Reusing a tea the day after?
It generally speaking takes more than one day for mold to develop so long as you drain the tea thoroughly when you finish with it. I don’t like to go two days. In particular with Yixing Teapots you will ruin the teapot if you leave the leaves in so long that mold grows. You can’t clean a yixing with soap if you let it get moldy. Less of a problem with glass teaware.
When you drink tea over more than a day, you do not leave the leaves inside the yixing, you remove them immediately after the session and store them in a plate or something until the next session.
That is a good idea. However when I am storing leaves for the next day it is almost always tea that has been brewed in my 50ml gaiwan which is porcelain I think of some sort. I usually just drain the leaves well and leave them in the gaiwan. If a tea wasn’t particularly expensive I won’t bother to save the leaves because I know I will want to drink something else the next day.
I would not think it a good idea to allow wet/damp leaves to sit overnight in any kind of enclosed vessel, be it a teapot or a jar or permutations thereof.
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