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Nurturing a teapot is a process and also a taste of drinking tea. For some famous teapots, good maintenance is even more important. If you choose expensive famous old purple clay teapots such as Gu Shaopei, you need to clean and open them again if you use them at home. If it is a new purple clay teapot from the middle and young generations such as Wang Hongjuan and Wang Qiang, you also need to pay attention to the steps of opening the teapot. As for daily maintenance methods, before use, you can use hot water to warm up the pot, remove mold and disinfect the pot. When making tea while it is hot, use a clean cotton cloth to wipe the entire pot several times between pouring out the tea. This can use the temperature of the hot water to make the pot body brighter and more moist, which is beneficial for the formation of patina. After drinking tea, if using leftover tea to pour over the pot body, you can use a pot care pen to evenly apply the tea soup to the entire pot body. Afterwards, when using a purple clay pot to drink tea, be sure to clean the tea residue and not leave it behind. Although purple clay pots have the function of preventing overnight tea from spoiling, it is important to pay attention to the problem of bacterial growth in humid environments for a long time. Therefore, when cleaning, attention should also be paid to cleaning small areas such as the corners of the handle to avoid the accumulation of tea stains. The use of purple clay teapots requires a rest period, and it is best to dry and cultivate the teapot for three days after every three days of use, so that the resulting teapot has a more moist water color. When turning a pot, be careful not to sweat your hands, oil stains, and so on. Cleaning a purple clay teapot absolutely cannot be done with chemical detergents such as dishwashing liquid. This will not only wash away the absorbed tea flavor inside the teapot, but also the fragile patina that has been painstakingly nurtured will be washed away or become incomplete, which will have a certain impact on the appearance of the teapot and be unsightly. |
Posted an update: 2018-5-16 00:00:00 22