/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>6505954
>How about just using the right amount of leafs in the teapot as well?
Well, i guess you could. Usually it's a bigger leaves/water ratio with gaiwan, and way shorter infusion times. But you would be using A LOT of tea if you were to keep that ratio that in a teapot. That's why you usually put less leaves, way more water, and make the whole thing infuse longer. It is just more practical to use a gaiwan, in my opinion, and the results are different.

>You can always heat your teapot.
Of course, and that's what you do with most smaller ones, traditionally. They're small so it works well, and you infuse the tea for such a short time too. For a large teapot I'd consider thicker materials, however. That part was actually aimed at a lot of meme glass teapots that can't really retain heat for shit. Thicker glass can manage it, but you should still choose carefully.

>Which also means that you will need different teapots for different tea sorts in the long run, though.
Is that a problem? No such thing as "too many teapots"!