Alex digy.com11/9/04


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> "Melinda" > wrote in message
> om...
>> OK, I have just had it...I have never heard anyone ask this question
>> before but it comes up for me every time I try to do gung fu with my
>> yixing pot. The thing gets so hot (from pouring the hot water over it,
>> in it, steeping, etc.) as well as the cups getting hot...I have a very
>> difficult time doing this without some hurt fingers. Even the handle
>> of my yixing gets hot. So, for those of you who do this on a regular
>> basis, do I just live with it or is there some secret? This is for
>> oolong btw so the water needs to be hot, I know. Thank-you in advance.
>>
>>
>> Melinda, gung fu-ing the last of my Bai Hao.
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> Never had that problem. When you pouring hot water over yixing pot, why
> pouring it over the handle?
> Cups are never hot - are you using small ones? They have plenty of time to
> cool down between steeps, especially if you pour out all the tea from yixing
> pot to chahai first and then pour to the cups from chahai.
> BTW, water for oolongs should not be THAT hot, especially for greener
> oolongs.

Sasha,

Respectfully differ with you here. Cups, properly prepared for Gung-fu, are
quite hot. They filled with hot water which is then disgarded, then filled
with hot tea which is likewise disgarded. I speak of course of the correct
way to prepare Gung-fu tea as taught to me by my master.

Michael