Green Tea Forum

Hushfield · Brown Belt Joined: 30 May 2008 Posts: 49

Hi all,
I have read in a few guides that you could make green tea in an English-type teapot, if you knew what you were doing. Well, obviously I am not (I just found out that i cannot put the tea in a tea ball, because it needs a lot of room to expand), and I was wondering if anyone would have any tips on using the pot that I have...

this one:

... to make better tea. I am currently thinking of just putting the leaves in the pot without the tea ball, and then pour the tea in to the cup through a little gauzy cylinder which I use as a strainer. The problem is there would be quite some leaves coming with the tea, I would have to put them back in the pot for 2nd or 3rd infusions and they might get stuck in the spout. I am not looking forward to that at all. Am I missing anything, or is this why everybody insists you should really get on of them fancy gauze-in-the-teapot kind of... teapots.

Thanks for the help
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okimasa · Posted: Jun 01, 2008 11:51 pm Post subject:

You should be able to get this to work. When I first got into green tea, for a brief period of time, I used an English teapot (it was so massive, it was more like a jug then a tea pot) and I had the same problems you are having.

What I did was when I'd pour, I'd pour it through a strainer (like a big one, about a 6 inch diameter) and into the cups. This does a fairly good job at keeping the leaves out of the cups, but they get stuck in the mesh and it can be tricky to get the leaves back in the pot.

It may be a good idea to pour it through your tea ball (having it open to collect the leaves, of course).