Houroku ηη
Black Houroku Pan Teapot
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Called a "Houroku" (ηη) in Japanese, this ceramic pot made in Aichi, Japan is perfect for making freshly roasted hojicha at home. The handle is hollow and serves as an easy serving spout to pour the freshly roasted green tea from without spilling. Pre-roasted hojicha is of course wonderful, but there are many aromatic compounds that are lost in storage and transit. By roasting your own tea at home you can fill your house with the incredible caramelizing smells of roasting tea and enjoy all the flavor your tea has to offer immediately.
How to Roast Hojicha:
Place the tea in the pot and hold over medium-low heat while shaking the pot to stir the dry leaves around for 1-2 minutes or until youβre satisfied with the color and smell.
Then pour through the handle-spout into your kyusu and serve while fresh.
While you can roast any tea you want (or even nuts or rice etc), we recommend making hojicha yourself with kukicha or bancha green teas. Click here to see the Houroku in action.
Care Instructions:
As this item is made from unglazed clay, please dry well after use and avoid leaving tea leaves in the pot overnight to prevent mold.
Wash with water and scrub with a light brush (such as a toothbrush) if necessary.
Avoid the use of soap or detergents, as they may soak into the clay.
Do not put in the dishwasher or microwave.
How to Roast Hojicha:
Place the tea in the pot and hold over medium-low heat while shaking the pot to stir the dry leaves around for 1-2 minutes or until youβre satisfied with the color and smell.
Then pour through the handle-spout into your kyusu and serve while fresh.
While you can roast any tea you want (or even nuts or rice etc), we recommend making hojicha yourself with kukicha or bancha green teas. Click here to see the Houroku in action.
Care Instructions:
As this item is made from unglazed clay, please dry well after use and avoid leaving tea leaves in the pot overnight to prevent mold.
Wash with water and scrub with a light brush (such as a toothbrush) if necessary.
Avoid the use of soap or detergents, as they may soak into the clay.
Do not put in the dishwasher or microwave.
At Shizen, we believe that both the tea you consume and the pottery you drink from need to be in the highest quality possible. We are dedicated to working with single harvest tea farms in Japan. Our ceramics come from many craftsman in Japan who are continuing the tradition of handmade ceramics.Β
Shizen Cha is focused on premium grade Japanese Teas andΒ Handcrafted Teaware.
Simply put, Shizen (θͺηΆ) means "nature" & Cha (θΆ) means "tea" in Japan. Our loose leaf teas are picked and processed with the utmost care and precision by our tea farms who demand impeccable quality and freshness.
We believe that quality should never be compromised. We pride ourselves on transparency, clear genealogy, and clear production history. We pay close attention to every step from choosing only the finest leaves and growing, shading and steaming methods. By blending our teas in small patches, packaging by hand is how we provide the best quality tea possible.
We welcome all tea enthusiasts to join us learn more about the thousand year tea culture, with one hope, that each visit will provide excitement, knowledge and to experience tea in the best form possible. Β Β
"The Philosophy of Tea is not mere aestheticism ... for it expresses conjointly with ethics and religion our whole point of view about man and nature. It is hygiene, for it enforces cleanliness; it is economics, for it shows comfort in simplicity rather than in the complex and costly; it is moral geometry, inasmuch as it defines our sense of proportion to the universe." - Kakuzo Okakura
