丨 This article was originally produced by Xiao Chen Tea
丨 First published in the headline number: Xiao Chen Tea Affair
丨Author: Village Gu Chen
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Red wine, many people like.
Some people say that the silky-looking red liquid contains countless nutrients.
There is a friend next to me, who is a loyal lover of red wine.
The last time I was invited to her house for dinner, the wine cabinet across the fish tank was neatly arranged, curing obsessive-compulsive disorder.
I drew a bottle from it, took two goblets, and went to the floor-to-ceiling window to drink a small wine, looking at the moonlight, but also leisurely.
Smooth and delicate taste, with just the right slight sour taste, sour after the sweet, is the kind of faint sweetness.
Just taste it, don't covet the cup.
A bottle of red wine can't be drunk at once, what should I do with the rest of the red wine?
Friends said that there are 3 more common ways to store wine today.
First, put the rubber stopper back in.
This method has some red wines that are not suitable, especially some vintage wines, so that the operation can easily lead to excessive oxidation.
Second, it is preserved in a special glass bottle.
However, it is said that the price of this glass bottle is not very close to the people.
Third, special gases are injected into the bottle to squeeze out the air, which can prevent the oxidation of red wine to a certain extent.
How to store the remaining red wine is still determined by the actual situation.
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Drinking the remaining red wine needs to be preserved in a specific way, but what about white tea cakes?
Some time ago, a tea friend asked a question, how to store the white tea cake that has been pried open?
In the process of drinking tea every day, i think tea friends have this confusion.
Dry white tea is very afraid of water vapor, so it needs to be very strict in the daily storage process.
I believe that when our old tea customers get our tea cakes, the packaging is extremely tight.
The outermost layer is the outer box, which can play a certain role in moisture and impact prevention.
After that, there is a five-layer thick corrugated carton, thick and strong, with the ability to protect the white tea cake from external environmental interference.
Inside the carton is our bubble roll, which has the effect of reducing the number of broken teas due to collisions.
Then there are our aluminum bags, plastic bags, each layer of packaging is sealed very strongly, all to ensure that the quality of tea leaves is not affected.
A kraft paper bag will also be included in the box to facilitate the usual outing of the house to pack tea.
When you want to drink tea cakes, take them out of the package, lay out the white cotton paper and pry off the appropriate amount of tea cakes for tasting.
After the pry is over, the tea cake needs to be packaged and sealed in time, rather than being exposed to the air all the time.
It's a small detail, but crucial.
High-quality tea cakes are extremely dry, and the water molecules that linger in the air quietly enter the inside of the tea cake, which will cause its quality problems.
Especially in the south, after the rain, it was so wet that it was as if you could reach out and pinch out a handful of water.
The whole person feels very sticky and uncomfortable.
In addition, the tea cake is very sensitive to the odor, and the residual odor in the air is easily adsorbed by the tea cake, and it will drink a miscellaneous taste when drinking later.
Male tea friends gather to drink tea, basically someone smokes, for a time the clouds are swirling, and the delicate tea cake is in it, like a small yellow flower.
Accidentally adsorb the smell of smoke into the tea cake, violently destroying the natural objects.
After prying off the appropriate amount of tea cake, it is recommended to pack it in time and put it away, so as not to let the external environment affect its quality.
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I once heard people say that his method of storing tea:
Pry open all the tea cakes into small pieces, put them into ceramic jars for storage, and when you usually want to drink, you can directly take out the small pieces and start brewing.
This method sounds a little reasonable at first glance, every time you want to drink tea cakes, it is more convenient to directly take out the appropriate amount of tea cakes than to pry off the tea cakes.
However, behind the convenience, there are huge hidden dangers.
There is no doubt that ceramic jars are difficult to seal tightly.
Some ceramic jars are not glazed on the surface and have small, fine pores that allow water molecules in the air to enter the jar unscrupulously and adhere to the tea leaves, causing them to deteriorate from moisture.
This kind of packaging not only can not give the tea a good aging environment, but will lead to poor quality, use it to store tea, and finally only get an empty.
Most of the mouths of ceramic jars are sealed with rubber rings.
However, the role of the rubber ring is not long-term, it will be damaged or hardened due to long-term use, and it will lose its sealing effect.
In this way, the water molecules in the air will enter the inside of the tea cake along the gap in the mouth of the tank, making it dry without the standard.
Once the tea leaves are damp, and under the blessing of a certain temperature, there will be over-fermentation, and it is only a matter of time before the odor is produced.
During fermentation, the intrinsic nutrients of the tea will gradually disappear and eventually become inferior tea.
This kind of tea packaging, which will make the tea quality worse and worse, is still not better.
In addition, the storage of white tea pays attention to team aging.
The so-called team aging refers to the fact that the more tea leaves are, the better and faster the aging.
By disassembling a whole piece of tea cake and storing it, it is to divide them into multiple individuals.
The aging effect of multiple small pieces of tea cake is not as good as that of the whole tea cake.
Moreover, the original round and complete tea cake was broken into multiple pieces, and the area exposed to the air was also increased.
Originally, the front and back sides were in contact with the air, and the contact area would only increase exponentially after disassembly.
This actually increases the probability of the tea leaves getting wet, in order to avoid this situation, it is not recommended to pry open all the tea cakes and store them in ceramic jars.
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If you want the tea cake to not deteriorate, the storage method is particularly important.
How to store, to first clarify a point of view, this tea is ready to be drunk in the near future, or long-term storage?
If you are ready to drink it in the near future, the packaging can be slightly simpler.
Common short-term tea storage packages include tin cans, kraft paper bags and zipped bags made of tin foil.
Tin cans are basically used to store loose tea that will be drunk in the near future, while slightly larger sealed zipper bags can be used to store cake tea.
Put the tea cake wrapped in white cotton paper into a brown paper bag, seal the open zipper, store it in a dry and dark place, and drink it in a short time.
If you are really not at ease, then you can put an aluminum bag and a plastic bag on the outside of the sealed bag to play a certain role in preventing moisture and avoiding light.
Short-term storage of tea packaging is convenient to take tea brewing, do not have to open the box to take tea every time, which is not only troublesome, but also has an impact on other tea leaves.
If the number of drinks of tea is relatively small, then it is recommended to use three layers of packaging to store tea.
With aluminum bags, plastic bags and five-layer thickness corrugated cartons to store tea, with strict packaging to store tea do not have to worry about not drinking in time and causing the tea to deteriorate due to moisture.
The tea cake is first packed into a brown paper cake bag, then placed in an aluminum bag, the opening is tied tightly with a rope, and a layer of food-grade plastic bag is covered on the outside, and the opening is also sealed.
After packing it in two layers, put it inside the carton and seal it tightly.
When packing, first check whether the packaging is damaged, whether the opening is tight, and whether each gap in the carton is sealed with scotch tape.
Store the packaged tea cake away from the wall in a dry, dark, cool, odorless environment.
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Drinking tea and storing tea are actually very much related.
If you like to drink tea, and do not know how to store tea, you will waste a lot of high-quality tea.
When drinking tea cakes, the tea cakes are not packaged in time, and under the action of time, the deterioration is not far away.
Therefore, if you can drink tea, you must also be able to store tea, so that not only will you not waste good tea, but you can also drink the high-quality tea you have saved.
Some rumors circulating nowadays about storing tea are the correct solution if they do not listen, and the tea storage can only be dumb and dull, and no one can be found to be responsible.
Tea storage pays attention to the method, and needs to meet the requirements of sealing, avoiding light, cooling, drying, and no odor.
Tea storage packaging and tea storage environment must meet the above requirements.
Of course, tea storage can also be divided into long-term storage of tea and short-term storage of tea, and everyone can make decisions according to their actual situation.
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Xiao chen tea village gu Chen, columnist, tea industry original new media "Xiao Chen tea matter" chief writer, has published a white tea monograph "White Tea Tasting Notes", 2016-2020 has written more than 4,000 original articles.