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"Melinda" wrote in message
om...
OK, I have just had it...I have never heard anyone ask this question
before but it comes up for me every time I try to do gung fu with my
yixing pot. The thing gets so hot (from pouring the hot water over it,
in it, steeping, etc.) as well as the cups getting hot...I have a very
difficult time doing this without some hurt fingers. Even the handle
of my yixing gets hot. So, for those of you who do this on a regular
basis, do I just live with it or is there some secret? This is for
oolong btw so the water needs to be hot, I know. Thank-you in advance.


Melinda, gung fu-ing the last of my Bai Hao.

Never had that problem. When you pouring hot water over yixing pot, why
pouring it over the handle?
Cups are never hot - are you using small ones? They have plenty of time to
cool down between steeps, especially if you pour out all the tea from yixing
pot to chahai first and then pour to the cups from chahai.
BTW, water for oolongs should not be THAT hot, especially for greener
oolongs.

Sasha,

Respectfully differ with you here. Cups, properly prepared for Gung-fu, are
quite hot. They filled with hot water which is then disgarded, then filled
with hot tea which is likewise disgarded. I speak of course of the correct
way to prepare Gung-fu tea as taught to me by my master.

Michael