It's really interesting, not to mention bemusing, how we operate from either
side of our brains, so to speak. Part of me wants to reserve a pot for each
type of tea, but another wants to just flow along, letting the tea color the
pot. So, what am I to do? I think when it comes to a tea you've spent say
16 USD per gram for, you want to make sure to taste it without the
influences of the pot's pre-history. But, with the common horde, it probably
doesn't make that much of a difference.

Mike, do you think that the one-pot-one-tea idea came from a time and a
place where and when the pot's master drank but one tea his whole life and
the pot followed suite? I wonder about that.

Michael


Mike 9/13/04


That's a good idea when you try a new tea anyway; no
matter what you do to prepare your pot, it *will* somehow add its signature
to the tea you brew in it.

I wholeheartedly agree, this has always been an internal struggle for
me. My Engineer side strives for repeatability and total control over
as many variables as possible, therefore choosing a porcelain pot. My
Adventurous side wants to experiment with cultural concepts and learn
from them, therefore my growing collection of zisha pots. Balance,
somewhere in between, is something that has always evaded me.....