I am relativly new to tea drinking and my newly purchased yixing teapot seems
to add more body and earthyness to my pu-erh tea. I seasoned it before use by
submerging it in a pot of pu-erh tea for 15 minutes and then rinsing it. I was
suprised at the taste difference when compared to tea brewed from my porclen
tea pot. I thought it would take much more time to notice a taste difference,
or maybe I like the taste of yixing clay, but I do belive I rinsed it well
enough.

I had a hard time getting answers to my questions in China Town New York. I
went to Ten-Ren I know they had all kinds of yixing pots but getting info about
them was like pulling teeth. The pots there looked like yixing pots I have seen
on the web and I am almost sure due to the large number of pots they had that
some or maybe many of them are yixing but I am by no means fully educated about
the properties of yixing. I eventually found a another place that would at
least tell me if the teapots are yixing and bought one there.

The tea I am using it Ten-Rens Pu-erh tea can anyone tell me if getting
compressed bricks or wheels would be better? Does Ten-Ren have them if so. I
get the feeling I have to know what I want, what it's name is, and how it looks
when I buy from them.

I know that you have to use a yixing teapot for only one type of tea but does
that mean I can use my black pu-erh tea teapot for all black teas or just
pu-erh tea?
I am planning to get a different teapot for each different type of tea I use
but how much lattitude do I have when it comes to the "same type of tea" It
would be nice if I could get only three teapots, one for black, one for
oolong, and one for green. Is this generally possible or is there too much
difference within each catagory of tea.

I want to narrow down the type of teas I'll use most as I wouldn't want to
dedicate a teapot to a type of tea I wouldn't use often. Any help would be
appreciated thank you.