@@51rwyatt I've also have a cheaper cast iron tea pot. I take it camping, not ceramic lined just oil seasoned. And it works just fine. This guy is just pushing the product he's selling.
The cast iron tetsubin is not a teapot; this is not explained in the video. The tetsubin is a kettle to heat the water. Tannins in the tea that has been brewed in a tetsubin will react with the iron turning the tea black. A true tetsubin is not enamelled. Most cast iron japanese 'teapots' are cheap, Chinese copies and have been enamelled to prevent the tea from reacting with the iron. Better stick with clay teapots. Even a budget glazed teapot is better than a cast iron enamelled tetsubin.
Tetsubins are traditionally used in chanoyu for bon temae, unglazed tetsubin, and the ones that are not urushi treated can be used to boil water for tea, although in senchado small white clay pots called bofura are used over clay stoves called ryoro, if you use a good tetsubin as a tea kettle, it sweetens the water, Banko clay kyusu with a tetsubin make sencha sweeter.
Exactly, I found it really weird how there was no mention in the video about what tetsubin is actually meant to be used for (before teashops, especially in the west, started pushing glazed tetsubins on people for use as an expensive teapot).
@@karamcsand Only unglazed and not treated with urushi lacquer, for a good info on this topic search for Hojo tea tetsubin, that site has all the info you will need.
If you are going to tell people not to use the Tetsubin, atleast own or use a GENUINE one. The one you have is mass produced outside of tradition and will ruin the tea. Traditional Tetsubin will be heat treated to form a thin layer that protects it from rusting, and to enhance the taste of the water when you heat it. The traditionally made Tetsubin actually has properties in the iron that helps remove chlorene as well. But it's okay if you disagree, I'm just the one who is japanese here. 🤷♂
Surely you're not advocating the brewing of tea in a traditionally made tetsubin, right? You're only advocating the use of an unglazed tetsubin for heating the water used to make the tea, aye?
Well, my first video watching your channel showed me your titles have nothing to.do.with the content. You didnt say anything about why not to use a cast iron teapot, not why there may be a risk and difference between the glazed/cheaply glazed vs. heat treated iron pots.
Just bought my tea loving, Japanese learning, foodie 15 year old a teapot and a couple of loose teas to try (from your shop)! Thanks for the great video.
A technique comment - for the pour you should not be doing one big tip and pour. You should pour and rock the kyusu back and forth about 3 times in smaller pours. The person demonstrating the pours in the video you can see all the leaves on the bottom during the pour. (Well the lid should not be taken off either) Not what you want. The leaves should wind up against the side of the inside of the pot for best extraction. At timestamp 7:30 you will see a sped up version of someone doing a good pour.
So, it seems i've been brewing my green tea all wrong for years (alas, i have a cast iron tetsubin). I mostly drink Tamaryokucha, Sencha (different cultivars), occasionally Gyokuro. I've known it all along that the leaves are supposed to move around, and yet somehow i've never brought myself to do the switch to a clay teapot. But i definitely need some sort of teapot with a built-in strainer. Thoughts?
Definietly try to get a tokoname clay kyusu, or a shiboridashi. I find brewing in clay to be the most enjoyable, although I also use a glass gaiwan a lot because it lets me observe the leaves through the whole steep.
@@wadsworth2351 you can get it from us! there is the black tokoname kyusu here: nioteas.com/collections/teaware/products/kyusu-teapot-black and the red kyusu teapot is here: nioteas.com/collections/teaware/products/red-fukamushi-kyusu
Hello, very interesting video. I have added the red pot to my shipping cart but before I check out, do you offer the clear glasses you have in the video? If not, where can we get them?
I'm so glad to hear that! I don't know if you saw but our Black Friday deals are live! We discounted all the items on the website up to 69% off and were offering a Buy 2 Get 1 Free deal on all teas: nioteas.com/
Thank you so much! I am glad to hear you are learning about tea. By the way, if you are interested in trying some of our teas we have our summer sales going on now: nioteas.com/
I'm glad you like using it! If you ever want to learn more about Japanese teapots, you can watch this video here: ua-cam.com/video/47HRFA-dhWk/v-deo.html
When you want to boil WATER in it, it’s called a tea KETTLE. Cast iron inside, to flavor the water in a very specific, subtle way. When you want to brew TEA in it, it’s called a tea POT. Ceramic inside, so the tea leaves dominate. Using tea leaves to steep inside a cast iron KETTLE will ruin the KETTLE, which if made by hand is very expensive! _so don’t do that!_ People really need to be specific in their titles so others won’t be confused'
yes if the teapot has a glaze to it you can really use it for all different types of teas because it doesn't season the tea. If you want to learn more about green tea you can watch our full documentary here: ua-cam.com/video/8U3tT7tW_BI/v-deo.html
Maybe I missed it, but why exactly is cast iron bad? For the same reason as other western styles? It's just too big? Or is there something specific to cast iron
Personally, I love my cast-iron teapot, and I have had no problem getting a good strong brew from it. Then again, I use it to make herbal blends, not traditional Japanese tea, and it keeps the brew hot for a long time. I love mine, and I’d like a bigger one. Also, I boil the water in a regular kettle, and then pour the boiling water over the tea in the pot, and set it on a warm place on the stove, not a burner that’s on, but a burner that still has a little bit of heat, this allows the tea to simmer a little bit, and not over brew. If you can smell it, it’s done.
So you wanna heat with a tea kettle or something that can handle the flame, but then transfer it to the Japanese tea pot to actually do the brewing right?
You can use clay as well. Most glazed teapots can brew both black and green teas, just be careful as some clay might not be able to handle the higher temperatures required for black tea. Most clays can, though.
@@hewhodoes8073 Thank you! And do you think the size of the teapot matters? I was thinking if you just make sure that the leaf-water ratio is good, then it shouldn't matter if there is more space in the teapot
@@somethingstuffles9084 Well, as long as the tea has enough space to expand any size works. You don't want the tea leaves to be crushed. Depends on how much leaf you're using.
You can just put less water in larger teapot! Also if the cast iron is not good then you also have the metal mesh within the clay pot! You are not making any sense!
Wow you really do know your teapots. Incredible content! I had no interest in teapots and I have no idea how I got here...but I watched the entire thing. I must try a Japanese tea!
Hello! Can you use a cast iron pot with enamel coating on the inside to boil tea on a stove? I don't know if I can use it to boil tea directly and I do not wish to ruin the pot.
surely you can brew other tea types in it yes? i might get the first kind,but I'll be honest, i love to toooo much maybe haha, and i don't want a boring looking bog standard one, minimum I'm getting at artistic one,definitely a ceramic filter,and maybe from that one area. thanks for the introduction and showing all those pretty ones in the video otherwise i might've bought yours then regretted it later. might also get that wide funky one to have a novel experience.
Lol you absolutely can. It just may not be the most efficient way. Like a black tea you probably don't want 5 grams of leaves as it will just be wildly bitter. So you'd do 1 gram of leaves and a cup of water, wait 5-6 minutes and it's ready, you gon do that each time for black tea haha? It's also like drinking high quality Japanese green tea, is more like get the best tools to create that perfect cup, whereas a good ol English black tea isn't of the same vein.
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Agree with you, tetsubins are cast iron kettles without any enamel inside. It’s purely for boiling the water. “Softens” the water and is never used for brewing. The teapot used in this video is likely a cast iron with enamel coating inside, which is used to brew the tea - so it’s not really a tetsubin kettle at all. The tea pot shown in the video has been popularised in the West. Iwachu also make some but it’s not really a Japanese method of brewing tea. Iwachu is more known for their cast iron tetsubin/ kettles. Mostly Western brands sell this enamel-lined cast iron teapot in a misguided way to cash in on “oriental” design whilst missing the point and origin completely. So it’s doubly odd that this channel that purports to have knowledge of East Asian tea does nothing to correct this Western misconception.
yes exactly but a lot of people prepare tea in a cast iron teapot using a basket brewer. If you want to browse our kyusu you can find them here: nioteas.com/collections/japanese-kyusu-teapot
A lot of hyperbole and snobbery to sell expensive gear without much proof of actual benefit or effect. I bet i could brew in a cast iron teapot and stick the same amount of tea in a teabag and you would not be able to tell the difference as it is the tea, the water and the brewing/serving temperature and time that actually matters. Ceremony and tradition is all fine and good but it is just that.
"Why You Shouldn't Use the Cast Iron Teapot" .... Um, you really didn't cover this though? >_> This is the second video I've tried watching titled like this and neither explained why you shouldn't use it. You're not supposed to use a detachable strainer if you're doing it a traditional way, so that's not a point against not using it.
He did say that cast iron teapots are usually larger and the tea tends to be weaker. He also talked about some benefits of clay teapots, so a cast iron teapot won't have those benefits. It's obviously not harmful to make tea in a cast iron teapot, it's just not the way Japanese tea is made, but it can be used for other styles of tea.
Really a clickbait title on a video about teapots. Doesn’t even show a traditional cast iron Japanese teapot. Probably the only reason he has is that he doesn’t sell them
We would happily sell the cast iron teapots and make more money, but we don't think it is a practical tool so we do not. We tend to sell what we think are the very best tools and teas for tea lovers like ourselves
Traditional cast iron Japanese teapots do not exist. Clay is the traditional brew medium, what you're thinking of are modern teapots made to resemble traditional cast iron kettles. They did not brew tea in their kettles.
@@pthalodezin Those are modern, not traditional. Tetsukyusu are the modern teapots made to resemble kettles that I referred to. They don't predate the 1900s. Tetsubin are the kettles that the testukyusu mimic. A teapot is not a kettle, a kettle only heats water.
This guy is reaching so hard. Most "Western style" brewing is done in a mug. My strainer is over half the size of a cup. He is determined to convince himself it's "watered down" compared to his marginally superior method. And I'm not saying it's not good, I'll probably buy one myself, but if you're doing it right the difference is really not very big.
yes this makes sense. To me the leaf to water ratio has a huge impact compared to the shape of the vessel but I do find the Kyusu way more convenient compared to the strainer or the cast iron teapot
@@Nioteas true, I find a Melitta strainer to be the peak of convenience, but I want to try the Kyusu partly because of the quality but also because I like toys haha
When we were having a tea ceremony and trying several cups, I noticed that the glass one had about half the tea taste. So my understanding is that ceramics are way better for the full flavor of the tea. @@Nioteas
This is ridiculous, unless you’re participating in a Shinto ritual who cares about being graceful and who wants to brew a literal sip of tea. A “relaxing tea moment???” it’s a beverage, not a massage. I like strong tea, so I use a lot of leaves Japanese style, but I’m also not a rich man who likes to put on a show, so I want my cup to actually be full.
@@Nioteas rightly so - I'm guilty of spending hours obsessing over what DAC chips I should look for in a quality used cd player -- perhaps most unproductive use of my short life.
Hmm, I want to encourage you on your video making journey friend but the click image i clicked to get here said don't use this tea pot. and it was a japanese tea pot or kettle. I was looking for whether it was a tea pot or a kettle but clicked your video first wondering why I should use one. I didn't really get the information I thought I would get(why you shouldn't use this tea pot) instead you talk about all other types of tea pots, mostly clay and blah blah blah, 8 mins of blah. I don't want to diss you ma dude, just trying to help you focus your thoughts on the subject and mostly the subject. Then make another video about the clay pots which I would gladly watch to know why clay tea pots are better. Just not when I was clicked baited into why not this one.... Best of luck to you on your journey. Cheers. Now I'm gonna go find out if that pot is really a kettle or a tea pot. I'm betting its a kettle.
the Kyusu teapots we use in the videos are Japanese. The tetsubin or cast iron teapot we mention is also Japanese but it is meant for heating water, not for preparing the actual tea
Brilliant video. It made me laugh out loud several times. It's cool to be passionate about something, but this is a bit over the top for an average Japanese family. Sure tea connoisseurs exist, and I suppose that is your market, but you should know that most people here just brew whatever tea they have, in whatever teapot they have on hand.....my mother in law likes using a glass western style teapot. Most people just brew tea to, you know, have a drink, and the minutia of how gracefully the tea is poured is really not a factor. Still, fair play to you. If you were just selling tea, and teapots without attaching a lot of mystique, and culture, I'm sure you'd only be able to ask for half as much per pack. I don't blame you at all. I'm sure you're much richer than me. Except for Mijirushi about 10 years ago (which I'm sure is the "wrong" place to buy a teapot) I've never seen a Yokode Kyusu, with the handle suitable for left handed use. I promise you it is far from graceful when I use one, compared with using a top handle.
yes thank you for your feedback, you are right on a lot of these points. When we go to Japan we tend to meet with mostly the people that work in the industry - certified tea masters, owners of tea shops and tea farmers so of course their view is biased. It was not my intention of claiming that "most Japanese families do this" but I can see how it could be misconstrued as such. We are mostly making content explaining the customs of Japanese tea connoisseurs to American and European tea connoisseurs if that makes sense. And yes, it can be tough to find a left handed kyusu teapot, hopefully we can offer one someday!
The video never explains why not to use cast iron teapots.. disappointed that the title turns out to just be clickbait
I skipped through the video, still trying to find where he apparently disproves the cast iron teapot.....
He is just selling the ceramic tea pots.
The cast iron tea pots are ceramic lined.
I use cast iron, ceramic and glass. I prefer cast iron.
@@stephenm8100 I love my cast iron teapot. It saves me steps and keeps the tea warm. Definitely upped my tea game.
@@51rwyatt I've also have a cheaper cast iron tea pot. I take it camping, not ceramic lined just oil seasoned. And it works just fine. This guy is just pushing the product he's selling.
The cast iron tetsubin is not a teapot; this is not explained in the video. The tetsubin is a kettle to heat the water.
Tannins in the tea that has been brewed in a tetsubin will react with the iron turning the tea black. A true tetsubin is not enamelled.
Most cast iron japanese 'teapots' are cheap, Chinese copies and have been enamelled to prevent the tea from reacting with the iron.
Better stick with clay teapots. Even a budget glazed teapot is better than a cast iron enamelled tetsubin.
Tetsubins are traditionally used in chanoyu for bon temae, unglazed tetsubin, and the ones that are not urushi treated can be used to boil water for tea, although in senchado small white clay pots called bofura are used over clay stoves called ryoro, if you use a good tetsubin as a tea kettle, it sweetens the water, Banko clay kyusu with a tetsubin make sencha sweeter.
Exactly, I found it really weird how there was no mention in the video about what tetsubin is actually meant to be used for (before teashops, especially in the west, started pushing glazed tetsubins on people for use as an expensive teapot).
Why/how tetsubin makes water sweeter? Is it true for a glazed tetsubin?
@@karamcsand Only unglazed and not treated with urushi lacquer, for a good info on this topic search for Hojo tea tetsubin, that site has all the info you will need.
If you are going to tell people not to use the Tetsubin, atleast own or use a GENUINE one. The one you have is mass produced outside of tradition and will ruin the tea. Traditional Tetsubin will be heat treated to form a thin layer that protects it from rusting, and to enhance the taste of the water when you heat it. The traditionally made Tetsubin actually has properties in the iron that helps remove chlorene as well. But it's okay if you disagree, I'm just the one who is japanese here. 🤷♂
Surely you're not advocating the brewing of tea in a traditionally made tetsubin, right? You're only advocating the use of an unglazed tetsubin for heating the water used to make the tea, aye?
Well, my first video watching your channel showed me your titles have nothing to.do.with the content. You didnt say anything about why not to use a cast iron teapot, not why there may be a risk and difference between the glazed/cheaply glazed vs. heat treated iron pots.
Just bought my tea loving, Japanese learning, foodie 15 year old a teapot and a couple of loose teas to try (from your shop)! Thanks for the great video.
Wow thank you so much for your support! I hope they like them :) Let us know if you have any questions about green tea
A technique comment - for the pour you should not be doing one big tip and pour. You should pour and rock the kyusu back and forth about 3 times in smaller pours. The person demonstrating the pours in the video you can see all the leaves on the bottom during the pour. (Well the lid should not be taken off either) Not what you want. The leaves should wind up against the side of the inside of the pot for best extraction. At timestamp 7:30 you will see a sped up version of someone doing a good pour.
I just put some gyokuro leaves in my cofee mug with water and microwave it to boil. It is very nice tea experience, magical
@@spicesmuggler2452 there's no wrong way to drink tea as long as it feels magical to you :)
so true! @@Horrormane
I thought tetsubin were for heating/maintaining the water, not brewing?
yes but some people brew with the cast iron teapot
@@Nioteas some people!
Just bought the Tosen Kyusu Teapot set from your website. Excited to try some japanese green tea.
Thank you so much for your support! This really means a lot to us. I hope you like it and please let me know if you have any questions down the road.
Suggestion for a drinking game: Take a shot every time he says 'teapot'.
Thanks to video. Thanks to use my stock photo for your cover!
thank you!
Love how this video starts with "a japanse teapot is simply a teapot made in Japan" :D
Yes I usually like to start with a definition of terms but I guess this is pretty self-explanatory
So, it seems i've been brewing my green tea all wrong for years (alas, i have a cast iron tetsubin). I mostly drink Tamaryokucha, Sencha (different cultivars), occasionally Gyokuro. I've known it all along that the leaves are supposed to move around, and yet somehow i've never brought myself to do the switch to a clay teapot. But i definitely need some sort of teapot with a built-in strainer.
Thoughts?
Definietly try to get a tokoname clay kyusu, or a shiboridashi. I find brewing in clay to be the most enjoyable, although I also use a glass gaiwan a lot because it lets me observe the leaves through the whole steep.
yes you can use the tetsubin to heat up the water but then switch to the Kyusu for brewing. most of the good ones have the built in strainer
@@Nioteas Can you give me some links to proven online shops that sell these high-quality Japanese Kyusu teapots? Thanks!
@@wadsworth2351 you can get it from us! there is the black tokoname kyusu here: nioteas.com/collections/teaware/products/kyusu-teapot-black and the red kyusu teapot is here: nioteas.com/collections/teaware/products/red-fukamushi-kyusu
@@wadsworth2351 Yunomi, Thes du Japon, and Artistic Nippon are great spots to procure tea and tea ware.
Hello, very interesting video. I have added the red pot to my shipping cart but before I check out, do you offer the clear glasses you have in the video? If not, where can we get them?
no unfortunately we do not, you can just search for double walled glasses, these are nice to have
Thank you! This clarified a number of questions I had
I'm so glad to hear that! I don't know if you saw but our Black Friday deals are live! We discounted all the items on the website up to 69% off and were offering a Buy 2 Get 1 Free deal on all teas: nioteas.com/
Thank God this video showed up because I almost ordered cast iron teapots👍
yes they can be heavy and not very effective. You are better off getting a kyusu: nioteas.com/collections/japanese-kyusu-teapot
Thanks 🙏
you're welcome!
Thank you so much for the information, sir! I have subscribed to your YT channel because i’ve learn something new on it today!💯💯🤝🙏🏼
Thank you so much! I am glad to hear you are learning about tea. By the way, if you are interested in trying some of our teas we have our summer sales going on now: nioteas.com/
I'm gonna keep using my cast iron tea pot
I'm glad you like using it! If you ever want to learn more about Japanese teapots, you can watch this video here: ua-cam.com/video/47HRFA-dhWk/v-deo.html
I have a tokoname teapot and brew mainly gyokuro, shincha and kabusecha in it.
Ok so I don't want to buy 3 or 4 different tea pots ,but I need something I could brew my Chinese oolong and Japanese gyokuro. Any recommendations?
yes you can just use a basic glazed teapot so the flavors don't transfer: nioteas.com/products/red-japanese-clay-teapot
When you want to boil WATER in it, it’s called a tea KETTLE. Cast iron inside, to flavor the water in a very specific, subtle way.
When you want to brew TEA in it, it’s called a tea POT. Ceramic inside, so the tea leaves dominate.
Using tea leaves to steep inside a cast iron KETTLE will ruin the KETTLE, which if made by hand is very expensive! _so don’t do that!_ People really need to be specific in their titles so others won’t be confused'
yes mugicha is a very common tea!
Are these teapots only meant for green tea or are you able to make other types of tea like butterfly pea tea?
yes if the teapot has a glaze to it you can really use it for all different types of teas because it doesn't season the tea. If you want to learn more about green tea you can watch our full documentary here: ua-cam.com/video/8U3tT7tW_BI/v-deo.html
Maybe I missed it, but why exactly is cast iron bad? For the same reason as other western styles? It's just too big? Or is there something specific to cast iron
The cast iron teapots tend to be very large with a basket strainer inside. Both of these lead to weaker cups of tea
@@Nioteas so them being made out of cast iron doesn't make any difference?
@@Nioteas You can get cast iron pots of all sizes, including very small, and you don't have to use the strainer (if there is one). Useless video.
Personally, I love my cast-iron teapot, and I have had no problem getting a good strong brew from it. Then again, I use it to make herbal blends, not traditional Japanese tea, and it keeps the brew hot for a long time. I love mine, and I’d like a bigger one. Also, I boil the water in a regular kettle, and then pour the boiling water over the tea in the pot, and set it on a warm place on the stove, not a burner that’s on, but a burner that still has a little bit of heat, this allows the tea to simmer a little bit, and not over brew. If you can smell it, it’s done.
Can you use cast iron pots with enamel coating inside to boil tea directly on a stove?
you can use this but you run the risk of over brewing the tea because it will be in there for too long of a time
@@Nioteasi dont mean to hate, but just add the leaves in after a minute or more, problems solved
So you wanna heat with a tea kettle or something that can handle the flame, but then transfer it to the Japanese tea pot to actually do the brewing right?
yes you can do that. If you want to learn more about the teapots you can watch this here: ua-cam.com/video/47HRFA-dhWk/v-deo.html
If a clay teapot is the best for green tea, what would be best for black?
You can use clay as well. Most glazed teapots can brew both black and green teas, just be careful as some clay might not be able to handle the higher temperatures required for black tea. Most clays can, though.
@@hewhodoes8073 Thank you! And do you think the size of the teapot matters? I was thinking if you just make sure that the leaf-water ratio is good, then it shouldn't matter if there is more space in the teapot
@@somethingstuffles9084 Well, as long as the tea has enough space to expand any size works. You don't want the tea leaves to be crushed. Depends on how much leaf you're using.
You can just put less water in larger teapot! Also if the cast iron is not good then you also have the metal mesh within the clay pot! You are not making any sense!
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yes they are the best!
Hello What is the best green tea for the red clay keyusu with the clay built in filter?
this I would recommend a Gyokuro or Kabuse sencha
Learned some things. TY😊
You're welcome! By the way, if you are interested in trying some of our teas we have our summer sales going on now: nioteas.com/
Wow you really do know your teapots. Incredible content! I had no interest in teapots and I have no idea how I got here...but I watched the entire thing. I must try a Japanese tea!
Thank you so much for watching! Yes you definitely should, we have a whole documentary about the tea called "secrets of green tea" you can check out
@@Nioteas a whole documentary?! No way...you are just like I imagined 🤣
I prepared black tea in a Japanese tea pot (for green tea) and it was indeed disgusting.
Thanks
you're very welcome! We would love it if you could subscribe to learn more about green tea :)
Lame video. The cast iron pot. Or known as nan Hu 南壺， is for boiling water that used for tea making. U don't use nan Hu to make tea. Cickbait title.
南壺， 南鐵壺。 In English is spelled nan Hu, direct translate southern pot, or southern steel pot
Hello! Can you use a cast iron pot with enamel coating on the inside to boil tea on a stove? I don't know if I can use it to boil tea directly and I do not wish to ruin the pot.
@@osmanthuswine4928 generally pot is used it boiled water and pour the hot water into the tea. This method is more controller then boiling tea leaves.
surely you can brew other tea types in it yes?
i might get the first kind,but I'll be honest, i love to toooo much maybe haha, and i don't want a boring looking bog standard one, minimum I'm getting at artistic one,definitely a ceramic filter,and maybe from that one area.
thanks for the introduction and showing all those pretty ones in the video otherwise i might've bought yours then regretted it later.
might also get that wide funky one to have a novel experience.
Lol you absolutely can. It just may not be the most efficient way. Like a black tea you probably don't want 5 grams of leaves as it will just be wildly bitter. So you'd do 1 gram of leaves and a cup of water, wait 5-6 minutes and it's ready, you gon do that each time for black tea haha? It's also like drinking high quality Japanese green tea, is more like get the best tools to create that perfect cup, whereas a good ol English black tea isn't of the same vein.
yes I brew other types of tea in the teapot. I hope you found a good one!
Hi Neo. I'm from England. What country do you ship your products from? US? Sweden? Am I going to be charged for custom duties? If yes do you know how much these are going to be? Why some products are only available for the US? Is there a way to get in touch with your customer service?
We ship from the Ireland to England. So there should be no custom duties applying.
I think traditionally tetsubins are used as kettles, not as teapots. The ones that are glazed and come with strainers are pretty cringe imho.
Agree with you, tetsubins are cast iron kettles without any enamel inside. It’s purely for boiling the water. “Softens” the water and is never used for brewing. The teapot used in this video is likely a cast iron with enamel coating inside, which is used to brew the tea - so it’s not really a tetsubin kettle at all.
The tea pot shown in the video has been popularised in the West. Iwachu also make some but it’s not really a Japanese method of brewing tea. Iwachu is more known for their cast iron tetsubin/ kettles.
Mostly Western brands sell this enamel-lined cast iron teapot in a misguided way to cash in on “oriental” design whilst missing the point and origin completely. So it’s doubly odd that this channel that purports to have knowledge of East Asian tea does nothing to correct this Western misconception.
tetsu-kyusu, cast iron with enamel, are widely used in Japan and not a misconception from western countrys.
@@SuchanDEJP hmm the more you know... Still not a huge fan of them
How can you clean a fukamushi teapot properly?
you can just make sure to rinse it well and if you want to scrub you can use a toothbrush
Tetsubin are for boiling water only, no? Tokoname kyusu are beautiful.
yes exactly but a lot of people prepare tea in a cast iron teapot using a basket brewer. If you want to browse our kyusu you can find them here: nioteas.com/collections/japanese-kyusu-teapot
I bought a kyusu style teapot and its handle is not holloW . possible it is fake ? 😢
I have seen these, I think it is just a different style
A lot of hyperbole and snobbery to sell expensive gear without much proof of actual benefit or effect. I bet i could brew in a cast iron teapot and stick the same amount of tea in a teabag and you would not be able to tell the difference as it is the tea, the water and the brewing/serving temperature and time that actually matters. Ceremony and tradition is all fine and good but it is just that.
Are u american?
Anybody count how many times he said the word "teapot"? I lost count at 5,322.
thats a lot!
"Why You Shouldn't Use the Cast Iron Teapot" .... Um, you really didn't cover this though? >_> This is the second video I've tried watching titled like this and neither explained why you shouldn't use it. You're not supposed to use a detachable strainer if you're doing it a traditional way, so that's not a point against not using it.
He did say that cast iron teapots are usually larger and the tea tends to be weaker. He also talked about some benefits of clay teapots, so a cast iron teapot won't have those benefits.
It's obviously not harmful to make tea in a cast iron teapot, it's just not the way Japanese tea is made, but it can be used for other styles of tea.
@@yoiyomismo I've seen Japanese use a cast iron teapot before though, so some do use it...
Really a clickbait title on a video about teapots. Doesn’t even show a traditional cast iron Japanese teapot. Probably the only reason he has is that he doesn’t sell them
We would happily sell the cast iron teapots and make more money, but we don't think it is a practical tool so we do not. We tend to sell what we think are the very best tools and teas for tea lovers like ourselves
Traditional cast iron Japanese teapots do not exist. Clay is the traditional brew medium, what you're thinking of are modern teapots made to resemble traditional cast iron kettles. They did not brew tea in their kettles.
@@hewhodoes8073 Tetsukyusu
@@pthalodezin Those are modern, not traditional. Tetsukyusu are the modern teapots made to resemble kettles that I referred to. They don't predate the 1900s. Tetsubin are the kettles that the testukyusu mimic. A teapot is not a kettle, a kettle only heats water.
This guy is reaching so hard. Most "Western style" brewing is done in a mug. My strainer is over half the size of a cup. He is determined to convince himself it's "watered down" compared to his marginally superior method. And I'm not saying it's not good, I'll probably buy one myself, but if you're doing it right the difference is really not very big.
yes this makes sense. To me the leaf to water ratio has a huge impact compared to the shape of the vessel but I do find the Kyusu way more convenient compared to the strainer or the cast iron teapot
yes, i lost it at 4:35
cheap teas like indian blacks and genmaicha will actually taste better (imo) if brewed in a regular teapot
@@Nioteas true, I find a Melitta strainer to be the peak of convenience, but I want to try the Kyusu partly because of the quality but also because I like toys haha
I would never buy a glazed kyusu again , it will never gain a patina from tea
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Hugh Hollow
glass cups for tea???
yes! They are double walled
When we were having a tea ceremony and trying several cups, I noticed that the glass one had about half the tea taste. So my understanding is that ceramics are way better for the full flavor of the tea. @@Nioteas
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Bernadine Manors
Ahhh, its an advertisement for your own site.
we like to educate people about tea but if they buy tea and teaware from our site it helps to support the channel
Veum Loaf
This is ridiculous, unless you’re participating in a Shinto ritual who cares about being graceful and who wants to brew a literal sip of tea. A “relaxing tea moment???” it’s a beverage, not a massage. I like strong tea, so I use a lot of leaves Japanese style, but I’m also not a rich man who likes to put on a show, so I want my cup to actually be full.
However you enjoy tea is fine!
With all due respect, you don't seem to understand tea culture. That said, everyone is free to enjoy tea however you like. 😅
Thumbs down on this video 👎🏿
Oh no!
And eventually we all die and leave this life - 1st world problems and tinkering
the time in between birth and death should be dedicated towards hobbies and passions don't you think?
@@Nioteas rightly so - I'm guilty of spending hours obsessing over what DAC chips I should look for in a quality used cd player -- perhaps most unproductive use of my short life.
click bait
Maybe if you spoke even faster we'd be sure to not follow and retain anything at all. Thanks for the verbal diaharrea.
Hmm, I want to encourage you on your video making journey friend but the click image i clicked to get here said don't use this tea pot. and it was a japanese tea pot or kettle. I was looking for whether it was a tea pot or a kettle but clicked your video first wondering why I should use one. I didn't really get the information I thought I would get(why you shouldn't use this tea pot) instead you talk about all other types of tea pots, mostly clay and blah blah blah, 8 mins of blah. I don't want to diss you ma dude, just trying to help you focus your thoughts on the subject and mostly the subject. Then make another video about the clay pots which I would gladly watch to know why clay tea pots are better. Just not when I was clicked baited into why not this one.... Best of luck to you on your journey. Cheers. Now I'm gonna go find out if that pot is really a kettle or a tea pot. I'm betting its a kettle.
thank you for your kind words and your feedback, we will do better next time
Chinese tea pots are the best got it ,Japanese is a good one but not as good as the original.
the Kyusu teapots we use in the videos are Japanese. The tetsubin or cast iron teapot we mention is also Japanese but it is meant for heating water, not for preparing the actual tea
Cast irons are fine just ignore em
okay
Brilliant video. It made me laugh out loud several times.
It's cool to be passionate about something, but this is a bit over the top for an average Japanese family. Sure tea connoisseurs exist, and I suppose that is your market, but you should know that most people here just brew whatever tea they have, in whatever teapot they have on hand.....my mother in law likes using a glass western style teapot. Most people just brew tea to, you know, have a drink, and the minutia of how gracefully the tea is poured is really not a factor.
Still, fair play to you. If you were just selling tea, and teapots without attaching a lot of mystique, and culture, I'm sure you'd only be able to ask for half as much per pack. I don't blame you at all. I'm sure you're much richer than me.
Except for Mijirushi about 10 years ago (which I'm sure is the "wrong" place to buy a teapot) I've never seen a Yokode Kyusu, with the handle suitable for left handed use. I promise you it is far from graceful when I use one, compared with using a top handle.
yes thank you for your feedback, you are right on a lot of these points. When we go to Japan we tend to meet with mostly the people that work in the industry - certified tea masters, owners of tea shops and tea farmers so of course their view is biased. It was not my intention of claiming that "most Japanese families do this" but I can see how it could be misconstrued as such. We are mostly making content explaining the customs of Japanese tea connoisseurs to American and European tea connoisseurs if that makes sense. And yes, it can be tough to find a left handed kyusu teapot, hopefully we can offer one someday!
@@Nioteas Hey nice reply to my rather cynical (slightly drunk) post. You do you man. All the best.
Very interesting. However I have never liked Japanese green tea, sigh.
oh no! You should try some of the good stuff
White news.
thank you!
barf
green tea is vile
black tea is good
they both can be good if you get good stuff
Self-serving blah.
Somebody likes teapots lol low
yes we do!
Hugh Hollow