The wrong way to keep a bad zisha pot
Just dripping without wiping
Some people make tea when the tea will be dripping on the pot, not wipe not brush, that the pot more dripping a few times, you can absorb some more nutrients. Over time, the pot is an uneven layer of tea scale package up, the pot surface becomes greasy black and unattractive.
Dry rubbing method
Some people use tea towels to dry wipe the pot repeatedly when the pot is dry, not realizing that such friction can easily cause some damage to the pot. You need to wipe the pot when it is wet, so that the pot can fully absorb the tea juice.
Hand rubbing method
Some people like to rub their hands directly to play with the teapot, thinking that it is easier to pulp. However, the hand will often be left with sweat, dirt, etc., and the pot's ability to absorb and strong, rubbing the pot with the hand is easy to contaminate the pot, resulting in uneven pulp, and will affect the flavor of the tea.
Brewing method
Some people in order to quickly raise the luster of the pot, a long time to tea residue tea water left in the pot, and even a pot of tea soup “bubble” teapot. Such a quick and dirty way to raise the pot shine does not last, and the pot for a long time soak, will make it can not “breathe”, and even produce rancid odor.
Raise a good pot, it takes time, but also need to use the pot of people with good pot habits.
How to Remedy a Badly Maintained Zisha Pot
1. Stained with tea scale many friends pot, like long-term tea broth to raise zisha pots, think zisha pots on the tea scale can be pot, do not need to clean up. Self-appointed to raise a good, which is really not desirable.
One of the important reasons why zisha pots are suitable for tea is its special molecular structure (fine pores) caused by good air permeability. Of course, such pores can play a certain role in adsorption. Zisha pot used for a long time, air holes are filled with tea scale, will inevitably also be attached to the inner wall of the tea set, hygiene problems.
The accumulation of tea scale will also affect the permeability of the purple sand pot. Therefore, from this point of view, daily cleaning and regular cleaning are equally important. It is recommended to rub with a sponge dipped in salt, which can be easily removed.
2. Uneven color in Guangdong and Fujian prevalent “work tea”, often put the pot in the tea bowl or tea sea when drinking tea, with boiling water pouring pot body, so that the teapot floating in hot water, but this pouring tea, the bottom of the following flooded bottom, it is very easy to form a tea scale or tea stains line.
If the surface of the pot due to improper cleaning, the formation of tea scale or tea stains line, tea towel can not be wiped off, you can try to use the home of the edible salt dipped in a little gently wipe, if it does not work, it is recommended to re-open the pot, the pot and the lid separately into the water (must be all into the water), add some tea, boil over low heat, natural cooling and then pick up, clean up can be.
3. encounter oil stains do not put the zisha pot in the place of fumes. Zisha pot with double pore permeability, if close to the fumes, oil stains will be adsorbed, it is difficult to clean up, over time without raising, there is a kind of “thief light”, floating light, very uncomfortable.
Sometimes also because of children with oil hands, scratch dirty pots, such as encountered this situation, it is recommended to re-open the pot, put the water with tea to cook, in the process of water molecules through the tumbling, you can slowly extrude the oil out of the air holes.
4. spit black Zisha pot “spit black” problem, kiln fire, clay pots are more common, clay pots lighter color, if used to soak ripe, it is easy to trigger the “spit black”, the formation of irregular clusters of black halo, the only way to deal with this problem is to The only way to deal with this problem is to “back to the furnace” re-sintering. At high temperatures, tea scale and iron ions of these organic matter will be burned clean, new.
A word of caution: backfiring is risky, with a burn rate of around 10%. Be sure to dry the pot well before returning it to the furnace. (“Spit black” is completely harmless to the body, but rather proves that you are using a real Zisha pot, so it is generally recommended not to return to the furnace.)
5. encounter odor zisha pot once stained with odor, it is difficult to remove, it is recommended that it is placed in the rice pot without oil, cooked over moderate heat, pay attention to the pot, cover to be separated. Its trace of the basic disappearance of the odor, odor serious, but also on two or three days of tea (tea water does not drink), most of the taste will gradually disappear. (Zhu mud pot note, avoid sudden cold and heat, need to be properly handled, re-open the pot is not a good way)
6. Long-term storage, moldy some pot friends will be due to negligence in a timely manner will not be poured out of the tea residue, the teapot and long time no use will produce mildew, odor. It is recommended that the pot filled with boiling water shaking a few poured out, repeated a few times, the moldy smell is gone.
The pot is bad, although it can be remedied, but in order to raise a beautiful zisha pot, it is still necessary to follow the correct way to raise the pot. Therefore, remind the majority of pot friends, in the process of keeping the pot, keep in mind the rules of the correct maintenance of the pot, keep the pot clean, in order to keep the pot out.