil didn't smell like anything. It also didn't seem to steal the flavor of my tea. I'm wondering if the "pores" didn't open up all the way because the water wasn't fully boiling when I first cleaned it? Thank you very much for your time.

Thanks so much for your response. I didn't use toothpaste and have been enjoying a yixing teapot that I received as a gift many years ago and was intimidated by at the time, dedicating it to one tea threw me. I have another question-yesterday I brewed an oolong (3rd or 4th rebrewing of leaves) and forgot about it. Hours later I found it and the tea had become bitter. Will this ruin my pot or is there something I can do to save it? I really love it, it has sentimental value, I hope it is okay.

I enjoyed this a lot and learned something too. I was told just to boil the pot is a pot of water with the tea. I like the refinement here of using the basket and or spoon to stop the rattling because it the makes it easy to just lift it out. (You can also put a small piece of towel in the bottom to prevent). But I will try the seasoning method with multiple pours. In the end are you letting it sit in the brewed tea plus the spent leaves?

Hey, I was wondering if you know whether a japanese clay pot can be seasoned in the same way? Please and thank you in advance!

Do you ever see infrared stoves for boiling water? I was reading a global tea hut article from August 2015 about fire and they mentioned that

I was skeptical about using toothpaste, too. I decided to use baking soda instead, which is a mild abrasive. Baking soda dissolves in water very quickly, so it only requires a few drops of water to make it a paste.

Hello VTC! Yes, does it really make a difference if you put two different oolongs in a yixing? Thank you in advance.

so, after that can I put the teapot directly to the stove flame? high or middle flame shall be used? and any tip to avoid it to break?

VerdantTeaChannel I've also read that first we have to scrub the teapot, rinse it after and fill it with water for 10 mins before putting the teapot in the pot of boiling water. I didnt see you did that or tell us to do it in this video, so we can skip that part of scrubbing?

Wow... I'd like so much to have an yixing teapot, but they're quite expensive where I live..

Thanks so much for this video. I hope you are checking here and can answer a few questions. I have read the following: to use tooth paste and a tooth brush to clean a new pot, to leave in boiling water for 30 minutes for initial cleaning and one site said to let your pot steep for seven days. Can you comment? Thanks.

Thanks so much. I'm re-doing my Yixing after making the mistake of using tap water and a cheap Longjing. I suspected this is why my tea was ending up bitter only when using my Yixing. I was following the directions from a blog telling me to boil the pot with tea inside for 20 min then let it sit in it overnight. I knew this would produce a bitter tea but thought I'd follow the directions anyway. Your method makes much more sense - to brew the pot in filtered water, good tea, and remove the leaves.

I like those unvarnished bamboo tongs

Do you do this teapot ritual blessing more than once or

Thank you for this. I'm hoping to get a teapot off ebay to do this. I'm guessing because of the flavor stealing, it'd be better to use a bolder tea to season? (Matcha instead of gyokuro)

Hi, enjoy watching your video.. quick question.. after you fill the bowl with tea. then let it cool and then take out the teapot.. Do you have to rinse teapot with fresh water or you just let it dry with the tea still sticking into the teapot ? Thanks!

is it the same for japanese clay tea pot??wich water for season it(sink water or bottle)??

Thanks for this wonderful clip. I was wondering when you brew tea with Yixing Teapot and after we poured our tea into the tea cup do you recommend that we get rid of the tea leaf right away or can we enjoy our tea and than worry about cleaning later?

The difference of teapot depend on the craftsman who made it and the clay that used. The craftsman are rated into 4 or 5 degrees, each degree have their recommend price. As to the clay, the unique clay that making yixing pot comes from an ore mine,the raw material is in the form of stone. the traditional way is put the stone under the sun and wait them being weathering and then precipitated under water, it tooks years to be fine clay, or just grain by machine, that make the difference

I have watched a few videos and no one has mentioned the tray, they will pour tea over the pot to season it, and the tray gets all wet, is this a certain kind of tray?

This was nice, I've been loving your company. I did find I loved the big red robe Wuyi oolong. We mostly drink white jasmine or green tea though. If one just prefers clay teapots, does it hurt to do that over glass or a gaiwan?

Is this terracotta or something else I just bought one but know nothing about it mine is Japanese with a built in strainer on the inside of the pot spout I have only used electric metal kettles am from England

After boiling my pot, when it dried, there is a white residue on the pot. Is this minerals from the water, the clay or what could this be? hoping that i did not ruin my yixing pot...

After using it a few times I noticed a hair line crack; did I do something wrong?

Dean Pelton?

That was such an informative video. I totally enjoyed this video. Thanks for this video.