This article is originally written by White Tea Classroom and may not be reproduced by anyone and the media without permission
《1》
How to facilitate how to come, how to save trouble and how to do things, this is the general principle of people doing things nowadays.
Everyone is thinking about getting rich overnight, achieving it overnight, but where is the world's affairs so simple?
It is human nature to want to take shortcuts.
In the past, going to college was a shortcut, because the graduation package was distributed, and luckily you could mix the iron rice bowl of a civil servant;
In the past, blind dates were shortcuts, the fate of parents, the words of the matchmaker, and there was no big mistake in a lifetime;
To advance the factory is a shortcut, eat large pots of rice together, employees' families live together, and earn enough money to feed themselves;
In the past, going to the sea to do business was a shortcut, and I remember twenty years ago, my classmates and his father made a fortune in wholesale clothing...
Today, shortcuts may still exist.
But the real shortcuts are reserved for the elite, and the shortcuts taken by the ordinary people are nothing more than clever opportunism.
For example, is there a shortcut to drinking white tea cakes?
Some people feel that it is too troublesome to drink once and pry once, so they simply pry open the whole piece of white tea cake at once, and then store it in a jar and seal it.
This approach seems to shorten the preparation time before drinking tea, and it is indeed a shortcut.
But in fact, it is a detour.
《2》
Nothing to do on the weekend, go to a friend's studio for tea.
After sitting down, the friend took a tea pot from the bookshelf behind him and took out a piece of Shoumei that had been pried off the tea cake from it.
When I asked, I knew that the whole piece of shoumei cake was pried all at once and placed in the jar.
The name is: convenient!
It is true that this practice can eliminate the need to pry the tea every time you drink white tea cakes, but there are many problems behind it.
After contact with friends who like to drink black tea, I found that they had similar habits.
In fact, it is nothing more than the tea leaves to be drunk in the next few days, and after prying in advance, they are stored in the purple sand jar, and the role is to wake up the tea.
It cannot be denied that the ripe pu is pressed tightly and pressed solidly, and if the tea is not awakened after prying out, the aroma and taste will be lacking.
Therefore, many tea customers choose to use a purple sand pot for dry awakening, or use the first tea soup to soak it for a while to let it wake up.
However, as far as white tea is concerned, it is different from black tea.
Black tea is to be killed and fermented by Wodui.
And in the later storage, the aging of black tea itself is inseparable from the air, with the participation of microorganisms and fungi, in order to successfully complete the transformation.
Therefore, prying the cake in advance and storing it in a purple sand jar is also conducive to the moderate dissipation of the taste of wo pile and the taste of the warehouse.
However, the process of white tea is simple, using withering and drying, and the main purpose is to make the tea become dry.
The water content of the finished tea must be less than 8.5% in order to meet the provisions of the national standard, otherwise it is unqualified white tea.
It can be seen that white tea especially dislikes humid environments.
The sealing of the tea pot itself is limited, if the tea cake is pried open at one time, the tea leaves are easily spoiled by moisture.
Within a few months, white tea will have a strange taste.
It can be smoke, it can be chocolate, sour, musty, etc., in short, it is a bad smell.
Not only that, the soup of the white tea cake will also become thinner and tasteless, far less fragrant and sweet than it was at the beginning.
Some tea friends will say that it is better to pry open the wake up for a while in advance.
There is nothing wrong with this statement, but it is only for Pu'er, and the post-fermentation process makes it have this property.
The way suitable for black tea may not be suitable for white tea.
Everyone has their own personality, not to mention different types of tea?
《3》
Pry open all white tea cakes at once, which is not conducive to preservation.
In addition, it will also affect the aging progress of the whole white tea cake.
Compared with loose tea, one of the advantages of tea cake is that it has a more mature and mellow flavor after pressing the cake.
The process of pressing the cake is actually the process of breaking the wall.
When the cell wall ruptures and the cell fluid overflows in large quantities, the pectin substances, soluble sugars and other substances in the plant cells precipitate and attach to the leaf surface.
Accompanied by the material transformation of white tea, it presents an aroma and taste that is completely different from loose tea.
For example, the same 2018 autumn shoumei, one is loose tea, one is cake tea.
Obviously, the aroma of loose tea is dominated by medicinal fragrance and bamboo leaf fragrance, and it is also mixed with the floral fragrance of sweet silk.
The soup is fresh and ethereal, with the coolness of the night in autumn in Taimu Mountain, which is cool and cool, and the afterglow is long.
The aroma of cake tea is the result of the fusion of rice dumpling leaf incense, Chen xiang, medicinal fragrance and jujube fragrance.
After the tea soup is introduced, it is smooth and thick, plump and sweet, and the layering is extremely rich.
Loose tea, cake tea or not, have their own audience.
Of course, there are also many tea customers who love both, after all, the aroma and taste of good tea cannot be missed.
And if you just get the white tea cake, three times five divided by two, all at once pried open, but destroy its material transformation.
Ideally, tea leaves and tea leaves are closely interdependent and aged in clusters.
But just ready to start the transformation journey in the form of tea cakes, it has not yet begun, and it has ended prematurely.
If you really feel troublesome, you can buy loose tea directly, why buy cake tea?
Don't hide from everyone that white tea pressing cakes is also very troublesome.
To be steamed, kneaded, pressed and dried, each step must be careful and meticulous to get a white tea cake that is elastic and suitable.
But this trip was tossed down, but it was bought home by tea friends and returned to its original form.
For whatever reason, it's not worth advocating.
In order not to affect the later storage and transformation effect, but also in order to retain the characteristics of the white tea cake, how much to drink, how much to pry, is the correct solution.
《4》
After the pry cake is skilled, it is actually not troublesome at all.
If you want to drink white tea cake but will not pry, it is undoubtedly like the taste of mountains and treasures to the mouth but do not know how to eat, wasting the delicacy.
Even some tea guests, directly with their bare hands, broke in half, making people have to sigh and vigorously perform miracles.
Some tea guests took out the scissors, kitchen knives, vices, etc. at home, which can be described as inexhaustible.
However, these practices are all wrong operations, which will not only destroy the strip shape of the tea leaves, but also become broken.
When brewing, due to too much crushed tea, it will also make the endoplasm leach out too quickly and the tea taste is too strong.
The same piece of white tea cake, in the hands of different people, will have different destinies.
Some people pry the cake, always very smooth, a thin slice, both conducive to brewing, and will not appear full of broken tea.
And some people pry the cake, it is a mess.
The blades are flying around, not to mention, the pry cake is thick and extremely difficult to brew.
The difference lies in the technology.
To pry tea cakes, first prepare a tea needle or tea knife in hand.
Find a gap in the side of the tea cake, follow the layer, pierce it parallel, and then gently lift it, you can easily get a thin white tea cake.
However, some tea lovers like to challenge and choose to start with the front or back of the tea.
However, the cake nest happens to be produced after pressing, which is relatively tight, and it is difficult to pry tea from here, and it is not the best choice.
How much to drink, how much to pry.
The rest of the part is still sealed with white cotton paper, if you plan to drink it in a short period of time, you can store it in a sealed bag with kraft paper aluminum film.
If you want to store it for a long time, you still have to use the three-layer packaging method to seal it layer by layer, in order to be foolproof.
The basic principle of pry cake is to keep the tea intact as much as possible under the premise of ensuring safety, while saving effort and effort.
《5》
Is there a shortcut to pry tea cakes?
Nature is.
The shortcut is to be down-to-earth step by step, accumulate, practice, and precipitate.
Then, for each pry, seek optimization, correct the shortcomings.
Other than that, it's all left.
Those who pry open the white tea cake at one time for the sake of convenience are ultimately living up to the good tea.
Not only can you not feel the richness of cake tea, but you also miss the opportunity to make white tea transform well.
I am really afraid of trouble, I don't want to pry the cake, and I really recommend loose tea.
Success requires persistence, it requires the use of the brain, and it also needs to persist in the use of the brain.
The method of being able to taste white tea cakes without any effort does not exist.
Welcome to pay attention to the [White Tea Classroom] to learn more about white tea knowledge!
Copyright notice: This article is originally written by taimumagu in the white tea classroom, and shall not be reproduced by any media without permission, and tea friends are welcome to forward to the circle of friends!