Hi all,
Lately, because I have two kettles handy, I have started preheating my
teapot. It was inconvenient before, since I'd have to go through two
heatings (6 cup teapot), so I rarely bothered. Which makes me
curious: how many of you bother to preheat your teamaking apparati?

N.

On Sep 16, 9:51 am, Natarajan Krishnaswami cwru.edu> wrote:

Nope. Toci

Natarajan Krishnaswami wrote:

I combine flushing and pre-heating, I put only a little water
to do both, maybe about 2 oz? Then I swish that water
around. I think it preheats the thicker base of pot enough
and heats up the sides a bit. I would do this even if
pre-heating did not make any difference, just to
flush out dust get leaves to open up more if the tea
is whole-leaf. I don't preheat the second, thin-walled
glass pot where I pour tea after infusion. I would say
that with thin glass pots this is completely unnecessary,
with thicker glass pots I'd have to experiment but my
guess would be it also makes little to no difference.

Which makes me

Not being blessed with central heating here in the UK I will pre heat
my porcelain tea mug in winter (quick swill with boiling water) mainly
so my tea will stay hot longer. Remember "the ideal temperature for
tea is two degrees higher than just right"

Nigel at Teacraft

I swish pots and cups with boiling water more for hygienic rinse than
anything else. Also it helps eliminate previous ordors plus enhances
the initial aroma of the dry leaf. I can see preheating teaware if
there is a temperature contrast. For many years I drank out of large
porcelain mugs and on the cold mornings I thought I was at an A&W
drivein because I was too lazy to preheat.

Jim

Natarajan Krishnaswami wrote: