Thank you for sharing your passion. I'm totally going to buy a Tetsubin. Several vendors have warned me about induction stove as a heat source is not really ideal (even though possible). On the other hand, people write in forums that if you do take care and only use a medium to low setting on induction it takes 30mins and more for the water to boil. What setting do you use on your induction stove (1-10?) and how long does it take for the water to boil? Kind Regards from Berlin
Thanks! I'm not sure of why people would caution against induction for a cast iron kettle but I've been using both cast iron and carbon steel for many years now. However, there are some potential areas for concern: 1 - Most induction burners have glass tops and it you don't have control over your cast iron, you could crack the glass, 2 - Induction is about 90% efficient (gas is maybe 50%), so you're getting very effective transfer of heat to the cast iron, meaning it heats a lot quicker than you might be used to - you don't want to leave the cast iron heating without water inside. Other considerations with induction are the actual "burner" size. Induction uses a coil to create "excitement" in ferrous metals, which heats them. You can find induction burners that are very pocket-friendly - around US$100. Those work fairly well. However, they have small coils - and if you're using a .5L tetsubin, not a big deal because the base of the tetsubin is about the same as the coil. However, that smaller coil will have more difficulty heating larger vessels. While I'm using a Heartland burner in the video, we actually use a variety of CookTek and Waring Commercial induction burners. These, and the Breville Control Freak, are considerably more expensive, but they have larger coils, better cooling and can really rock. I don't know if you need to use a low setting to boil water in a tetsubin. 30 minutes seems like an insane amount of time to wait for water to boil in a half liter vessel. If you pause at 3:11 you'll see I set the Heartland to Full Blast: "20" and just let it rock until it boiled. This took not even ten minutes (I think). At places like Sakurai Tea Experience, their larger cast iron chagama is actually sitting on an electric plate heater which they keep set to hold the water at a certain temperature to brew their teas. If you go for some models of induction, they have sensors which you can set for the burner to hold the pot at a certain temperature - the Control Freak is very good at this (but wildly expensive). Hope that helps!
@@onocoffee It's a much more affordable alternative to genuine tetsubins where they pour cast iron into an egg mould to produce an ingot that can be stored easily and conveniently. The iron egg would be boiled inside of a kettle to provide the same beneficial properties as boiling water in a tetsubin. The concept is similar to the lucky fish product, but unlike the lucky fish, the iron egg is made of cast iron while the lucky fish is made of ferrous iron, which is a type of iron specifically made for medical purposes.
The obsession after the obsession is the type of clay (or bamboo) used in the vessels that carry the water from the tetsubin to the teapot, and the clay used in the teapot itself. BTW m.ruclips.net/video/_WREwRu250A/видео.html and m.ruclips.net/video/07rDTJn0Mec/видео.html and m.ruclips.net/video/5lld81BeIUk/видео.html
Very amusing and informative ~ SWEET, thank you!🍵🫖🌿
Thank you for watching!
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Awesome video! Thanks for making this!
So glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching!
I might soon be obsessed in this, too. Nice ep, Jay.
Thank you, Emmanuel!
Thank you for sharing your passion. I'm totally going to buy a Tetsubin. Several vendors have warned me about induction stove as a heat source is not really ideal (even though possible). On the other hand, people write in forums that if you do take care and only use a medium to low setting on induction it takes 30mins and more for the water to boil.
What setting do you use on your induction stove (1-10?) and how long does it take for the water to boil? Kind Regards from Berlin
Thanks! I'm not sure of why people would caution against induction for a cast iron kettle but I've been using both cast iron and carbon steel for many years now. However, there are some potential areas for concern: 1 - Most induction burners have glass tops and it you don't have control over your cast iron, you could crack the glass, 2 - Induction is about 90% efficient (gas is maybe 50%), so you're getting very effective transfer of heat to the cast iron, meaning it heats a lot quicker than you might be used to - you don't want to leave the cast iron heating without water inside.
Other considerations with induction are the actual "burner" size. Induction uses a coil to create "excitement" in ferrous metals, which heats them. You can find induction burners that are very pocket-friendly - around US$100. Those work fairly well. However, they have small coils - and if you're using a .5L tetsubin, not a big deal because the base of the tetsubin is about the same as the coil. However, that smaller coil will have more difficulty heating larger vessels. While I'm using a Heartland burner in the video, we actually use a variety of CookTek and Waring Commercial induction burners. These, and the Breville Control Freak, are considerably more expensive, but they have larger coils, better cooling and can really rock.
I don't know if you need to use a low setting to boil water in a tetsubin. 30 minutes seems like an insane amount of time to wait for water to boil in a half liter vessel. If you pause at 3:11 you'll see I set the Heartland to Full Blast: "20" and just let it rock until it boiled. This took not even ten minutes (I think). At places like Sakurai Tea Experience, their larger cast iron chagama is actually sitting on an electric plate heater which they keep set to hold the water at a certain temperature to brew their teas. If you go for some models of induction, they have sensors which you can set for the burner to hold the pot at a certain temperature - the Control Freak is very good at this (but wildly expensive).
Hope that helps!
@@onocoffee Thank you, that is all incredibly helpful! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Hello, have you got any results yet concerning coffee ?
Hi - nothing yet. Still trying to get the new location open!
Would this apply to iron cast eggs?
Honestly, I'm not familiar with iron cast eggs so I'm not in a position to make a recommendation about it. What is it?
@@onocoffee It's a much more affordable alternative to genuine tetsubins where they pour cast iron into an egg mould to produce an ingot that can be stored easily and conveniently.
The iron egg would be boiled inside of a kettle to provide the same beneficial properties as boiling water in a tetsubin. The concept is similar to the lucky fish product, but unlike the lucky fish, the iron egg is made of cast iron while the lucky fish is made of ferrous iron, which is a type of iron specifically made for medical purposes.
Ah, I have not heard about this before. Thanks for telling me!
The obsession after the obsession is the type of clay (or bamboo) used in the vessels that carry the water from the tetsubin to the teapot, and the clay used in the teapot itself. BTW m.ruclips.net/video/_WREwRu250A/видео.html and m.ruclips.net/video/07rDTJn0Mec/видео.html and m.ruclips.net/video/5lld81BeIUk/видео.html
I was reading about some of these teapots - wild. I will delve into the referenced videos. Thanks, Craig!