How to Care Zisha Teapot | teaeer.com

I think every real tea lover must fall in love with classic zisha teapot once they use it. This special yixing clay teapot can make tea taste more mellow and nice, but lots of people don't know the right way to care it well, even ruin its natural clay texture by wrong clean ways. If you got authentic zisha teapot from teaeer, follow these easy daily care tips to raise your teapot nicely for years.

Daily Care After Every Use

Right after you finish drink tea, pour out all used tea leaf and leftover tea soup right away. Don't leave tea stuff stay inside the teapot whole night, which will stuck hard smell inside the porous clay easy.

You only need to wash the teapot with pure warm water, no soap, no washing powder and no any chemical cleaner at all. Zisha clay is super absorbent, it will suck all strange taste inside and you can never get rid of it later.

Use soft tea cloth to wipe inner and outer wall gently, never use hard brush or rough cleaning pad to scrub heavy. After clean, open the pot lid fully and put it in cool airy place to dry totaly, do not cover lid tight while still wet.

Raise Teapot And Build Nice Patina

The most fun part of own a zisha teapot is raising it slowly. We all know one zisha tea pot suit only one kind of tea best, don't mix brew different type tea in one teapot, which will mess up the original tea flavour bad.

When the tea pot still warm after making tea, you can wipe the outer body with warm tea soup softly, do this often will slowly form smooth shiny natural patina and make your teapot look more vintage and elegant day by day.

Do not use boiled water to scald the tea pot too frequently in super high temperature, it will hurt the natural clay structure little by little.

Things You Must Never Do

Never put your precious zisha teapot into dish washer or microwave machine, high heat and strong cleaner will totally destroy its inner character.

Don't soak zisha pot in water for a very long time, long time soaking will make the clay become too damp and affect its tea brewing effect.

Also do not place it on direct strong fire to heat, most handmade zisha teapot not design for direct fire use, easy get crack or leak.

Long Time Storage Ways

If you plan not use the zisha teapot for a long time, make sure clean all tea residue clearly and dry it 100% inside out firstly. Then put few clean dry tea leaves inside it to keep inner air fresh, store it in dry quiet cabinet, keep away from dust and heavy stuff hit.

Simple Tips From teaeer

We sell handcrafted yixing zisha teapot for many years, our long term customers all said use it frequent and clean it lightly is the best way to maintain. Slow raising bring best taste and best look for your lovely clay pot.

Take your time to care your zisha teapot, it will repay you with perfect tea taste for all the time.

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