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Home › Dialogues › Tea Making › Gaiwan: Glass vs Porcelain
To Whom it May Concern:I just began to learn about gong fu tea, and I am so excited about this method! However, I have a question about the vessels I should procure: concerning the gaiwan, what are the benefits in using porcelain over glass? I like the idea of being able to see the tea while it brews, and the rest of the tea set that I am considering purchasing is glass. Any thoughts you have would be appreciated.Thank you!
We have test-used a number of glass gaiwans, many of which popular in online stores, and have found none satisfactory. Their relative clumsiness for handling aside, the resultant tastes from them have been inferior to those from simple porcelain ones. That’s why we always recommend against the use of glass gaiwans. They are good only for photo purposes. Teapots made with thicker glass, however, are okay.
I am interested in the point about glass teapot. How thick do you consider thick enough?
I agree with you Bill! The glass gaiwan was not even half as easy to handle as the bone china gaiwan and it drips :-S
I still have a thin glass teapot that I now use only as decoration. 😐
I can understand why people like glass gaiwans, because I too was attracted by it when I first saw it years ago. The one that I bought was mostly used to hold paper clips before it broke.