Chapter 135: Tea Making
The taste of the tea brewed in this way is very monotonous and bitter, and a little salt and other condiments are added to it, so that everyone can think about what it tastes like.
This is also the reason why Feng Fei didn't drink tea after coming here, but he didn't think about changing this habit before, but now he has to rely on tea to make a fortune.
Although the Qian's preference for tea was not as crazy as that of the Tang and Song dynasties, it was also available in almost every family, and boiling a pot when guests came could be used as a regulator for chatting before dinner.
The modern tea making method is much more complicated, and all kinds of tea have their own tea making methods, black tea, green tea, flower tea, black tea, white tea, etc., among which green tea is a common tea species in China, Rizhao green tea is world-famous, and Shizuoka in Japan, South Korea's Baocheng, known as the world's three major sea green tea cities.
Feng Fei's farm has tea trees planted, and he originally wanted to get involved in the field of tea in the real world in the future, because the tea trees grown with space spring water will definitely be much better than in reality.
For two days in a row, Feng Fei searched for information on tea making in the real world, and finally spent money to buy a small finishing machine, which can be basically divided into three steps: finishing, rolling and drying.
Killing, is the use of high temperature to destroy the enzymes in the tea, while evaporating part of the water in the fresh leaves, is the most important part of tea-making, rolling is a process to shape the shape of green tea, through guò external force to make the leaves kneaded and light, rolled into strips, the volume is also reduced, easy to brew.
Drying is very well understood, the tea leaves still contain a lot of water after rolling, after drying and frying or drying three methods, so that the water of the tea evaporates and gives full play to the tea aroma.
In addition to finishing other steps, you can rely on manual production zuò, but finishing is an important step to determine the quality of tea, Feng Fei wants to make zuò tea although it is only promoted in the ancient world, for people who are used to drinking ancient tea, any low-cost inferior tea is the best in the world for them, and they have never tasted it in their lives.
But Feng Fei is not ready to fool the ancients with those inferior teas, let alone be a second-class tea seller, since he wants to make it himself, then he must do it well, even if it is not as good as ordinary tea, but the whole process is made by himself, and it is safer to drink it with confidence.
Feng Fei set up a tea-making workshop in Tongye County, he knew that once this tea was promoted, it would definitely cause an uproar in the Qiantian Dynasty, and his purpose was to let more people know about this place in Tongye County, so that the world could understand his painstaking efforts to pave the way.
One morning, Feng Fei held a thick stack of materials in his hand and instructed the people on the farm to pick tea leaves, which were generally picked after seven or eight o'clock in the morning, because the tea leaves would be stained with dew too early.
Feng Fei instructed everyone to pick according to the method written on the information, and the matters that need to be paid attention to in the process of picking were repeatedly emphasized by him, because there were not many tea trees planted on the farm, and more than a dozen people finished picking all the tea leaves in the morning, weighing, about 100 catties.
The finishing machine was placed in the backyard of the courtyard, where the female dependents lived, and ordinary people were not allowed to enter, and the method of making tea Feng Fei was not prepared to spread it, at least not at present, he still had to rely on it to make a fortune.
The relationship between Feng Fei and Hu Xiaoli has always been ambiguous, and now Hu Xiaoli is ******** cultivating in the space, Feng Fei has no other women, and all the backyards have been idle, just enough to be used as a tea-making factory.
There are only four workers, in addition to Feng Fei, there are also Hong Million Ma Wu and Shi Cassia Ming, these three people are all trusted by Feng Fei, and I believe that they will not pass on the method.
Because there are very few tea leaves picked this time, in fact, although there are few tea trees on the farm, there are many tea leaves, but Feng Fei is very strict and must have fresh buds, so many leaves are left on the tree.
Not much tea can't supply Feng Fei to do it indiscriminately, so he first used a pound to make real yàn, although the killing machine is a modern machine, but Feng Fei chose the drum killing machine, and it is manual, because it is used in the ancient world, all those who do not choose electricity or gas.
Raise the charcoal fire and heat it slowly, and then let Ma Wu rotate the drum at a constant speed, so that the drum is evenly heated, and when sparks faintly appear in the cylinder, Feng Fei poured all the tea leaves into the drum, urging Ma Wu not to stop, continue to rotate.
About four or five minutes later, he evacuated the charcoal fire, carefully poured out the tea leaves, and didn't care about burning his hands, Feng Fei read a little with his fingers and looked closer.
The rest of the people were very curious from the beginning, this method of making tea was still unheard of, and when they saw the tea leaves coming out of the oven, they all gathered around, waiting for Feng Fei to say the final result.
The tea leaves after finishing revealed a burnt paste, and they were too dry, and they shattered with a twist of his fingers, Feng Fei frowned and sighed, the first time it was finished, it failed.
Everyone looked at Feng Fei's expression, and they all knew that this time the tea making was unsuccessful, Shi Cianming rubbed the tea leaves with his fingers, and said, "It should be caused by the fire, the rotation speed is too slow, and the time is too long." ”
Feng Fei nodded, he was very distressed about wasting a pound of tea, after all, the entire farm only picked a hundred catties of tea, and he still had to point to these teas to make money, tea is basically calculated according to two, and a pound of tea is a loss of a lot of money in his opinion.
Ma Wu on the side lowered his head and said, "Master, it's all Ma Wu's fault, I didn't follow your guidance, I ......"
"Okay, Ma Wu, this can't all be blamed on you, you are the first time to do it, I am also the first time, the theoretical knowledge is well understood, it is not really done on paper, failure is inevitable, we have to learn from this failure, there is a saying in my hometown, called 'failure is the mother of success', with failure, success is not far away."
After Feng Fei finished speaking, several people sighed, and Hong Million smiled and said, "Brother Feng, the phrase 'failure is the mother of success' is well said, I really don't know if there are many strange people like you in your hometown, why every time you say something, it sounds very straightforward at first glance, but it makes a lot of sense when you think about it,"
Shi Cianming also nodded and said, "That's right, accumulating successful experience from failure, isn't it the mother of success,"
Feng Fei scratched his head, he didn't expect his casual words to make these two people so touched, and said with a smile, "I have a lot of sentences like this, and I will tell you slowly in the future, but the first task at present is to try again, this time to succeed!" ”
With the first failure, the second finish, everyone continued to put forward their own opinions, as the old Chinese medicine Shi Cassia Ming, decoction or something is commonplace, so he is very unique in his grasp of the heat, after he shouted "It's time now!" After that, Feng Fei poured a pound of fresh tea leaves into the roller.
Ma Wu stared nervously at the tea leaves tumbling in the drum, the beads of sweat on his forehead kept falling, and his hands were moving at a uniform speed, constantly changing the rotation speed according to Shi Cianming's prompts.
This time when making tea, Feng Fei and Hong Million became bystanders, and Shi Cianming deserved to be a person who had dealt with plants all his life, just by watching with the naked eye, plus smelling with his nose, he determined the time of finishing.
After removing the charcoal fire, Ma Wu poured the tea leaves out of the drum, and everyone suddenly surrounded them.
Different from last time, the leaves of the tea leaves baked this time were complete, with the aroma of grass, Feng Fei picked up a piece, compared with the fresh tea leaves, there was some more aroma, much softer than the last time.
Everyone looked at Feng Fei, and after the latter observed it, he said happily, "We succeeded!" ”