What scientific evidence do you have that the gongfu method is the best
method for making tea? Sounds anecdotal too me. Here is an Einstein
thought experiment. It is only valid for sake of illustration. I brew
tea in a brown betty. You sit in front of a gongfu master who secretly
fills the pot from the brown betty. You think each cup taste
different. That is the Schrodinger Cat paradox. The brown betty is a
better pot for making tea than gongfu because you get something to eat.

Jim

Mydnight wrote:
....eaten by caffeine...
> >Take any tea you want, brew
> >it according to any method you want, and it will essentially taste the
> >same as any other method.
>
> I disagree with this statement wholeheartedly. You cannot say that
> brewing high grade TGY in a large pot would yield the same flavor as
> using a yixing pot even if the amounts were proportional. I have
> seen/tasted many a brew of tea ruined by friends, some that know a bit
> about tea, of mine that I have sent tea to as an example. There is no
> better way to drink Chinese tea than the way they drink it (gongfu),
> and they drink it that way for a reason. It isn't as much about
> ceremony, like in Japan, as it is with trying to get the best out of
> the tea that they possibly can.
>
> I realize many of us don't have the time to enjoy the tea in this way
> all the time, but they really don't know what they are missing. I WILL
> NOT drink my Chinese tea in any other way.