Beautiful and Fragile Glass Teaware – Buyer’s and Maintenance Guide

Glass teaware has a wonderful looks

With the development of modern glass manufacturing technology, glass teaware has become one of the commonly used teaware in People’s Daily life. Glass teaware has a beautiful appearance, but it has a natural disadvantage of being easily broken compared with other teaware.

Contents

• Know about the glass teaware
• How to choose glass teaware
  • 1.    The thickness of the glass
  • 2.    The transparency of the glass
  • 3.    The sound of knocking on it
• Maintenance of glass teaware

Know about the glass teaware

Glass, called crown glass in ancient times, is a kind of translucent mineral products. Teaware made of this material can give people a sense of bright color and luster. It’s widely acclaimed because of its various forms, a wide range of uses, coupled with low prices, and easy to buy. The most common one is glass teacup. Wonderful looks of tea juice can be seen through the glass teacup, use it to steep a variety of fine and famous tea, the richest appreciation value.

Look the herbal tea leaves dancing up and down in the glass teapot

Different from the translucent glass teaware of ancient times, the quality of a material of the glass teaware of today is fine, bright, tall diaphaneity and easy to manufacturing, popular in the people who love tea.
The raw material of glass has a wide source and strong plasticity. At present, the market can be seen in various forms of glass teaware. Steeping tea with glass teaware, you can see not only the wonderful color of tea juice and the shape of tea leaves but also the tea leaves dancing in the water slowly, gradually unfolding in the process of steeping. From the effect of tea steeping, there are no pores on the skin of glass teaware, so the taste of tea cannot remain on it. Therefore, the tea tastes pure and it’s easy to clean.

The double hollow glass teacup can insulating heat effective

But the glassware is brittle and easily broken. It conducts heat quickly, so it’s too hot to be held. With the improvement of production technology, a kind of specially processed tempered the glass products has appeared, which is not easy to be broken and more convenient to use. There is also a kind of double hollow glass teaware because the zone between the glass is a vacuum, can play a good heat insulation effect.

How to choose glass teaware

The transparency of glass material is very high. On the appearance, there is no difference between glass teaware. But actually, the internal structure of glass teaware has a very big difference, if the quality is low, may appear burst crack circumstance accordingly. So when choosing and buying glass teaware, hold the following 3 points:

1.    The thickness of the glass

The thickness of glass must be uniform, otherwise heated non-uniform will cause blast crack. When buying, must observe carefully, feel the thickness of glass with the finger even, do not buy the vitreous teaware with non-uniform thickness as far as possible.

2.    The transparency of the glass

The higher the transparency of the glass teaware, the higher the ornamental value. The high-grade glass teaware will be very transparent in the sunlight, and some poor quality products will be relatively turbid, and the cloudy turbid of transparency may be one of the non- uniform thickness problems.

3.    The sound of knocking on it

High-grade glass teaware can give out very clear sound below knock, and the poor grade glass teaware knocks sounds a muffled.

Maintenance of glass teaware

Beautiful glass teaware needs proper maintenance.

Glass products are easy to break, so in the use and cleaning maintenance, should pay attention to handle with care, avoid collision between the glass teaware.
The glass tea set is not fireproof, and it is also afraid of using boiling water to blanch. Please pay attention to the water temperature is not too high during steeping, to avoid damage under high temperature.
In the long-term use of the glass teaware, both inside and outside are easy to hide dirt, dirt on the outer wall is mostly dust, can be washed with water easily; The dirty on the inner wall is the tea stain, affect the looks also go against health, should often clean the tea stain of inner wall of teaware in time.
Soak the glass teaware in diluted vinegar for 30 minutes, can be shiny as new; or dip in vinegar with a cloth to wipe local blacken place, or mixed the salt and vinegar, dip it with a soft bristle to become is brushed gently. After clean the glass teaware by water, pour in about 40℃ warm water and clean it again, and then making it dry naturally.