Hey guys welcome back to Tea with Phil and Jen. Today we're gonna talk about how to choose your very first E-Sync Lay Tea Pod. So E-Sync Lay Tea Pod can be actually a very extensive topic and everybody have their own aesthetics. But in today's video we're gonna look at it from a more realistic and like everyday use kind of angle. So if you were interested just keep on watching. So the very first thing to choose a E-Sync Lay Tea Pod is actually to choose a real one. Though the E-Sync Lay Tea Pods are not extremely rare in the market. It is also not rare to see fake ones. Actually a couple of years ago there were news pieces talking about how people were faking E-Sync Lay Tea Pod with non-food grade materials and actually dangerous to human body. So the price doesn't reflect all and I'm not suggesting you to get hundreds of thousands of daughters E-Sync Lay Tea Pod. Those extremely cheap ones can be suspicious too. So please get that from the trusted sources. When choosing a E-Sync Lay Tea Pod shape matters not in the aesthetic sense but to consider practically about the opening of a tea pod. This is the time you want to think about what is the tea you're going to brew in your new tea pot. So this tea pot has a moderate size opening and if I'm planning on brewing some tea going in it it's actually perfect. Very easy to put the leaves through but if you are going to brew some yen tea in it sometimes it can be messy. So if the dry leaves of the tea you're planning on brewing is quite bad. This kind of big opening will make your every tea brewing much easier. Usually we don't suggest brewing green tea, yellow tea or young white tea in E-Sync Lay Tea Pod because those types of teas featuring really refreshing light beautiful aromas that are greatly affected by the porous material. Another thing I want to mention about tea pod is actually colors. E-Sync Lay Tea Pod features quite a range of different colors but for beginner I think it's safer to stay away from the really light color. So this one in tea pot is actually one of my favorite tea pot but if you take a closer look you will notice the tea stand at the bottom of the tea pot. So this is because I just let it sit on my tea table and sometimes my tea table doesn't dream perfectly and it sits in the tea for too long and I didn't take care of that to right away. So if you are not extremely debted into tea pot care it is better to start with some darker shades rather than the lighter color tea pot. Last but not least is actually you want to make sure your tea pot is poor well. So there are many tips and hacks in terms of how you can tell if a tea pot is poor well or not. I think the easiest way is actually putting some clear water and test it all out. Do they do smooth, poor and crisp stop? Is the flow smooth? And that's basically what you're looking for and you know once you have tea in it sometimes the tea leaves get clogged in the tea pot and you will actually affect the tea the pouring the flow and this is your baseline. If with clear water it doesn't pour well it will be hard for the tea pot to pour well with actual tea in it. Now we've chosen our tea pot it's time to season it. So there are many ways to season tea pot from the very simple of not doing it just jump straight in brewing to the most complicated method that I heard including tofu. Yes the tofu and sugar can I know I feel that's a little bit bizarre too. So there are many ways to do it and I'm just going to show you how I do this. Let's fill in a pot with some cold water and a cloth and put the tea pot on top of the cloth. Bring it to a boil and the cloths will actually protect the tea pot from clinking once the water boils and turn down the water once it boils and let it sit on gentle boil for about 20 minutes. Turn it off and let it return to room temperature when it's comfy for your finger to get the tea pot out. So once the tea pot is boiled you take it out to put some tea that you planned for this tea pot and put in the hot water and let it sit overnight. It really doesn't matter how much leaves you put in the tea pot because we're not going to drink this tea. This is just like a process to get the tea pot familiar with this kind of tea. Get familiar with it Roma the liquor. So in the end we would just dump this tea and I also mentioned that I suggest overnight but if you only do that for four hours, five hours, I think that those old works. Some of you may wonder if I should dedicate one tea pot to a specific tea or brew okai's of tea in a tea pot. So my approach is actually I have tea pots that are for one tea and also tea pots for different teas. There are three things I consider when making my decisions. First is how expensive is the tea pot. So the higher the grade of the tea pot, the clay grade, the better the craftsmanship I tend to dedicate the tea pot to one specific tea. And the second thing I usually consider is actually how often do I use this tea pot. Me for example I drink a lot of tea wine so I have several tea pots for tea wine tea and I drink a black tea less so I have one tea pot that I use for all the black teas. So I have a nice rotation in terms of using my tea pot. I don't want any of my tea pots sit on the shelf and get dusty. And last but not the least is how similar the Roma and the tasting profile of the teas. For example I have a tea pot just for yencha. So we know there are many different teas in the rock tea family but all of them features that are rock tea flavor, that dark chocolate, granite, like tobacco kind of flavor. So I think they're a nice group. So I actually have tea pot for all of them. But in the end it is actually your tea pot. So however you choose I think it's so fine. I hope today's video is helpful for you to choose your very first easy tea pot and be sure to give it a thumbs up and subscribe to our channel. Follow us on Instagram. Until next time, keep it steamy!